Old Garbage Mouth

 

by Pa Rock

Citizen Journalist

The last few days have witnessed a serious uptick in hate speech and vitriol coming from the White House, a place where Americans should be able to turn for reassurance and confidence in our lives, lofty ideals and goals to lead us into the future, and reasons to be proud of our nation - a place of great diversity and potential.  Instead, we are harangued with inflammatory rhetoric, racist screeds, misinformation, outright lies, and all manner of divisiveness.  

Over the past week alone, Donald Trump has attacked various female reporters as being "piggy," "ugly," and "stupid," language more suited to a defiant three-year-old in need of better parenting.  Trump gets away with bullying reporters because he flexes the power of government to keep their employers in line.  It is when he chooses political targets who are less dependent on his politiccal largesse that he sometimes gets put in his place.

This week in Trump's three-part Thanksgiving rampage against immigration on Truth Social, Trump lied about immigrants being the root cause of social dysfunction in America, as he often does, and then singled out "the great state of Minnesota" which he said, again falsely, was being "overrun" by "hundreds of thousands of refugees from Somalia."  Trump went on to call Minnesota governor Tim Walz, a former political opponent, "seriously retarded."   Governor Walz, who comes off as much quicker and sharper than Trump, immediately fired back - not with a lengthy, aimless diatribe, but with a succinct, four-word response:  "Release the MRI results."

Ouch!

When Trump received his second "annual" physical at Bethesda in October, it was touted by his staff as being some sort of normal procedure, though it appeared to have been performed on more of a "hush-hush" basis.  But a couple of weeks later Trump inadvertently revealed that he had had an MRI during the physical, though he was unable to provide any other details because he apparently did not know why he had been given that serious procedure.  Governor Walz made the case, in only four words, that if Trump was so keen on diagnosing the mental health of others, perhaps he should be more open regarding his own possible impairments.

Trump's Thanksgiving message, in which he attacked immigrants and Governor Walz, is far too lengthy to post here in its entirety, but I would like to share the opening and closing sentences, each of which reveal Donald Trump's lack of understanding about the foundations of the Thanksgiving holiday as well as his general level of bile and bitterness.

Trump opened with:

"A very Happy Thanksgiving salutation to all of our Great American Citizens and Patriots who have been so nice in allowing our Country to be divided, disrupted, carved up, murdered, beaten, mugged, and laughed at along with certain other foolish Countries throughout the world for being "Politically Correct," and just plain STUPID when it comes to immigration."

Then, after a couple of hundred more words complaining about immigrants ruining our lives and culture, the son of one immigrant and husband of two others, closed with these holiday warm wishes:

"Other than that, HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO ALL, except those that hate, steal, murder, and destroy everything that Americca stands for - you won't be here long!"

That's not the Thanksgiving I was raised to honor and respect.   I can't wait to read his uplifting thoughts at Christmas!

Release the Epstein files!

Release the MRI results!