'Court jester' calls BS on Trump

More than 40% of union households voted for Donald Trump in the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections, but it’s hardly inevitable that 2024 will see that happen again.

First, although Trump has claimed to have an approval rating among Republicans of more than 90%, in virtually every GOP primary, between 25% and 40% of ballots were for someone else, points out long-time conservative Republican, prosecutor, Marine and commentator Ron Filipkowski.

Also, his support by union households, according to exit polling by the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research was 43% in 2016 and 40% in 2020, so it fell – before organized labor’s resurgence in recent years.

Lastly, Trump has done so much in the last four years.

And sometimes it takes a “court jester” to call BS on the powerful.

This month, after Super Tuesday’s primaries in 16 states, late-night TV comic Seth Meyers offered a reminder of the 77-year-old White House contender:

“Donald Trump is now the presumptive GOP nominee for president, again, for a third time, despite the fact that he’s a twice-impeached, four-time criminal indictee and racist, who has been found liable for fraud and sexual abuse, banned from doing business in the state of New York for three years, owes over half a billion dollars in fines, took millions from foreign governments while he was President, tried to extort a foreign country to interfere in an election in 2020 and encouraged another to help him win in 2016…

“actively undermined the nation’s response to a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic and let a deadly disease spiral out of control, is about to go on trial for breaking campaign finance laws by paying hush money to cover up an affair during the 2016 campaign …

“orchestrated a months-long coup attempt that culminated in a violent insurrection to disrupt the peaceful transfer of power and install him as an unelected dictator, stole classified documents and obstructed attempts to get them back, has never once won the popular vote and has been routinely rejected by a majority of Americans in election after election …

“spews deranged conspiracy theories about everything from climate change to immigration, to vaccines to windmills, glitches on three-syllable words, two-syllable words and one-syllable words, cheats at golf, can’t spell his own name, his wife’s name or the words ‘indicted,’ ‘education,’ ‘unprecedented,’ ‘stolen,’ ‘Denmark,’ ‘Kentucky’ or ‘tap’ …

“and is, on top of everything else, the single weirdest and most off-putting human being on the face of the f***ing planet – and this is the same planet Ted Cruz lives on, so that’s saying something.

“I’m sorry but this, this guy, this guy’s not a real person. He’s a glitching [Non Player Character] from a video game. He makes less sense than a f***ing Sim. If you put four walls around him without a door, he’d just forget to eat and pass out. Soon we’re gonna see him at a rally just running headfirst into a wall.”

 

Hopefully, it will be a blue wall built by everyday Americans.