For those of you who plan to tune in to Trump’s national address tonight, be sure to sit down armed with the truth. Trump will be intoning in his sing song phony teleprompter reading voice a list of percentages and statistics which will be notable for one thing only, their duplicity. Trump will continue to make the untrue claims that thousands of terrorists keep pouring across the southwestern border, untouched by ICE and law enforcement. These terrorists he will opine will then be free to roam the country, committing their terrible deeds on the unwitting American people.
According to the pundits, Trump decided to take his argument to the American people because cracks were beginning to appear in the GOP Senate. His goal will be to create fear and to bring home the message that the southwestern border constitutes the nations biggest security threat.
Fear, fear and more fear. The emotion used by authoritarian leaders for eons. Forget North Korea, Russia, Iran and China. Folks, the danger resides right down there in places like Tijuana and El Paso. Trump will double down on opioid deaths and probably will even evoke the names of victims of crimes caused by rogue illegal aliens. He may again trot out the rapists line.
But what he won’t do for sure is come within a mile of the truth. It’s too bad that MSNBC can’t put a list of corrections on the running banner line scrolling under the image of Trump to keep viewers apprised of the real story. But his base, who tune will be cheering at the end of the speech for their strong President and his wall which will keep out the hordes of terrorists streaming in. Sickening.
Below, Kevin Drum in Mother Jones discusses the litany of lies from Trump about what his wall will protect Americans from. Drum does it in his succinct, clear way and leaves no room for doubt that the wall,if built, will be a huge boondoggle, protecting the country from a negligible threat. .
By the way, I will not be watching Trump tonight. It is simply too difficult to bear watching such a travesty and then imagining all the innocent people being hurt -all for his pathetic ego. (Just learned some heartening news. The Dems will be given time to respond to Trump’s claims immediately following his speech..) Ah, the precious truth. .https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2019/01/six/