Yesterday Trump called Democrats who refused to stand and applaud as he tried to steal credit from the Obama Administration from successfully bringing the country out of the greatest economic disaster of last 70 years, “Un-American”, “Disrespectful” and “Traitors.”
Supporter of his have claimed that somehow screaming “You Lie” at President Obama was less disrepestful than saying and doing nothing or that he was “Just joking".
And then the Trump 2020 Campaign released this ad which repeats his claims and shows that Trump is trying to play victim right into the midterms and his re-election.
Of course there’s just one little thing the neo-Fascists forget. America is based on freedom, particular freedom of speech and freedom to dissent.
Amendment 1: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
There is little that is more American than not being a lick-spittle syncophant to your Government because only in a nation where those who choose to quietly dissent are protected from retaliation, can freedom be found.
Both the White House and Former Communications Director Anthony Scarmucci have claimed Trump was “merely” joking.
“I clearly thought it was joking,” he continued. “You saw my reaction — I was smiling, I know his personality. You can watch the gesticulation.”
“He probably doesn’t mean it,” Scaramucci concluded.
No, actually he did mean it. He did what he always does — pander to the gingoistic natavism and partisan bigotry of his base. He knew the belly scratchers would not only get a chuckle out of it, they be energized by the idea of the hippie, commie, lefty Demon-Rats insulting and disrepecting THEIR Country.
We know what this game is about. So does apparently Senator Jeff Flake.
White House spokesperson Hogan Gidley said Tuesday that the remark was “tongue in cheek.” In press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ words, “He was clearly joking.”
Flake responded from the Senate Floor: “Treason is not a punchline, Mr. President.”
No, it's not.
But the simply fact is that Trump didn't get applause from Democrats because they know damn well he doesn't deserve applause for things that he. didn't. do.
In fact Trump economic “success” has been considerably weaker then the progress Obama made during his last six years.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2017 saw 2.06 million jobs created, making the most sluggish job growth in America since Obama’s first term, when the economy was pulling out of the Great Recession.
The anemic job numbers are also an indicator that Trump is misguided in his belief that gutting regulations actually creates jobs.
He blasted Democrats for not jumping up and applauded as he said that African-American and Latino unemployment numbers are at their lowest point ever — except that he didn't mention that most of the trend was put in place long before he arrived.
The downward rate in unemployment did not start with Trump, in fact it actually hasn't changed in rate at all since Obama initially turned around the economy back in 2009. Also it should be noted that during Obama’s year the unemployment rate for black people was falling at an average rate of 1.9%, but during Trump it’s only half that at 1%. But the real problems that he’s also done nothing to reduce the gap that continues to exists between unemployment rates for black (6.8%) and whites (3.7%), which admittedly has always been there — and we all know why — but it’s not like Trump’s gonna fix that problem now is he?
He’s not going to fix that, he’s going to continue to scapegoat and blame, to point fingers for his own failures at everyone else - like his recent statement that he’d like another Goverment shutdown — because he figures Democrats will get the blame again, and he’d also like to have a big Military Parade in his honor just like France.
The Washington Post reported Tuesday that during a January 18 meeting in the Pentagon’s “tank” room (typically reserved for top-secret military discussions with the Joint Chiefs of Staff) the president’s previously “abstract desire” for a military parade appeared to become a directive.
“The marching orders were: I want a parade like the one in France,” a military official with knowledge of the meeting told the Post. “This is being worked at the highest levels of the military.”
Or perhaps he should have said like his true Hero. Dear Leader Kim John-Un.
This man is a Totalitarian Demagogue. He’s the one who is disrespecting the nation.