He calls himself the “greatest” president leading the “greatest” movement inside the “greatest” economy. He rails against “Dumocrats” for the “transgender mutilization” of children. He lambasts the “fake news” and reheats election lies.
He describes illegal immigration as an “invasion” and recites the poem The Snake. If we were all frogs being slowly boiled alive, we’ve now reached the stage of blackened toad. After a decade of this, presidential utterances that would once have caused outrage are met with a shrug.
We are no longer shockable. On Monday, speaking at a rally in Nebraska, Trump seemingly suggested that Iran, which he long accused of pursuing nuclear weapons, could “take out” the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego. It’s a small price to pay for keeping the world safe, keeping our country safe.” Trump went on: “They can take out a city.
Let them take – let them take out Los Angeles. Let them take out San Diego. That’s – this is a very small price to pay, and it’s going to be over with very soon.
It’s essentially almost over with.” Perhaps the only thing more chilling than a commander-in-chief musing about the deaths of millions of Americans under mushroom clouds was the sound of his supporters cheering at the line “let them take out”. After all, the question of the Trump era has always been: what does this say about us? Democrats had a field day.
The Democratic senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut called it “such a sick, evil thing to say”. The independent senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont accused Trump of saying the small price to pay was the “annihilation of two major American cities”. California’s governor, Gavin Newsom, called Trump “deranged and dangerous” and put the state’s threat-assessment centre on alert.
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