These are strong words, but what about the crime bill that Biden wrote? Isn’t that despicable too, given that it led to the United States becoming the world’s leader in locking people up - especially people of color? For the president to try to put any other words in the mouth of George Floyd I frankly think is despicable.” Speaking later in the day, Joe Biden criticized Trump: “George Floyd’s last words, ‘I can’t breathe, I can’t breathe,’ echoed all across this nation and, quite frankly, around the world. And so, Trump’s “tone-deafness” - as the mainstream media likes to call it - once again provoked the denunciations of other capitalist politicians and their media spokespeople.ĬNN’s Maeve Reston said that this comment showed Trump’s “breathtaking disconnect from the pain and tumult that has unfolded in this country after George Floyd’s death. He is a malignant narcissist who must make everything about himself - either by pointing to pseudo-accomplishments or playing the victim of the “worst attacks” in history. He also seems to be mocking the very idea of racial equality. Trump then declared the economic figures were great “for African Americans, for Hispanic Americans, and for Asian Americans, and for everybody.”ĭonald Trump is incapable of even pretending to have any empathy for a murder victim and his family. This is a great, great day in terms of equality. Hopefully George is looking down and saying this is a great thing that’s happening for our country. They have to receive fair treatment from law enforcement.īut the moment he strayed from the paper in front of him, the real Trump came out: For instance, he said:Įqual justice under the law must mean that every American receives equal treatment in every encounter with law enforcement regardless of race, color, gender, or creed. Reading from a prepared statement, Trump then managed to make some unremarkable but at least coherent points.
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Referring to the TV shows he spends most of his time watching, Trump said, “I think it was one of the greatest miscalculations in the history of business shows, business shows talking about Wall Street,” he said. His own economic adviser Kevin Hassett had warned of an impending 20 percent unemployment rate in June. Speaking in the Rose Garden, Trump revelled in how the analysts seem to have been proven wrong. unemployment that the Boston Globe generously characterized as based on “iffy” data. In that context, consider what Trump said on Friday when trumpeting a surprising decline in official U.S. And he doesn’t just say the quiet part out loud routinely he memorializes it in writing in his Twitter feed.Įven his closest advisers expect this from him. He even brushed off the infamous “Access Hollywood” tape, claiming at one point that it wasn’t him speaking. There’s no such thing as a “hot mic” for this president. Politicians typically try to walk back these moments. The Republican leader in the state’s House of Representatives, Mike Turzai, had already predicted during the campaign that the voter ID measure would “allow Governor Romney to win the state of Pennsylvania, done.” In 2013, the state’s Republican Party chairman, Robert Gleason, admitted that the photo ID requirement that had recently been pushed through the legislature effectively suppressed voter turnout and that this had been the objective all along, thus exposing as a lie the claims about fighting “fraud.” He said it had “helped a bit” to lower Obama’s margin over Romney, cutting it to half of what it had been over McCain four years earlier.
There are also many examples of saying the quiet part out loud. In 1984, President Ronald Reagan - doing a sound check just before a radio address while the Cold War still raged - said, “My fellow Americans, I’m pleased to tell you today that I’ve signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. They often happen when the speaker doesn’t realize the microphone is on. In the bourgeois media, these moments are often referred to as “saying the quiet part out loud” - so named because they express what the speaker really thinks and the actions that speaker would really like to take. Democratic and Republican party politicians alike don’t only represent and defend something horrible - our racist, exploitative system - but they sometimes say really horrendous things that reveal their true aspirations for capitalism and imperialism and how deeply flawed they are as human beings.
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