Neo-fascist Trump spoke publicly on Friday the day after a jury in NYC convicted him on 34 counts related to election tampering in 2016. I heard on the news about this speech and decided I should listen to it, see for myself what he said, how he said it and what the reaction was from his supporters listening live.
The most striking thing to me was how at the very beginning and at the very end Trump focused on the issue of immigration. He did so in his usual racist way, stating clearly that “we’re losing our country.” He said, as if it was happening all over the country, that “we can’t have little league baseball anymore because of migrants in tents on baseball fields.” He threw in “we’re living in a fascist state” within this immigration context.
For Trump, his campaign is a last stand for the so-called “white race.”
Also of note was Trump’s body language. For almost the entire 33 minutes, he looked in one direction, off to the side. He never looked in the direction of the cameras and only once, maybe twice, looked to the other side. It’s like he was in a trance, possessed by some strange force.
There were no jokes or humor in this speech.
Of some note is the fact that after receiving applause at the beginning from his supporters, there was only one more time that they applauded until the speech ended. It’s like they were thrown off by his crazy demeanor and hard to follow lines of attack.
In between his racist attacks on immigrants, the rest of his speech was lie after lie, attacks on the US legal system, incoherent rantings often about things that had no relation to his conviction or even his Presidential candidacy.
The possibility of this sick, evil and deranged man being President should motivate everyone who believes in basic human decency and elections-not-dictators, from the ultra left to centrists and even rightists. Nothing is more important electorally than his defeat on November 5.
Ted Glick has been a progressive activist, organizer and writer since 1968. He is the author of the recently published books, Burglar for Peace and 21st Century Revolution. More info can be found at https://tedglick.com.
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