Not a sleb
Living in a sewer chapter eleventy billion.
Donald Trump is trying to justify federal agents handcuffing California Senator Alex Padilla by suggesting that he “looked like an illegal,” his leading biographer has revealed.
“Trump saw these pictures and then has been on the phone saying to people, ‘Nobody’s ever heard of this guy,’” Michael Wolff, the bestselling author, said this week on The Daily Beast Podcast. “As though that’s an excuse. And then he’s gone on to say, ‘and he looks like an illegal.’”
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Wolff said that Trump excused the assault by dismissing Padilla as an immigrant nobody. “If you are famous, that would obviously put you in a different category and ICE agents would not have tackled you,” said Wolff, explaining Trump’s rationale.
“Padilla is actually a relatively new senator from California, nobody knows about this person. Therefore, perfectly understandable that the ICE agents would tackle him. And of course he looks like ‘an illegal.’ This is just his visceral response: Nobody’s ever heard of him,” Wolff added. “We can take the blame off the ICE agents because they haven’t heard about this guy.”
How would a random unknown person get into that press conference?
Also note the absolutely classic Trump solipsism: Trump doesn’t know who Padilla is so he assumes everyone doesn’t know who he is. Trump ignorance is the best ignorance, and people who don’t share it barely exist.
In response White House Communications Director Steven Cheung recycled a previous attack on Wolff and said, “Michael Wolff is a lying sack of shit and has been proven to be a fraud. He routinely fabricates stories originating from his sick and warped imagination, only possible because he has a severe and debilitating case of Trump Derangement Syndrome that has rotted his peanut-sized brain.”
How dignified. Goebbels was a gentleman compared to these lying sacks of excrement.
It’s not the White House anymore. It’s a middle school playground.
And of course “looking like an illegal” = “not white.” And of course, “not white” = “not really American.” Otherwise, how would anyone know , or even suspect, that someone is “an illegal”? Never mind that there are millions of “not white” people whose families have been in what is now the United States for centuries. Or millennia. Trump’s genes (on both sides) only crossed the ocean no more than two generations ago, but his whiteness means he gets to be “more American” than all these brown-skinned people, who can be dismissed without a thought.
This mindset thinks it’s best to assume every non-white person is not just an “illegal’, but a member of MS-13, sent to terrorize the United States. It’s the evil twin of the need to exclude all males from women’s spaces because it’s impossible to distinguish the supposedly safe and harmless TiMs, from the opportunistic, predatory men using self ID as a means to access vulnerable women. One can almost see how it is that to genderists, the two stances would be linked.