It's a question that's being asked seemingly everywhere. Has the president of the United States lost his mind? Have Donald Trump and reality parted company? Is the Mango Mussolini mad, bonkers?
President Donald Trump has used his Twitter account as a platform to attack others, embellish his own accomplishments and mislead the public to a degree that makes it difficult to argue it's not deliberate. His deceptive Islamophobic tweets on Wednesday morning were no different.
The president retweeted three unverified videos posted to Twitter by Jayda Fransen, the deputy leader of Britain First, a far-right ultranationalist political organization that is opposed to multiculturalism and campaigns against Islam.
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When she realized the president had retweeted her posts, she was ecstatic.
THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, DONALD TRUMP, HAS RETWEETED THREE OF DEPUTY LEADER JAYDA FRANSEN'S TWITTER VIDEOS! DONALD TRUMP HIMSELF HAS RETWEETED THESE VIDEOS AND HAS AROUND 44 MILLION FOLLOWERS! GOD BLESS YOU TRUMP! GOD BLESS AMERICA! OCS @JaydaBF @realDonaldTrump pic.twitter.com/BiQfQkTra9
— Jayda Fransen (@JaydaBF) November 29, 2017
Fransen has since tweeted several articles about the news that Trump had spread anti-Islamic messages on his Twitter account.
Trump has often viewed himself as the arbiter of so-called fake news but has by and large been the most influential and consistent promulgator of it.
On CNN, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said Trump's retweets were "bizarre and disturbing" and that they have "all kinds of ripple effects."
Former DNI Clapper calls President Trump's retweeting of anti-Muslim videos "bizarre and disturbing" and says it "has all kinds of ripple effects" https://t.co/nZXuqXtgiv https://t.co/iJ8bzIUPwF — CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) November 29, 2017
My hunch, and it's only a hunch, is that, with Mueller closing in Trump may be angling for a "Section 8" or the constitutional equivalent of it, the 25th Amendment whereby Pence and the cabinet would have him removed for incapacity and then Pence, like Gerald Ford, pardons his former boss only he'd also have to issue a blanket pardon for the rest of the Trump clan and their courtiers.
Wouldn't angling for an Amendment XXV exit involve some awareness of being unfit for office instead of being the Greatest Preznit Evah?! That doesn't sound much like Donnie from Queens.
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ReplyDeleteIt may depend on whether Trump realizes his options for ducking Mueller are gone, Cap. We read stories that the special counsel is closing in on Ivanka and Jared. It's the "but for" test. But for Trump's megalomaniacal decision to pursue the presidency, his kids would never have gotten swept up in this. They could have just kept schlepping big ticket real estate to sketchy Europeans no questions asked. The seeds of Trump's jeopardy were sown long before he announced his candidacy.
.. folks who know the tRumphs from way back.. say nothing has changed really. The children no.. the ex wives, no.. the toxic mouthflapper himself, no.. the posse of rich folk friends, associates et al who do just what he does.. screw people over.. and therefore can 'tolerate' the tRumph radiation levels.. the fakery, posturing, preening.. and all the related fluffing and stroke jobs, deflection & complete nonsense involved.. no home cookin for those folks.. its at the golf club, the resort, the salon, dining out.. or catered in via their social agents, maids & slaves
ReplyDeleteBut now we are coming into the time of the great public TRumph undressing & humiliation.. the comuppance so to speak. The scattering of his strange political bedfriends from point man Robert Mueller would be amusing.. if not for how astonishingly comical, nay, insane, all the President's 'friends' coddle up to & around this supreme loser.
Yes, el Trumpho is exactly who he's always been.. its just that as some bizarre and twisted bad drug experiment.. they've actually let the creep play 'President' .. Yes that's exactly what America has done.. and that's all that's changed. But like Shakespeare the end is nigh. Twitter shrieks are the castle ramparts of the nighttime, the trumptimes. This felonius loser spends much of his time eating, changing ties and shirts, sitting on the toilets & posing for signature photo ops. Contemplation, reading, groupthink bull sessions ? Surely you jest?
ReplyDeleteI don't know, Sal. Even in the darkest moments of the Nixon presidency I could never have imagined America succumbing to someone this blatantly unfit for office.
.. these are the times Hunter S Thompson decribed, Mound..
ReplyDeleteWorse ? Or just different than anyone could have imagined..
Regardless.. the Hunterman saw it.. & called it..
the whole shebang.. the whole shootin match..
Mound, I'd be a lot happier if Dotard Donnie were found competent to stand trial in New York. No pardon's going to save him there, and he can continue his decline into dementia on his own time in jail.
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ReplyDeleteI just hope Mueller doesn't take too much longer to get the indictment machine churning again.