Here we are - we haven't even made it to Hump Day (Wednesday) yet and electoral vote winner Donny manages to not just completely undo, but draw drawers and take a massive dump on, any sense of normalcy and good will he might have gotten from the mainstream media and really naive people yesterday.
Yep, I'm, talking about electoral vote winner Donny Trump's little press conference fiasco earlier afternoon where he managed to take his extremely milquetoast condemnation that most people who could put 2 and 2 together knew he didn't really believe (where he actually pointed out the KKK, white supremacists, and others) from yesterday, smash it against a brick wall, then stomp on it and set it on fire before really letting loose and doubling down on supporting his original statement from Saturday (see previous post for that) and taking it further.
In his speech today he claimed the reason he held off on Saturday was that he liked to wait until he knew "all the facts.". He said the first statement was a Then he decided to take it further by asking "what about the violent alt left?" As you take that in, realize that Donny not only went back to his "from many sides" bullshit from a few days back but added gasoline to the fucking fire in the process by implying that counter-protestors were just as responsible as the alt right.
That, alone, is so full of shit it could make acid rain. Then he took it one step further when he said that note everyone at the rally were neo Nazis. With that statement alone, he managed to go from being a little miffed over giving a statement he was forced to make after several days of criticism over failing a very low bar to actually seeming to side with white supremacists and neo Nazis. All while being as completely full of crap as he always is.
Let's start with the claim that he likes to wait and know all the facts before making a direct statement. According to the Washington Post in his first six months in office he had 836 false of misleading claims. Before even his running for office Donny was notorious for repeating spreading information that was untrue (remember the birther bullshit against Obama back in 2010 and 2011). So, it doesn't really take that much work to uncover him running off and either talking or tweeting with little regard for facts.
As for his refusal to name things until he knew for certain, as I said in the last post (and a ton of other people pointed out in too many places) Donny can get real specific when he wants to be, whether its implying that Mexicans were murderers and rapists or his attacks on everyone from primary opponents (remember his claim that Ted Cruz' dad killed JFK) to his repeated claims that you have ot name a problem before you can solve it (when it came to what he called "radical islamic terrorism" though he always was silent on white terrorists) he had a penchant for being direct and supposedly telling it like it was (his supporters claim, definitely not mine). Yet, on this tragic event he not only refused to name the problem his so-called condemnation was taken as support from its supposed targets (with the exception of David Duke). This continued after yesterday's supposed condemnation (which was reported as sincere by the mainstream media with some claiming he was Presidential). In the aftermath of yesterday's speech Richard Spencer said he didn't take Trump seriously.
So what happened in a span of 24 or so hours to make Donny not just go back to his original statement but double down? Part of it came from his statement itself, which was delivered in a way that, to quote Bryan Cranston, felt like "a hostage forced to read a statement by his captors." It was obvious he was reading a teleprompter and the part about Charlottesville seemed like a speech he was made to give (possibly by Gen. Kelly) than the economic part he wanted to give.
It's also telling that the unraveling began really before he left eht press conference yesterday when he called Jim Acosta from CNN "fake news" and refused to answer a question on why it took so long to mention white nationalists. From there came reports he was considering pardoning former AZ Sherrif Joe Arpaio (who was convicted on contempt of court charges), a tweet storm where he inadvertently retweeted someone who called him a fascist, then tweet a cartoon of a "trump Train" barreling through CNN, and a thank you from far right conspiracy theorist and Pizzagate pusher Jack Posobiec. All that before today's press conference where things really turned to shit.
So why did he go this route? Who knows. It's telling though that David Duke, who was critical (if not outright angry) but the last couple of Trump speeches on last weekend thanked him for this one. While I really hope its not the case that he's so hungry to be liked that he'd openly seek the approval of pieces of shit like Duke, Donny is known for having a desire for approval that seems almost contrary to the job he ran for over a year to get (one where being a shit magnet to some people comes with the territory). Could he have gotten to this decision on his own? What role did Steve Bannon play in this round? We're in the weird world of conjecture here so it's anybody's guess. However, today's statement managed to take what little good will he had (from the few people who actually believed it) and burned it to the ground.
What's next? Who knows. However, this can be wrapped up in combination with his claim that some of the people who were at the protests were angry over history being erased. Now, personally I think that's bullshit but let's go there. Suppose there's a person who actually believes in the whole history of the Confederacy theory and feels compelled to go. Once they get there, they suddenly come across people in paramiliatry style outfits, some carrying the flag of Nazi Germany, and others with weapons. At that point, this person had a choice: they could either back away, go home or get something to eat or they could stay and join the hatefest,. Nobody would fault them if they did the former. However, if they saw the Nazi shit and still decided to go along and march this makes them just as bad as the fucking Nazis. This is why the history excuse rings hollow at best.
It's also why electoral vote winner Donny's statements today (especially ones where he was angrier at the media than white supremacist) makes him just as bad as the ilk he claimed to condemn.
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