Ugly Lies Don't Bother Donald Trump, Particularly His Own
29 November 2017By Peter Gelzinis,
Boston Herald
Sadly, there was nothing surprising about Donald Trump jumping on Twitter
yesterday to recycle several unverified videos of alleged Muslim violence
posted by Jayda Fransen, Britain's version of David Duke.
After all, this was the same president who insisted there were "some very fine
people" among those Tiki torch-carrying Nazis who marched into Charlottesville
a few months back.
But far more disturbing than The Donald's endorsement of images designed to
fan the flames of Islamophobia was the explanation offered by his sullen-faced
media mouthpiece, Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
"Whether it's a real video," Sarah told reporters, "the threat is real."
In other words, Sanders conceded it didn't matter if the video was pure
propaganda … or "fake news." She said Trump wanted to use this Molotov
cocktail to "start a conversation."
And exactly what kind of conversation was the president looking to start with
a lie? Since when has Donald Trump ever wanted to start a conversation about
anything?
The Donald does not converse. He rants. He raves. He sneers. He demands. He
lies. He incites. He belittles.
"His goal is to promote strong border security and strong national security,"
Sanders said.
Wasn't that pretty much the same thing Hitler was looking to do some 80 years
ago in Germany?
There is a definite symmetry about the America First president glomming onto
the hate-mongering spewed out by Jayda Fransen, queen of the ultra-right U.K.
Party known as Britain First. She has already been convicted of hurling racist
insults at a Muslim woman wearing a hijab.
In other words, in the view of our president, Fransen has to be a very fine
person. Of course, The Donald knows this the same way he knew that there just
had to be some very fine people carrying those Tiki torches. He made it up,
pulled it off the top of his bleached head.
Through a spokesman, British Prime Minister Theresa May gave our president a
dope slap yesterday.
"Britain First seeks to divide communities through their use of hateful
narratives which peddle lies and stoke tensions," May said. "It is wrong for
the president to have done this."
Of course it was wrong, stupid and venal, but then Donald Trump's America
First campaign, and now his America First presidency, have been built on
peddling lies and stoking tensions. That's who the man is.
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