Here is the iconic photo of President "Thumbs Up, Your Parents Are Dead, Baby Paul," and his "I Really Don't Care, Do You?" wife.
It is ghoulish and sick and cynical, just like Trump and his white supremacist presidency. That orphaned baby was not in the hospital. The Trump lackeys had the baby delivered to the hospital so that the heartless and soulless POTUS and FLOTUS could pose for a photo op. None of the victims of the massacre in the hospitals in El Paso wanted Trump's visit. NOT ONE.
So they commandeered a defenseless baby who had nothing to say about being part of a tableau that flattered the man whose rhetoric helped make him an orphan.
Rhonda Garelick, New York Magazine: THE CUT:
Posing for this photograph, the Trumps remove any last doubt about their dead-eyed cruelty and transactional view of life. Smiling emptily above this wounded little boy, whose life was shattered before he could take his first step, the president and his wife call to mind those famous safari photos taken by Trump’s sons, Eric and Don Jr. — in which they, like their father, smile brightly over the victims of their own heedless cruelty and violence.
To Donald Trump, this baby is little more than a hunting trophy in his own brutal race war (which explains his triumphant thumbs up). Injured, confused, squirming away from Melania’s brittle embrace, and straining toward what’s left of his family, Baby Paul now stands in for all the children — indeed, all human beings — who, like him, have been harmed and are being held against their will by a white supremacist president.
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Shaw... a bit off topic, but 100% Trump related.
Check out this Virginia woman's response, in a recent NPR story, when asked about the 4 members of The Squad ...
"Where'd their parents come from? Are they Americans?" Cook asked. "Just because she was born in America does not make her American."
"Doesn't it?" I asked. "Doesn't it legally, though, under the Constitution?"
"Under the Constitution, yes," Cook acknowledged, then paused. "But I don't know how to express that, to make you understand that I wish she, I wish they, well — I don't want any Muslims in America."
And there, in 12 words, is the problem. We've got a group of people in the US who feel they can define, in unconstitutional ways, whether someone is an American. And they are the same group that claims 100% loyalty to the 2nd amendment.
How on earth does that work in their brains?
They are confused, angry, and frightened people. They do not accept nor deal with "the others" in our in our midst from a rational footing.
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