Monday, May 25, 2020

Why Donald Trump's wild weekend can't be normalized

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/05/24/politics/donald-trump-tweets-joe-biden-comments/index.html


President Donald Trump -- and his allies -- seized on the Biden comment expressing their horror that the presumptive Democratic nominee would so glibly take the votes of African Americans for granted. Trump's campaign quickly produced "You Ain't Black" t-shirts and sent their surrogates out to condemn the former vice president.
 
So, you can see why the shock and horror that Trumpworld is expressing over Biden's admittedly dumb comment is a little bit hard to take. If you want to act like Biden's "you ain't black" remark is the worst thing you've ever heard while simply ignoring the President of the United States suggesting a) a former Congressman -- and now cable TV host -- committed a murder (with zero evidence) b) the former Secretary of State is a "skank" c) a former gubernatorial nominee is overweight and d) the Speaker of the House has a drinking problem, it's going to be very hard for me to consider your upset as genuine.
And, by the way, you don't get off the hook by simply rolling your eyes and saying something like "That's just how Trump talks." Yes, it is. But, to give Trump some sort of pass because he has so lowered the bar of acceptable behavior in a president is to normalize him -- and in so doing allow him to be judged by a different standard than Biden is being held to.
 
Trump's behavior -- this weekend and almost all the time -- is not normal. It doesn't make what Biden said right. It isn't. But it sure as heck calls into question those Republicans who are shocked -- SHOCKED! -- at Biden's comment and choose to somehow miss all of the offensive things the President says.
 

1 comment :

  1. Once again CNN misses the point. Trump's behaviour is not normal and he needs to be called out on it. But the same people who do that are quick to sweep anything stupid Biden does, whether it's the Black comment or the allegations of sexual assault, under the carpet to avoid people noticing that he's also a lousy person. Republicans are not shocked. They're indignant that comments that would get him called a nazi are ignored by the media when its their guy saying it.

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