Herein where Trump calls imprisoned WNBA basketball player Brittney Griner “spoiled” and “loaded up with drugs.”
Because this is the image that people like Trump have of successful talented women of color. Brittney was carrying less than an ounce — 0.87 ounce — of cannabis oil which had been prescribed to her by a doctor for pain. She wasn't “loaded up drugs” any more than Trump himself is “loaded up” with Adderal. As far as “Spoiled” goes, while the top-end earning rate for the NBA can be $28 Million, the top earning potential for a WNBA player is $220,000 per year. Part of the reason that Griner was even going to Russia in order to play in their league was to earn money.
But wait, the fucking nonsense gets ever worse once Don Jr. got involved in the pile-on.
So Don Jr. not only says the Griner is “Spoiled” he goes on to claim that she's a “Leftist Political Activist” (This makes her worthy of jail? And what has the right-wing done for black lesbian basketball players lately?), he argues that she deliberately “broke the law” even though cannabis oil is perfectly legal in Arizona, who he says “Hasn’t had anything good to say about America for years (how the hell would he know?)” and who Biden is considering trading for a “Merchant of Death” arms dealer for.
“What could go wrong folks?” he asks.
He’s not talking about a real flesh and blood person, he's describing a caricature, a fictional mega-woke left-wing character from his fevered imagination. His ilk always resort to hyperbolic cartoons when describing anyone other than the “good hard-working hateful racist homophobic white straight paranoid Real Americans (TM)” they constantly pander to. He has to keep them in fear alternating with resentment and grievance — that’s his job.
Neither Trump or Junior bother to mention that the offer wasn't just for Griner, it was a 3-way trade for the arms dealer in exchange for Griner and also former Marine Paul Whelan who has been convicted in Russia of espionage. Russia has generated a counter-offer to make the trade two for two by adding another Russian criminal who is being held by Germany. Exactly how that’s supposed to work I’m not sure — but it is notable that both of these — people — seem to magically forget that the proposed trade also includes a former Marine. Perhaps that might be someone who has “something good to say about America” as if that should be the criteria of choice. Does America really need yet another hype man?
Junior goes on to whine that his dad has yet again been accused of “siding with Russia.” Yeah, well — that happens when you fucking Side With Russia time after time after time. And then there's this entire faux outrage about the “Deadly Arms Dealer” — when exactly the fuck has Trump or Junior cared about people having too many fracking guns? "Arms Dealer” seems like he would be a good buddy of Juniors, keeping him supplied in AR-15s to shoot endangered species with.
And then he really gets going…
"Is there anything this administration has done that’s actually good for America?”
Well, there's taking unemployment down from 6.3% where his daddy left it to 3.6% while creating 9 million jobs as part of the fastest and strongest recovery in 50 years. There’s the American Rescue Plan. There's getting 250 Million Americans vaccinated after Trump walked out the door without having a distribution plan. There's the $1.9 Billion Infrastructure Bill. There's the bill that avoided a government shutdown. There’s making Juneteenth a national holiday. There's the Gun Safety Bill and the CHIPs Bill. There's ending the war in Afghanistan even though Trump stupidly negotiated a surrender deal without including the Afghan government, so naturally, that went exactly the way one would expect. There's massively supplying and arming Ukraine to the tune of $30 Billion in order to kick the shit out of Russia. There’s killing al-Zawahiri when Trump didn't bother because he didn't recognize his name. And really most of that was just the first year, which on any other scale would have been one of the most historically successful in decades. Inflation has been bad, but gas prices originally started rising in May of 2020 — months before the election — and they have been declining for 50 days straight as of now. And all that's without the new Inflation Reduction Bill which includes significant portions of Build Back Better and the negotiation for Medicare prescriptions drugs which is currently before the Senate.
This is just classic Trump bullshit. Let’s ignore what's really going on, ignore what Biden has actually done and blow a big gasket over a “spoiled drugged-up leftist activist” getting an unearned benefit in Russia — while arms dealer something something goes on and Biden HATES Real America — again.
Always on brand. Always hawking bullshit.