The Time Trump Told the Truth

 

by Pa Rock

Citizen Journalist

While Donald John Trump is known for dishonest dealings and a lifetime of lying, the odds are that every so often he is bound to slip up and make a true statement.  He is like the proverbial blind squirrel who is destined to occasionally stumble upon an acorn.   Trump blathers on so much that sometimes a string of words which represent a true fact will unintentionally slip across his lips.

I strongly suspect that Trump told the truth this week when he was clumsily defending himself from his own words - the various bags of garbage that he spoke which parroted Adolf Hitler - things like referring to certain elements of American society which oppose his oppression of humanity as "vermin," and saying that immigrants are "poisoning" the blood of America.  (Two of Trump's three wives have been immigrants.)   Donald Trump's Hitleresque remarks were so odious that even a few members of the Republican Party took him to task over his ignorant utterances.  Some suggested that the remarks had been taken from Hitler's guidebook to his own insanity, "Mein Kampf."

Normally Donald Trump would have just sat back and enjoyed the hubbub, secure in his belief that all publicity is good publicity, but for some reason the comparison to Hitler got to him and Trump felt compelled to lash out with a statement that he had never even read "Mein Kampf."  That is undoubtedly true.  Hitler's autobiographical manifesto is a not a simple read and it lacks cartoon illustrations.  It is not the type of tome that someone with a sixth-grade vocabulary (at best) would be apt to pick up and attempt to read, especially if they had the attention span of a gnat.

So, regrettably, I think Donald Trump broke stride and communicated a truth, something that is about as rare as him actually reading anything.  That's not to say that Trump is dumb, because clearly he knows what he is about and understands how to manipulate people, but Trump got his "education" by absorbing the thoughts of others in his milieu, and from his own family's values - not from reading books.   The rantings of his klansman (or at least klan-associating) father were more impactful on Donald's emerging worldview than anything he ever tried to read.

Trump said he has never read "Mein Kampf," and I believe him.  In fact, I believe that he has never read much of anything.