I don’t post much about Trump despite having strong opinions on him. In short:
He doesn’t bother to disguise his corruption, hypocrisy, narcissism, and just generally being a bad person which has somehow worked in his favor, as everyone is numb to his actions. He’s said and done so many things that would end the career of every other president had they done it. But he is immune, in part because his supporters and party do not penalize him or hold him accountable. I believe decades from now he will be judged as one of the worst, most damaging presidents we’ve ever had.
Rob Reiner and his wife were stabbed to death. I know nothing about them, but it’s tragic, scary, and sad nonetheless.
Trump responded with the below post:
To write that about a man and woman who were just brutally murdered is insane behavior. Not just petty, but like, deranged. It reads like something an anonymous Twitter user would write and you’d read it and say “people like that really exist?” It’s inexplicable that he gets a pass from his supporters.
He is the President of the United States. At some point, character has to matter.
Even if you’re the most die-hard MAGA, anti-woke, ‘all politicians are corrupt!’ person, at some point you have to acknowledge that this is not someone who should be leading our country. This post in particular seems like a literal attempt to see how over-the-top he can go without getting push back, especially given the backdrop of Kirk’s death not long ago, and how aggressive his reaction was.
He receives no consequences from his base or his party despite the endless list of condemnable actions. Vance won’t say anything. Dozens of senators won’t comment because they “have not seen the post“. This is not how a successful, functioning democracy should work. If I were a conservative, I would be embarrassed that this is allowed to go on as freely as it is, similar to how I felt last year in my Biden age post.
But that said, it has to come around at some point, right? I doubt it will happen in the next three years, but hypothetically, if he kept one-upping himself, eventually people would catch on, right? (you may be thinking “he’s already doing that and no one has caught on“) That’s why the Epstein files are compelling. It seems like the one thing that if he were found explicitly guilty of whatever from the release of those files, politicians might actually start to speak up and he might lose support from his base (though I doubt either of those things).
I don’t think many readers of Splittingtens are Trump supporters (we don’t have many readers period), but I find the question of “at what point will you stop supporting him?” to be an interesting one. Even if you’re happy with him taking on immigration or how he punishes woke institutions, if this isn’t a disqualifying act, why not? What would he have to do? Do you believe that how the President acts, regardless of their politics, should matter? Even if he were doing a good job (which I don’t think he is), something like this alone is so remarkably unpresidential that when you take a step back, you wonder how we got here.
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