Trump's Racist Freak Show Heads to Kenosha

by Pa Rock
Citizen Journalist 

The President of the United Starts is on the road today with the sole purpose of stirring up racial hatred and violence, well that and harvesting votes from his rabidly racist base.

Donald Trump and his skilled enablers are headed to Kenosha, Wisconsin, this morning, a city that has been embroiled in protests and race-driven strife since the local police tasered and then shot a black man in the back seven times on August 23rd.  The victim, Jacob Blake, is hospitalized and thought to be permanently paralyzed from the waist down.  Police initially had him handcuffed to his hospital bed.

Nightly protests have taken place in Kenosha ever since the shooting of Blake.  Last weekend two white protesters were shot to death by Kyle Rittenhouse, a seventeen-year-old who had answered a Facebook appeal to come to Kenosha to protect property from the protesters.  The youth also wounded a third man with his fully automatic rifle.  Rittenhouse has been arrested in his home state of Illinois and is awaiting extradition to Wisconsin to face trial on charges of intentional homicide.

Donald Trump, whose presidential campaign has devolved into stoking racial tensions and violence and then projecting responsibility for the turmoil onto Democrats, has said that he will visit with law enforcement and view property damage while he is in Kenosha.  He pointedly will not visit with Jacob Blake or members of his family.

(Trump has said that he visited with the Blake family's pastor over the phone, but the family quickly countered that they have no regular pastor.)

Yesterday Trump also stated his personal belief that Kyle Rittenhouse, the Kenosha shooter who killed two and wounded one, acted in self-defense.  That attitude folds in with several extremist groups who are raising money for Rittenhouse's defense - including a group of college Republicans at Arizona State University.

The governor of Wisconsin and the mayor of Kenosha have both asked Trump not to come to their troubled state and city, but that is not the way Trump rolls.   Wisconsin's Lietuenant Governor Mandela Barnes, a Democrat, lamented Trump's proposed visit this way:

“There is too much good starting to happen in Kenosha. The city was on fire and we need healing, not a barrel of gasoline rolling in.” 

The Trump campaign, however, sees Kenosha as the perfect setting for the message of hate and division that their candidate is perfecting as the centerpiece of his effort to get re-elected.    Trump needs to incense and inflame,  and he will be in Kenosha today, come hell or high water, with all of his flags flying!