Somehow . . . every day, he gets a little worse.
It's remarkable.
More deranged. More unable to express a coherent thought. More delusional. More disassociated from realty. Even . . . more racist.
Donald Trump begins by saying the words he has been told to say, but then because he's "so violently self-absorbed" and needs everyone to know he is the best and smartest and most amazing, he keeps babbling and that's when his true feelings come sputtering out.
For example: "I don't like chokeholds ... I think the concept of chokehold sounds so innocent, so perfect."
As Vox's Zack Beauchamp writes:
The most relevant part here ... [is] the lack of empathy in the way he talks about the issue. The only world in which police using chokeholds could sound "innocent" or "perfect" is a world in which you don't think about what happens to people when they're literally being choked — or one where you assume that it won't happen to people like you. ...And then there is this . . . where Trump tells Harris Faulkner of Fox News that Abraham Lincoln made a "questionable" decision when he abolished slavery:
Trump's thinking seems so deeply shaped by his sense of generalized police innocence, his unwillingness to really process the fact of racial discrimination in police use of force, that he's capable of saying out loud that chokeholds sound "innocent."
Trump: So I think I've done more for the Black community than any other president, and let's take a pass on Abraham Lincoln because he did good, although it's always questionable, you know, in other words, the end result —Harris Faulker knew Trump was talking about ending slavery. That's why she cut him off and said bluntly: "Well, we are free."
Faulkner (interrupting): Well, we are free, Mr. President, so I think he did pretty well.
Trump (mindlessly repeating): We are free.
***Here's the transcript of Trump's remarks on how Abraham Lincoln "did good, although it's always questionable, you know, in other words, the end result..." pic.twitter.com/HhvlDqlYCU— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) June 12, 2020
Trump begins interview with Harris Faulkner by characterizing George Floyd protests as "riots" and "unnecessary" pic.twitter.com/Ir8HyeZpMx— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 12, 2020
"You had protesters for different reasons & then you had protesting also because, you know, they just didn't know... a lot of them really were there b/c they were following the crowd" -- Trump suggests many George Floyd protesters weren't even aware of what they were protesting pic.twitter.com/KnbTJy2U8m— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 12, 2020
"Sometimes if you're alone and you're fighting somebody, it's tough ... we have some real bad people" -- Trump defends police chokeholds pic.twitter.com/DZfjT5isFU— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 12, 2020
Harris Faulkner corrects Trump after he can't identify the origins of his "when the looting starts, the shooting starts" talking point pic.twitter.com/bF3vtg89pd— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 12, 2020
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 12, 2020
Trump on police chokeholds: "I think the concept of chokeholds sounds so innocent and so perfect." pic.twitter.com/3NbyFwX26R— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 12, 2020
Says the #UglyPresident who mocks people choking. pic.twitter.com/FrHsSdaECp— Andrew Hsieh #StayHome 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇭🇰🔶🟡 (@AndrewOnSeeAIR) June 12, 2020
You knew he would come around to defending the choke hold.— One for R (@OneforthreeC1) June 12, 2020
Someone should ask him his opinion on gas chambers.— Amin (@Aminesque) June 12, 2020
Trump, who has repeatedly defended the Confederacy, says he's done more for black community than any president with possible exception of Abraham Lincoln but then adds of Lincoln: "He did good although it's always questionable, you know, in other words, the end result." #wut pic.twitter.com/nIuu6fRAM2— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 12, 2020
Trump says that he's done more for African Americans than any other president --- and Lincoln's legacy is "questionable."— digby (@digby56) June 12, 2020
Harris Faulkner responds by saying "well, we are free., Mr President" and Trump says, "yes we are free..."
My brain is exploding. It's too much.
I am actually genuinely curious what the "always questionable" part of this refers to! https://t.co/MNpPKYU1Ip— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) June 12, 2020
The fact that Harris gives him a pass shows she isn’t a serious journalist, just a talking head that gives Fox News a pass on being the news channel for racists.— Negrodamus 🧙🏾♂️ (@jumoffit) June 12, 2020
"You understand what I mean" is the way he is able to weasel-out of anything he says.— This Tweet Is Potentially Correct But Not Factual (@OCHittman) June 12, 2020
The proper #journalists follow-up is:
"I'm sorry sir, I don't. Please explain that to me."
That's as close as he's been to a salad in a while.— Julian Shea (@juliansheasport) June 12, 2020
"Honest Abe, As We Call Him"
"When Abe was elected, almost every black person had a job, even the little kids. When he, you know, left office, black unemployment was very, very high. Some say it was the highest ever. So I think maybe in a way you could say I've been much better."— Tom Cronin (@T_Cronin) June 12, 2020
"Lincoln wasn't perfect. He was maybe 70 percent, positive negative, not negative positive. They called him Honest Abe because he was honest. We don't know how honest he was. I'm probably the most perfect honest president ever."— Ramblin’ Wreck #BLM #ANTIFA #Biden2020 #NOTRUMP (@HanKSmithGA) June 12, 2020
"I call him, like, you know, the pretty good emancipator. Great? I mean, like, he could have been much tougher, okay? But as emancipators go he was okay, I guess. We'll see what happens."— The Alabama Sharpie (@AlabamaSharpie) June 12, 2020
***"Nobody has been a bigger emancipator than I am. I'm like a really good emancipator, okay? The problem with America is we've forgotten how to emancipate. People are amazed at how easily I picked up emancipating. It's like I have a natural ability."— Uncle Jeff, Noble Laureate (@Undershafted) June 12, 2020
"Sir, this is an Arby's."
Our new ad cuts to the chase, and pulls no punches: We’d never name bases after America’s enemies, like Osama bin Laden. Why does Donald Trump so desperately want to keep the names of other racist enemies on our Army bases? pic.twitter.com/Pfixi2Tu6w— VoteVets (@votevets) June 12, 2020
McConnell refuses to denounce Confederate statues at the Capitol— The American Independent (@AmerIndependent) June 11, 2020
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Pence to CBS: “I acknowledge that there is racism in America, just as there is in every nation on Earth. We’ve obviously had a great challenging history for African Americans over the last 400 years," Then says "every American can be proud of the progress that we have made."— Dan Froomkin/PressWatchers.org (@froomkin) June 12, 2020
Cotton says renaming military bases is "cancel culture."— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) June 12, 2020
THE CONFEDERACY WAS CANCELED IN 1865
Geraldo Rivera compared peaceful protests in Seattle to ISIS conquering territory pic.twitter.com/6B4ZqLabjd— Jason Campbell (@JasonSCampbell) June 13, 2020
They have more empathy for statues than they do for peaceful protesters beaten by cops or all the dead black people killed by cops. https://t.co/aoHhwyZKHR— Khashoggi’s Ghost (@UROCKlive1) June 11, 2020
They're opposing marriage equality and effectively endorsing conversion therapy https://t.co/bSkZrDVrAx— The American Independent (@AmerIndependent) June 11, 2020
Here’s a blend of the Coronavirus coverage tonight across two different networks pic.twitter.com/coMesCYePC— Acyn Torabi (@Acyn) June 13, 2020
It feels to me like the federal government has thrown in the towel on this pandemic— Ashish K. Jha (@ashishkjha) June 12, 2020
Don't even appear to be trying anymore
They are doing little to protect nursing homes
The testing czar is gone. No replacement
We don't hear from the task force
The pandemic isn't over people https://t.co/lXSqocBopX
A Lynching In California?
A 24-year-old black man was found hanging from a tree in Palmdale, California, sparking a massive public outcry and demands for a more thorough investigation after officials almost immediately described it as a suicide https://t.co/Tm5JzONb8f— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) June 13, 2020
I think the last Poll I heard about said 4% of "this much helped black community" was going to vote for Dump ..... no doubt they have issued letters of complaint that the 96% was just purely Radical Antifa Democrats !
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The Beat goes on ......