Trump’s doubling down on his ignorance may get another challenge as Hurricane Florence hits, although chances are, given the site of the 2020 RNC in Charlotte NC, the odds of making an adequate response effort might be better politically. And it’s not because NC isn’t an island.
Considering that there were two studies from reputable universities’ schools of public health, Trump’s continued lying may have finally reached its limit even with his most diehard cult-followers.
New polls show that Donald Trump’s base is beginning to turn against him — and it may be related to his continual insults on their intelligence.
“A raft of new polls show that some of the most hard-core Trumpsters are starting to get a clue,” nonfiction author Timothy Eagen wrote in a New York Times op-ed published Friday, adding that the revelation is akin to “discovering that climate change is not a hoax when your town is under water, and all your commander in chief can do is throw you a roll of paper towels.”
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“It didn’t go over well in Alabama that Trump reportedly called his ’Bama-bred attorney general, Jeff Sessions, ‘a dumb Southerner’ and ridiculed his accent,” the author observed of the account from Bob Woodward’s new book “Fear: The Trump White House.
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“Trump has used the regional dis before, calling the family of another ex-wife, Marla Maples, ‘dumb Southerners’ and ‘hillbillies,’ as one reporter recalled,” he wrote. “Last week, the longtime Trump confidant Roger Stone trashed Sessions as an ‘insubordinate hillbilly’ — expressing a double dose of hick hatred.”
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He’s hedging on any possibility of incompetent action in the hurricane Florence response and trying to deflect from the Woodward book among other things.