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Robert Reich: The Trump Dump
Link: https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-trump-rump
What does Trump do when facing a humiliating defeat? He closes everything down. If that doesn’t work, he dumps it entirely and criticizes the hell out of whoever’s then in charge. Call it the Trump dump.
He did this in the 2020 election — refusing to accept defeat and then trying to close it all down by instigating an attack on the U.S. Capitol. When that didn’t work, he spent the next four years blaming Biden for everything.
When performers scheduled to appear at the Kennedy Center cancelled in protest of Trump’s taking over the Center and putting his name on it, Trump closed the Center, with the lame excuse that he was “renovating” it.
Then, Friday, after a federal court ordered him to reopen the Center and remove his name, he announced “I have no interest in continuing what could only be a hopeless journey into ‘NEVER NEVER LAND,” followed by: “The Kennedy Center will soon be closed, probably never to open again,” and “the Kennedy Center will collapse, both structurally and financially.”
A similar Trump dump occurred over the weekend after artists pulled out of his 250th anniversary concert series on the mall when they discovered that the series was a promotional vehicle for Trump. In response, he said he was cancelling the series and replacing it with a Trump rally.
Trump is pulling a nearly identical — and far more serious — Trump dump in Iran. In mid-April, rather than accept Iran’s humiliating blockage of the Strait of Hormuz, he pretended he was in charge and he’d close the strait. So he ordered a naval blockade, which did nothing but maintain the status quo.....
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He did this in the 2020 election — refusing to accept defeat and then trying to close it all down by instigating an attack on the U.S. Capitol. When that didn’t work, he spent the next four years blaming Biden for everything.
When performers scheduled to appear at the Kennedy Center cancelled in protest of Trump’s taking over the Center and putting his name on it, Trump closed the Center, with the lame excuse that he was “renovating” it.
Then, Friday, after a federal court ordered him to reopen the Center and remove his name, he announced “I have no interest in continuing what could only be a hopeless journey into ‘NEVER NEVER LAND,” followed by: “The Kennedy Center will soon be closed, probably never to open again,” and “the Kennedy Center will collapse, both structurally and financially.”
A similar Trump dump occurred over the weekend after artists pulled out of his 250th anniversary concert series on the mall when they discovered that the series was a promotional vehicle for Trump. In response, he said he was cancelling the series and replacing it with a Trump rally.
Trump is pulling a nearly identical — and far more serious — Trump dump in Iran. In mid-April, rather than accept Iran’s humiliating blockage of the Strait of Hormuz, he pretended he was in charge and he’d close the strait. So he ordered a naval blockade, which did nothing but maintain the status quo.....
This is what weasels do when they want to make sure nobody can ever pin any blame on THEM. Oh God I'm so sick and tired of HIM.
Please read the rest on Robert Reich's substack. (OP link.)
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