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Why is Donald Trump hellbent on making my job so easy?
I mean, it’s not a job I wish to continue doing for the next four years or anything, but I have to admit that during really busy periods, I relax a little when my task is to write a counterpoint to any given Trump narrative. I almost want to challenge myself by having an assistant hide video clips of Trump being Trump and send me on a scavenger hunt to find them because it really shouldn’t be this easy to reveal a person’s hypocrisy.
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For example, on Tuesday, hours before Vice President Kamala Harris was set to deliver what her campaign described as her closing message to voters on the Ellipse outside the White House, Trump stood on a stage at his Mar-a-Lago estate and, with a straight face, told his supporters that Harris is running “a campaign of hate.”
In Trump’s own weird words
“She’s running on a campaign of immoralization, and really a campaign of destruction. But really, perhaps more than anything else, it’s a campaign of hate. A campaign of absolute hate. I said yesterday that she’s a vessel. She is a vessel. It’s a very big powerful party with smart people … but they’re vicious, and they’re perhaps even trying to destroy our country. After two assassination attempts in just over three months, her lies and her slanders are very shameful and really inexcusable,” he continued.
Seriously, man?
Just last week, during one campaign speech alone, Trump called Harris “lazy as hell,” “slow,” a “low-IQ person,” “the worst,” and a “radical left lunatic.” Before that, he had called her “dumb,” “stupid,” “lyin’ Kamala,” and “mentally impaired.” Trump has also resurrected the same birther nonsense against Harris that didn’t work when he attacked former President Barack Obama with it.
Mind you, while Trump whines about “hate,” he is still on damage control after his Madison Square Garden rally turned into an impromptu amateur comedy hour for white supremacists who don’t understand comedy — which should have surprised absolutely no one considering the bigoted rambling Trump is consistently guilty of.
Also, Trump is, once again, trying to blame his political opponent for the attempts on his life, both of which were made by white men who were, apparently, once Trump supporters. Last month, Trump and much of the MAGA world were attempting to place blame on Harris and President Joe Biden for the shots taken at him because, like one of the shooters, they called him a threat to democracy.
The rebuttal for this narrative was so easy, I already wrote it:
First of all, let’s be clear on one thing: Biden, Harris, and everyone else who has called Trump a “threat to democracy” called him that because he literally tried to upend democracy after he lost his bid for reelection in 2020.
His big and baseless lie about election fraud costing him his second term — which he has repeated as recently as when he crashed and burned on the debate stage against Harris last week — caused 147 Republican legislators to vote to overturn a legal and fair election based on election fraud claims that Trump conjured out of thin air. Calling Trump a “threat to democracy” isn’t irresponsible “rhetoric” — it’s stating observable truth.
And one final encore
Hell, while we’re here, let’s go ahead and go over Trump’s “campaign of hate” against non-white migrants, which I’ve written about so often I’m basically a broken record at this point.
Trump is racist because he compares South American migrants to Hannibal Lecter, and calls them “animals” who are “not human.”
He’s racist because he dabbled in eugenics-style scientific racism by suggesting migrants have “bad genes” that predispose them to commit violent crimes.
Trump is a Nazi-esque racist because he lied about migrants bringing “tremendous infectious disease” to the U.S. and said they are “poisoning the blood” of the country.
He’s racist because he wishes the U.S. received more white immigrants from “nice” European countries.
Trump and Vance are racist because they continue to lie about migrants causing a surge in violent crime in America, an assertion that is not remotely supported by violent crime data from any reputable database.
Essentially, everything Trump accuses a person of is something he’s demonstrably guilty of himself. He claimed the 2020 election was stolen from him when, actually, he was trying to steal the election through factless propaganda.
He calls people, especially Black women, “nasty” just for saying things about him that are observably true. Meanwhile, it seems as though incendiary, inflammatory, and “nasty” rhetoric about Black women is his go-to whenever a Black woman challenges his easily debunkable lies.
Trump’s entire hate-fueled campaign has been about painting a doom-and-gloom picture of America by using racist stereotypes and rhetoric. And to paraphrase what his running mate said, lying is okay during a campaign. Each time Trump has run for office, he’s used a “campaign of hate.”
Proving it has simply become too damn easy.
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