Nice work numbnuts. Really, great job there. The plan was perfect, and for once well executed. The surprise was universally complete, For a change neither the campaign nor the candidate telegraphed their punches like a third rate boxer, the trip to Mexico took everybody by surprise, especially the pesky US press. Now all Trump had to do was to stand there and look Presidential. Instead he stood there next to Mexican President Pena Nieto, his version of a “grave” face, nodding his head, but mostly looking like a kid that desperately needs to use the bathroom in the middle of a timed test in school.
Hey, at least he didn’t call the Mexican President a murderer or rapist, he swallowed his bile and mournfully extolled the virtues of Mexican Americans that he has been slandering for the last 15 months now.
A couple of weeks ago Trump held a “summit” in his campaign war room with something like 30 Hispanic leaders, his “Hispanic Advisory Council”. They must have been thrilled, this was the Trump who sat there in his overstuffed chair, looking like he had gastritis and gravely nodding his head at everything they said. He was listening to them!
Then came the punch line. Trump flew directly from Mexico City to Phoenix AZ to deliver a “policy speech” on immigration. He opened his big, fat racist mouth, and for the next 75 minutes he ranted and railed against Hispanics, under the thinly disguised guise of “undocumented immigrants”, and once again screamed that not only was he going to build a big, fat, beautiful wall, but Mexico was going to pay for it!
His Hispanic Advisory sheeple are horrified! This fine, honest, honorable man, who listened to them so intently flat out lied to them! To be perfectly honest, I’m kind of surprised that he didn’t pick their pockets on the way out of the room.
Now that the scales are gone from their eyes, they’re voting with their feet. According to a report in the Washington Post they’re voting with their feet. Houston based immigration attorney Jacob Monty was one council member who was particularly bummed. In speaking about Trump’s behavior at the summit he wrote in an op-ed piece;
“He asked all of the right questions. He said all of the right things,” Monty said. “He brought it up. … By bringing it up, it told me that he was prepared to talk about it. That was music to my ears, for sure.”
Monty also thought Trump’s remarks during a visit with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto on Wednesday afternoon struck just the right tone. Monty agreed to go onto cable news shows and defend Trump, believing that the candidate had truly pivoted on this key issue.
Then Trump took the stage in Phoenix. “The speech was just an utter disappointment,” Monty said in an interview on Thursday.
Monty then went on later to say that he didn’t want to be a “prop” like the President of Mexico, and that being lied to wasn’t OK. He isn’t the only one, the WaPo confirms that at this point two other Advisory Council have resigned, including one who was a Trump surrogate, and that a Hispanic analyst who works with the Republicans was told by a Council member that at least 15 of the 30 Council members are going to resign.
Mein Furor has now hit the Daily Double. First, he spent a week “reaching out” to African Americans by telling them how shitty their lives, and neighborhoods, and schools were, and asking them “What in the hell do you have to lose by taking a chance on me?” in front of almost totally white audiences. Now he has totally alienated a large number of people whom he desperately needed to get out into the Hispanic community and soften his image and message, and now they’re going to go out and expose him for the charlatan that he is.
Let’s be honest here. Trump’s speech in Phoenix was aimed to one group, and one group only. Angry old, and non college educated white dudes. There’s only one problem here, there aren’t enough of them to get him elected. Where does he go from here to expand his base? Icelandic American immigrants? Not only did he irrevocably lose the Latino vote, he has most likely spurred them to become even more impassioned to go out and vote against him. And the effect is not confined to Trump alone. He has single handedly screwed whatever remains of the GOP after November 8th of a serious outreach to the Latino community, post Trump for at least a generation. And if African Americans feel the same way about his “outreach” the GOP can forget them too. Quite an epitaph for a failed campaign.
Thanks as always for reading!