Trump’s Obama derangement syndrome drags him to a new low
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Updated ,first published
Washington: It seems etymologically, metaphysically, geologically and ethically impossible for President Donald Trump to reach a new low. But he did.
As I plan my column every Friday, I find new evidence that the president is unfit for office. He taunts his enemies in crude, creepy ways and tries to tattoo his name on everything.
Late Thursday, a disgusting clip appeared on Truth Social depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as monkeys in a jungle cartoon. The Lion Is Sleeping Tonight. It was at the end of a video full of unfounded conspiracy theories about the 2020 election. The man who pushed the vile “birther” conspiracy is still involved, using a racist meme of a far-right Pepe the Frog-loving acolyte.
Like many of Trump’s actions, it was shocking and predictable.
Like New York Times Trump has a “history of making disparaging remarks about people of color, women, and immigrants, and especially the Obamas,” and that in his current term, “the White House, the Department of Labor, and the Department of Homeland Security have all promoted posts reflecting white supremacist messages,” the report said.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt offered a pathetic defense of our pathological president: “This is from an internet meme video depicting President Trump as the king of the jungle and the Democrats as the characters of the jungle. The Lion King. Please stop the fake outrage and report on something that truly matters to the American people today.
Karoline, I think Americans care that your boss is racist and unstable.
“His presidency is wrapped in a bubble of darkness, hatred and anger,” said Rahm Emanuel, who served as Obama’s chief of staff.
The post was deleted once the White House realized the outrage was real. Authorities charged an employee, though you know Trump was involved. He said on Wednesday that he himself had “turned reality” into the conspiracy theories.
It went so far that even a few Republicans in Congress who disdained the midterm elections objected.
Tim Scott of South Carolina, the only black Republican in the Senate, called it “the most racist thing I’ve ever seen in the White House” on social platform X.
Republican senator Katie Britt, increasingly disturbed by some of Trump’s offensive actions, told X: “This content was rightfully removed, it should never have been published in the first place, and that’s not who we are as a nation.”
Trump had a Dostoevsky-like moment at the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington on Thursday when he admitted that his ego would not allow him to lose the 2020 race.
“You know, they rigged the second election,” he said. “I had to win, I had to win. I needed it for my ego. I would have a bad ego for the rest of my life. But now I have a really big ego.”
He acknowledged that our fabricated election integrity crisis was nothing more than an exercise in manipulating the truth for his own bottomless hubris. “His ego couldn’t handle the fact that he lost, so he had to pretend there was a voting crisis,” David Axelrod said. “The world is still paying the price for this”
(Trump also admitted that he was annoyed at religious gatherings when Speaker Mike Johnson asked him to pray before meals. Trump noted dryly: “‘Excuse me? We’re going to have lunch in the Oval.’)
After obscenely plastering his name on everything from the Kennedy Center to gold cards for wealthy immigrant candidates to battleships and planning a massive triumphal arch and a grand White House ballroom as reflections of his inflated ego, Trump is now trying to force Congress to name more things after him by holding congressionally approved funds hostage.
The administration has tried blackmail tactics on Chuck Schumer, threatening to withhold billions of dollars for a new rail tunnel under the Hudson River unless he helps rename New York’s Penn Station and Washington Dulles International Airport after Trump.
Trump is dragging his name and America’s name through the mud. The word “Trump” is a nickname in many circles. But in a strange manifestation of insecurity, the president still wants to stamp his name everywhere, just as he did when he was a bankrupt-prone businessman in New York.
Trump had another quintessential Trump moment on Tuesday when he chided CNN’s Kaitlan Collins for not smiling when asked what she would say to pedophile survivors who “feel like they haven’t gotten justice” in light of the latest revelation of the Jeffrey Epstein mess.
He told her it was time to move on; This was the latest twist stemming from the fact that she never came clean about her relationship with the disgusting Epstein.
Like the chilling sight of worms crawling from under a rock, a group of powerful and formerly respected people in America and beyond have been exposed by the Epstein files.
Many of the ultra-elite who claim not to know the truth about Epstein’s depravity have been exposed as liars. Instead, Wall StreetJournal He wrote that prominent figures from Noam Chomsky to Stanley Pottinger to Peter Mandelson to Michael Wolff “actively consoled him, cast him as the victim, and in some cases offered advice on how to improve his image.”
And the shoes keep dropping. CNN reported Friday that Navy secretary John Phelan was listed as a passenger on Epstein’s private plane in 2006.
Aspect TimesDavid Fahrenthold told CNN that the foolish role of some tech billionaires in the Epstein scandal is especially chilling because our lives will be defined by these billionaires for years to come.
We once viewed the lords of the cloud as heroes, young geniuses who would improve our lives. Now, as Fahrenthold says, these men’s personal failures, insecurities, and midlife crises determine the way they run their companies. “We were a little misplaced in pinning our hopes on these people,” he said.
These Negative keeping hope alive.
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