CNN has a fetish for interviewing ignorant Trump supporters who never seem to have a critical thing to say about him. I am not saying all Trump supporters are ignorant, though I think they are misguided. I mean people really ignorant of the reality of Donald Trump as President of the United States. They bring them together to ask them how they think he is doing, especially after some big news story, so like clockwork CNN will for the next few days have Alison Camerota talk to people about how great President Trump is while not knowing anything he has done or failed to do. This morning we saw it with his speech on Afghanistan.
For years Donald Trump has said the United States should pull out of Afghanistan and let the people in the area deal with the fallout. It became part of his campaign, a campaign that included him saying that he knew more than the generals on military matters. But when asked what this group thinks of Trump's Afghan speech they said he was fulfilling a campaign promise. When Camerota pointed out that in fact he promised the opposite in the campaign and came close to admitting he was wrong last night in the speech, they quickly changed the subject. This is but one of a number of crazy ignorant statements made by the voters who support the President without knowledge what is actually going on. Tomorrow CNN plans to ask about Charlottesville, that is going to be a cluster for sure. But it is not uncommon for American voters to be uninformed. What is less comfortable when it is a member of the media who simply vomits praise for no reason.
Tucker Carlson, Fox News, is a prime example. Last week, after the events around the Nazi marchers, there was segment on his show that tried to justify slavery. Seriously, because Trump thought there were good people marching with White Supremacists Carlson tried to make it safe to say that by downplaying slavery as an American tragedy and evil. But it gets worse. During yesterday's eclipse the President of the United States look directly at the sun. Something that we have been told for months not to do and he was shouted not to as he was doing it. Carlson, talking about it, said "He looked at the sun without any glasses. Perhaps the most impressive thing any president has done."
Seriously, for almost a decade I kept hearing people tell me that liberals saw President Obama as a mythical savior. We never did. But now, seriously, he could slap a baby (I mean he did kick one out of his rally) and there will be people who bring up that the baby spit up on someone at the grocery or church. It is sickening thing and their voices should be ridiculed. The other day on one of the NBC channels a Trump apologist was lying about the economy and the reporters whose beat was the economy basically explained to the sycophant that the first six months of this year, every measure of economic growth was slower than the previous 18 at least. But of course the typical Trump supporter wouldn't believe it.
The facts are simple, if you like the President of not, he has been basically a terrible leader and has stumbled over every thing he has tried to accomplish that requires more work than signing his name. Perhaps his turn around on Afghanistan and adopting previous Presidents' ideas and the military leadership in his cabinet. I hope this is the start of something but I don't think I will be fooled. He is having a campaign rally tonight, more than 3 years before the election. He is doing this because he wants praise, so who knows what he will say, perhaps he will tell the good people in Arizona that he was just reading and it isn't what he thinks. And that is where we are. Tucker Carlson will report how cagey the President is and on CNN a group of Trump supporters will thank him for winning the war in Afghanistan.
For years Donald Trump has said the United States should pull out of Afghanistan and let the people in the area deal with the fallout. It became part of his campaign, a campaign that included him saying that he knew more than the generals on military matters. But when asked what this group thinks of Trump's Afghan speech they said he was fulfilling a campaign promise. When Camerota pointed out that in fact he promised the opposite in the campaign and came close to admitting he was wrong last night in the speech, they quickly changed the subject. This is but one of a number of crazy ignorant statements made by the voters who support the President without knowledge what is actually going on. Tomorrow CNN plans to ask about Charlottesville, that is going to be a cluster for sure. But it is not uncommon for American voters to be uninformed. What is less comfortable when it is a member of the media who simply vomits praise for no reason.
Tucker Carlson, Fox News, is a prime example. Last week, after the events around the Nazi marchers, there was segment on his show that tried to justify slavery. Seriously, because Trump thought there were good people marching with White Supremacists Carlson tried to make it safe to say that by downplaying slavery as an American tragedy and evil. But it gets worse. During yesterday's eclipse the President of the United States look directly at the sun. Something that we have been told for months not to do and he was shouted not to as he was doing it. Carlson, talking about it, said "He looked at the sun without any glasses. Perhaps the most impressive thing any president has done."
Seriously, for almost a decade I kept hearing people tell me that liberals saw President Obama as a mythical savior. We never did. But now, seriously, he could slap a baby (I mean he did kick one out of his rally) and there will be people who bring up that the baby spit up on someone at the grocery or church. It is sickening thing and their voices should be ridiculed. The other day on one of the NBC channels a Trump apologist was lying about the economy and the reporters whose beat was the economy basically explained to the sycophant that the first six months of this year, every measure of economic growth was slower than the previous 18 at least. But of course the typical Trump supporter wouldn't believe it.
The facts are simple, if you like the President of not, he has been basically a terrible leader and has stumbled over every thing he has tried to accomplish that requires more work than signing his name. Perhaps his turn around on Afghanistan and adopting previous Presidents' ideas and the military leadership in his cabinet. I hope this is the start of something but I don't think I will be fooled. He is having a campaign rally tonight, more than 3 years before the election. He is doing this because he wants praise, so who knows what he will say, perhaps he will tell the good people in Arizona that he was just reading and it isn't what he thinks. And that is where we are. Tucker Carlson will report how cagey the President is and on CNN a group of Trump supporters will thank him for winning the war in Afghanistan.
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