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Zorro

(16,146 posts)
Wed Sep 2, 2020, 10:16 AM Sep 2020

Trump blows up compassionate image portrayed at RNC

Speaker after speaker at last week’s Republican National Convention painted a benign portrait of President Trump as compassionate, citing his call to a surgery patient and long-ago visit to a theme park, seeking to soften his image as racist and belligerent.

Trump has spent nearly every day since blowing up the kinder, gentler version.

He compared a cop who shot a Black man to a golfer who chokes and misses “a three-foot putt,” shared a fringe conspiracy theory that the nation’s protests are an organized coup against him, and described Black Lives Matter, a driving force in the movement for racial justice, as a “Marxist organization” that is “bad for Black people.”

He reposted a baseless theory that the coronavirus has killed only 9,000 Americans and not 184,000. He warned darkly about “thugs” in “black uniforms” boarding a plane somewhere. And he has defended a 17-year-old charged with killing two protesters with a military-style rifle in Kenosha, Wis., suggesting it was self-defense.

https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2020-09-01/trump-blows-up-compassionate-image-portrayed-at-rnc

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Trump blows up compassionate image portrayed at RNC (Original Post) Zorro Sep 2020 OP
He also blew up his healthy image. tinrobot Sep 2020 #1

tinrobot

(11,404 posts)
1. He also blew up his healthy image.
Wed Sep 2, 2020, 10:20 AM
Sep 2020

Apparently, he's been having mini-strokes and has been seen ranting about bags of soup.

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