Failure to hail Trump is treason
by digby
“First of all, we came to a wonderful agreement, it’s a shame the fake news covers it the way they do,” Trump told Mike Huckabee on the former Arkansas governor's TBN show. “It’s almost treasonous, you want to know the truth.”
“If you listen to the mainstream media, it’s almost like I lost a negotiation,” Trump added.
Well, he sure as hell didn't win one. But maybe he's really just so dumb and incompetent that he doesn't know that.
He really is an authoritarian who believes, like a king, that he should be immune from criticism. He later said he was just joking when he claimed this:
He really didn't sound like he was joking. And truthfully, Mike Pence has turned into beaming robot and KellyAnn Conway has turned herself inside out to defend this menace so he's actually accomplished that. They stage tableaus at least once a week where all of his cabinet members or GOP congressional representatives sit around the table and listen to him ramble incoherently and then dutifully tell him how great he is as if they are all in a North Vietnamese hostage video from 1969.
Look at this picture:
He's called the press enemies of the state and now says they are treasonous for failing to properly kiss his ass.
It's not the first time he's said this about his political enemies:
Trump faced some criticism earlier this year when he accused Democrats of “treasonous” behavior for not applauding his achievements during his first State of the Union address.
"Can we call that treason? Why not?" the president said during a speech. "They certainly didn't seem to love our country very much."
It's grotesque authoritarianism. Can he pull it off? So far the institutions are shaky but they're holding. However, the ground is being prepared by him, tens of millions of our fellow citizens are hearing this and cheering it. It's not hard to imagine a dozen scenarios that would unleash this beast.
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