Trump is threatening the voting rights of millions
because of something he saw on Twitter.
All hail Augusts Trumpus — the American Putin, whom none can
criticize! All hail the All Knowing One, who reveals “realities” that aren’t
there and finds “facts” that mere mortals can’t detect.
Once again, the Amazing Donald has demonstrated his
phantasmagoric power of perception, having found a new outcome in November’s
election that others haven’t seen. Trump has been greatly perturbed by the
official results, which showed that while he won the Electoral College
majority, he wasn’t the people’s choice.
Instead, according to the latest tally, Hillary Clinton won the
popular balloting by a margin of more than 2.5
million votes and counting.
Growing increasingly furious at this affront to his supernatural
sense of self, the master of factual flexibility went on Twitter with an
amazing revelation: “I won the popular vote,” decreed our incoming
tweeter-in-chief.
How did he turn a 2.5 million vote loss into a glorious victory?
“I won,” he tweeted, “if you deduct the millions of people who voted
illegally.”
Wow again! Millions?
You’d think that such a massive conspiracy, with millions of illegal voters in line at thousands of precincts, would’ve been noticed by election officials, GOP poll watchers, and the media. How did Trump find this truly incredible “fact”?
But this guy turns out to be part of a right-wing fringe group
chasing non-existent voter frauds. Exactly none of those 3 million “illegal”
votes have been verified. Stunned that Trump would cite his tweet as proof, he asked sheepishly: “Isn’t everything on Twitter fake?”
Get used to it — fakery is reality for America’s next president,
Augustus Trumpus.
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columnist Jim Hightower is a radio commentator, writer, and public speaker.
He’s the editor of the populist newsletter, The Hightower Lowdown.
