Freak Out Friday – September 15, 2017

Trump hasn’t done much that a president would actually do to help people this week, but he has been running off at the mouth big time.

1). Make a mountain out of a hill. ESPN anchor Jemele Hill stated on her private twitter feed that she believed Trump was a white supremacist. You know, the way millions of people have been saying and which his own repeated actions would tend to make any reasonable observer believe. Certainly his tendency to give white supremacists and Nazis every ounce of consideration and slack, and his knack for being endorsed by David Duke and white supremacists, would make any reasonable observer make that supposition. And as noted, it wasn’t as if Hill said that on the air. Nevertheless the White House is in full attack mode, and Trump tweeted that she should “Apologize for Untruth.”

Really? Seriously? The guy who claimed that Ted Cruz’s father was involved with JFK’s murder is complaining about untruths? The guy who stated for years that Obama wasn’t born in the US, or that Obama had him wire tapped, is complaining about untruths? The guy whose track record of lies is unprecedented among politicians in the modern era is suddenly concerned about truth?

No, Donald. No. You don’t get to lie about everything under the sun and claim that both the white supremacists and their opposition were equally involved and then demand apologizes for speculation that your own actions launched. The fact that ESPN is “distancing” themselves from Hill is saddening and I hope that they allow her to weather out the storm rather than sacrificing her on the altar of adherence to truth that this president consistently refuses to follow.

2). And he did it again. Trump was asked on Air Force One about his meeting with Senator Tim Scott, the only black Republican in the Senate. It was obviously a softball question. All he had to say was that it went fine and they discussed finding ways to…I dunno…solve racial tension or something. Instead out of nowhere he started defending again his idiotic assertions about Charlottesville, claiming that many people said “Trump might have a point.” The obvious response is that yes, people did say that. They were white supremacists and Nazis. Trump is so obsessed with being right even though he’s invariably wrong that he had to come back and say, “See? See? Told you so.” The obvious assertion is to claim that Trump has doubled down. But since he already did that, we’d have to say he…what? Tripled down? Quadrupled down?

Here’s a thought, Mr. President: if you’re so concerned about being called a white supremacist, how about you analyze the behavior that you are employing that is prompting people to speculate about it.

3). Waiting for the facts. Remember how a few weeks ago, Trump was standing there telling the world that he didn’t want to issue condemnations of white supremacists because he wanted to wait for all the facts? Yeah, that lasted just long enough for the explosion in London, about which Trump claimed that the identities of the people who set it were known to London authorities and he claimed simply validated his travel plan. Because let us remember this about the man who, on 9/11, boasted that he now had the tallest building in New York: There is no subject on Earth that Trump cannot make it be about himself.

Did he do anything right? Well, that kind of depends who you talk to and when. Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer dined with him on Wednesday and stated that they had come away from it having “agreed to enshrine the protections of DACA into law quickly, and to work out a package of border security, excluding the wall, that’s acceptable to both sides.” Except Paul Ryan quickly claimed there was no deal in place, and Thursday morning Trump likewise asserted that no deal had been made. Pelosi and Schumer later “clarified” their statement that Trump was going to support congressional endeavors to put DACA into law. But even that was enough to infuriate millions of Trump supporters, including Ann Coulter who wrote a “Why I Love Trump” book last year and now hates his guts.

So Trump has now managed to pìšš øff both conservatives (with his alleged support for DACA) and liberals (with his continued apparent sympathy for white supremacists.) Gee. Maybe he really did manage to unite everybody.

PAD

5 comments on “Freak Out Friday – September 15, 2017

    1. Well of *course* Superman would help illegal aliens… he’s one himself! And then he went and renounced American citizenship! I mean, what else would you expect from him than to rescue other illegal aliens hellbent on stealing good Murrican jobs?

    2. Fox News host and columnist Todd Starnes must be a tremendous imbecile. There are questions about immigrants in this country, and one may believe that they need to be treated as Americans, or one may believe they need to be expelled.

      But this brain donor attacks Superman? He may not recognize it… but SUPERMAN IS A FICTIONAL CHARACTER. His stories AREN’T REAL. So Starnes’s article is rather like him attacking Hydra, the Martians, or the Sta-Puf Marshmallow man.

      Do they pay him to do this? ‘Cause I’d LOVE to get me a piece of that pie!

      1. Eric, the problem with you getting a piece of that pie is, you’re disqualified from becoming a Fox News host, by virtue of demonstrably having at least half a functioning brain. Being a Fox News host requires having less than a quarter of a brain.

  1. Trump tweeted that she should “Apologize for Untruth.”
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    Donald Trump thinks he has any moral high-ground left to say someone should apologize for tan untruth.
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    Donald Trump…
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    The king of pathological dishonesty on every topic…
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    Bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha-haaaaaaaa

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