“The real opposition,” former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon proclaimed once, “is the media. And the way to deal with them is to flood the zone with s---."
President Donald Trump has proved to be the master of this strategy. The sheer volume of gaffes, scandals, controversies, crises and even potential crimes makes it feel impossible to keep track of them all — or to stay outraged on a 24/7 basis.
So, this is my attempt, ahead of Election Day, to try to sift through these past four years and remind us of (at least some of) the destructive behavior we have witnessed. (Trump years, though, feel like dog years.) For this purpose, I’ve created an A-to-Z of the moments and issues we must never forget or overlook; these are things we must never normalize or become numb to. They matter.
Antisemitism. The president accused American Jews of being “disloyal” to Israel, suggested the financier George Soros was behind the caravans of migrants headed to the United States from Central America, and mocked his first economic adviser, Gary Cohn, as a “globalist.” Soros and Cohn are Jewish. Trump has reportedly remarked in private that Jews are only “in it for themselves." (See also: Neo-Nazis and "Very Fine People.")
Bone saw. Trump stood up for Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) in the cover-up of the killing of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, whose body was reportedly dismembered with a bone saw. Don’t take my word for it. Take the president’s. "I saved his ass," Trump told Bob Woodward, referring to MBS. "I was able to get Congress to leave him alone.”
Coronavirus. At the time of this writing, more than 230,000 Americans have died from the virus. Yet the president dismissed and downplayed the threat from the coronavirus from the very beginning; he knew, for example, that this particular virus was deadlier than the common flu but told Americans the exact opposite. (See also: Disinfectant and Hydroxychloroquine.)
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