Vice President Goes Full-Suck-Up Mode: Compares Trump to MLK Jr.

The vice president decides fawning praise is just what the boss needs.

1/21/19: Day 31 of the shutdown begins. At three minutes after midnight, President Twitter Thumbs ends one day and begins the next with a tweet. He’s thinking about the sacrifices Martin Luther King Jr. made...

Oh, hell, no.

He’s thinking about himself—a process which consumes his every waking moment, because he’s a sad man, with few friends.

“‘No President in modern times has kept more promises than Donald Trump!’” he tweets with childish joy. “Thank you Bill Bennett @SteveHiltonx.”

Pence says Trump is just like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

And if you missed it, perhaps a ringing endorsement, offered up by VP Pence, helped improve the president’s mood for the day. On Face the Nation Sunday morning, Pence looked at what his boss had done— holding DACA kids hostage—making hundreds of thousands of federal workers go without pay—a history of insulting minorities at every turn—and said, you know, Donald J. Trump is just like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

“Honestly, you know,” he told Margaret Brennan, the host of the show,

…the hearts and minds of the American people today are thinking a lot about it being the weekend we are remembering the life and the work of Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. One of my favorite quotes from Dr. King was, “Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy.”

King, he added, “inspired us to change.” “You think of how he changed America, he inspired us to change through the legislative process, to become a more perfect union.” Pence paused to offer up a beatific smile before closing his stirring oration with a flourish. “That’s exactly what President Trump is calling on the Congress to do, come to the table in a spirit of good faith.”

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LUCKILY, TIME RAN OUT before the VP could continue fawning, because he was just getting warmed up. I mean, we’ve seen this kowtowing before (see link below).

If he had had the chance he would have gone: “Donald J. Trump is to coaching Americans to strive for greatness as Bill Belichick is to getting the Patriots to the Super Bowl every year.”

There would have been no stopping the fool. “Trump is a hero to all patriotic Americans,” he would have said, “like Audie Murphy during World War II and Alvin York during World War I, if they had debilitating bone spurs.”

What Pence would do would be grovel verbally at Trump’s feet. “The president,” he’d add, “is leading the nation to greatness again, like George Washington crossing the Delaware, like Teddy Roosevelt taking on the Robber Barons, only if Teddy was on the other side, handing out tax breaks.”

“Trump,” Pence would insist in full suck-up mode, “could star as a male stripper, he’s so cut and well-built. If he grabbed Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez—or even Pelosi by the p-word—they’d both get a thrill.”

(Pence wouldn’t use the p-word. “Mother” would not be pleased if he dared.)

There’d be only one way to stop Vice President Pence from going on and on about the greatness of his boss. Someone would have to hit him upside the head with an iron frying pan.

POSTSCRIPT: The president and VP did make a trip to the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in D.C. to “honor” his memory.

They stayed roughly six minutes and Trump gave a “speech” to no one in particular and failed to mention Dr. King by name.

Trump puts more effort into tweeting than that. 

As one African-American veteran put it on Twitter (I forgot to take down the exact quote): Trump might as well have driven past the Memorial and thrown the wreath out the window without bothering to stop.

And, in checking YouTube for a film clip, I came across this old one, where another Trump stooge compared Trump to MLK on health care.

You cannot make this up.

More of a reality check, below: This is what Dr. King was fighting about: the lynching (Emmett Till in 1955, for example), the riot at Old Miss in 1962, when an African American tried to enroll, George Wallace blocking the door to the University of Alabama the following year, the murder of three civil rights activists trying to register African Americans to vote in 1964, and the belated decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in 1967, allowing interracial marriage to finally become legal.

That doesn’t include the fight to get African Americans into most schools, battles over Jim Crow blood banks, theater seats, swimming pools, sporting events and even laws banning the playing of interracial checkers. 

Martin Luther King Jr. fought against this:
Rosa Parks being arrested for illegal sitting.

And this...

And this...

And for this.