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October 17, 2017 10:24 am - NewsBehavingBadly.com

Yesterday, Trump’s slur of Barack Obama, the last sane President of the United States, made headlines.

President Trump falsely asserted on Monday that his predecessor, Barack Obama, and other presidents did not contact the families of American troops killed in duty, drawing a swift, angry rebuke from several of Mr. Obama’s former aides.

Mr. Trump was responding to a question about why he had not spoken publicly about the killing of four Green Berets in an ambush in Niger two weeks ago when he made the assertion. Rather than answering the question, Mr. Trump said he had written personal letters to their families and planned to call them in the coming week. Then he pivoted to his predecessors.

“If you look at President Obama and other presidents, most of them didn’t make calls,” Mr. Trump said during a news conference in the Rose Garden with the Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell. “A lot of them didn’t make calls. I like to call when it’s appropriate.”

Mr. Trump’s assertion belied a long record of meetings Mr. Obama held with the families of killed service people, as well as calls and letters, dating to the earliest days of his presidency. Before he decided to deploy 30,000 troops to Afghanistan, Mr. Obama traveled to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware to greet the coffins of troops.

Trump’s follow-up just made things worse:

“The traditional way if you look at President Obama and other presidents, most of them didn’t make calls. A lot of them didn’t make calls,” Trump said in the White House Rose Garden.

Obama’s former aides reacted quickly — and in a language even Trump can understand. Buzzfeed reports:

Alyssa Mastromonaco, a former aide to President Obama, called the claim “a fucking lie” on Twitter.

A former Joint Chiefs chair also weighed in:

And yes — where was that liberal press with their liberal media bias?

And Trump’s Obama smear was not the only lie of the press appearance yesterday:

But wait! There’s more!

Trump also responded to a question about his campaign being subpoenaed by lawyers representing a woman who says he sexually assaulted her by saying: “It’s totally fake news. Just fake. It’s made-up stuff.”

It doesn’t look made up to us…

Summer Zervos subpoenas Trump campaign, page 1

(Click here for the full subpoena.)

See a pattern emerging here? Take your choice:

  1. Trump is a congenital liar, which should have come as no surprise to voters in the wake of his scandalous career as a so-called “real estate mogul” turned game show host;
  2. Trump’s petty and possibly racist loathing of Obama has manifest itself in his “agenda,” which is to undo everything Obama did for our nation, and it is therefore no surprise that Trump would lie about Obama’s communications with the families of fallen soldiers.
  3. Trump is simply detached from reality, either due to some form of senility or long-term mental illness, and the only reason we haven’t already had a small-scale nuclear war in the Pacific is that adult day care is working.

It could be any or all of the above, but the fact remains: the “liberal press” should made Trump’s outright lies the headline (as did MSNBC, to some extent).

The GOP just doesn’t care, because they need a puppet in the Oval Office who will rubber-stamp their agenda of stripping individuals of power and giving it all to large corporate entities — including the ones that won’t report honestly on the crisis of Trump’s mental acuity and erratic behavior.

Both the press and the GOP are normalizing and enabling a man who is so obviously unfit for office that he should be removed under the 25th Amendment.

D.B. Hirsch
D.B. Hirsch is a political activist, news junkie, and retired ad copy writer and spin doctor. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.