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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsEvery word out of Trumps mouth this week has NOT been a psychotic break
He's been feverishly, desperately, terrified to the max been addressing his base only.
It sounds like non sequiturs to us until we realize he's talking directly to his deplorables.
He's not about to call his rabid minions (and Bannon supporters) off their antisemitism activity, so he talks about how they voted him into office during the presser with Netanyahu. Wing,wink, nudge, nudge.
It's also the reason that during the same presser he accused the media of being so unfair to Flynn and how he just loves Flynn personally. Deplorables love Flynn too. He's one of them. Trump wants them to know he didn't fire Flynn. The media did.
And all his flurry of tweets regarding the illegal leaking from Intelligence agencies is also for their benefit. This morning I heard one of his tweets was saying that finally the intelligence agencies are being held accountable for their illegal leaks. We heard gibberish, they heard he's gettin er dunn!
Frankly he's not so hard to understand anymore.
Doreen
(11,686 posts)He had that long long ago. That is why it is so normal sounding. He has had his psychotic break for so long that for him it is an art.
bigbrother05
(5,995 posts)What sounds like gibberish to those engaged in the fight against this regime might be the result of being too close to the action. He's not talking to the legitimate press or the activist community. He's shouting out to the deplorables and from their distant enclaves, he comes across loud and clear via their alternative news sources.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)He's just not aware that when the entire world watches they'll be onto him very quickly. The only idiots left will be his Idiocrats. So while he wiggles his fingers over here we should watch his other hand. The one in his pocket. He's so full of his own brilliant glory that he believes he can fool all the people all the time. But not even a month into his public life and we've already figured him out.
leftstreet
(36,101 posts)I don't know enough Trump supporters to know how the dog whistling is being received, but certainly the press is starting to funnel it out there. For example making the LEAKS the news, not the intel compromise being leaked
What an interesting observation!
lunatica
(53,410 posts)So everything they hear is strictly pro Trump and anti anything that's liberal so they don't know what we know about what's going on. They also aren't following much of anything because, to be very truthful, they're willfully ignorant. Except they follow Trump so their daily news comes from him and he keeps reiterating that he's the big Kahuna and kicking ass all over the place. They eat those lies right up and believe every word he says.
Trump's tweets make complete sense to them and what Trump says is right in line with what FOX News says, so if there a few that are curious about what's going on daily they tune in to FOX and believe every word they hear.
They're in a froth of hate and anger and Trump keeps them that way by lying to them and by playing the victim to the media, to the Congress and to the Intelligence agencies.
Steve Bannon, his Numer One is a racist Supremacist who hates Jews and women. He's their man. Flynn is also a conspiracy theorist and probably also a racist so they like him too. That's why Trump didn't tell them he fired Flynn. It would make him look bad to his base, so he tells them the media fired him. Unfairly.
Once you realize everything he tweets and says is for their benefit (so he can keep their support) it's easy to understand what he's doing. To us he sounds mentally unstable or as if he's coming out of left field, but he isn't. He's just communicating with them so they will keep supporting him.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)It would be remarkable if he makes it for 4 years.