{"id":38148,"date":"2018-06-09T14:01:07","date_gmt":"2018-06-09T21:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=38148"},"modified":"2018-06-09T14:04:20","modified_gmt":"2018-06-09T21:04:20","slug":"trump-says-he-isnt-looking-to-blame-americas-past-leaders-but-then-does-so-6-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=38148","title":{"rendered":"Trump Says He Isn’t Looking to Blame America’s Past Leaders, But Then Does So 6 Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

When Donald Trump is at home in the United States he spends much of his time denigrating the country, its people, and it\u2019s leaders, past and present. His campaign slogan of “America First”<\/em> might actually be a shortened version that originally read “Blame America First.”<\/em> This is the sort of common anti-American spiel that is standard in the Trump repertoire. He’s been doing this throughout his visit to Canada for the G7 meeting, and we can expect more of that when he’s in Singapore with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un next week.<\/p>\n

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Trump held a brief press avail prior to his departure from Quebec. It was predictably full of the open animosity he has for America, particularly the media<\/a><\/strong> that he despises. But he clearly didn’t want to leave anyone else out as he trashed the country and those who have represented it. He made a special note of blaming President Obama for Russia’s invasion of Crimea. But guess who he didn’t blame? Russia.<\/p>\n

After chastising Obama for allegedly doing nothing when Russia annexed Crimea, Trump couldn’t explain why he’s done nothing about Russia’s continued occupation. Point of fact: Obama did respond to the annexation with sanctions and leading the effort to boot Russia out of the G7. Trump is now advocating for Russia to be readmitted to the G7 and for the sanctions to be removed. Even though Russia is still in Crimea and is guilty of crimes around the world, including in the U.S.<\/p>\n

However, what really stood out in his remarks was a whopping dose of hypocrisy that was astronomical, even for him. Trump sought to minimize the frequent attacks he makes on his fellow Americans. Not that he cares about the harm he’s doing to the country’s reputation. It was probably just his way pretending to have some sort of emotional balance. He failed miserably. The failure became unavoidably apparent in a comment that everyone knew he couldn’t possibly believe when he said unconvincingly that, “I’m not looking to criticize people that were preceding me.”<\/em> But that claim was blown apart by almost everything else he said during the Q&A. In fact, he explicitly contradicted himself six times in the brief press event where he also said:<\/p>\n