a question about widely
reported cuts to the federal workforce. An unidentified reporter said “You
mentioned you’re interested in doing another round of this email. When would
you like to see that? What would be the deadline? And this time would it be
mandatory?”
“I think Elon wants to and I think it’s a good idea because, you know, those people, as I said before, they’re on the bubble,” Trump replied.”You got a lot of people that have not responded. So we’re trying to figure out — Do they exist? Who are they? And it’s possible that a lot of those people will be actually fired. And if that happened, that’s okay, because that’s what we’re trying to do.”
“This country has gotten bloated, fat, disgusting, and incompetently run,” Trump added, before insulting Biden. “I think we had the worst president in the history of our country. He just left office. I think he’s a disgrace what he’s done to our country by allowing millions of people to come into our country like that and all of the other things he inflation, which he caused because of energy and stupid spending to spend hundreds of millions, trillions and trillions of dollars on the green new scam, a total scam.”
"Bloated, fat, (and) disgusting?" One is tempted to suggest that Trump has reached a new low, but he's always reaching a new low, and we've been down this road before. As outlined in The Guardian during the President's first term, Trump's contempt for the USA has been on display for years.
It seems to have begun early in the last decade but became more evident when in his inaugural address in 2016, he referred to "American carnage." Asked by Bill O'Reilly in 2017 whether Vladimir Putin is "a killer," the President replied "There are a lot of killers. You think our country's so innocent?" (On a positive note, Trump likes Putin's ruthlessness, so there is that.)
This reporter, having been written in 2019, omits Donald Trump's Truth Social post on October 30, 2022, when he characterized "Our Country" as "Rigged, Crooked, and Evil." (Five weeks later, he would call for the "termination" of the Constitution- but absolutely not a fascist.)
In January, 2023, after being arraigned for what is euphemistically referred to as "mishandling" classified documents, he complained "we have a rigged country, we have a country that is corrupt." Not a corrupt President or a rigged Justice Department or justice system- a rigged country, the USA.
President Trump claims to love his country. So someone needs to ask President Trump why, in light of his frequently negative depictions of the United States of America, he hates this country- or at least, why he believes we are "evil." Failing that, he could at least be asked whether he believes that "evil" or "corrupt" or "rigged" is actually a bad thing.
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