Sunday, August 30, 2020

None of this is normal

From The New York Times:

In a concentrated predawn burst, the president posted or reposted 89 messages between 5:49 a.m. and 8:05 a.m. on top of 18 the night before, many of them inflammatory comments or assertions about violent clashes in Portland, Ore., where a man wearing the hat of a far-right, pro-Trump group was shot and killed Saturday after a large group of Mr. Trump’s supporters traveled through the streets.

In the weekend blast of Twitter messages, Mr. Trump also embraced a call to imprison Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of New York, threatened to send federal forces against demonstrators outside the White House, attacked CNN and NPR, embraced a supporter charged with murder, mocked his challenger, former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., and repeatedly assailed the mayor of Portland, even posting the mayor’s office telephone number so that supporters could call demanding his resignation.
There’s much more, including this bit:
Mr. Trump likewise reposted messages asserting that the real death toll from the coronavirus is only around 9,000 — not 182,000 — because the others who died also had other health issues and most were of an advanced age.
The latest tweet, forty-odd minutes ago: “The only way you will stop the violence in the high crime Democrat run cities is through strength!”

He’s armed, dangerous, at least semi-mobile, and running out of hyphens. Vote, early, as if your life and the life of our democracy depend on it.

[I’ve omitted the links in the Times article, which go to tweets by others, not Trump*’s retweets. I just don’t want that junk here.]

comments: 3

Frex said...

Like a Cheesebarn CEO run amok.

Fresca said...

That was me.
I mean, who wrote the comment, not who ran amok.

Michael Leddy said...

Duly noted!