{"id":24373,"date":"2017-08-15T12:29:29","date_gmt":"2017-08-15T17:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/?p=24373"},"modified":"2017-08-15T12:29:29","modified_gmt":"2017-08-15T17:29:29","slug":"trump-trainwreck-fascist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/15\/trump-trainwreck-fascist\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump, Trainwreck, Fascist."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a series of strange events, President Donald Trump once again invoked violence against a CNN reporter and, apparently, embraced the idea that he is a fascist.<\/p>\n<p>Following the homicidal terrorist attack on anti-White Supremacist demonstrators, trump saw fit to post the following tweet, memorialized here in a retweet by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kylegriffin1\">Kyle Griffin<\/a>, an MSNBC producer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/files\/2017\/08\/TrumpTrainCnnReporterViolence.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/files\/2017\/08\/TrumpTrainCnnReporterViolence.png?resize=559%2C704\" alt=\"\" width=\"559\" height=\"704\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24374\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Similar to an earlier contrived production in which Trump himself is shown in a video beating a CNN reporter, this shows a train labeled TRUMP running over a CNN reporter in cartoon form.<\/p>\n<p>That tweet was deleted soon after being posted. I wonder how that happened.  Did Trump think better of his choice? Did General Kelly storm the bathroom and wrestle Trump&#8217;s phone away from  him? Did the NSA dive in there and delete the offending tweet in such a way that Trump will never see that it was deleted but the rest of us will? Can they even do that?<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, a guy from the UK named <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MikeHolden42\">Mike Holden<\/a>, tweeted the observation that Trump is a fascist, so his alleged ikntent to pardon Arizona Joe Arpaio, Sheriff makes sense.  Astonishingly, trump re-tweeted Holden&#8217;s remark.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/files\/2017\/08\/TrumpTweetFascist.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/files\/2017\/08\/TrumpTweetFascist.png?resize=587%2C436\" alt=\"\" width=\"587\" height=\"436\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24375\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I checked. Trump&#8217;s twitter account does not say &#8220;retweets are not endorsement,&#8221; and we know from the evidence of considerable prior practice that Trump&#8217;s retweets are, in deed, endorsements.<\/p>\n<p>That tweet was also removed, and again, one wonders how that happened.<\/p>\n<p>SNL, are you paying attention?<\/p>\n<p>I found out about these tweets in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/post-politics\/wp\/2017\/08\/15\/after-charlottesville-trump-retweets-then-deletes-image-of-train-running-over-cnn-reporter\/?undefined=&#038;utm_term=.57c3bb6f870f&#038;wpisrc=nl_most&#038;wpmm=1\">this WaPo article.<\/a>. So, it is probably fake, but whatever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a series of strange events, President Donald Trump once again invoked violence against a CNN reporter and, apparently, embraced the idea that he is a fascist. Following the homicidal terrorist attack on anti-White Supremacist demonstrators, trump saw fit to post the following tweet, memorialized here in a retweet by Kyle Griffin, an MSNBC producer. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/15\/trump-trainwreck-fascist\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trump, Trainwreck, Fascist.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24376,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1293,1294,1138,1295,964,1290,1207,1296],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6l7","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24373"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}