By Gloria DULAN-WILSON
Hello All
I originally wrote this article on January 8, 2021!!
A few years ago, after the US shot itself in the foot and allowed Donald T-rump to take the oath of office, I started using the phrase "stuck on stupid" to depict the demeanor of Congress and the US Senate. It was apparent to me from the git-go that T-rump was buying his way into ths position. It's the kind of m/o he routinely used to get what he wanted.
However, I could not believe that they would actually allow him to become president after they found out that the Russians had deliberately tampered with our votes. I smelled collusion from the beginning. However, the glaring situation was that the repuglycon (rep-ugly-con) party had been effing with our rights from the time of Obama's election, and they now had an inverterate miscreant who had absolutely no moral compass whatsoever - and had raised his children to be the same.
This was not my first time realizing T-rump was a miscreant. I had the distasteful experience of meeting T-rump on two separate occasions - and had been totally repulsed by his behavior - his attitude that nothing else matters if it wasn't his way; or if the spotlight wasn't on him. The first time was in the 90s when Matty Rich premiered "Straight of Brooklyn," and was announcing his own clothing line. There was a press conference, and T-rump was part of it (by the way, to me T-rump means "the ass."). At the time I was writing for a Black publication and was asked to cover the event. Matty had already impressed us with his creative ingenuity - so I asked questions about the clothing line, and what inspired him. Each and every time he tried to respond, T-rump would butt in and take over the conversation. After about the third time, I finally asked him "did you do the line or did he?" I don't think he liked my question. He turned beet red and glared at me. He was quiet for a few minutes, and then began talking again.
My second time was when he started T-Rump University - which was going to teach us how to make deals and build a real estate empire. I still have the book, "The Art of the Deal," which was given away to those who signed up for the university. T-rump did not show up til the late evening - so the individuals who were delivering the seminar preview were real estate salesmen/hucksters, who were there to egg us into signing up for the university. Toward the ende of the sessions, they made the announcement that Donald T-rump himself was going to appear to address us all - so those who wanted to, could stay and meet him in person. Being the reporter that I am, I decided to stay to see what he was going to say. Everyone else was excited. The audience was balanced between Black and white - novice to sophisticated investor. T-rump was scheduled to show up at 9:00 or so, but actually didn't show up until nearly 11:00 - with the sales people urging people to wait because it would be "worth it." Allegedly he was going to give away free scholarships.
Only those who had actually signed up for the classes were going to be allowed access to T-rump, which would have eliminated me, except I was with the press, and they were trying to hype the University.
We were herded into a ballroom where everything was black with some bright glaring lights behind T-rump directed towards the audience. People took their seats; music was blaring all over the place. I sat just to the right of the podium on the front row. After several speakers, T-rump got up to speak. He started off quietly congratulating those who had signd up. Then he started escalating and eventually went off topic. Next he started using profanity, the eff word and mf word - and the audience laughed nervously. Finally he really escalated about the merits of controlling the deal, property acquistion and denigrating those who were on the opposite side of the table - basically calling them a range of negative names. After about 30 minutes of his diatribe, I decided that there was no way I was going to do an article about him or his bogus University - I left him shouting over an enthralled group of sycophants who were probably hopping he was going to drop millions out his butt for their sitting through this.
As we watched the events of January 6, 2021, I had a flashback to that night when T-rump was verbally abusiing the audience of real estate investors, and realized that nothing had changed. He had gotten worse. He was much slicker. His years in the media had taught him how to manipulate an audience - he's been doing it for the last 5 years - starting with his campaign against Hillary Clinton. He knew how to manipulate the mental menials even more now than he did that night in New York. He has been doing it for quite some time - but the real tragedy is that we have been allowing him to do so. He knows how to manipulate minds - which is why the Apprentice, and his other shows have done so well. Now we have this mendicant in the White House who has caused genetic throwbacks to come together and think that they have some sort of mission to "save America" by attacking and assaulting the government in his name. His ego must be increased a thousand-fold by now.
His allegations - his outright lies were designed to appeal to the Proud Boys and other hillbillyredneckcrackergeneticthrowbackmentality suck ups that hang on his every word. No matter how much we claim that what he says is faux news and not true, we fail to realize that he's not talking to us, he's not trying to influence us - he was specifically talking to his base, and he's not speaking in code, but in plain english - using shock value and audacity - the kind of things the powerless live vicarously through him for their own miniscule aggrandizement. And it's working - the evidence was those people who stormed the Nation's Capitol, and some of the redneck security guards who did more to help them, than to prevent them. And wonder, how did they know where to go and where the offices were - who furnished them with the blueprints and the maps? Think about it. T-rump was trying to overthrow the government and using the genetic throwbacks to do it.
He is a traitor! But we have the 25th amendment and the impeachment process that impedes kicking his sorry carcass out or arresting him immedialely. And I find it amazing - I wonder what they would do if he was standing in the rotunda with an AK-47 in his hand aiming it at members of Congress? Would they go through the constitution, or would they disarm him, arrest him, and remove him immediately from he premises? This is tatamount to the same thing. He is a walking time bomb, a loose cannon. He needs to be arrested and removed. It's clear to us - but all I'm hearing on the media is a rehash of the same garbage over and over and over and over.
Worse yet, our spineless congress and senate have no idea how to stop this from hanging like the sword of Damocles over our heads. They are more worried about the Constitution, while this cretin has made it plain that he couldn't give two shits about upholding the constitution, or anything else fo that matter, if it doesn't serve his selfish needs.
It's likewise clear that caucasoids will eventually allow him to get away with this scott free - citing some garbage about dividing the country.
And, while it's true that Black Lives Matter were treated with extreme prejudice, and whites were treated with kid gloves, that's not about to change - ao I don't want my brothers and sisters to think that because we're pointing it out now that it will move the needle toward parity in the future. Like Paul Mooney often said, "you don't have the complexion for the connection. That doesn't mean we shouldn't try, just make sure that they are going to be more concerned about reconciling with their schizoid redneck miscreant cousins than they are about equal opportunity for us There is going to be a time when they will kiss and make up - and we had better be prepared to be kicked to the curb again.
Over the past few years, I've written several posts on the Predator in Chief, prior to and during his reign of error in the white house. I am sharing them with you to read at your leisure. I'm sharing them because it find it amusing that the media now acts like they have been telling and warning people about T-rump all along - but nothing could be further from the truth.
As a Black writer, blogger, woman, I know that I've not reached the recognition or notoriety that many of my peers have - wasn't really trying to. I just love the opportunity to say TOLD YOU SO
These, then are my collected articles that mention or focus on T-rump and why we as Black people have to begin supporting and paying attention to our Black writers who continually try to speak truth to power,
NOW THAT YOU KNOW
WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT?
The Posts from ECLECTICALLY BLACK NEWS
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| Gloria DULAN-Wilson |
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