Presumptive Republican presidential nominee and besloganed hat-wearer Donald Trump continues to get his news from television channels only he can see.
“It's getting more and more obvious and it's very sad, very sad,” Trump went on. “When somebody called for a moment of silence to this maniac that shot the five police, you just see what's going on. It's a very, very sad situation.” [...]
Trump reiterated the claim at a rally in Westfield, Indiana on Tuesday night, where he criticized Black Lives Matter for holding rallies across the country the weekend after the Dallas shootings.
“The other night you had 11 cities potentially in a blow-up stage,” he said. “Marches all over the United States—and tough marches. Anger. Hatred. Hatred! Started by a maniac! And some people ask for a moment of silence for him. For the killer!”
Despite this becoming Donald Trump's newest anti-Black Lives Matter talking point, nobody on Planet NotTrump has been able to find any instance of any group or person holding a moment of silence for the murderer. Like the thousands of cheering Muslims Trump claimed to see celebrating 9/11 on New Jersey rooftops, it appears to be either an invention of Trump's brain or, far more likely, something he picked up from a white supremacist's Twitter feed. Donald Trump tends to pick up a lot from white supremacist Twitter feeds.
The usual post-Trump-saying-something ritual then commenced; let us all gather around the sacrificial staffer tasked with going on television and defending Donald Trump Making Shit Up. Campaign co-chair Sam Clovis, have you seen anyone call for a "moment of silence" for the murderer?
“I personally have not,” Clovis allowed.
This will matter not a bit to Trump, who does not care whether anyone else on the planet can see the gaudy, glittering hallucinations he sees in his own head. Donald Trump sees malevolent black and brown and Muslim people in his dreams at night, and there's no way he'll be letting them get the best of Donald J. Trump.