I guess there’s nothing like a gag order preventing Donald Trump from trash-talking one group of people to make him trash-talk everyone else in the world.
Over on his own personal social media platform, Trump is making up for lost tweets. And when he’s just so frustrated that he can’t come up with his own garbage to post, Trump loves to repost the horrible things that other people say.
In this case, he “re-Truthed” a post by user @LouCozzolino, who goes by the screen name “Paul Revere.” If you want a little insight on how Trump’s brain works, examine the things he reposts from other people. Then ask yourself, what has he been reading or actively searching for that would have led him to see that post?
Paul Revere, accompanied by his own brief commentary, posted a meme that immediately calls Democrats “retards,” a word you say as a verb with the accent on the second syllable or not at all. If you’re a decent human, I mean.
Then the post veers off into conspiracy theories about George Floyd (the unarmed black man murdered by ex-cop Derek Chauvin), COVID, dead senior citizens, the Black Lives Matter movement, and even the “stolen” election theory.
I’m sure you’re familiar with conservative crazies who think Trump was robbed and COVID wasn’t real. But did you know the newest talking points about George Floyd? The medical report that we all saw at the time of the murder still says the same thing — that Floyd had fentanyl in his system when he died.
Now the racist crazies are saying the fentanyl is what killed him, not Officer Chauvin kneeling on his neck to the point of asphyxiation.
It’s actually strange, because if anything, the evidence against Chauvin has gotten worse over time. He was initially reported to have suffocated Floyd with his knee for 8 minutes, 46 seconds — a number that was put on signs, t-shirts, and more as the riots following Floyd’s death raged on.
Now it turns out that the final police report shows him kneeling on Floyd’s neck for nearly a full minute longer than that.
The problem, however, isn’t that the presence of fentanyl in Floyd’s system may have contributed to a diminished ability to breathe, but that conservatives somehow think that addiction is a reason to kill a subject in a police action.
There’s plenty to hate about the post. It attacks non-Americans as “aliens.” It falsely claims that BLM “destroyed cities,” which never happened. It pushes a false narrative about the 2020 election.
But using the R-word and attacking George Floyd — which the meme had to alter a CNN headline to do — are absolutely revolting. Anyone who agrees with this post shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near a polling booth, let ALONE as one of the names on the ballot.