Tag: Trump hypocrisy

BUSTED: Trump called for a boycott against Coca-Cola — but photos show he’s still drinking it

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Donald Trump’s Diet Coke addiction is well documented in history. His need to drink so many sodas was so intense that he apparently forced the White House to install a button on his desk he could hit when he wanted the beverage.

Trump announced his support for the state of Georgia and its voter suppression bill. He also announced his support to boycott Coca-Cola, Delta and Major League Baseball for their opposition to the bill. 

In a release, Trump said “radical left Democrats” have threatened to boycott products, and the left is “going big time with WOKE CANCEL CULTURE.” So, he ordered the three major companies be “canceled.” Continue reading.

‘Do as I say not as I do’: Blockbuster NYT report casts new light on Trump’s tax rhetoric

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The New York Times’s blockbuster report on President Trump’s tax returns answers some big questions we’ve been asking for years. But in some ways, it’s less than surprising. During a 2016 debate, Trump responded to a report that he had paid no income taxes for a couple of years by saying, “That makes me smart.”

He said earlier in the year, when he was still pledging to release his tax returns, that people were “going to be surprised at how little I pay. I fight like hell not to pay a lot of tax. And you know what? Every politician probably does.”

Trump has at times tried to argue that however much he might exploit the tax system, it merely shows how broken the system is. We’ll have to see whether that’s an argument voters accept after the Times’s report shows just how much Trump has sought to exploit that system. Continue reading.

Trump detests Christians — and he deceived pastors and mocked them after they left Trump Tower: Michael Cohen’s ‘Disloyal’

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Michael Cohen’s book about his years as Donald Trump’s fixer is a clarion call to Christians to wake up and recognize that the man many of them revere as a heavenly agent is a religious fraud who loathes them and mocks their faith.

In Disloyal, published today, Cohen shows how Trump is a master deceiver. He quotes Trump calling Christianity and its religious practices “bullshit,” soon after he masterfully posed as a fervent believer. In truth, Cohen writes, Trump’s religion is unbridled lust for money and power at any cost to others.

“Can you believe that people believe that bullshit,” Trump said after pastors prayed over him.

Cohen’s insider stories add significant depth to my own documenting of Trump’s repeated and public denouncements of Christians as “fools,” “idiots,” and “schmucks.” Continue reading.

Don Jr. robocall urges supporters to vote by mail

The president’s son made the appeals as his father continues to rail against widespread mail-in voting.

Donald Trump Jr. is urging voters to cast absentee ballots in robocalls detected across the nation Wednesday — even as his father continues to rail against widespread mail-in voting.

The robocalls, which reference this week’s Republican National Convention have been deployed in 13 states — Arizona, Florida, Iowa, New Mexico, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, Virginia, Georgia, Texas and Maine — all states the Trump campaign is targeting. They indicate that either the Trump campaign or Republican National Committee has already mailed absentee-ballot requests to those being called.

“President Trump is counting on you to make a plan to return your absentee ballot request. Voting absentee is a safe and secure way to guarantee your voice is heard,” Trump Jr. says in the calls. “Help President Trump make America great again by joining him in being an absentee voter this year.” Continue reading.

Trump, While Attacking Mail Voting, Casts Mail Ballot Again

President Trump cast a vote-by-mail ballot in Florida this week after months of questioning the security of the method of voting, and in doing so he returned it to election officials using a technique many Republicans say should be illegal. 

The way Trump voted shows how he’s had to walk a fine line, and often tweak his language around voting, to adjust for political realities and his own behavior. 

Trump submitted the Florida primary ballot by giving it to a third party to return, a spokesperson for the Palm Beach elections supervisor confirmed to NPR on Wednesday. Republicans often derisively refer to sending in a ballot this way as “ballot harvesting,” and it’s something Trump has criticized. Continue reading.

As he attacks mail-in votes, Trump and the first lady requested absentee ballots in Florida

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On Thursday, President Trump repeated his attacks against mail balloting, saying it would lead to “the greatest rigged election in history” and “the greatest fraud ever perpetrated.”

At the same time, his own absentee ballot to vote in Florida’s primary election on Tuesday was en route to Mar-a-Lago. According to the Palm Beach County elections website, the president and first lady Melania Trump both requested absentee ballots on Wednesday.

Trump has voted absentee at least twice before. But his latest ballot request comes amid escalating attacks on mail-in voting by the president and his administration. On Thursday, Trump said that he opposes an emergency bailout for the U.S. Postal Service and election aid for states to restrict how many Americans can vote by mail. Continue reading.

‘Sign of desperation’: Trump slammed for ‘anti-religious bigotry’ over new attack ad showing Biden praying in a church

AlterNet logoA new anti-Biden attack ad from the Trump campaign is filled with falsehoods, and ends by mocking the Democratic presumptive presidential nominee praying in a church. Some on social media are slamming the President and his campaign for “anti-religious bigotry” and “demonizing prayer.”

“Deep in the heart of Delaware Joe Biden sits in his basement, alone, hiding, diminished,” the ad begins.

Many Americans are sitting in their basements – that’s where Biden’s office and TV studio are – and they’re sitting alone, and hiding, and diminished, so to speak, as a New York Times opinion column notes. But they are doing so because of Trump’s horrific handling of the pandemic – the worst management of the coronavirus crisis in the world. Continue reading. Continue reading.

A day after Trump floated delaying the presidential election, which he cannot do, the White House condemned Hong Kong for delaying its election

One day after President Donald Trump suggested delaying the November US presidential election, White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany said during a press conference that the White House condemned Hong Kong’s decision to postpone its legislative council elections for one year.

“We condemn the Hong Kong government’s decision to postpone for one year its legislative council elections and to disqualify opposition candidates,” McEnany said Friday after a reporter asked whether Trump supported the move to delay the elections.

“This action undermines the democratic processes and freedoms that have underpinned Hong Kong’s prosperity,” she said, according to a transcript of the press conference produced by the White House. Continue reading.

Trump Says Schools Must Reopen To Serve Free Lunch — Which He Tried To Cut

Donald Trump and his administration have been demanding that schools reopen in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic as it ravages large swaths of the country — often using the argument that millions of children rely on schools to provide them with the nutrition they otherwise do not get at home.

“Thirty million American students rely on schools for free and reduced meals,” Trump said at a July 23 news conference, listing off one of the reasons he wants kids to go back to school even as schools struggle with finding the space and the resources to safely reopen for full-time in-person learning.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also listed nutritional needs as a reason for full school reopening in a document Trump demanded from the government health agency. Continue reading.

Trump could have voted in person in Florida this year but chose not to

As President Donald Trump rolled to his West Palm Beach, Florida, golf course on the morning of March 7, his motorcade filed past a library where local officials were preparing for the first day of in-person early voting in Florida’s presidential primary contest.

Trump didn’t stop at that site or any of the 15 other early voting locations in Palm Beach County that were opening that day. By the time the library opened for voting at 10 a.m., Trump had already arrived at his golf course — whose main entrance is across Summit Boulevard from the library. When he departed the course hours later, he didn’t stop to vote either.

Trump would drive past the library four more times that weekend without dropping in to cast a ballot. Instead, he voted by mail — the very option he has begun railing against as governors seek to expand remote voting amid the coronavirus pandemic. Continue reading.