9/11/21: If you missed it, what four U.S. presidents chose to do on the twentieth anniversary of 9/11 was telling.
We have said this before. Donald J. Trump has no more empathy than
a carp.
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Moment of silence at the Seminole Hard Rock
Casino & Hotel.
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Tears on 9/11, student artwork.
He and his son, Don Jr., an empathy-challenged chip off the old blockhead, spent the day offering paid commentary as part of a freak-show pay-per-view boxing match. Evander Holyfield (remember him) was one of two pugilists who stepped into the ring – though not for long. He was filling in for Oscar De La Hoya, who had to bow out after contracting …yes…COVID-19. Holyfield’s foe was Vitor Belfort, 44, not exactly a spright to the sport.
Still, when I looked up Holyfield, Wikipedia described him as a “former professional boxer,” which no doubt had much to do with the fact that next month grandpa with gloves will turn 59.
As one might have predicted, when your opponent is closing in
on an age when Social Security checks start to arrive, Belfort made quick work
of his opponent. Holyfield suffered a technical knockout in Round One.
That meant Don Sr. and Don Jr. were paid handsomely for a brief night’s work. The dopes who paid to watch the match got about two minutes of “action” in return for however much they spent. The cheapest seats in the casino where the fight was held were $156. Or you could stay home and watch for $49.99 on pay-for-view.
The victims of the worst attack ever carried out on U.S. soil were not entirely forgotten, however, according to Fox News. “Before the fight at the Seminole Hard Rock Casino & Hotel, there was a moment of silence.”
That, of course, would be the
very least promoters, or a former President of the United States and his son, could
do.
In the days leading up to the titanic two-minute bout, a radio host asked no class-Don Sr., if he had to box anyone, who would he like to fight? It was a stupid question to ask a paunchy 75-year-old, but Trump was the fool stupid enough to answer. He said he’d love to box the current President of the United States. “I think probably my easiest fight would be Joe Biden,” he bragged, “because, I think it would be over very, very quickly, very quickly. He once said, ‘Oh I’d like to take him behind the barn,’ he would be in big trouble. I think Biden would go down within the first few seconds.”
So, that was how Loser Don
spent the anniversary of 9/11. Dreaming of punching Joe Biden in the face.
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FOR THEIR PART, President Biden and his wife, Dr. Jill Biden, chose to spend the day visiting all three sites where planes went down. They were joined at the memorial in New York City by former presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton, and their wives. At one point, Mr. Biden praised a speech given by former president George W. Bush in Shanksville, Pa., earlier that day.
What Mr. Bush had to say was also telling. After lauding the heroes who tried valiantly to take back Flight 93, and those who died on 9/11 trying to rescue others in New York and Washington D.C., as well as noting the sacrifices of our men and women in uniform since, he added warning.
There is little cultural overlap between
violent extremists abroad and violent extremists at home. But in their disdain
for pluralism, in their disregard for human life, in their determination to
defile national symbols, they are children of the same foul spirit. And it is
our continuing duty to confront them.
Most experts believe that had Flight 93 not been taken down, it would have plowed into the Capitol Building later that morning.
Sort of like January 6, 2021,
only with a plane.
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BUSH 43 had not mentioned “Loser Don” during his speech, nor the attacks on January 6. The thin-skinned Trump exploded anyway, because he has the same self-control as a two-year-old. He insisted Bush was responsible “for getting us into the quicksand of the Middle East (and then not winning!)”
If you knew your history – and there has never been any evidence that Trump does – you could say we’ve been stuck in the quicksand since 1948. And you could point out that Trump didn’t do any winning either. He had four years to ensure that the Afghan military was ready to stand up and fight.
He failed.
In fact, had he had his way, we would have pulled out of Afghanistan entirely, on January 15, just in time for him to declare victory, while still in office. Just in time, too, to start his imaginary second term on a high.
Nor
can there be any doubt. He was just as anxious to abandon our Afghan allies as
he was when he abandoned the Kurds in October 2019. (Remember the Kurds? They
did almost all of the fighting in the battle to destroy ISIS in Syria and Iraq.)
That craven abandonment of our allies appalled
lawmakers in Congress on both sides of the aisle.
Trump is, of course, a colossal jerk, which meant he hit back at Bush with a patented mix of fury and folly. He claimed, wrongly, that Bush had said “terrorists on the ‘right’ are a bigger problem than those from foreign countries that hate America, and that are pouring into our Country right now.”
First, Bush had compared two groups – one foreign terrorists, the other domestic terrorists who tried to overturn a presidential election because their leader couldn’t face the fact he lost – and said we had to confront both.
Second, there was no evidence that foreign terrorists were “pouring into our Country right now.”
Then
Trump tried to plunge the dagger in his predecessor’s back. If what Bush had
said was so, and domestic terrorists were so bad, “why was he willing
to spend trillions of dollars and be responsible for the death of perhaps
millions of people? He shouldn’t be lecturing us about anything.”
It was, by any measure, a toxic mix of Trumpian thinking, including the idea that Bush 43 was responsible for all the deaths that followed 9/11. I tried to imagine how Tucker Carlson and other right-wing nuts might have spun those exact words, had they been uttered by President Biden. “Now ‘Senile Joe’ says Osama bin Laden and his murderous crew weren’t responsible for the bloodshed that followed 9/11!” Carlson would have howled. “Did Biden just say that the Taliban weren’t the ones shedding innocent blood in Afghanistan? That all that blood was on U.S. hands! Did Joe also forget about the blood-thirsty Saddam Hussein? Did he just claim our men and women in uniform were killers, responsible for millions of deaths?”
In any case, that was how Donald J. Trump decided to “honor” the memory of all the lives lost on 9/11, two decades ago.
POSTSCRIPT: It’s worth remembering all the false claims Trump made about what he saw and did on 9/11. For example: He said he watched people jump from the Twin Towers before the buildings collapsed – even though he was in an apartment four miles away.
Good eyesight?
He claimed he saw film of thousands of Muslims celebrating in New Jersey, as the Towers fell. No one has seen that imaginary video since. As always, this is who Donald J. Trump was and is: an inveterate liar, who displays all the symptoms of a Narcissistic Personality Disorder.
We might also note that former presidents, Clinton, Bush and Obama have started working together to help resettle Afghan refugees, who were rescued in the final days, as their own government collapsed.
No one has bothered to ask Trump
for help.
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