Trump believes his followers are a bunch of racist morons--and @PressSec who defended Trump.......

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Trump believes his followers are a bunch of racist morons


https://www.rawstory.com/2020/06/trump-believes-his-followers-are-a-bunch-of-racist-morons/

Published 2 hours ago

on June 20, 2020 By Amanda Marcotte, Salon - Commentary


Twitter was once again forced to add a correction to one of Donald Trump’s lies. The social media site lets most of the president’s falsehoods pass — keeping up with them all is an admittedly inhuman task — but not this latest, in which Trump shared a fake video that was an such an ugly, racist provocation that Twitter slapped a warning label on it to alert viewers it had been “manipulated.”


The video Trump tweeted shows a white toddler chasing a Black toddler, along with a fake CNN caption reading “Terrified toddler runs from racist baby.” Then it switches to a video of the two kids hugging and playing with the caption, “What really happened.” The so-called argument of the video is that CNN is manipulating innocent footage of children playing to leverage false accusations of racism. Of course, CNN did no such thing. The CNN chyron was faked and the only “fake news” is that CNN would ever call a baby “racist.” CNN had done a story about the toddlers, in 2019, but it was an innocent, if cloying, fluff piece about their friendship.
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This episode, which will likely be as quickly forgotten as so many before it, is another perfect distillation of how not just Trump, but his entire campaign team, is completely void of all human decency and empathy, so much so that they would knowingly exploit images of children, without their parents’ consent, to create overtly racist propaganda designed to trick people into rejecting actual news in favor of lies.

The whole episode was also a reminder of an eternal truth of the Trump era: No one — not even the snootiest, Ivy-educated coastal liberal — could possibly feel more contempt for Trump supporters than Donald Trump does.

Think about it: What Trump was saying by tweeting out that video was that he thinks his followers are complete morons, the sort of people so thuddingly stupid that they might believe that CNN would call a baby “racist” or might try to present toddler hijinks as violence......................

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[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. For once Trump is right: His followers *are* a bunch of racist morons.

[MLAA]

3. +1000

[Eyeball_Kid]

5. But those "racist morons" believe that Trumpy loves THEM.

They, once again, are fooled by Trumpy-boy's CON GAME. They can't resist being fools. They believe that Trumpy is on THEIR SIDE. And they refuse to believe that he's playing them like a fiddle.

Someone in Trumpy's inner circle knows of the writings of Machiavelli. Maybe even Trumpy-boy knows of the art of manipulation of the masses. Trumpy's Fans would be wise to skim Machiavelli's writings. But... they aren't wise, and they'll never be wise. Being made fools is in their make-up from early childhood. Being authoritarians is first, or second nature to them. And as authoritarians, they can be blindly led to their deaths, smiling all the way to their final end.

Tonight, Trumpy-boy will be exercising his will to increase the death count. He's actively promoting a death wave. His fans believe otherwise, but what they believe doesn't matter. Death matters.

[paleotn]

2. And he is correct on that one thing

[Turbineguy]

4. Trump could tell them that and they would still follow him.

Because, well, they're racist morons.

It's not a kind thing to say about fellow Americans.