Trump Goes Ape$hit Over 60 Minutes, Demands Messenger Be Killed
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The truth itself is under attack in this country, not just the First Amendment, although those two go hand in glove. Mad King Donald does not take it well when he’s criticized directly or even indirectly. He went completely bonkers tonight after he watched 60 Minutes, because two of the segments upset him. One was a segment with Volodomyr Zelensky done last Friday in Ukraine.
If anything, Zelensky’s position has worsened since then. Just this morning, when so many people were at church for Palm Sunday, Ukraine was attacked and 32 people were killed. See if you can figure out what Trump’s issue is, other than plain, demented authoritarianism, because it’s certainly not evident at first blush.
Here’s the Zelensky piece. It’s simple, factual and merely an update on what is still happening after three long years. But Trump wants to kill the messenger.
There is nothing here that would upset any normal minded person. But then again, that’s the point “normal minded.” I don’t know what is “inaccurate” or “fraudulent” over presenting clips of Trump saying exactly what he has said on both of these topics. But Donald finds much to object to.
Maybe he’ll chill out by morning. Or, maybe he’ll try to get CBS to settle the “defamation” case for an exhorbitant sum. Hopefully, they will not do that. ABC/Disney made a horrific decision when they settled with Trump for $15 million. And CBS could compound and expand upon that mistake.
Somebody has to tell the truth. And Trump can’t handle the truth. Let’s see what the morning brings. He’s probably going to have his hands full with yet another downturn in the stock market and that should get him off his journalism vendetta for a few hours or maybe the whole day.
But evidently his followers can’t learn any other way. They need to see their savings and stocks debilitated, the costs of daily living go up, prescription prices mount up (again; they were high during Trump 1.0 and now they’re going back.) We are all in the school of hard knocks here. And Donald is making sure we get a Ph.D.
