People with sense can adjust their behavior while considering many things and situations, especially during a pandemic crisis. There are people with sense and there is “president” Donald Trump. He is not only a hate-filled, ridiculous man, but he’s an evil, dangerous projectionist.
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Nor, for that matter, did he use the word attack. Instead, Trump framed the invasion as a problem the two countries have tragically failed to work out together.
This remarkable construction deserves closer analysis, but first it’s worth understanding the context. Trump infamously described Putin as a “genius” for massing troops on Ukraine’s border. He has repeatedly declined efforts by allies such as Sean Hannity to coax him into condemning the invasion.
His official statements have followed a handful of familiar themes. Russia’s invasion is Joe Biden’s fault (“Putin is playing Biden like a drum!”). Trump strengthened NATO (“I hope everyone is able to remember that it was me, as President of the United States, that got delinquent NATO members to start paying their dues, which amounted to hundreds of billions of dollars”).
But the most peculiar aspect is Trump’s habit of using the passive voice. That is not a construction he employs frequently, but in this case, it serves his purpose of presenting Russia’s invasion as if it were a natural disaster — a tragedy that occurred naturally with no author or source of blame. He has used this device repeatedly.
February 22: “If properly handled, there was absolutely no reason that the situation currently happening in Ukraine should have happened at all.”
February 24: “If I were in Office, this deadly Ukraine situation would never have happened!”
March 1: “The RINOs, Warmongers, and Fake News continue to blatantly lie and misrepresent my remarks on Putin because they know this terrible war being waged against Ukraine would have never happened under my watch … There should be no war waging now in Ukraine, and it is terrible for humanity that Biden, NATO, and the West have failed so terribly in allowing it to start.”
March 15: “Now with what’s going on with Russia and Ukraine, among many other things, the great and wonderful people of Hungary need the continued strong leadership of Prime Minister Viktor Orban more than ever.” (Note that, among the NATO countries, Orbán has taken a uniquely pro-Russia stance. So Trump’s argument that “what’s going on with Russia and Ukraine” makes his election more important directly implies that Orbán’s refusal to support NATO’s response to the invasion makes him more valuable.)
Only once did Trump use an active-voice construction to identify Russia as the aggressor (“If the Election wasn’t Rigged … Russia would not have attacked Ukraine”). On every other occasion, he has relied on verbal contortions to mask its author.
Other Republican leaders have used direct language to describe the invasion. Mitch McConnell (“Putin’s initial aggression was just a small foretaste of what this thug had planned for Ukraine. Now we are watching his full brutality unfold”) and Kevin McCarthy (“Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine is reckless and evil. The United States stands with the people of Ukraine and prays for their safety and resolve. Putin’s actions must be met with serious consequence”) have not felt the need to dance around Putin’s culpability.
Trump’s latest statement goes beyond this familiar passive voice and wonders openly why both countries have failed to settle their differences. “It doesn’t make sense that Russia and Ukraine aren’t sitting down and working out some kind of an agreement,” he muses, which would be true if you were starting from the premise that neither country intended to destroy the other. If you begin with the premise that Russia set out to subjugate its neighbor and Ukraine merely wishes to coexist peacefully, then the lack of diplomatic progress makes perfect sense.
Not long ago, Donald Trump tweeted “LIBERATE MICHIGAN!” In a followup tweet he specifically referenced the “Second Amendment.” His deranged supporters apparently heard him loud and clear, because on Thursday they grabbed their assault rifles and stormed the Michigan state capitol building, under the guise of “protest.”
These people are domestic terrorists. The only reason they’re even still alive is that they’re white; otherwise law enforcement would have given them one warning and then shot them. Donald Trump is directly responsible for this domestic terrorist incident in Michigan. We’re all lucky that no one died in the incident. But in a month where Trump has already negligently gotten fifty-something thousand Americans murdered, that’s a small mercy.
For some reason, perhaps only because there was no body count, this Michigan domestic terrorist incident isn’t being clearly linked to Donald Trump’s tweet. As of yet there’s no mainstream media narrative demanding that he answer for the incident. Like the coward that he is, he won’t address it unless he’s forced to.
Coronavirus is just that: a virus. It knows no color, age, social standing, sexual orientation, or politics. Trump is supposed to be representing our country and helping to alleviate the fears of the country’s citizens. Instead, he exacerbates our fears. He continues to be an incompetent, worldwide embarrassment, as reflected in a piece by the BBC, with his continued lies, attacks, and non-action.
His latest object of scorn is Governor Andrew Cuomo and the entire state of New York. Likely, Trump is embarrassed by Cuomo’s actions in trying to help his citizens while Trump continues to lie and make up things. All results to date of the spread of this virus make up Trump’s bed. It’s time for him to lie in it
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Governor Cuomo has asked for 30,000 to 40,000 ventilators as well as additional facilities to help the people of New York, which is an epicenter for the virus. Trump, going to his favorite faux news host, Sean Hannity, disputed this. He continues to display his ignorance with such words as: “I don’t believe you need 40,000 or 30,000 ventilators. You know, you go into major hospitals sometimes, they have two ventilators. And now all of a sudden they’re saying can we order 30,000 ventilators?”
Every time he opens his mouth, Trump merely reminds us just how clueless he is and how ill-equipped he is to be heading up a pandemic. Think about it: Maybe they did have two ventilators before, but we’re in the midst of a pandemic. Anyone with common sense knows that means you need more, but again, we’re talking about “president” Donald Trump, who has no common sense or any other sense for that matter.
Instead of focusing on this virus, he’s now threatening TV networks over an ad being run by a Super PAC that is supporting Joe Biden. His threat has caused the video to be viewed by far more people online than would otherwise have seen it, and the PAC has now doubled down in sheer defiance, according to the Hill. Poor stupid Trump doesn’t even see that he makes things worse for himself by behaving like this. The problem with the ad is that it tells the truth, something which is completely foreign to Trump and something that annoys him to no end. Here’s a suggestion for you, “president” Trump: Stop lying. This ad would not even exist were it not for Trump’s repeated lies that have led to a steady increase in coronavirus cases.
If you are a praying person, it’s time to pray. Pray for those we have lost, pray for those who can’t get the care they need, and most importantly, pray that Trump gets kicked out of office in November. Trump can try, but he can’t stop the election and his long-awaited demise. We need someone in office who can rise to the occasion of a pandemic like coronavirus, and Trump ain’t it.
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