Ugly Lies Don't Bother Donald Trump, Particularly His Own

29 November 2017

By 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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