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It was entertaining to watch the talking heads of CNN act surprised at the Madness of King Donald regarding North Korea and Charlottesville last week.
All Quite Predictable
What was surprising about Donald Trump’s unhinged threats of “fire and fury” and “an event the likes of which nobody’s ever seen” on the Korean peninsula, tinged by the racist assurance (to U.S. Senator Lyndsey Graham) that the victims of any thermonuclear conflagration would be “over there” – in Asia and “not here”?
Trump established himself long ago as one of the last people on Earth anyone would want to have his fingers near the atomic trigger.
Candidate Trump asked why the U.S. couldn’t just use its nuclear weapons. He called for the nuclear arming of Saudi Arabia. He made juvenile racist fun of Asians in front of a hot mic.
What was surprising about Trump’s dog-whistling defense of white nationalist arch-racists and their atrocious behavior in defense of Confederate Slave Power war memorials? As a real estate developer, Trump was heard saying that he didn’t want Black people handling his money (he preferred Jews in that role, he said) and was sued repeatedly for racist housing discrimination.
The son of a racist arrested at a Ku Klux Klan rally, Trump entered the 2016 presidential sweepstakes advancing the absurd and richly racist “blood and soil”-white-nationalist charge that Barack Obama wasn’t born in the U.S. Candidate…