For President Trump, Twitter serves several purposes. First, it is his bully pulpit (more bully than pulpit) in which he vaguely threatens and intimidates rivals. Second, itβs his unfiltered voice to his people, which basically serves as a virtual βyee-hawβ to round up the good ole boys. Lastly, itβs his masturbatory aid to continuously pat himself on the back for the great job heβs doing.
While all of the presidentβs many reasons for tweeting donβt elevate his usage any higher than how a petty porn actress or rapper may use social media, Trump is...the goddamn president!
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On Sunday, the president of people who buy jerky in bulk shared a video showing a Trump supporter saying βwhite powerβ in response to protesters. The video shows reported members of The Villages, a retirement community in Florida, beefing like only seniors canβwith some in golf carts wearing Trump gear and signs supporting Trump driving by protesters who ainβt fucking with them or their president.
From NPR:
In one exchange β eight seconds into the two-minute video β a white man holding a sign that says βMake America Sane Again,β a reference to Trumpβs campaign slogan, yells: βWhereβs your white hood?β In response, a white man driving a golf cart with signs reading βTrump 2020" and βAmerica Firstβ yells back βwhite power.β
Trump retweeted the video, which was shared by an unknown Twitter user, and said, βThank you to the great people of The Villages. The Radical Left Do Nothing Democrats will Fall in the Fall. Corrupt Joe [Biden] is shot. See you soon!!!β
What is confusing to me is why Trump deleted the tweet. Clearly, he knows that heβs the white power president. Heβs not only stoked the flames of racism but lit the fuse. He uses his Twitter feed to rile up his baseβand who are we kidding?βpeople who yell βwhite powerβ is his damn base. Iβm not annoyed that he retweeted the video, Iβm more disturbed that he took it down, as I like my racism straight up. Maybe he wanted to make room for the white folks who took up guns to threaten St. Louis Black Lives Matter protesters who werenβt even thinking about their asses as they were heading to Mayor Lyda Krewsonβs home βto demand her resignation after she read aloud names and addresses of protesters who wanted to cut police funding,β Bloomberg reports.
This shit looks straight out of The Purge, and the president retweeted this video, which is just another inflammatory dog whistle to his supporters that taking up arms against peaceful protesters is OK.
And. This. Is. The. President.
If there is anything to take away from the senior citizen slow-cooked beef, itβs Sharon.
Sharon was seen in the video wearing a βBlack Lives Matterβ shirt and βyelling at the presidentβs supporters and offering a steady stream of expletives at a parade of golf carts with pro-Trump signs and banners,β HuffPost reports.
βThis is a brain-washed cult here and our country is going down the drain,β she told the Villages News. βWe have a pervert, a lying piece of garbage for president, and we need to get rid of him.β
God bless and protect Sharon, or as one Twitter user noted: βBe a Sharon, not a Karen.β
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