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Gene Lyons
June 19, 2018 11:17 pm
Lets face it: Donald Trump enjoys hurting and humiliating people, and thats the thing some of his loudest supporters like about him. Making women and children cry makes him feel manly and powerful. The more defenseless, the better. He particularly enjoys punishing racial minorities.
See, when his victims have no ability to respond, Trump can mouth off without hiding behind bodyguards, as hes done all his life. The way he did with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau calling the leader of Americas closest ally weak before beating an early retreat on Air Force One.
No way would he talk that way to the younger mans face. Trump only bullies people he has power over.
This presidents incessant lying is yet another expression of his sadismplaying people for fools, making them grovel. Does anybody, anybody, actually believe that the heartbreaking result of the White Houses zero tolerance policy of tearing children from their mothers arms at the U.S./Mexican border is the fault of the Democrats?
The Democrats who control neither the White House, the Senate, nor the House of Representatives and have no power even to bring an immigration bill to a vote, much less pass one? Those Democrats?
Democrats are the problem, Trump tweeted. They dont care about crime and want illegal immigrants, no matter how bad they may be, to pour into and infest our Country, like MS-13. They cant win on their terrible policies, so they view them as potential voters!
In the next breath, Trump asserts that hes holding the immigrant children hostage until Congress gives him his ridiculous wallthe wall Mexico was supposed to pay for.
So who are you going to believe, Trump supporters? Him or your lying eyes? The president could stop this obscene charade exactly the way he started it last April, with an executive order. Its purely up to him and Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
The White House can fix it if they want to, Sen. Orrin G. Hatch (R-UT) said. I dont think theres any question about that.
For the White House to pretend otherwise isnt an exaggeration, a misunderstanding, or a falsehood. Its a sheer, brazen, indefensible lie, suggestive of Trumps contempt for his own supporters. He knows that as long as hes sticking it to black or brown people and antagonizing elitists like me, theyll believeor pretend to believe, anywaydamn near anything.
The president says asylum-seeking refugees from Central America infest our country. He says they could be murderers and thieves. Such as that wailing little three year-old from Honduras in John Moores widely-circulated photo, snatched away from her mother by Border Patrol agents.
A stone killer, I am sure.
They look so innocent. Theyre not innocent, Trump has said about alien minors. Hes been telling aides that the media cherry-picks images of sorrowful children to make him look bad.
See, thats another aspect of the presidents personality: Hes incapable of admitting error or taking responsibility. Hes always right, and somebody else is always to blame. Every single time.
Meanwhile, have you heard the ProPublica audio of weeping children, crying out for their parents?
Give it a listen, Trump fans. Then get back to work on those emails suggesting that I leave the country or kill myself.
Former first lady Laura Bush, bless her, may have said it simplest and best: I live in a border state, she wrote in The Washington Post. I appreciate the need to enforce and protect our international boundaries, but this zero-tolerance policy is cruel. It is immoral. And it breaks my heart.
GOP Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) worries about what this ugly debacle is doing to Americas place in the world: The administrations current family separation policy is an affront to the decency of the American people, and contrary to principles and values upon which our nation was founded. The administration has the power to rescind this policy. It should do so now.
Americas allies and friends, see, are beginning to wonder if maybe the Trump presidency isnt some awful freak political error. Maybe this is who we really are.
If the president gets his way, we could find out as early as November. Supposedly, Trumps advisors have persuaded him that kidnapping immigrant children is a winning issue. One White House insider told the Washington Post that if were having an argument on immigration, we always win because thats our ground, no matter what the nuances of the argument are.
Supposedly Trump also told GOP Senators that unless he gets everything he wants on immigration hell shut the government down come Septembera barefaced case of extortion against our democracy. Polls suggest that this would be a political blunder of generational proportions, but who could put it past him?
Could be were fixing to find out just how many stone Trump cultists there are, and exactly how far theyre willing to go.
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jrthin
(4,843 posts)Out actions say, this IS who we are! This country elected him!
DonViejo
(60,536 posts)jrthin
(4,843 posts)are," that I hear many pundits, editorial pages, and influential people ask. And I think we should move beyond that rhetorical question and see, through our actions, more particular, this admistration actions, that those actions are showing us that THIS is who we are. People voted for a man who was openly racist, mean, sadistic, misogynist. This is who we are.
librechik
(30,678 posts)It's like we don't remember history. At least Trump doesn't. Stephen Miller remembers, but not in a good way.