The Donald Trump Score Card

As you know he was a former crackhead, and while he may have overcome his physical addiction to crack cocaine, he never did get over his psychological dependency.

His current behavior is quite predictable

 

Covid 'hate crimes' against Asian Americans on rise
BBC News
Published 2 April 2021

Covid 'hate crimes' against Asian Americans on rise

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Here are some of the recently reported attacks:

• An 84-year-old Thai immigrant in San Francisco, California, died last month after being violently shoved to the ground during his morning walk.
• In Oakland, California, a 91-year-old senior was shoved to the pavement from behind.
• An 89-year-old Chinese woman was slapped and set on fire by two people in Brooklyn, New York.
• A stranger on the New York subway slashed a 61-year-old Filipino American passenger's face with a box cutter.
• Asian American restaurant employees in New York City told the New York Times they now always go home early for fear of violence and harassment.
• An Asian American butcher shop owner in Sacramento, California found a dead cat - likely intended for her - left in the store's parking lot; police are investigating it as a hate crime.
• An Asian American family celebrating a birthday at a restaurant in Carmel, California, was berated with racist slurs by a Trump-supporting tech executive.
• Several Asian Americans home owners say they've been abused with racial slurs and had rocks thrown at their houses.
• The only Asian American lawmaker in the Kansas legislature says he was physically threatened in a bar by a patron who accused him of carrying the coronavirus
• New York police arrested a man who assaulted a woman during a protest against anti-Asian racism
• A grieving family received a hateful letter on the day of their father's funeral, telling them to "pack your bags and go back to your country where you belong"
• A school board candidate of Vietnamese descent in Portland, Oregon found a derogatory note with the words "Kung Flu" on her doorstep
• A medical worker of Filipino descent in Los Gatos, California was shoved to the ground from behind by an assailant who told her to "go back to [expletive] China"

 

At a rally for college students in AZ, Trump was testing the waters by spouting various derogatory names for the coronavirus and seeing which ones received the most response. He garnered the biggest round of applause and cheers from the students when he said 'Kung Flu'.

 

Donald Trump’s ‘Chinese virus’: the politics of naming
April 21, 2020 12.17pm EDT
Updated April 13, 2021 9.24am EDT

Donald Trump’s ‘Chinese virus’: the politics of naming

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"Metaphors also shape our world view by both highlighting and hiding certain aspects of a concept (Lakoff and Johnson). For instance, the expression “foreign virus” implies that the nation is a body facing an external threat identified as foreign. The nation-as-a-body is a common metaphor in the English language (think of expressions such as “head of state,” “head of government,” “long arm of the law”, etc.), but it also a metaphor used in anti-immigrant rhetoric as professor O'Brien has shown in his book, Contagion and the National Body. Donald Trump himself has associated immigrants with “disease coming into our country,” (June 11, 2019), “communicable disease” and “tremendous medical problem coming into a country” (Dec. 11, 2018), including during the 2015 primary campaign.

Such language implies that borders will protect an uncontaminated, homogeneous and somewhat “pure” population from the filthy, malignant foreigner. It hides the fact that travel restrictions alone cannot contain an outbreak, especially one that’s already there. They may delay the spread providing that governments prepare a public health response, something the Trump administration did not do for a whole month, hence the president’s anger when confronted by the press on this issue."

 

Donald Trump’s ‘Chinese virus’: the politics of naming

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"Associating the virus with foreigners also plays to his supporters’ cognitive bias against outsiders and immigrants and their fear of contagion – racial, social, cultural or otherwise. Academic studies (here and here) have shown a correlation between anti-immigration views, political conservatism and disgust sensitivity.

Communication scholar Michael Richardson has convincingly argued that disgust has been one of the primary affective drivers of Trump’s success. The psychology of disgust is important here: its primary function is precisely to help us avoid diseases. It is concerned with what comes OUT OF the body, but also with what goes IN. It is also learned in early childhood. Problems arise when the psychology of disgust is directed at innocent groups or behaviors and passed off as “natural.” Blaming a clichéd version of the Asian diet for the virus betrays a willful ignorance. Trump, himself, is a noted germaphobe, one who supported the anti-vaccine movement because he didn’t like the “idea of injecting bad things into your body”."

 

Hahahahahaha.... HA!


Coronavirus-Denier Ted Nugent Tests Positive For COVID-19: 'I Thought I Was Dying'

 

Trump portrays himself as the supreme savior who will attain victory in a war that is terrible, not because of people being decimated by the morbidity and death directly caused by the virus that he tries to ignore, but rather because he thinks he and his followers are being persecuted by the rational responses of governors and medical officials to the virus (turning the public against Whitmer and other governors, ostracizing Fauci, attacking the WHO and news media).

Trump never established a national day of mourning for the coronavirus pandemic. Instead, he declared one for Americans killed by immigrants.


Donald Trump’s ‘Chinese virus’: the politics of naming

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"But what distinguishes President Trump from other leaders who have used the same war analogy to mobilize their countries is that he has largely dismissed the painful aspect of the “war” by focusing directly on the “great victory” which, according to him, “will happen much earlier than expected” (March 22) and “will take place quickly” (March 18).

Meanwhile he has continued to pit people against each other, ignoring that a pandemic requires global cooperation and medical solutions, not national and military ones, or even local ones where states compete with each other for medical supplies in an “eBay” style bidding war encouraged by the Federal government. By presenting himself as a “wartime president” (March 22) against a willful enemy who is “brilliant” or “very smart” (April 10), Donald Trump has externalized responsibilities, blamed the media, international institutions, political correctness and the governors.

So while the wording has changed, the intent has not. Each new metaphor allows him to change the narrative, deflect blame and cast himself as the Savior-in-Chief who has saved “tens of thousands of lives” from the “foreign enemy.” Reality TV needs heroes. Trump desperately wants to be that hero. This script, though, doesn’t seem to fit that storyline despite his best efforts."

 

Trump's overwhelming loss in the suburbs of Georgia in 2020 didn't happen overnight because of a Trump-alleged massive voter fraud that took away hundreds of thousands of votes from him in 2020.



‘It’s almost like insanity’: GOP base continues to lash out over Trump’s defeat

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"Even before Trump lost the nation’s suburbs to Joe Biden, Republicans were facing a crisis in suburbia, the result of shifting demographics and voting habits around America’s largest cities. In Atlanta’s diversifying suburbs, what had once been a gradual “metamorphosis” was “put on steroids by Donald Trump,” said John Watson, a former Georgia Republican Party chair.

Mitt Romney had carried Cobb County by nearly 13 percentage points in 2012. Four years later, Trump lost the county to Hillary Clinton by about 2 points, and four years after that, he was clobbered by more than 14 percentage points. Over the span of eight years, it marked a 27-point swing against the Republican nominee.

 

The GOP hasn't been able to come to grips with these realities. It has instead chosen to embark on a campaign to restrict voting rights in Georgia and elsewhere to try to quell a perception by some of the GOP leaders and the voting public that rampant fraud against Trump occurred while offering no meaningful evidence for it.

 

Coronavirus-Denier Ted Nugent Tests Positive For COVID-19: 'I Thought I Was Dying'

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"Nugent, a staunch supporter of ex-President Donald Trump, previously called the pandemic a scam and has railed against public health restrictions.

“I have had flu symptoms for the last 10 days. I thought I was dying. I mean, just a clusterfuck,” Nugent said in the video. “I got the Chinese shit.”

Nugent said he had a “stuffed-up head” and “body aches.”

“My God, what a pain in the ass. I literally can hardly crawl out of bed the last few days. But I did, I crawled,” he said."

 

too much coke, man.

 

Covid 'hate crimes' against Asian Americans on rise

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"Why is this happening?

These incidents are best explained by the "widespread omission" of Asian Americans within cultural conversations, according to Amanda Nguyen, an activist and the founder of the Rise civil rights not-for-profit organisation.

Although the Asian population grew faster than other major groups in the last US census, the community's stories are not widely covered in the media and its concerns are not polled by political parties, Ms Nguyen told the BBC.

Some federal agencies do not even include the Asian American and Pacific Islander community in their definitions of racial minorities, she notes.

Ms Nguyen says that the people attacking Asian Americans since the pandemic began "can't really differentiate and don't care if we are X, Y or Z".

"They have made us a scapegoat to enact their violence."

For Ms Nguyen, the more visibility anti-Asian crimes receive, the better. She notes that laws can help solve the problem, but the US needs a cultural shift as well.

"We are in a moment of reckoning right now," Ms Nguyen adds. "We have been systematically erased on every single level and people can start to combat that by educating themselves about us.""

 

Trump made public statements that he was just trying to be factually accurate by calling the coronavirus the China virus because it came from China. He also rabble-roused students at a rally in AZ by referring to it by various pejorative names such as Kung Flu, which, apparently to Trump, is also an honest effort by him to be factually accurate.

Such remarks coming from the national megaphone of a president establish an atmosphere for blaming a particular group of people for the virus. It can reinforce whatever prejudice people may have already harbored toward such groups, particularly ones that are prone to becoming easy targets for frustration because they are perceived as shadowy entities because they previously haven't been recognized by the general public, media, and government as much as other groups.

 

The narrative Trump created about the election being stolen from him is another example of how a president can shape the atmosphere of public opinion into a detriment. The narrative energized his based who believed it without evidence and violently vented its frustration on the members of Congress and Capitol police. Like his remarks about the coronavirus, Trump could use the cheap excuse that he was simply making an honest effort to be factual that (in his mind) the election was stolen from him.

Trump didn't create all of the preceding frustration harbored by white people who felt they were being left behind after the Great Recession. He cultivated a simmering white grievance, exacerbated it to the point of being pathological, and ultimately turned it into a riot at the Capitol.

 

At least now I don't have to worry when I wake up every morning that there is a raving lunatic with the launch codes.

 

I would think so because if his characterization of the Covid virus.

 

A goofball event occurred at Trump's party at Mar-a-Lago when he was meeting with the leader of Japan. The dictator of N. Korea (the one that Trump later said he fell in love with) launched a missile over Japan to disrupt Trump's party. The Secret Service was fumbling around trying to secure the nuclear duffel bag. The name of an agent that appeared on his phone was posted on the web after it was accidentally caught by a partygoer who took some photos during the scramble.

Melding the nuclear football and the leader of Japan with many partygoers at Trump's Mar-a-Lago was a foolish way to conduct business.

 

But Trump has to have his parties.

A photo was posted on the web on the day of the nuclear football incident showing Trump sitting with his eyes glazed over staring off to inifinity. It was like he was in Heaven with all the party activities going on around him in what should have been a serious meeting with a foreign dignitary in a safe and secure location.

This is the Trump who promised during the 2016 campaign that he would never leave the White House because too much work needed to be done because of alleged damage by Obama who Trump said played too much golf.

 

And Donnie Jr...."I know how hard my father worked....he only played golf 360 times..." Picking on Biden for going home .... How many millions was spent on Donnie's golf dates in security and transport? Plus he is a hacker. He never said how well he actually played......probably lies on his score card, too...