HEY MSM PLEASE WAKE THE EFF UP ABOUT WHO DONALD TRUMP REALLY IS ALREADY
Trump's blatant racism amid his obvious sundowning continues to be ignored because...why, again?
Donald Trump hates Black people (except for the famous ones he can use as photo ops to prove he’s not racist).
He wouldn’t rent to Black families in Harlem in the 1970s because he’s a racist slumlord just like his father.
There’s his famous “Where’s my African-American?” gaffe.
And then there’s his legendary jealousy of America’s beloved Black President, Barack Obama. You might recall Trump’s infamous mission to prove Obama wasn’t born in America shortly after the 2011 White House Correspondents’ Dinner that triggered his delicate thin-skinned snowflake fee-fee’s.
If only we’d known what a shitstorm would be unleashed upon us thanks to a few well-written jokes at the chauvinist playboy buffoon’s expense. Once again, I find myself thinking about how we’d all be enjoying Hillary Clinton’s second term right now if only any adult in young Donald’s life had taught him to accept loss and have a sense of humor about himself.
Sigh.
Trump’s been carrying this personal grudge against Obama for thirteen years now, which just adds to the overwhelming load he’s already got on the shoulders of those dumb padded suit jackets. He’s facing his first criminal trial on April 15th—oh, the kismet of the Stormy Daniels hush money trial beginning on Never Show Your Taxes Day—and is clearly distracted by the fact that he hasn’t been able to delay it. Threatening the judge and his daughter in the hopes that one of the MAGA domestic terrorists will “take care” of them so the trial can’t start is so on brand for Don Poorleone.
As we wait for him to violate the revised gag order from Judge Merchan, there’s a video circulating of Trump telling an audience of “Black Conservative Voters” (which is like “Vegan Cattle Ranchers”) that Black voters would rather have “the white President” over “the Black President.”
He said his 91 criminal indictments and mug shot were part of the reason, and if that sounds vaguely familiar, it’s because he said it IN FEBRUARY but it barely made a blip.
"A lot of people said that’s why the Black people like me, because they have been hurt so badly and discriminated against, and they actually viewed me as I’m being discriminated against," he told an event sponsored by the Black Conservative Federation where about two-thirds of the crowd were Black Americans and one third were white people.
"It’s been pretty amazing but possibly, maybe, there’s something there,” he said of his theory that his criminal woes are something that makes him relatable to Black voters.
And it barely gets mentioned by the MSM because there’s just too much Trump Terrible to report on. So the racism gets pushed to the side. The threats against a judge become normalized. And members of the MSM tweet stupid speculative shit instead of pointing at the actual real shit that’s happening.
“Does it seem strange that Trump is not pumping up Truth Social?” tweeted MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle this morning. “Wouldn't it fit his personality to talk his book? HE CAN'T - bc he'll end up in huge legal trouble if he misrepresents the underlying fundamentals of his company & get hit with a mountain of shareholder lawsuits.”
So then why even speculate? Why not talk about what he IS doing instead of what he’s not? Because there’s enough of that to fill up twenty Twitters.
Between the obvious sundowning—does he think he’s running against Barack Obama?—and his panic over his base seeing him lose his first criminal trial—Donny Flop Sweat is going to just keep throwing anything he can at the wall to see if it makes the courthouse explode or something.
The MAGA cult morons are working overtime on the spin—he hasn’t been convicted of anything, they say. He didn’t rape E. Jean Carroll, he’s entitled to take anything he wants from the White House, January 6th was a tourist visit, etc. But a criminal conviction is another thing entirely. Hope Hicks is going to testify against him. And he’s going to lose.
I won’t speculate on how MAGA will react to actual consequences for Dear Leader, but I doubt it’ll be another Civil War. Most of them rely on intimidation to do most of the heavy lifting for them, and after watching yet another January 6th insurrectionist get sentenced (7 years, shitfaces!), maybe they’ll choose the safety of their basements over turning our streets into their battlefields.
It’s my birthday month, so I’m trying to stay optimistic here.
Speaking of which, it’s only the 4th day of the month, but I’ve surpassed 600 copies sold of The Sound of Settling, with 571 pages read on Kindle (grand total of Kindle pages read: 28,606). This means someone finished it already because they “just couldn’t put it down” like so many of my wonderful reviews say.
Within two weeks, my rock and roll love story will be in the Small Press section of the world’s greatest bookstore, Powell’s. I’ve contacted them to find out how I might go about getting a reading/signing, but just knowing it’s going to be there is enough. If you haven’t gotten your copy yet, you can request it from your local indie bookstores and libraries, or you can still buy it from taradublinrocks.com
If you would take a moment to share The Sound of Settling on your socials as my birthday month gift, I would greatly appreciate it. If you’re feeling even more generous than that, consider an upgrade to a paid subscription! You just might end up in the follow-up, Heavy Meddling!
Finally, there was a thread on Twitter asking people to share a “perfect album from the 90s that isn’t Pearl Jam or Nirvana.” So many popped into my head, but I went with Copper Blue by Sugar. If you don’t physically respond to this song, you’re not someone I’d want to hang out with, just saying.