{"id":57013,"date":"2023-06-01T13:18:44","date_gmt":"2023-06-01T20:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=57013"},"modified":"2023-06-01T13:18:44","modified_gmt":"2023-06-01T20:18:44","slug":"whats-troubling-trump-today-the-term-woke-that-he-has-repeatedly-used-himself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=57013","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s Troubling Trump Today? The Term &#8216;WOKE&#8217; that He Has Repeatedly Used Himself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If there&#8217;s one thing that epitomizes the multitude of mental defects that Donald Trump displays, it&#8217;s that he is a perpetual outrage machine. Virtually every time he opens his mouth he is complaining about something or someone that has failed to supply the unflinching adoration that he demands. He is &#8211; in his own words &#8211; <em>&#8220;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=43090\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the most fabulous whiner<\/a><\/strong>.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=What's Troubling Trump Today? The Term 'WOKE' that He Has Repeatedly Used Himself%0D&#038;url=https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=57013\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to Tweet this article<\/a><\/strong><\/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\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t take much to set Trump off. Lately he has been obsessed with his rival for the Republican Party&#8217;s presidential nomination, Florida Fuhrer Ron DeSantis. More of Trump&#8217;s posts on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=56747\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">his floundering Twitter ripoff, Truth Social<\/a><\/strong>, are attacks on DeSantis than on any other subject. His <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=56568\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fear of DeSantis<\/a><\/strong> transcends his feigned interests in immigration, Russia&#8217;s war crimes against Ukraine, the debt ceiling default, and even his imminent legal peril that has already produced 34 felony indictments, with more to come.<\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=56969\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fox News Finally Recognizes \u2018The Biggest Problem for Donald Trump\u2019 and it Isn\u2019t Ron DeSantis<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On Thursday Trump was campaigning in Iowa where he unleashed yet another assault on <em>&#8220;Ron DeSanctimonious,&#8221;<\/em> as Trump calls him. This time it was a catty callout of DeSantis and his tedious rhetoric that certifies a diagnosis of acute <em>&#8220;woke mind virus.&#8221;<\/em> That affliction prompted Trump to disavow any association with <em>&#8220;wokeism,&#8221;<\/em> a disease that produces severe discombobulation, stupefaction, and dumbfoundery. Trump said that&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t like the term &#8216;woke.&#8217; Because I hear the term &#8216;woke woke woke.&#8217; It&#8217;s just a term they use. Half the people can&#8217;t define it. They don&#8217;t know what it is.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">MAGA Twitter is not going to like this <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wuh0MVE8UL\">https:\/\/t.co\/wuh0MVE8UL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; MeidasTouch (@MeidasTouch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MeidasTouch\/status\/1664308314367311888?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 1, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>As absurd as it sounds&#8230; Trump is right. Most people (including Trump) can&#8217;t define <em>&#8220;woke.&#8221;<\/em> And they surely don&#8217;t know that it originated in the Black community as a call to be conscious of oppression and discrimination, and to work to overcome the inequities of society. To the Trump\/GOP cult it simply means anything that they don&#8217;t happen to approve of at a particular moment in time. But Congress will surely get to the bottom of it with their spanking new <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=56036\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Anti-Woke Caucus<\/a><\/strong> that they claim will stop the <em>&#8220;greatest domestic threat to America today.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>However, Trump&#8217;s aversion to the term now represents a stark reversal of his prior position. He has frequently used the term when it suited him to do so. Only a week ago <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TeamTrump\/status\/1660677022362873860\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">his campaign boasted<\/a><\/strong> that <em>&#8220;When he is re-elected, Pres. Trump will END this woke insanity and restore honest, patriotic education to our classrooms. First, he will FIRE Biden&#8217;s woke educrats.&#8221;<\/em> And his adoption of the word goes back nearly two years, when <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Acyn\/status\/1429250929694441474\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">he declared<\/a><\/strong> triumphantly that <em>&#8220;Everything woke turns to sh*t.&#8221;<\/em> Hmmm&#8230; Does that include Fox News?<\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE THIS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=56550\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UH-OH: Wait Until the GOP \/ Trump Cult Finds Out How Ultra Woke FOX News Is<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What makes this <em>&#8220;woke-phobia&#8221;<\/em> all the more preposterous is that the war against woke isn\u2019t even an effective political strategy. A recent <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2023\/03\/08\/gop-war-woke-most-americans-see-term-positive-ipsos-poll\/11417394002\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">poll by USA Today\/Ipsos<\/a><\/strong> found that a majority of Americans have a positive impression of the term. According to the poll&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cFifty-six percent of those surveyed say the term means \u2018to be informed, educated on, and aware of social injustices.\u2019 That includes not only three-fourths of Democrats but also more than a third of Republicans.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So DeSantis is barking up the wrong trepidation. And Trump isn&#8217;t helping himself by playing both sides of the contrived <em>&#8220;woke-roversy.&#8221;<\/em> The whole subject is a farce that serves only to distract from the real problems that face Republicans. Namely that their leading candidate is a twice-impeached, serial sexual abuser, who has civil and criminal cases pending for crimes ranging from financial scams to election fraud to inciting an insurrection to espionage. And America is <em>&#8220;woke&#8221;<\/em> to that.<\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=56585\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trump Warns of \u2018Death and Destruction\u2019 if He is Indicted for Crimes that He Actually Committed<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>Be sure to visit and follow News Corpse<br \/>\non <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NewsCorpse\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NewsCorpse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/newscorpse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/newsie.social\/@NewsCorpse\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mastodon<\/a>.<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>And check out my books on Amazon:<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2aOYFpM\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Fox Nation vs. Reality:<br \/>\nThe Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a><\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>Thanks so much for your support.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If there&#8217;s one thing that epitomizes the multitude of mental defects that Donald Trump displays, it&#8217;s that he is a perpetual outrage machine. Virtually every time he opens his mouth he is complaining about something or someone that has failed to supply the unflinching adoration that he demands. He is &#8211; in his own words [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[152,1,1200,16],"tags":[554,301,1420],"class_list":["post-57013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-election","category-general","category-politics","category-wankery","tag-donald-trump","tag-republicans","tag-ron-desantis"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-fear-shadow.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-ePz","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":38656,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=38656","url_meta":{"origin":57013,"position":0},"title":"This Creepy GOP Campaign Ad Affirms the Establishment of the Trump Cult","author":"Mark NC","date":"7\/30\/2018","format":false,"excerpt":"The Republican Party has officially transformed into the Party of Trump. 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