To Donald Trump, war veterans are suckers and losers. The coward billionnaire daddy's-son Son-of-a-Bitch who claimed he had "bone spurs" to dodge the Vietnam draft. Then on one of the most decent senators the US has even produced, John McCain, Trump said "I like people who weren’t captured", mocking McCain for having been a prisoner of war in Vietnam.[See: https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2019/02/27/trumps-lawyer-no-basis-for-presidents-medical-deferment-from-vietnam/]
Now we learn that he calls his own supporters "basement dwellers". On this one I have to agree. Not the brightest of people would follow a moronic idiot like Trump. In that, he agrees with Hillary Clinton's description of the same people as "deplorables". But the US is a democracy, and in a democracy where half the people are illiterate ignorant morons and drunkard dunces, where intellectuals are mocked as "nerds" and where brainless brawny athletes are worshipped while scientists are shunned, mediocrity can rise to the top. Just like Trump.
======================================================
Former [Trump] White House press secretary tells DNC: Trump called own supporters 'basement dwellers'
Former President Trump's onetime White House press secretary told delegates at the Democratic National Convention on Tuesday that Trump, when out of the public eye, would mock his supporters and refer to them as "basement dwellers."
Stephanie Grisham, who said she would be voting for Vice President Kamala Harris, began her remarks at the United Center in Chicago by saying, "I wasn’t just a Trump supporter. I was a true believer — one of his closest advisors."
She likened the Trump family to her own family and recounted spending Easter, Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's at Trump's Florida estate, Mar-a-Lago. But then she addressed Trump's character.
"I saw him when the cameras were off," Grisham said. "Behind closed doors, Trump mocks his supporters — he calls them 'basement dwellers.' On a hospital visit one time, when people were dying in the ICU, he was mad that cameras were not watching him. He has no empathy. No morals. And no fidelity to the truth."
Grisham is among a handful of Republicans appearing at the convention to denounce Trump and endorse Harris.
To applause, Grisham said she was the first senior White House staffer to resign on Jan. 6, 2021, the day Trump supporters stormed the Capitol and tried to block the certification of Joe Biden's election victory. "I couldn’t be part of the insanity any longer," she said.
Referring to Trump, she added, "He used to tell me, 'It doesn’t matter what you say, Stephanie. Say it enough, and people will believe you.' But it does matter. What you say matters — and what you don’t say matters."
Grisham said that when she was press secretary, she "got skewered for never holding a White House briefing. It’s because, unlike my boss, I never wanted to stand at that podium and lie."
No comments:
Post a Comment