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In reply to the discussion: Trump hiding behind a pillar on the steps of the Supreme Court as onlookers shout him down [View all]Caliman73
(11,738 posts)We cannot stop expressing ourselves because right wingers are perpetual victims.
They will always complain and the media will run with it because conflict sells. We are "expected to be polite" but they can do whatever horseshit they want. We cannot continue to let that frame stand.
Trump called Obama's citizenship and legitimacy into question in a racist way. President Obama responded with very light ribbing. It may well have made Trump want to run out of spite. It, however, explains nothing about how he was taken seriously as a candidate and how he got elected. Those are issues of the complete ROT within the Republican Party and of the complicity of the media to normalize an idiot like Trump.
President Obama's making fun of Trump had NOTHING to do with why that idiot is in the White House.
What we need to do is fight back on the framing. People are exercising their right to criticize an idiot who threatens the very Democracy that RBG fought her whole life, to defend. The office of the presidency has been so debased by Trump that his presence ANYWHERE does nothing to honor anything.