Pierce: Trump's Condemnation of White Supremacy Will Only Last Until His Next Rally

[mcar]

Trump's Condemnation of White Supremacy Will Only Last Until His Next Rally

Let the president tell his next audience, without the usual nudge-nudge-wink-wink, that public displays of racist anger will not be tolerated at his appearances. Let him shut them up.
BY CHARLES P. PIERCE
AUG 5, 2019

First of all, I'd like to send out my thoughts and prayers to the people of Toledo, because why the hell not? We all need some thoughts and prayers these days.

On Monday, after a weekend of slaughter around the country, El Caudillo del Mar-a-Lago proved once again that he is incapable of rising to any occasion more serious than a ball he can kick out of the rough and onto the fairway. The Toledo gaffe was merely the most ludicrous illustration. His affect was flat. He was at SniffCon 4. His prepared remarks were back into the Grand Guignol American Carnage Mode: "twisted monsters," "sinister ideologies," "barbaric slaughters," "monstrous evil," REDJACK! REDJACK!

As for the policies, and we're assuming that he had a millisecond of sincerity, they're a ragbag of old cliches—video games, vague musings about mental health, dire warnings about the "dark corners of the Internet," an accelerated death penalty procedure, as though Texas needs his help to kill people, some side-eyed support for "red flag" laws, and a watery condemnation of white supremacy that likely will last as long as the first moment at his rally later this week in Pennsylvania when the adoring goobers all start chanting, "send them back." Hell, not long before dragging himself before the cameras, he was tweeting out that the "fake news" media was to blame.

In short, I was neither moved nor inspired. I don't trust him as far as I can throw a Russian oligarch.

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a28608926/president-trump-el-paso-shooting-white-supremacy/

[Beringia]

1. Perfect

[uponit7771]

2. K&R, even if he condemns it at his next rally his actions will say 100% different than his mouth.

Red Don is a liar, his actions rarely if ever match him words

[mcar]

3. I expect a walk-back by Tweet before day's end

[dalton99a]

4. Or before then

It won't last that long

[lpbk2713]

5. The mouth breathers will shout out their hate.

And Chump will step back from the podium and smirk.

As always.

[mcar]

6. And then say he couldn't stop them

or that he tried to, even when video evidence shows otherwise.

[muriel_volestrangler]

7. Charles Pierce has Trump's number. He's the best at summing up the moral vacuum

of the GOP and their cronies.

[Hortensis]

8. Sadly, we know him too well. Better he satisfy himself

smirking at rallies about mass shootings than mulling nuking a nation of 50 million people. I was lying in bed imagining how Iranians must feel about these continued threats, wondering if he's working up the guts to do it or has had aides hiding information and desperately calling people he sometimes listens to bring him down from some rage.