{"id":45778,"date":"2020-06-28T11:51:13","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T18:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=45778"},"modified":"2020-08-07T08:11:35","modified_gmt":"2020-08-07T15:11:35","slug":"trump-fails-to-renounce-white-power-tweet-in-official-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=45778","title":{"rendered":"Trump Fails to Renounce ‘White Power’ Tweet in Official Response"},"content":{"rendered":"

The White House Deflection Shields are on full force this morning as Donald Trump is faced with some of the most damning evidence of his despicable negligence, incompetence and malfeasance to date. He has turned to his customary tactic of hurling insults, shifting blame, and denying reality. In other words, it’s the same old Trump who is only concerned with himself and his image<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\"Donald
\n<\/a><\/p>\n

Following the publication of the New York Times story about Russia paying bounties to the Taliban to kill American troops, Trump tweeted<\/a><\/strong> that “Nobody briefed or told me”<\/em> about the matter. Then he casually dismissed it with his tedious whining about “fake news.”<\/em> There is virtually zero chance that this sort of intelligence report would not have been conveyed to the president. But even if Trump were not lying, the contention that he wasn’t told makes matters even worse. It would mean that his intelligence apparatus is dangerously inept and that Trump was ill-informed about the welfare of the troops he is allegedly commanding.<\/p>\n

What’s more, Trump continues to downplay the increasing severity of the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic as its spread throughout the nation accelerates. He triples down on his defense of Confederate traitors and the offensive statues paying tribute to them. He obsessively watches his “shadow cabinet”<\/em> advisors on Fox News. And then he goes golfing. This is how Trump is handling the duties of his office at a time of extreme crises and distress for the American people.<\/p>\n

In addition to these disturbing examples of Trump’s dereliction of duty, he is also reaffirming his most abhorrently racist tendencies. He tweeted a video Sunday morning that featured his MAGA supporters shouting “white power”<\/em> as they paraded in their golf carts through The Villages retirement community:<\/p>\n

https:\/\/twitter.com\/danielnewman\/status\/1277285058546720769<\/p>\n

Trump’s comment in the tweet , which he deleted a few hours later (but is preserved here<\/a><\/strong>), thanked “the great people”<\/em> expressing these repugnant views. That’s reminiscent of his praise for neo-Nazis in Charlottesville as “very fine people,”<\/em> and the corroborating views of his Fox News sycophants who last week defended slave owners<\/a><\/strong> saying that “It doesn’t mean they were terrible people.”<\/em><\/p>\n

White House spokesperson Judd Deere frantically issued a statement<\/a><\/strong> in an attempt to clean up Trump’s latest mess. Deere said that…<\/p>\n

\u201cPresident Trump is a big fan of The Villages. He did not hear the one statement made on the video. What he did see was tremendous enthusiasm from his many supporters.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Really? The “white power”<\/em> chant occurred in the first ten seconds of the video. It’s hard to imagine how anyone, even someone as cognitively challenged as Trump, could have missed it. And if all he saw other than that was “tremendous enthusiasm from his many supporters,”<\/em> he must have a mental filter that edited out all the people shouting “F*ck Trump!”<\/em> and asking “Where’s your white hoods?”<\/em> All things considered, it’s surprising that Trump ever thought it was a good idea to post this video. In fact, it’s possible that he deleted it because of the criticism of him, not the racism.<\/p>\n

What we didn’t hear from Trump’s spokesperson, or Trump himself, was any denunciation of the racist epithets so viciously bellowed by those unashamed bigots. There was not one word indicating that Trump disapproved of that hateful rhetoric. Perhaps he was worried about alienating his equally racist supporters and Klan pals. The entire statement said only that he hadn’t heard it and that he’s a big fan of those who said it. And that pretty much settles the question as to Trump’s flagrant racism. If he can’t repudiate this painfully obvious bigotry, then he simply doesn’t want to.<\/p>\n

\n

How Fox News Deceives and Controls Their Flock:
\nFox Nation vs. Reality: The Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a>
\nAvailable now at Amazon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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