Free speech for thee, but not for me – that's the Trump way
The president proudly declared that “free speech ... it's back!” – apparently forgetting his social media post this week saying he would ban
and arrest protesters. He made that free-speech claim after a
from the chamber because he stood up to protest Trump’s lies. Trump made that comment even though his White House has
because it refuses to call the Gulf of Mexico by the president’s made-up “Gulf of America” name.
It was a lie, and utter nonsense. But Republicans acted like it was coming from the mouth of a benevolent deity.
Trump still blames Biden yet does nothing. No wonder Republicans won't do town halls.
On food prices, Trump blamed former President Joe Biden and said, laughably: “I’m fighting every day to reverse this damage and make America affordable again.”
since Trump took office, largely due to bird flu, and there’s little evidence he’s doing a thing to address the issue. His tariffs will only raise prices for consumers. Trump’s work on food prices is so popular with Americans that
meetings in their districts, lest videos of people protesting go viral.
Regarding Musk’s work dismantling the government – cutting everything from lifesaving foreign aid to crucial medical research and hurting
– Trump said: “We’ve taken back the money and reduced our debt to fight inflation and other things.”
That is absolute nonsense. Musk’s claims of savings have repeatedly been , there’s no evidence anything Musk has done has “reduced our debt” and, as previously mentioned, inflation is up. Trump may as well have claimed he invented rainbows and turned all American rivers chocolate.
Lies upon lies upon lies upon lies. This presidential address showed, in painful detail, the bubble Trump and his supporters inhabit. Fueled by narcissism and confident that his flock has fully rejected facts, Trump babbled endlessly, brimming with self-aggrandizement galore, and told a story of an America that simply does not exist.
The things happening are dire. Truly. But listening to the old con artist blabber made-up stories about how great everything is?
That’s gotten boring as hell.
In an era of stress and anxiety, when the present seems unstable and the future unlikely, the natural MAGA response is to retreat and withdraw from reality, taking recourse either in fantasies of the future or in a falsified visions of a half-imagined past.
MAGA rejects what they do not understand because it makes them feel small. They would rather believe in some other reality, even if it is only an illusion, so long as it makes them feel bigger.