Think Progress and others reported that last night, Trump hosted Ted Nugent at the White House, making clear that Trump is absolutely in thrall to racist, nasty pieces of crap who are free to say out loud what Trump really believes.
Trump is not oblivious, he understands that hosting Nugent is a poke in the eye to the majority of decent Americans who find Nugent’s view repugnant. I have no doubt what Trump enjoys the most: sending a “fuck you” to people who opposed him. This makes Trump happy, and our President seems to have no trouble making time on his schedule for such an important thing.
In response to Nugent’s visit, let me offer the following comments:***
“I am heartbroken but I am not giving up. I think America will be America again when Donald Trump, Jeff Sessions, Rex Tillerson, Mitch McConnell and all of the other extremist Republicans are in jail facing the just due punishment that their treasonous acts are clearly apparent.” www.msnbc.com/...
“The president of the United States goes to the CIA Memorial Wall and pretends to honor our American heroes who died fighting communism and then he hires, appoints and associates with Russian agents. He pretends to pay honor to men who died fighting communism, and then he hangs out with, hires and appoints Russian sympathizers or collaborators. He is an evil, dangerous man who hates America and hates freedom. And we need to fix this as soon as possible.” www.huffingtonpost.com/...
Trump is like "a German in 1938 pretending to respect the Jews and then going home and putting on his brown shirt and forcing his neighbors onto a train to be burned to death." mediamatters.org/...
"I think that Trump should be put in jail. It is clear that Trump is a Russian agent. Stalin lives and his name is Donald Trump. This country should be ashamed. I wanna throw up.... Trump, he's a piece of shit. I told him to suck on my machine gun." www.westword.com/...
“Here’s your job, Democratic Party. Twenty to 25 veterans kill themselves every day, and they haven’t told you why and they haven’t told anybody else why, but they did told me why: because Donald Trump is the enemy.” www.rightwingwatch.org/...
Veterans are taking their own lives “because they are in absolute frustration and heartbreak that their boss, Donald Trump, violates the Constitution he has made an oath to, while their warrior blood brothers are being blown to smithereens and blown while executing their oath to the same Constitution that Donald Trump, the vice president and the attorney general violate.” www.huffingtonpost.com/...
"You probably can't use the term `toxic cunt' in your magazine, but that's what Melania is. Her very existence insults the spirit of individualism in this country. This bitch is nothing but a two-bit whore for Vladimir Putin." www.westword.com/...
*** These are, of course, slightly altered quotes of Ted Nugent. The edits are in BOLD. Donald Trump embraces the author of these comments as a “true American”, as does most of the Republican Base. When the target of Republican scorn is a Democrat nothing is too vile, too hateful or too nasty. Anything goes, as long as it goes against Democrats. Naturally, if prominent Democrats made these types of comments Trump and Republicans would be outraged. But when the exact same words are targeted at a Democratic President, or Democrats in general, well, you get invited to the White House.