Everything we suspected about Donald Trump has come true

[Nevilledog]

https://www.salon.com/2020/08/01/everything-we-suspected-about-donald-trump-has-come-true/

There were 65,853,514 of us who voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016, and it didn't take long to prove how right we were. Donald Trump waited less than 24 hours after he was inaugurated as the 45th president of the United States before he dispatched his press secretary, Sean Spicer, to the White House briefing room — attired in a tent-like garment reminiscent of David Byrne's "Big Suit" in the Talking Heads documentary, "Stop Making Sense" — to lie about the size of the crowd at his inauguration. Trump's inaugural ceremony and parade had "the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration, period, both in person and around the globe," Spicer told the White House press corps, which was already showing photographs of the sparse crowd on the National Mall and Trump waving to entire blocks of unoccupied bleachers along the inaugural parade route. Spicer's lie about Trump's crowd size was so blatant, it was shocking.

And the shocks kept coming.

By the time Trump got around on Thursday to his proposal to postpone the November election, the only proper reaction was to say, We told you so. We saw this coming.

It's too late for people like Steven G. Calabresi, co-founder of the arch-conservative Federalist Society, who wrote an op-ed in the New York Times on Thursday calling Trump's proposal "fascistic and … grounds for the president's immediate impeachment again by the House of Representatives and his removal from office by the Senate."

That ship sailed in February, pal. Trump was a fascist last year when he openly solicited help from a foreign nation, Ukraine, in his campaign for re-election. He was a fascist when the House voted to impeach him in December. He was a fascist when the Senate voted against removing him from office at his impeachment trial in February. He was a fascist on June 1 when he ordered armed troops and other federal agents to use force to remove peaceful protesters from around Lafayette Park so he could march across Pennsylvania Avenue for his infamous Bible-waving photo-op in front of St. John's Church.

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[crickets]

1. It's so refreshing to see the F word used freely in public. High time. nt

[Nevilledog]

2. I agree. And using anti-fascist becomes more useful.

[Midnight Writer]

3. One surprise for me. No "dirty little war", a mainstay of GOP Presidents.

I fully expected Trump to follow in the footprints of other Republicans, who find a war just the thing to boost sagging poll numbers.

Of course, he's still got time.