{"id":45515,"date":"2020-06-03T14:56:20","date_gmt":"2020-06-03T21:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=45515"},"modified":"2020-06-03T15:33:11","modified_gmt":"2020-06-03T22:33:11","slug":"trump-tries-to-demonize-the-protesters-supported-by-73-of-the-american-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=45515","title":{"rendered":"Trump Tries to Demonize the Protesters Supported By 73% of the American People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The most consistent principle of Donald Trump&#8217;s public relations game plan (if you can call it a plan), is to flagrantly distort reality (aka lie) in order to shape it into a form that doesn&#8217;t frighten him. For instance, he insists that thousands more people attend his cult rallies than the venues can actually hold. He claims to have built hundreds of miles of walls along the southern border where there has been no new wall built at all. He boasts about being the best thing that ever happened to African-Americans. He <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=45224\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">celebrates his <em>&#8220;progress&#8221; with the coronavirus<\/em><\/a><\/strong> despite more than 107,000 deaths due to his negligence and incompetence.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-fear-shadow.jpg\" alt=\"Trump Fear\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-41448\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NewsCorpse\/posts\/3590708704277232\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Advs\/fb-share-tn.jpg\" width=\"274\" height=\"20\" class=\"aligncenter\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Trump will lie about all things great and small, no matter how easily the truth can be validated proving his obvious dishonesty. These are lies rooted in fear of being seen for the fool that most people know he is. On Wednesday Trump posted a tweet that is emblematic of that behavior in the worst possible way:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">If you watch Fake News <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CNN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CNN<\/a> or MSDNC, you would think that the killers, terrorists, arsonists, anarchists, thugs, hoodlums, looters, ANTIFA &amp; others, would be the nicest, kindest most wonderful people in the Whole Wide World. No, they are what they are &#8211; very bad for our Country!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1268166288993632256?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 3, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>This tweet begins by chastising the media (specifically his longtime nemises, CNN and MSNBC) for allegedly supporting a frightful array of evildoers who Trump asserts the media lavished with praise. Needless to say, that never occurred, and Trump doesn&#8217;t provide any evidence of his vile assertion. All the media did was to accurately report that those committing acts of violence or vandalism were in the minority, and that the vast majority of protesters were peaceful and devoted to positive change. Trump doesn&#8217;t want to hear that because it conflicts with his paranoid vision of a dystopian society where villains have taken control of the streets and his enemies are coming after him from every direction<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s more, Trump is disgustingly maligning the honest, concerned Americans who are protesting real injustices as <em>&#8220;killers, terrorists, arsonists, anarchists, thugs, hoodlums, looters, ANTIFA &#038; others.&#8221;<\/em> It&#8217;s a nauseating mischaracterization done purposefully to dehumanize good citizens for whom Trump has a deep seated, personal animosity. Notice that he doesn&#8217;t allow even a hint of any appreciation for the majority of people who are lawfully expressing their entirely justified anxiety with regard to systemic racism. Trump&#8217;s loaded rhetoric that accuses these protesters of being murderers and terrorists is way beyond the pale. And his <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=45480\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">invention of an Anti-fa(scist) organization<\/a><\/strong> is just another figment of his diseased imagination.<\/p>\n<p>All of this is being done out of pure desperation on Trump&#8217;s part. He recognizes (or more likely has been told) that his approval ratings are in the sewer. Every poll shows that he is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=45383\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">losing to Joe Biden<\/a><\/strong> nationally, as well as in most of the swing states. So he has embarked on a campaign of image restoration in order to plug his leaking ship of state. It&#8217;s what produced the travesty on Tuesday when he had protesters tear gassed in order to clear his way to a faux-religious photo-op that even <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=45499\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">some on his own staff found stomach churning<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>What makes Trump&#8217;s PR plan all the more inept is that he is bucking popular opinion. A new <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipsos.com\/en-us\/news-polls\/reuters-ipsos-civil-unrest-george-floyd-2020-06-02\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">poll by Reuters\/Ipsos<\/a><\/strong> finds that&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Three-quarters of Americans report they support the peaceful protests and demonstrations as a response to George Floyd\u2019s death (73%). A majority of Democrats (86%) and Republicans (59%) report supporting the peaceful demonstrations.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Also revealed in this survey is that those who strongly support the protests (43%) far exceed those who strongly oppose them (12%%). And that <em>&#8220;Four in five Americans (82%) report that peaceful protests are an appropriate response to the killing of an unarmed man by police.&#8221;<\/em> And that <em>&#8220;Just 33% of Americans approve of how Donald Trump is handling the protests.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In short, Trump is wrong the wrong side of the American people on everything. Yet, in his delusional stupor, he is still cranking out all-caps tweets shouting about some make-believe <em>&#8220;SILENT MAJORITY&#8221;<\/em> that he imagines is on his side. And this is how he thinks he will improve his standing in the polls and his prospects for reelection? Sure. Good luck with that, Bunker Boy.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>How Fox News Deceives and Controls Their Flock:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00QSSMOES\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B00QSSMOES&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=newscorpsecom-20&#038;linkId=TLI6JC2OYE22MUTS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fox Nation vs. Reality: The Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a><br \/>\nAvailable now at Amazon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The most consistent principle of Donald Trump&#8217;s public relations game plan (if you can call it a plan), is to flagrantly distort reality (aka lie) in order to shape it into a form that doesn&#8217;t frighten him. For instance, he insists that thousands more people attend his cult rallies than the venues can actually hold. 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