“You have a lot of killers,” he replied. “What, do you think our country is that innocent?”
America the Beautiful, our shining city on a hill, isn't that hot. Get in his way and Trump will break institutions, trash courts, destroy cultural icons like Taylor Swift, and whitewash aides to storm the Capitol. He does not see America as the ideal leader of the free world. Sees the world as it is hunger Games, as Axelrod put it. It is frightening that Trump sometimes acts as if he prefers America's enemies over America.
The former president shocked the world last weekend when he said at a rally that if NATO countries didn't pay more for defense, he would “embolden” Russia to “do whatever they want” to our allies. President Joe Biden called this “un-American.”
The bromance between Trump and sociopathic Putin, which had not been hindered by Putin's evil attempt to swallow up Ukraine, has become even more disgusting with the news that the Russian president's most powerful opponent, Alexei Navalny, 47, died under mysterious circumstances in an Arctic prison – very suddenly, And to the same extent. Putin's critics often do so in profile.
“Make no mistake: Putin is responsible,” Biden said.
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When a CNN reporter asked if Trump had a response to Navalny's heroic death, the Trump campaign directed her to the Truth social post, which was not about Navalny or Putin. It was about how terrible America was.
“America is no longer respected because we have an incompetent and weak President who does not understand what the world is thinking,” Trump wrote.
This dirty American massacre is the way he communicates with his electoral base, many of whom are deeply skeptical of politics and government, and see hypocrisy and conspiracies everywhere.
His hallucinated worshipers admire him as a tough guy, even when he's proven to be a sexual abuser and an arrogant con man whose real estate empire was Potemkin Village. On Friday, a New York judge ordered Trump to pay a $355 million fine plus interest and bar him from holding senior positions at any New York company — including his own — for three years, saying of Trump & Co.: The complete absence of remorse and contrition borders on pathological.
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If Trump is Dracula, then the likes of Renfield loyal to him are also busy playing sycophants for dictators. At an Axios conference in Miami, Jared Kushner — who was honored with $2 billion in Saudi investments after leaving the White House — described Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman as a “visionary leader.” When asked about the Crown Prince's complicity in Jamal Khashoggi's murder, Kushner angrily responded: “Are we really still doing this?”
Before Navalny's death, Tucker Carlson — who mocked Ukraine's desperate struggle for independence — was touring the Kremlin. His interview with Putin was very tolerant, and Putin even complained about the “lack of sharp questions.”
In an interview with an Egyptian journalist, Carlson defended his decision not to ask Putin about freedom of expression or the assassinations of his opponents.
“Every leader kills people,” Carlson said nonchalantly, adding: “Leadership requires killing people, sorry.”
Will cowardly Republicans stand up to tyranny – at home or abroad?
Navalny's death at the hands of the murderous Putin has given impetus to the push for military aid to Ukraine.
It's the American thing to do.
This article originally appeared on New York times.
