Trump Meltdown…
In the words of my dear, late friend, Maya Angelou: “When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.” Those words could not have been truer than during the epic Donald Trump meltdown the world witnessed Tuesday on live television.
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His original comments regarding the Charlottesville terrorist events last weekend were almost unanimously panned, so advisers arranged for a do-over that was supposed to be his official and final remarks on the matter. By Tuesday, he began talking about infrastructure in an attempt to turn the page. However, as advisers quickly learned, Donald Trump and a live microphone are an extremely unpredictable mix.
Reportedly reeling from having to admit that his initial statement was not up to snuff (he never wants to admit when he’s wrong), Trump ditched the obviously prepared (by someone else) remarks he was forced to read from a teleprompter on Monday and went rogue — letting everyone know how he REALLY feels about neo-Nazi’s and white nationalists. The end result was an absolute train wreck that left aides feeling helpless and a shocked American public in disbelief.
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“I think there’s blame on both sides. I don’t have any doubt about it and you don’t have any doubt it either. And if you reported it accurately, you would say it.”
“You had a group on one side and you had a group on the other and they came at each other with clubs and it was vicious and it was horrible and it was a horrible thing to watch. But there is another side. There was a group on this side — you can call them the left, you just called them the left — that came violently attacking the other group. So you can say what you want, but that’s the way it is.”
“What about the alt-left that came charging at the, as you say, the alt-right? Do they have any semblance of guilt? …What about the fact that they came charging – they came charging with clubs in their hands, swinging clubs?”
“You had some very bad people in that group. But you also had people that were very fine people on both sides. You had people in that group – excuse me, excuse me. I saw the same pictures as you did. You had people in that group that were there to protest the taking down, of to them, a very, very important statue and the renaming of a park from Robert E. Lee to another name.”
“George Washington was a slave owner. Was George Washington a slave owner? So will George Washington now lose his status? …Are we going to take down statues to George Washington? How about Thomas Jefferson? What do you think of Thomas Jefferson? You like him? OK, good. Are we going to take down his statue, because he was a major slave owner? Now we’re going to take down his statue. So you know what? It’s fine. You’re changing history, you’re changing culture.
You had many people in that group other than neo-Nazis and white nationalists, OK? And the press has treated them absolutely unfairly.”
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Needless to say, the Trump meltdown witnessed by billions was an abomination. His narcissistic effort to prove to aides that he can speak for himself by winging it was perhaps one of the worst presidential moments in history since Richard Nixon. Trump clearly wanted to have his cake and eat it too. He wanted to say the bare minimum so a sane segment of Americans would somehow be convinced he is not a racist. However, he also wanted to blow a dog whistle for the bigots and hate mongers listening to alert them that he is on their side, but he simply has to say a negative sentence or 2 against them in order to make the charade look good.
His message was received loud and clear.
In a tweet, former Ku Klux Klan Imperial Wizard David Duke praised Trump, saying “Thank you, President Trump, for your honesty & courage to tell the truth about #Charlottesville.” His racist counterparts soon followed suit and were giddy with excitement that Trump was willing to prove to the world that they have a true ally in The White House.
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Mere moments after the Trump meltdown ended, social media went berserk with a united response:
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One good thing about that abomination of a speech: it’s now impossible for any Trump supporter to pretend they don’t know what he is.
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) August 15, 2017
.@realDonaldTrump, you are embarrassing our country and the millions of Americans who fought and died to defeat Nazism.
— Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) August 15, 2017
The President of the United States just made it clear, in case anyone was still unsure, that he is in fact a racist.
— Jon Favreau (@jonfavs) August 15, 2017
Trump must be removed. Republicans, stand up to this obscene man.
— Stephen King (@StephenKing) August 15, 2017
Recognize: What Trump is saying isn’t new. He’s literally parroting what’s being said on right-wing radio, alt-right Twitter and Fox News.
— Angelo Carusone (@GoAngelo) August 15, 2017
Trump’s frothing statements today put him on the wrong side of history. And importantly, the wrong side of the present and the future.
— S.E. Cupp (@secupp) August 15, 2017
Trump totally stepped over the line today. Now the corrupt GOP has no choice but to impeach him when Mueller gives them any legal excuse.
— Thom Hartmann (@Thom_Hartmann) August 15, 2017
On Tuesday, the Trump meltdown proved that Donald is no president. He is no leader. What he is is a real estate tycoon with self-serving interests that do not include uniting the country under 1 flag. He is an unqualified bigot who America insanely handed the nuclear codes. Donald Trump proved that he is willing to divide an entire nation and create an atmosphere that sends us backward to the days of the 1960’s civil rights era — so long as he is left feeling that he is right and that all of his own interests have been served.
Trump is who Trump has always been. So, why is everyone suddenly so surprised?
We had a big discussion about this at work yesterday and I learned alot. It seems some people think they need a white civil rights movement. They think dark people are taking everything from them and they need to stop it to save the white race. That is who Trump was talking to yesterday who got him elected. He is right in their hip pocket and its dangerous. Based on what I saw yesterday I really think we could be heading for a race war all over again. These people are pissed and Trump is just making them pissed more. They are not going to all of a sudden get quiet and go away. Something is going to have to happen for these people and the rest of us to be able to live together. Because Trump is just pouring gas on the fire now. So I want to see… Read more »