Bad Language: Decoding Donald Trump by Andy Curtis

Author:Andy Curtis [Curtis, Andy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Political Science, Political Process, Campaigns & Elections, American Government, Executive Branch, National, General
Google: migeEQAAQBAJ
Amazon: B0DFPBVRT4
Publisher: Wayzgoose Press
Published: 2024-09-13T00:00:00+00:00

A SHOCKING PERSPECTIVE

In the remainder of the OGG, DJT repeated many of the points he had made earlier in this speech and in previous ones, either deliberately repeating for emphasis or because he did not remember having already made those points – or perhaps because of a combination of both.

Whatever the reasons for the repetition, in the remainder of the OGG, there were more criticisms of and personal attacks on the president, including: “Biden puts America last, and he puts our workers last. He puts our industries like this last. He puts your families last, and he puts everything that’s good last” (60 minutes). That was followed by DJT again invoking the specter of those other countries that he says he believes – which may or may not be what he actually believes – want to destroy the US, including Syria, Iran, and Pakistan, while also portraying himself as a tough guy (maybe Al Capone style) with the leaders of Russia and China.

In the OGG, this is DJT’s version of his conversation with the Russian President, Vladimir Putin: “I said, ‘Vladimir, we’re friends, but if you go into Ukraine, things are going to happen the likes of which you’ve never seen before’” (at 66 minutes). That was followed by DJT claiming that, as well as Putin, he “got along with Kim Jong Un too in North Korea” and that he “got along very well with President Xi (Jinping), until as I said, until that horrible China virus came along. I want to be accurate. We have to be accurate when you talk about it, so let's go with ‘the China virus.’” As we saw in Chapter 2, in the analysis of the Announcement, repeatedly calling the COVID-19 virus “the China virus” has led to a serious negative – and in some cases, violent and even life-threatening – impact on Asian American communities across the US.

Whether or not DJT’s circuitous ramblings, back-and-forth, to-and-fro, are signs of cognitive decline and/or carefully calibrated strategies is a question we have already considered (and which we may well have to consider again, given the seriousness of the possible answers). However, one of the longest stretches of the OGG in which DJT came closest to sticking to a single topic was his eight-minute slamming (76-84 minutes) of the governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis – whom DJT calls “Ron De-Sanctimonious.”

For some time, DeSantis was a staunch supporter of DJT, but then had the temerity to consider running against DJT for the Republican Party nomination for the presidency. But what DJT found unforgivable was that when DeSantis was asked to comment on DJT’s constantly repeated false claims that DJT did in fact win the 2020 US presidential election, DeSantis declined to support that claim. For example, at the 81-minute mark, DJT said that “the [2020 US presidential] election was rigged … it was a rigged election.”

The most shocking follow-up statement – which does not appear to have been reported on in the endless coverage of DJT by the

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