Flip flops
Who were among the very first to tell us what a bad President Trump would make?
It was Republicans—a lot of leaders of the GOP along with their respective supporters. Men and women well known for their conservative backgrounds.
At one point early in the Republican primary I believe that there were 20 candidates vying for the nomination in the 2016 primaries. It was a tough roll-around-in-the-gutter race thanks to Donald Trump. So far the only time in our history as a nation that the size of a man’s penis was made a part of a Presidential debate. They were united by probably only one thing during that time – their contempt for Donald Trump. Are we to believe now that they were all liars and rogues that didn’t really mean what they said about then candidate Donald Trump?
But now, a lot of the very same people that told us how bad of a President he would make are blaming and claiming that the “Liberal” media is biased in their reporting and treating the President unfairly. Even though President Trump’s actions have proven beyond any shadow of a doubt that they were right in what they said about him.
Instead of claiming vindication they’re crying foul.
Here’s a quote from President Trump’s book “The Art of the deal”.
“Even though the publicity was almost entirely negative, there was a great deal of it, and that drew a tremendous amount of attention to Trump Tower. Almost immediately we saw an upsurge in the sales of apartments. I’m not saying that’s a good thing, and in truth it probably says something perverse about the culture we live in. But I’m a businessman, and I learned a lesson from that experience: good publicity is preferable to bad, but from a bottom-line perspective, bad publicity is sometimes better than no publicity at all. Controversy, in short, sells.”
Fake news invented
As it turns out he apparently doesn’t really believe that. Now he calls bad publicity “fake news”. He still wants it though. He craves it. He spends hours watching it.
President Trump is the one marketing his Presidency. He sells what he isn’t every day. He sells it daily with his tweets and actions. He’s selling it with his lies. He lied before he started seeking the office. He lied while running for office. He has lied as President. It’s his nature. He has made the office of the President a seemingly never-ending soap opera. He did it. The man that campaigned on doing it all from day one and appointing the best people did it to himself.
Good people did catch on.
Here’s another quote from President Trump’s book “The Art of the Deal”.
“You can’t con people, at least not for long. You can create excitement, you can do wonderful promotion and get all kinds of press, and you can throw in a little hyperbole. But if you don’t deliver the goods, people will eventually catch on.
I’d never understood how Jimmy Carter became president. The answer is that as poorly qualified as he was for the job, Jimmy Carter had the nerve, the guts, the balls, to ask for something extraordinary. That ability above all helped him get elected president. But then, of course, the America people caught on pretty quickly that Carter couldn’t do the job, and he lost in a landslide when he ran for reelection.”
Well, his cult appears to not have caught on yet. They didn’t get the memo. They’re still being conned by the man that considers shaking hands with them disgusting. His cult aren’t the people that he hob nobs with. They are the people that he uses. They are his servants.
They are expendable.
Tribal chanting.
We don’t have to depend upon media interpretation to know what he’s doing. We just watch the video of him talking and read his tweets as he flails around from one day to the next. His history is laid out before us. He has reversed himself time and time again. He does the very same things that he criticized President Obama for doing. All anyone has to do is watch the entire videos made during his campaign and before. They’re there.
Here’s a link to a video where he said that he would release his tax returns if he ran for President. It’s a long video and he was quite coherent. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hg-5KEt1Abg He made his comments about his tax returns at about a minute and a half into the video. He talked about a lot of other things as well that he has ended up making a complete mockery of.
Here’s some video from one of his Thank You rallies where he says that locking up Hillary Clinton was just campaign talk. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix49LjgaTaI How about that. Nothing happened. Nothing. How many of his supporters bought into that? I’m guessing not many. It was just fun to chant. They’re still chanting it.
Favorite lie.
This is a favorite of mine. Seriously. Watch this video. It’s from Fox News. President Trump claims that the story about him hitting his music teacher is not true and that he hates the story. The story comes from his book! On page 71 of his book “Trump the Art of the Deal” he said that he gave his music teacher a black eye. The book that he says he wrote.
https://archive.org/details/FOXNEWSW_20161125_020000_OBJECTified_Donald_Trump/start/180/end/240 (Click on the video at 6:03 pm. The text is below the video.)
He hasn’t changed. He has only gotten worse.
Put the ‘fun’ in fundamentals.
Evangelicals like Franklin Graham and Pool Boy Falwell Jr. talk about the faith of President Trump and his Christian values. The public sees what his Christian values are like on a daily basis through his tweets and his actions.
Here is a link to Trump’s view on just one of the fundamentals of the faith. In response to a question Trump answered that he doesn’t ask God for forgiveness. He tried not to answer the question but finally at a minute and a half into the video he says no, he doesn’t. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyDbOHvfdiE
The point.
What’s the point of all this? For me the point is that supporters of President Trump in general accept all this. They accept the thousands of his well-documented lies. They hear the same falsehoods that the rest of us do and know that he has contradicted or reversed himself time and time again. They know that in spite of complaining about President Obama golfing and taking too many vacations and saying that he wouldn’t have time, he vacations and golfs more than Obama did. They expected that he would give tax breaks to the rich at the expense of the middle class. They knew that he had taken advantage of rich, poor and everyone in between most of his adult life. They see that the man who said that he was going to appoint the “best” people has seen almost half of his staff come and go. Some only lasted hours.
The main take-away is that they don’t care.
Code speak
They understand his basic code. He’s a white President that is undoing everything that the black President before him did. The Neo Nazis, Alt Right, White Nationalists, Confederates and Evangelicals figured out early in the game who Donald Trump was at his core. It’s why they continue to support him. He doesn’t like brown people of any shade—immigrants, Mexicans and people of color from all points further south. He isn’t too crazy about yellow people either. He does make exceptions for those that are giving him money or making it easier for him to make money, like Middle Easterners, or those dictators he admires, like Kim Jong Un. He embodies the white privilege his followers say they don’t understand. He’s tearing apart the government that has let them down in favor of people of color. He’s fulfilling prophesies for the guns and bibles crowd. Those that don’t admire or aspire to be him for his moral failings are perfectly willing to overlook them in favor of his greater good ….
…. for a Whiter America.