“Donald Trump is Fuckin’ PUMPED to Never Forget 9/11” is a good way to describe how Trump was acting today to remember 9/11.
17 years since September 11th! Trump tweeted.
Not only was it a bit odd to use an exclamation point as a punctuation mark. Are you happy people died? We didn’t treat 9/11 like it’s St. Patrick’s Day or Cinco de Mayo, last time I checked.
Most Americans who talk about 9/11 usually talk about it being a bad day, but a photo by New York Times photographer Doug Mills shows Trump looking like something walking through the doors at a monster party. You know, the celebration letting the world know that you’re going to get laid, but will most likely just get extremely hammered.
Where Trump was acting like he was arriving at a party, photographer Doug Mills tweets:
@realDonaldTrump First Lady Melania Trump greet supporters as they arrive in Johnstown, PA to attend the Flight 93 September 11 Memorial Service in Shanksville, PA.
Before leaving Washington to Pennsylvania, Trump said in a written statement:
Today, all of America wraps up and joins together. We close our arms to help you shoulder your pain and to carry your great, great sorrow. Your tears are not shed alone, for they are shared grief with an entire nation. We grieve together for every mother and father, sister and brother, son and daughter who was stolen from us at the twin towers, the Pentagon and here in this Pennsylvania field.
Remarks Trump has said in the past were far different than on 9/11. He once said that America was not a day where “America wraps up and joins together.” But a day where Americans actually celebrated the Twin Towers collapsing.
Trump during a campaign rally:
I watched when the World Trade Center came tumbling down. And I watched in Jersey City, New Jersey, where thousands and thousands of people were cheering as that building was coming down. Thousand of people were cheering.
He followed that up by saying a day after that remark by saying the bullshit celebration “was well covered at the time.” The criticism would have gotten a blowback, but his supporters hate Muslims just as much as anyone that they hate. Hell, people say we need a wall on the southern border, because of ISIS. A combo of hatred of brown people.
After Trump made those insane remarks. New York Times reporter Serge Kovaleski who wrote a story that Trump had misrepresented about people celebrating the World Trade Center commented on Trump’s claims. “I certainly do not remember anyone saying that thousands or even hundreds of people were celebrating,” said Kovaleski.
Trump responded by performing an imitation of Kovaleski’s congenital joint condition, known as arthrogryposis.
Trump and his sycophants like to act like Trump is criticized more than other presidents, and they’re right.
No president makes insane claims about people celebrating 9/11. Followed by mocking a journalist for having arthrogryposis. Neve mind his decision to treat 9/11 like it’s Halloween.
Obama and Bush were criticized for making salutes while holding a cup of coffee, or a dog.
At the same time, Trump’s only option was to make 9/11 about him. After all, on September 10, former White House aide Omarosa Manigault Newman. One who could only be a White House aide in a Trump White House, released another tape from inside the Trump administration. This one is Trump discussing the deaths of four U.S. soldiers killed in Niger, on October 4, 2017, and Trump making light of it.
Noted by the HuffPost discussing Omarosa’s appearance with MSNBC host Craig Melvin:
“So it’s a rough, uh, business,” he said, then to laughter he added, “I wouldn’t, I don’t think I’d want to be a terrorist right now. [laughter] It’s not a good life, but it’s, uh, the only thing that — What else is there?”
Manigault Newman told Melvin she felt Trump’s comments were disrespectful of the soldier’s deaths, especially when he and his staffers laughed at the remarks.
“They were laughing because he’s, like, making light of the situation, he’s saying, ‘Well, I wouldn’t want to be a terrorist,’ she said, “But it’s not a laughing matter. We lost four American soldiers and four of our allies, the Nigerien troops that we were fighting alongside.”
My cynicism of her says she probably is just playing a Michael Wolff-like sociopath, beating Trump at his own game. But having said that, Trump’s light hearted remarks in this audio tape confirms what one of the widows of the fallen soldier had said on Good Morning America.
One of the soldiers killed was Sgt. La David Johnson. His widow, Myeshia Johnson, while on Good Morning America said that the president “couldn’t remember my husband’s name.
That’s what hurt me the most.” Not only that, but the call made her cry even more. Her husband “knew what he signed up for,” said Myeshia Johnson. “I was very angry at the tone in his voice and how he said it,” she added.
But Donald Trump is such a piece of shit, that making 9/11 about himself on 9/11 wasn’t good enough for him. Why not remind the world that he is completely indifferent to the suffering of those in Puerto Rico.
“We are as ready as anybody has ever been,” said Trump of the coming of hurricane Florence. Trump warned that the storm is going to be “tremendously big and tremendously wet.” It doesn’t matter to Trump that hurricanes are getting bigger because of climate change, but that he did feel the need to tell people that hurricanes are wet.
Aside from doing his thing of saying he’s so great, and no president in the history of the world is as ever great as he is. Just like his job with Puerto Rico.
“I think Puerto Rico was incredibly successful,” said Trump to reporters in the Oval Office on 9/11. “Puerto Rico was actually our toughest one of all because it’s an island. You can’t truck things onto it. Everything is by boat,” added Trump. He would go on to repeat that a bunch of times. Trump went on to lie about the job his administration did.
“The job that FEMA and law enforcement and everybody did, workin along with the governor in Puerto Rico, I think, was tremendous. I think that Puerto Rico was incredible, unsung success,” said Trump. Callously acting as though the governor of Puerto Rico, and Puerto Rican’s are not real people, and their thoughts and feelings do not exist.
“The President keeps adding insult to injury and I think his words are despicable,” San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz told CNN’s Anderson Cooper on Tuesday. “They really do not have any connection with reality. It just shows that for him, everything is about him and political posturing. The man has no idea, he has no solidarity, no sympathy, no empathy for anything that does not make him look good,” added the Mayor.
Sorry Mayor, but Trump’s supporters don’t think his comments look bad. This is why I close with this.
Remembering those who died on 9/11 is completely appropriate, and I couldn’t even pretend to troll an idea otherwise. Having said that, it’s a day that should make us remember and think about more than just one day.
It has been nearly 18 years since we have started the War on Terror. How many from home and abroad have died from this war? What have we or the world gained from this war? If a president asked these questions out loud, a large portion of America would get pissed. And this goes for people on both sides of the aisle. But why the fuck not?
After all, the anniversary for Hurricane Maria is coming up. Why should Puerto Ricans care about 9/11 when America doesn’t give a shit about them? Hell, there are Americans who probably hate that Puerto Ricans are American citizens.
9/11 will never be a day where Americans ask what the fuck is going on?
As noted by TruthOut:
High school seniors today have never known anything but a country at war, at several wars up front and by proxy. Those wars have eaten their future. I wonder if they know it yet.
Nothing represents that America won’t think about it than the president himself. It’s also why he represents the racism and indifference America has about the rest of the world. It’s not to say that he is alone in this regard. After all, Hillary Clinton voted for the War on Terror, and the War on Iraq. And Hillary wasn’t the only one to vote for both.
9/11 is more than just about that day. It's a day just also justifies racism and imperialism. As Americans, we need to come to grips with that. We certainly won’t while Trump is president, and while people won’t think about the days and years that have come after.
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