Trump humps flag. Twitter.
It seems that a good deal of media and regular folks are falling all over themselves about how reasonable Trump’s speech was, it was all so gosh darn normal, oh my yes! Except it wasn’t. It was the same old shit, wrapped up in the flag and exceptional Americanism, with a white nationalist filling. Raw Story has a brief article about this, noting the White House surprise at how media pundits were won over by this speech.
President Donald Trump’s address to Congress on Tuesday night got glowing reviews from some pundits on cable news — and it turns out even the White House is surprised by how easily they were won over.
Washington Post reporter Robert Costa tweeted on Wednesday morning that some sources he’s talked with in the White House are “frankly surprised at how pundits are warming to the speech.”
This is particularly surprising to them, Costa writes, because “Trump has not changed” and there is “no big shift in policy coming.”
Think Progress has a longer piece about this piece of bullshit which too many people are swallowing whole. Interestingly, the white supremacist scum are thrilled about it, because instead of paying attention to the bits of trapping, they focused on actual content, which is a gift to Nazis everywhere.
Speaking to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday night, President Donald Trump portrayed the United States as an island of civilization under siege from immigrant cartels and terrorists posing as refugees.
Trump touted a new Department of Homeland Security office that will target “criminal aliens.” He lied about immigration’s effect on the U.S. economy, boasted about sharp rollbacks to the regulatory state, renewed his call for eradicating the Affordable Care Act, hinted at further efforts to privatize the American education system, and offered a strident defense of his administration’s Muslim ban. At no point did he deviate from the “nationalist-populist” ideology his administration has adopted under top strategist Steve Bannon, former chairman of the white-nationalist website Breitbart.
On the other hand, Trump also read off a teleprompter, tossed off a cursory denunciation of “hate,” and wrapped up the speech with some pablum about how Americans should believe in themselves.
Those minor grace points were enough to earn Trump rapturous applause from the usual pundit gaggle, which is evidently willing to embrace a white-nationalist policy agenda if the presentation includes a few Hallmark aphorisms and leaves out any overt racial slurs.
CNN’s Van Jones said Trump “became President of the United States” when he acknowledged the widow of a fallen Navy SEAL, who was sitting in the audience.
Oh FFS, really? Trump acts like a normal person for 10 fucking seconds, and people are tripping over their tongues at how great he is? Jesus Fucking Christ, it’s not enough, it’s just not enough to say we are in trouble here. We are past trouble. There aren’t even words. We’re up to our neck in fascism, but it’s okay, because someone managed to get Trump to read some nice words from a teleprompter. Why didn’t anyone bother to note that Ms. Owens wouldn’t have been a grieving widow if it weren’t for Trump’s ego and need to play war? That Trump doesn’t want to go along with the investigation requested by Owen’s father? No, he’s so very presidential because he addressed a widow.
The vile Nazi scum were elated, but for reasons grounded in reality:
David Duke @DrDavidDukeHail to the Chief – No change on policy to deport illegals and on track to CUT major legal immigration necessary to take our country back!
Richard ? Spencer ✔ @RichardBSpencerAfter the PC bullshit is out of the way, Trump is making a Trump speech.#trumpaddress
So, what’s it going to take for all the non-Nazi scum to see what’s actually being said and what’s actually going on?
Via Think Progress.
Also see:
Trump lied. Right-wing extremists — not foreigners — commit more terror attacks in the U.S.
Trump’s address to Congress was riddled with falsehoods about the energy industry.
Trump was so busy attacking immigrants he barely acknowledged hate crimes.
Trump draws a fake conclusion from a study that actually finds immigration is good for the economy.
Trump acts like a normal person for 10 fucking seconds, and people are tripping over their tongues at how great he is?
For reading off a teleprompter, it was an OK performance. Not a good one by any stretch. Castro and Chavez were way better.
Josh Marshall: … the same fundamentally dark vision of a decimated America, just with the volume turned down a notch or two.
BTW -- I dub that picture “flag groping”
Marcus Ranum @ # 3: … “flag groping”
Somebody must’ve told him there was a pussy inside it.
@Pierce R. Butler
Bring snark like that to my place and you’ll get showered with more comments awards. :P
Shiv@#5:
We need a “boojum” award, for supremely snarky postings. Hm….. Seems like a simple bit of CSS and a jpeg…
I suspect some people are so scared of what’s happening, they’re trying desperately to pretend it isn’t.
LykeX:
This isn’t some people. This is WAY too many people. Also, the media is being entranced by this shit.
What was it about nationwide Stockholm syndrome?
For some reason, I thought Van Jones wasn’t one of “those” liberals. FFS.
Just look at this shit:
What the ever-loving fuck?
Oh, the first quote was actually supposed to be this:
The Nazis ate his brain.
Nazi zombies. As if things could get…. any.. more ummm well anyway, nazi zombies.
That picture of Trump humping *THE*FLAG* never fails the make me gag.