your wonderful compatriots voted for it and you have 4 years of this coming to you ...

Where are all our right wingers who went ballistic when Biden checked his watch at a ceremony? Playing caddy for dear leader?

They ride for the brand.

Even if the herd takes them off a cliff.

https://newrepublic.com/articl...g-media-trump-tariff

https://newrepublic.com/articl...g-media-trump-tariff

The Right-Wing Media Machine Is What’s Saving Donald Trump—for Now
The president isn’t governing as if he wants to be popular, but he’s getting help sweeping his wreckage under the rug.

April 7, 2025

Over the weekend, Donald Trump posted a video offering a black and white image of about 70 men gathered in a circle. A few seconds into the video, an explosion happens. The circle of people is no more. Trump said on Truth Social that they were terrorists and bragged: “Oops, there will be no attack by these Houthis. They will never sink our ships again.” The Houthi rebels say the latest U.S. strikes killed just two people. Americans would like to think that in such a dispute, it’s their own president who’s telling the truth.

Alas, we can’t do that these days. There’s a famous story I heard Zbigniew Brzezinski relate at a large conference in Washington as George W. Bush and his cronies warned us about Saddam Hussein and mushroom clouds. Back in 1962, a U.S. attaché to France went to see President Charles de Gaulle to tell him that the United States had photographic evidence that the Soviet Union had missiles in Cuba. The envoy had a folder with the evidence in question and began to slide it toward Monsieur President. De Gaulle pushed it away. I don’t need to see this, he said; if the president of the United States says it, that’s enough for me.

“Could you imagine,” Brzezinski asked his slack-jawed audience, “a head of state expressing that kind of confidence in this president?” Brzezinski, whom I had the good fortune of meeting and interviewing during the Iraq War, was plenty outraged at the prevarications of Bush & Co’s White House. Imagine what he’d be thinking today.

Trump’s approval rating is sliding, seemingly down into the low 40s. This is all before we price in the mayhem and disruption that his outlandish tariff scheme brings; it may be months from now before the effects of his decision to blow up the economy are fully felt.

But if you ask me, even 43 is high at this moment. Most of his policies are unpopular—it’s basically only on immigration that the public gives him reasonably high marks (which is depressing, yes, but that’s a reality we need to come to grips with if we want to turn it around). On the economy, inflation, the DOGE cuts, Russia-Ukraine, and more, he’s in the red. The American people are beginning to catch the distinct scent that they were conned.

What’s keeping him even at 43 percent? At this point, it’s the right-wing media that’s doing the heavy lifting. The disinformation bubble that surrounds and encases and protects him and spins everything he does positively and spins everything his opponents do as corrupt or treasonous—that dread machine is still running at peak capacity. And let’s be honest about how corrupt this corrupt Tilt-a-Whirl really is: If this was a Democratic president pulling these kind of schemes, this same media infrastructure would be apoplectic.

Your hair was probably about as on fire as mine was late last week when we learned that Trump skipped honoring the four American soldiers who died in Lithuania last month in a training accident and whose bodies were returned to Dover Air Base last Thursday. He was flying down to Florida to host (at one of his resorts) a golf tournament paid for by Saudi Arabia and to hold some fundraisers. This, right after tanking the economy with his tariff announcement, which flushed billions of dollars of hardworking people’s retirement savings down the drain.

That’s about five kinds of sick. (as in Dark Pentad sick)

Any decent American should be ashamed. Imagine Barack Obama had skipped the return of soldiers’ bodies to Dover for a round of golf. Fox would see to it that such an episode hounded him to his grave. But if Fox News reported on Trump doing this, I can’t find any evidence of it. My Google search turned up evidence of some Fox stories on the search for the soldiers, but nothing about Trump and the ceremony. I did read that the families had requested that no media be present. That was no doubt a disincentive for Trump to bother showing up—along with the Saudi lucre to be lapped up down in Florida.

Lies of omission, lies of commission, repeatedly endlessly, piled one on top of the other, recycled as necessary.

Hey, c’mon, cut the guy some slack. He won his golf tournament, after all. (He magically wins them all, but that’s beside the point).

Do you think he’s supposed to ignore that for some stupid dead soldiers? He only likes military that haven’t been captured are alive. Besides, three out of the four were spics. Probably illegals or something.

https://youtu.be/BofHyJWGf-U?si=6eKvCblXcjeoKl8U

Donald Trump blows off dignified transfer of fallen U.S. soldiers for golf events

Disgusting behavior from a CIC.
It should be one of the highest priorities for him to be there, and share words with the families.

That guy looks like he’s going golfing.

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Originally posted by theback40:
Disgusting behavior from a CIC.
It should be one of the highest priorities for him to be there, and share words with the families.

And yet totally consistent with his past behavior. I'm not surprised in the least.

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Originally posted by theback40:
Disgusting behavior from a CIC.
It should be one of the highest priorities for him to be there, and share words with the families.

What's in it for him?

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Originally posted by theback40:
Disgusting behavior from a CIC.
It should be one of the highest priorities for him to be there, and share words with the families.

Again, give Back40 his due on this issue.

It should not even be a political/party issue.
Those men died doing their job, while working for the US gov.
The president is not only their top leader as CIC, but the leader of the US, they were working for.
A president should be honored to see the transfer, and speak to the families and offer whatever words they can in thanks and comfort.

I agree.

Given Trump’s claims about how much he respects the military, this is just plain pathetic.