Remember how Donald got bothered about Obama’s Inuagaration crowd’s vs his?
Well?
Is this here we go again….
Trump pissed because people ain’t buyin what he’s selling?
The organizers of Saturday’s “No Kings” protests succeeded in all their main aims: drawing huge crowds, keeping the events peaceful — and, apparently, getting under President Trump’s skin.
The latter point appears to be borne out by Trump’s reaction. Having noted in advance of the protests that he is not, in fact, a king, the president lurched to the other extreme afterward via a controversial meme he disseminated on social media on Saturday evening.
The AI-generated montage shows Trump wearing a crown in the cockpit of a fighter jet. The AI version of Trump sprays brown liquid — presumably excrement — onto the protesters on the streets below.
It was the latest startling proof of how the sensibility of online trolling has seeped into the Oval Office, even more so in Trump’s second term than it did during his first.
It was also one more reminder of how far the nation has traveled in less than two decades, when former President Obama talking about people “clinging to guns or religion” or Mitt Romney referencing “victims who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them” kicked off several news cycles of outrage….
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Conservatives online sought to push back against those numbers.
Whatever the specific tally, aerial footage of events in major cities such as New York, Boston, Washington and Chicago showed enormous crowds, while social media was awash in images of symbolically significant small-town protests in deep-red Republican states.
None of that means Trump’s presidency is about to be derailed. While the events might provide an opportunity for solidarity and perhaps future mobilization among Americans strongly opposed to Trump, one day of protests likely won’t move his approval ratings very much at all from their mediocre-but-stable state….
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Conversely, however, the No Kings event was a striking rebuke to the claims from Trump and his MAGA allies that they, and they alone, represent the heart of America. It demonstrated genuine outrage on many Americans’ part at what they regard to be an accelerating dash toward authoritarianism by the current president.
It also seems implausible that many people outside of the MAGA base will believe Trump’s insinuation that the people attending, from the biggest cities to the smallest towns, were turning out because Soros was funding them….
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