Fair's fair; let's judge Trump on his SOTU pledges
Hearing Donald Trump talk up bipartisanship is like listening to a lecture by Hannibal Lecter on veganism. Unsurprising as cold weather in winter, he trashed Democrats, per usual, at a lunch with news anchors before the speech. Bipartisanship died before the speech was birthed. (No, I won’t even begin to unpack the lies, implicit and explicit, he produced when addressing late-term abortion. Nor the cynical appeal to his ready-for-outrage base, for whom such lies are coin of the realm.)
Seriously, how many spit-takes occurred around the country, around the world, when the word “bipartisanship” passed his lips? The lips of the guy who’s consistently claimed Democrats want open borders, care more about criminals than law-abiding citizens. The guy who calls for locking up former opponents and considers news reporters enemies of the people.
After removing all knowledgeable people from the HIV/AIDS task force established by President Barack Obama, Trump now calls for Congress to appropriate money to fight it. (Important insight: he used to brag about making his girlfriends get tested.)
Economic miracle, he called it, and indeed it is, for CEOs, shareholders and the millionaire recipients of his tax cuts. For those in the middle class expecting their “average $4,000” in tax cuts: Fooled ya! For those concerned about trillion-dollar deficits: You, too.
“We must reject the politics of revenge, resistance and retribution,” alliterated the personification of each of those. Who’s done everything possible to bring pain to immigrants, LGBT people, and non-Christians (of which, ironically, he is one.)
“If there is going to be peace and legislation, there cannot be war and investigation,” he said. Right. Legislation and investigations are as incompatible as war and peace. Anyone buy that? Was it true during the endless investigations of Hillary Clinton? If so, was it because R’s had no spare time to legislate, or because they insisted on blocking President Barack Obama no matter what?
Watching Trump read words arranged in complete sentences is like watching a toddler trying to fit blocks into one of those fit-the-shapes-into-one-of those-shape-things.
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