The self-portrait referred to above is the petulant, childish quote in the selection below, here’s a short set up.
Moments after a tragic midair collision that killed everyone aboard a commercial plane and a military helicopter, while victims’ bodies were being fished from the Potomac River, the master salesman, Donald J. Trump, went to work, as presidents always do at times of national tragedy. Here’s Heather Cox Richardson, quoting his spiteful eight year-old level, eh, analysis of the situation:
Late this morning, Trump spoke to reporters about the crash, saying “We do not know what led to this crash but we have some very strong opinions and ideas, and I think we’ll probably state those opinions now.” That opinion was that the people responsible for the accident were not of “superior intelligence.” He claimed that his Democratic predecessors had lowered standards for air traffic controllers (although the language he quoted from the FAA website was from his own time in office). “[W]hen I left office and Biden took over, he changed them back to lower than ever before. I put safety first. Obama, Biden, and the Democrats put policy first. And they put politics at a level that nobody has ever seen, because this was the lowest level. Their policy was horrible and their politics was even worse.”
He continued: “The FAA, which is overseen by Secretary Pete Buttigieg—a real winner,” apparently forgetting that the former transportation secretary was part of the Biden administration and left office on January 20. “Do you know how badly everything’s run since he’s run the Department of Transportation? He’s a disaster…he’s just got a good line of bullsh*t.”
The impulsive narcissist’s very strong opinions and ideas are that, regardless of what actually caused the disaster, Blacks, Hispanics and Women are incompetent because they are inferior to white, Christian, loyal white supremacist men who admire billionaires. OK. Narcissists are entitled to asshole opinions just like anyone else. What those asshole opinions had to do with the air disaster, the first involving a commercial airliner in 16 years, is a separate question. These Nazi types never miss the chance to create an opportunity to advance their destructive worldview.
Of course, there are also facts as well, and sometimes facts speak louder than reflexive other-blaming spouting of “very strong opinions” based on an insanely ignorant worldview. Below are a few facts that we might have strong opinions about, even if we are uncritical enough to agree, with the Department of Defense under Fox weekend news host Pete “Deus Vult” Hegseth, that Black History Month is a bad idea because it makes little white Christian kids (and military personnel) feel guilty to learn about the history and struggles of a viciously persecuted minority here in the land of the free and the home of the White.
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