Donald Trump is done pretending. He is now openly celebrating the Capitol insurrection

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John FitzGerald
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Now, a year after the insurrection, Trump appears to be done with pretending to disapprove. He's circling back to his initial instinct, which was to celebrate it as the glorious MAGA revolution he always wanted it to be.

salon.com
Donald Trump is done pretending. He is now openly celebrating the Capitol riot
Trump's instincts were always to valorize the insurrection — and he's no longer letting GOP worrywarts stop him
1:09 PM · Feb 3, 2022

https://www.salon.com/2022/02/03/donald-is-done-pretending-he-is-now-openly-celebrating-the-capitol-riot/

To anyone who was watching the events of January 6 unfold live on television, one thing was quite clear: Donald Trump was excited and proud about the violence he incited.

As the timeline of his actions that day shows, he was so wound up tweeting invective at Congress and his vice president, Mike Pence, that he barely slept the night before. Once the riot was underway, Trump spent hours resisting the pressure to call off his dogs, instead tweeting more invective and ass-covering calls to "stay peaceful" that the crowd knew not to take seriously. He was also reportedly gleefully entranced by the footage of the insurrection. After three hours of rioting, he finally told the crowd to "go home" — but only after it was clear that the riot wasn't going to overturn the election.

The blood was still being mopped off the floors when the great GOP gaslighting began. Republicans fell in line behind this narrative that the riot was not incited by Trump, but that it was an entirely self-directed action of a few thousand kooks and that it was only a wild coincidence it started after Trump's incendiary speech. Trump has always clearly chafed at the expectation that he go along with this narrative, wanted to instead publicly gloat about this demonstration of the power he has over people. Now, a year after the riot, Trump appears to be done with pretending to disapprove of the riot. He's circling back to his initial instinct, which was to celebrate it as the glorious MAGA revolution he always wanted it to be.

This was most obvious in Trump's promise over the weekend to consider pardoning the January 6 rioters if he regains the White House in 2024. Politico soon reported that this was hardly some new urge of Trump's. He spent the two weeks between the riot and Joe Biden's inauguration asking advisors if he could issue a blanket pardon for everyone involved. He was waved off the idea, because it conflicted with the GOP's strategy of denying Trump's role. Trump, forever the coward, went along with the demands, even though it meant not getting to take the credit for the mayhem he unleashed. But, by making this promise of pardons — to a cheering crowd of thousands of supporters — he is sending a strong signal that he's done pretending to feel anything but beaming pride over inciting an insurrection.

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[dchill]

1. A born Pretender.

[MadameButterfly]

2. I think he's having it both ways

Celebrating the insurrection and blaming it on the FBI, whichever suits him at any given time. Like the value of his property changing depending on whether it's for a bank or the IRS. The base he needs to convince doesn't notice inconsistencies, apparently.

[world wide wally]

4. Trump's S.O.P

[BlueIdaho]

3. Gonna be hard to walk this back

In a courtroom.

[Lucky Luciano]

5. Has to get to a courtroom first

[Laura PourMeADrink]

6. Makes me think he's manipulating public opinion

before legal decisions. If no charges come, he was right, the whole thing was no big deal.
If charges come protest because they're all bullshit. Setting up win-win.

Like someone said in that Netflix documentary about trump. They had never come across a human being who was as good a self promoter