Posted by
Rude One
It's hard to pinpoint the most blitheringly fucked
tangent that Donald Trump, our cracked vinyl beanbag chair of a
resident, went off on during his
speech
to announce a few bullshit, milquetoast little suggestions to the
brutal, militarized police forces of America (seriously, if you think
"reform the police" is weak, try the title of this pussy-ass executive
order: "Safe Policing for Safe Communities").
But
I'm gonna go with when he brought up school choice. "We’re fighting for
school choice," he insisted, and added, "which really is the civil
rights of all time in this country. Frankly, school choice is the civil
rights statement of the year, of the decade, and probably beyond —
because all children have to have access to quality education." Yeah,
fuck you, Brown vs. Board of Education. School choice pisses on you.
Just
a recap: "School choice" is about giving parents vouchers that they can
use to help pay for private schools, taking money away from public
education (or "failing government schools," as
resident Dickhead called
them) and giving it to
churches and private organizations and, yes, Secretary of Education and hideous greed beast Betsy
DeVos.
Oh, and Trump's proposal on this also includes a tax credit that would
benefit the wealthy because of course it would. Calling this a civil
rights "statement" (whatever the fuck that is) or anything related to
civil rights just because it would end up benefiting some non-white
people is so laughable that you can't tell if those are tears of joy,
rage, or sadness.
But what this points to with
Trump is that he doesn't know jack shit about African Americans. He
doesn't understand issues surrounding their community, he doesn't give a
fuck about their lives, he can't be bothered to learn their history,
and, if you ask, he'll tell you that no one knows more about black
people than he does.
As racist as Trump
has been his whole worthless life, the last few weeks have given him
ample opportunity to relish his role as bigoted ignoramus-in-chief. Oh,
he'll tell you how amazing he is for African Americans.
He'll tell you,
as he did on Tuesday and every other time he opens his gaping burger
maw, "We created Opportunity Zones with Senator Tim Scott...I think it’s
probably one of the great things that we’ve done in this
administration. Tens of thousands of jobs, billions and billions of
dollars being brought into areas and neighborhoods that would never,
ever, ever be taken care of, monetarily." (Again, a reminder, this was
during a speech about alleged reforms to stop police officers from
murdering black people.)
The
problem
is that Trump's full of shit. "Opportunity Zones" are another
motherfucking tax cut to get wealthy people to, yes, invest in
communities that need the investment. But guess what? They're fucking
using it to gentrify areas and very little is going to black
entrepreneurs. No, it hasn't created "tens of thousands of jobs" any
more than Ivanka Trump has created 80 gazillion jobs or whatever the
fuck
number
we're up to. But he's not letting go of that lie. "The Opportunity
Zones have been incredible," Trump told Sean Hannity last night. "It's
been one of the great -- really one of the great things, in terms of
investment in areas and in terms of unemployment."
Trump'll
shuck and jive about low unemployment pre-COVID or criminal justice
reform, which he thinks makes him the Greatest
resident for the Blacks
Since Lincoln (although, you know, even Lincoln's "
questionable").
But the low unemployment is just a continuation of the progress made
under Obama. It went down 9 percentage points during Obama's
administration.
It's gone down an additional 2 at its lowest last year under Trump.
So
that makes Obama worth over 4 times as many Trumps. And it's back to
where it was in 2010 now in the fucked economy after Trump dickered
around and didn't do a goddamn thing to mitigate the job losses during
the shutdown.
And it's not just his fake
accomplishments that he keeps tooting his fleshy orange horn about.
Trump's grasp of how Americans understand black history is goddamned
embarrassing. This motherfucker is taking credit for Juneteenth. No,
really. In an
interview with the
Wall Street Journal,
he said about scheduling his hate rally in Tulsa on June 19, "I did
something good: I made Juneteenth very famous. It’s actually an
important event, an important time. But nobody had ever heard of it."
Think
of the framing of that. "Nobody" means him and white people. It
excludes, for instance, African Americans, most of whom have fucking
heard of Juneteenth because it's so goddamn important. Trump said, "I
had political people who had no idea." And then he asked an assistant,
"Did you ever hear of Juneteenth before?" who, in a hilarious moment,
responded that she learned about it when the White House put out a
statement last year for the date, as it had every year.
Even then, Trump
couldn't help but be a fucking dickzit. "I don’t think it was put up by
others. But we made people aware of it," he said, implying that no
previous president had recognized it, despite the fact that both Barack
Obama and George W.
Bush issued
multiple statements for Juneteenth.
Trump did admit, "Actually, a young
African-American Secret Service agent knew what it was." No shit.
Even
on the most pressing racial issue, the one that caused him to have his
fucking weirdo police event, the protests over the deaths of black
people at the hands of police and people who took the law into their
hands, Trump's proud ignorance just highlights his unabashed racism.
He's pissed that people are still even talking about how he's failed to
lead (
as if he ever led a goddamn thing in his life other than the line
to the omelet bar at Mar-a-Lago). The
New York Times reported,
"The remarks he made about [George] Floyd when he attended the launch
of the SpaceX spacecraft should have been enough, the
resident told
aides."
He couldn't be bothered to learn the names of the people who were killed. Asked by the
WSJ
about meeting with the families of murdered black Americans, as he did
on Tuesday before speaking, if any stories stood out, Trump said, acting
like he was asked
about favorite
passages of the Bible, "All of them." Pressed on it, he offered,
"Ahmed. Ahmad. He is the young man who was running. It was just sad to
see. Mother was a fantastic woman. Made a great impression. They all
made a great impression on me." And then, forgetting Ahmaud Arbery's
name, he moved on to how important his law enforcement speech was.
By
the way, the families declined to appear at the ceremony where Trump
gave that speech and signed his bullshit executive order. A lawyer
described the meeting with Trump as "very contentious." Did they think
this void of a human-shaped rage vessel would want anything more than to
hear their praise? Did they expect empathy when, really, Trump probably
thought they should comfort him for all that their loved ones' deaths
had put him through politically? What a fucking tragic farce.
And,
when it comes to Rayshard Brooks, the black man who was sleeping in his
car at Wendy's drive-thru in Atlanta and got shot in the back running
from police, well, Trump isn't gonna try to pretend to give a jolly
donkey shit. On Crazy Sean Hannity's Circus of Self-Fellatio,
Trump said, "I heard today and just got a report that the police
officer's lawyer said that he heard a sound like a gun, like a gunshot.
And he saw a flash in front of him. So, that's an interesting -- you
know, I don't know that I would have necessarily believed that. But I
will tell you, that's -- that's a very interesting thing." That's the
kind of punk-ass shit he does all the time. He's not saying something's
true. He's just asking questions about things he "heard," whether it's
about the supposed "miracle" of hydroxychloroquine or the possible
sinister motives of the elderly man pushed over by police in Buffalo. We
call that the "little bitch" approach to arguments.
Trump's
actually going along with much of conservative media on Brooks. As far
as Tucker Carlson's bitch face and the rest of the right-wing machine
are concerned, they're done pretending that cops do anything bad. Brooks
pointed a taser at a cop and didn't listen to every word the cop said,
so he deserved to die. Trump is always an echo chamber for whatever he
saw on the TV just before speaking.
Back at
the police "reform" event, Trump concluded his speech, in part, with
this odd statement: "To go forward, we must seek cooperation, not
confrontation; we must build upon our heritage, not tear it down." Yeah,
that cruel orange bastard wrapped up an event that happened because
white people murdered black people by saying we shouldn't tear down
symbols of the Confederacy. Motherfucker, if we really were tearing down
our heritage of American racism, almost nothing would remain standing.
