The fact that people have widely divergent interpretations of our current reality is to be expected. I don't think the differences can be entirely reconciled. They ultimately stem from having divergent world-views.
"current reality"? "world views"?
Like these 100 thing that your guy said? Anything here that you can defend Ferguson? There's 100 of them and that doesn't even scratch the surface of The Rapist's insanity. Again, you're a terrible person. You can delude yourself by chalking your support of The Rapist up to your "world view" or "current reality" but that doesn't change the fact that you're a pathetic, hollow soul.
Some were just embarrassing. Many were horrific. All of them should disqualify him from another four years in the White House.
newrepublic.com
96. Tells Boy Scouts About a Sex Party on a Yacht
In July 2017, Trump gave what still might be
his weirdest speech. Appearing before 24,000 Boy Scouts in West Virginia, he
ranted about Obamacare, the “fake news” media, and the “cesspool” of Washington, D.C., for over 30 minutes. But the weirdest moment came when he alluded to a fellow real estate developer having wild, seemingly
sex-fueled parties on his yacht in the 1970s.
—A.S.
87. Hell Is Other People
Trump went out of his way to hurt the late Representative John Dingell’s wife, Michigan Representative Debbie Dingell, in a December 2019 Battle Creek rally, implying that the widow’s recently deceased husband was
“looking up” at her from Hell. (Apropos of nothing in particular, you all realize that when Trump dies, he’s going to lie in state, right? There’s going to be a big ceremony in Washington, and all the living presidents will have to make a speech. That’s going to be wild.)
—J.L.
13. Nary Fine People
History remembers the white supremacist goons who participated in the ill-fated “Unite the Right” rally as violent extremists who terrorized the University of Virginia campus and murdered counterdemonstrator Heather Heyer on Charlottesville’s downtown mall. After a protracted legal process and concomitant P.R. nightmare, they became defeated losers. But for a while, according to Trump, they were “
very fine people.” This is history that Trump’s right-wing allies have endeavored so
desperately to revise, but Trump’s inability to properly repudiate bigots and do much more than send encouragement to the most dangerous among them goes a long way to explaining why ambient political violence is one of few things Trump has been able to manufacture.—
J.L.
10. The Century Club of Environmental Rollbacks
That was the final tally at the close of Trump’s term: 98 environmental rules that Trump “officially reversed, revoked or otherwise rolled back,”
according to The New York Times. (
The Washington Post put the number at
more than 125.) Nearly a third of these pertained to air pollution, such as Trump’s
rolling back Obama-era standards for vehicle emissions and fuel efficiency. Other lowlights include removing protections for over half the country’s wetlands, as well as weakening wildlife protections to allow for more oil and gas leasing. Perhaps the most reckless move, however, was to
kill Obama’s Clean Power Plan even though the
administration’s own analysis found that it would cause 1,400 more deaths per year.—
R.K.
1. A Day That Lives in Infamy—or So We Hope
President Trump’s
speech at the Ellipse on January 6, 2021, began, as his speeches often do, with a
lie: “We have hundreds of thousands of people here.” He would also lie about the 2020 election, claiming there was massive fraud and that he didn’t lose. But on this day, such bluster would be the least of Trump’s offenses, as he ended his speech vowing to “fight like hell” and imploring the crowd to walk with him down Pennsylvania Avenue to the Capitol—“to try and give [Republicans] the kind of pride and boldness that they need to take back our country.” The crowd obeyed, of course, and so began the first attempted coup in U.S. history, which would leave thousands traumatized, hundreds injured, and several dead. Never forget, truly.—
R.K.
