Trump is 'transparent,' just not how he believes so
By Sid Schwab / Herald columnist
More than a few times, Trump has declared himself the most transparent president in history. Last week, in only 19 words, Joe Biden summarized the truth: It seems the way to get fired by President Trump is not to commit wrongdoing, but to investigate it.
Transparent. Perhaps Trump was referring to how easily one can see through his attempts to hide truth, how obvious his lies are to people who arent doing the three-monkeys thing. After all, Trump entered the political arena by flogging the lie that President Obama was born in Kenya. Remember when he sent his investigators to Hawaii and said they were finding amazing things? It fit perfectly into the demographic at which he was aiming: conspiracists; resentful people, hungry for lies, as long as they fit their worldview. People who harbored unarticulated anger; who needed someone to blame for whatever it was in their world that needed blaming. He spoke, and up their ears they pricked.
Transparent. Hiding promised tax returns, blocking people from testifying to Congress. Soviet-style purges, ousting revealers of the swampy corruption he brought to the White House; firing inspectors general, five so far, who looked into it, like Trumps phony state of emergency declaration, allowing arms to Saudi Arabia without Congressional approval. Or the one investigating Moscow Mitchs wife. Accountability? Not for Trump. Because these expulsions validate their paranoia, Trumpists are unbothered. People who oppose him are part of a worldwide conspiracy whose aim, among other things, is to rape and sell children in the basement of a D.C. pizza joint with no basement.
If Trump is ignorant of everything a leader of the United States and, until recently, of the world must understand, hes a stable genius when it comes to knowing his audience. He began with and is now staking his reelection on people who hear noises at night and think flying saucers. Facilitated enthusiastically by the co-conspirators of rightwing media, it works. As his incompetent coronavirus failures became undeniable, he turned to blaming everyone except himself. And to distraction. Circling back to his original objet dartifice, hes feeding them Obamagate!!! Echoed by every rightwing disinformationist and Congressperson, this transparent fakery is being lapped up like fetid water by thirsty desert-wanderers. Trumps confabulations fit his idolaters like a bandoleer.
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