1/21/19: Day 31 of the government shutdown. 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 pathetic human being, with few real friends. “‘No President in modern times has kept more promises than Donald Trump!’” he tweets with childish joy. “Thank you Bill Bennett @SteveHiltonx.”
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No interracial checker-playing was allowed. |
Pence says Trump is just like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
If you missed it, perhaps a ringing endorsement offered up by VP Pence, will help improve the president’s mood. 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, and said 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. “That’s exactly what President Trump is calling on the Congress to do, come to the table in a spirit of good faith.”
Luckily, time ran out before the VP could continue fawning, because he was just getting warmed up.
“Trump is a hero to all patriotic Americans,” Pence would have claimed, “like Audie Murphy during World War II and Alvin York during World War I, except they didn’t have debilitating bone spurs.”
“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 were on the side of the Robber Barons.”
There’d be only one way to stop Vice President Jesus from
going on and on about the greatness of his boss. His host would have had to hit
him upside the head with a frying pan.
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TRUMP AND THE VP did make a trip to the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in D.C. to “honor” his memory.
They stayed six whole minutes. Trump gave a “speech” to a handful of surprised tourists and failed to mention Dr. King.
REALITY CHECK: This is what Dr.
King was fighting about: the lynching (Emmett Till, in 1955), the rioting at
Old Miss (in 1962), when an African American tried to enroll, George Wallace
blocking the door to the University of Alabama (1963), the murder of three
civil rights activists trying to register African Americans to vote (1964) and
the belated decision of the U.S. Supreme Court (1967), making interracial
marriage legal. That doesn’t include battling Jim Crow laws that created separate blood banks, and separated
the races in theaters, at swimming pools, in sports and even made interracial
chess and checker-playing crimes.
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