Always blaming someone else
Mitch McConnell once described Donald Trump in these terms: “He’s always setting up somebody to blame it on.”
CNN political reporter Chris Cillizza says, “Yes! That exactly! There’s dozens of these examples. And they all tell the same story: If and when anything goes bad for Trump, he immediately looks to find someone to blame. It’s almost Pavlovian. It’s also the exact opposite of leadership.” (Read his comments here.) For example, he writes,
* Trump’s loss in the 2016 Iowa caucuses was because
Ted Cruz cheated — or something.
* The FBI investigation into Russia’s meddling in the 2016 election was because then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions
recused himself.
* The coronavirus was
China’s fault.
* The early testing snafus for the virus were
Barack Obama’s fault.
* The long battle against the virus was
Anthony Fauci’s fault.
* The rocky response to Hurricane Maria was
Puerto Rico’s fault.
* His loss in the 2020 election was the fault of Republican governors like Doug Ducey of Arizona and Brian Kemp of Georgia who were insufficiently loyal to him. Oh, and also Vice President Mike Pence for not overturning the Electoral College results even though he had no ability to do so.
* The January 6 riot at the US Capitol was
Nancy Pelosi’s fault.
* His ongoing legal problems are the fault of
“vicious, horrible” prosecutors.
Or how about this one: “‘I don’t take responsibility at all,’
Trump said in March 2020, when asked about his administration’s botched handling of nationwide testing for Covid-19.” That, Cillizza says, “is a pretty good summation of not just his presidency, but his outlook on life.”
Yet millions of Americans worship this guy as heaven-sent, a messiah, the leader who’s going to “save America.” (From who? blacks? gays? Immigrants? Democrats? People who think cops shouldn’t murder black people? Dr. Fauci?)
Why? This is a guy who bragged about grabbing women by the crotch because “they let you,” then later claimed it was only a locker-room joke. Who said he could stand in a street and “shoot somebody” but people would still vote for him.
He probably was right, so you’ve got to ask, what the hell is wrong with those people?
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Posted 15 Apr 2022 by Roger Rabbit
in Donald Trump, Politics