Trump's Speech Was a Bataan Death March of Bullsh*t - Rick Wilson
Donald’s Trump State of the Union speech Tuesday night was an example of the one thing he does better than anyone else in the political space: spectacle. The bizarre, wild show was full of reality TV tropes and moments, from surprise military families reuniting to Melania pinning the Presidential Medal of Freedom on cancer-stricken Rush Limbaugh. In many ways, the speech itself seemed to be rote filler for those moments, noise between the notes.
Those production values weren’t limited to Trump; his snub of the traditional handshake to Speaker Nancy Pelosi before the speech was bookended in its closing moments, when she literally tore the text of his remarks into shreds.Of course, this speech was, first and foremost, the usual Bataan death march for fact checkers; a slurry of lies, distorted statistics, and outrageous claims.
There was a rata-tat-tat laundry list of the biggest, greatest, longest, newest, brightest accomplishments. The usual condo-salesman braggadocio was there, with his claims of 4,000 percent economic growth, billions of new jobs, and the best economy in the universe, ever. He didn’t mention the $2 trillion unfunded tax cut, a trillion-plus in annual deficit spending, and the continued Fed borrow-and-pump injections that have an addicted Wall Street chasing the liquidity dragon. In Trump’s telling, the decade-long Obama-era boom was a radioactive hellscape where ragged children fought over scraps of rat meat by the guttering fires of the ruins of a lost American civilization.
Yes, comrades! In the glorious era of Trump, all the news is good! The beet harvest exceeds the five-year plan! We have accomplished record tractor production in the Wisconistan Oblast!
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