Desperate Trump Hopes To Find Right Spaghetto for 2024
Trump is grasping at straws or rather, “spaghettos” in his crusade to convince the majority of Americans that a likely rapist, swindler, provocateur, dictator should be returned to the White House.
When I think of trump, the most polite words I think of are profane and more profane.
A trial is ongoing in a courtroom in New York City and trump will likely be found guilty of having raped writer E. Jean Carroll in a dressing room of Bergdorf Goodman.
Meanwhile, trump, the master of the profane, was campaigning in New Hampshire where he lavished love and praise on a Texas woman who wore a red, white and blue, skin-tight Captain America jumpsuit and called for the execution of former vice president Mike Pence when she was arrested at the Jan. 1, 2020, Capitol riot.
Trump is the cook throwing spaghetti against the refrigerator to see if it sticks and it’s ready to serve. Unfortunately, there are a lot of hungry, stupid people out there.
Trump’s latest spaghetti testing includes a promise, that, if he is re-elected, he will pardon all those arrested for rioting at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. They include at least one Texan, Micki Larson-Olson, an Air Force veteran who served in Iraq, and wore a garish, skin-tight, Captain America costume to the insurrection where has called for executing members of Congress who certified the 2020 election for President Joe Biden. Even if he is not back in the White House, trump has a growing list of supporters and talk of pardons will send a clear message to all future insurrectionists that the president and his sycophants have their backs.
Trump tossed more spaghetti and vowed to once again keep Muslims out of the country to make the country safe from Muslims, damn with the constitutionally protected right of freedom of religion. With another flick of spaghetti, trump then claimed that China unleashed the COVID-19 virus to make sure he wasn’t re-elected. It’s all about trump, always was, always will be.
Micki Larson-Olson, 54, of Abilene, Texas, had her fleeting moments of fame or infamy, when she met up with trump after a recent, New Hampshire rally. She had driven 30 hours from her home to see the trump spectacle, having attended many trump rallies since last year as a member of a spinoff of the QAnon extremist movement known as Negative 48 that makes QAnon look tepid.
Larson-Olson couldn’t actually get in to the rally which was limited to about 1,200 people but but she did go to a post rally gathering to see trump and other supporters at the Red Arrow Diner in Manchester, N.H. There, she introduced herself and got a big hug from the ex-president who then signed her backpack, leading to her to compare trump and Christ. Larson-Olson said she was carrying the same backpack to the Capitol complex on the day of the insurrection. A photo was taken of Larson-OIson and trump, who then gave the woman the sharpie he used, like throwing crumbs to the hungry or paper towels to hurricane victims in Puerto Rico.
Larson-Olson spent 161 days in a federal prison last year after she was convicted of refusing to leave the scaffolding on the west side of the Capitol and had to be physically removed by six officers.
Trump told Larson-Olson that she’d “been through too much” and would end up “happy.”
“You guys are gonna be okay,” trump told Larson-Olson.
For Larson-Olson, it was a near religious moment.
“If I were to imagine what it would be like to hug Jesus Christ — not that I’m saying President Trump is Jesus Christ — but, just, you know, if I was to imagine what it would be like to hug Jesus Christ, that’s what it felt like for me,” said Larson-Olson who wants every lawmaker who voted to certify the 2020 election to be executed.
Larson-Olson said that meeting trump was “so surreal, I can’t believe that. The fact that the president knows my story … this most amazing man knows what I went through in the jail. … It’s just crazy. And he gave me the pen.”
Last year, Larson-Olson was among Negative 48 believers who gathered in Dallas to wait for former President John F. Kennedy and his son, John F. Kennedy Jr., to both rise from the dead and reveal themselves and usher in the beginning of a new Trump presidency.
Larson-Olson was released from prison on March 9, and two weeks later, attended a trump rally in Waco, Texas.
Trump has pledged to pardon all of those involved in the Capitol insurrection, who he termed “patriots.”
Larson-Olson grew up in Carson City, Nev. She and her husband, David W. Olson, have a son and a daughter.
It remains to be seen if trump’s spaghetti promises of pardons will stick.
Maybe his acolytes will warm up to trump’s recent promise to restore a travel ban on Islamic nations, prohibiting citizens of those countries from entering the U.S. He claimed that the ban was the reason there were no major terrorist attacks in the U.S. Trump did not mention the growing number of attacks by white supremacist, domestic terrorists.
During his first week in office in 2017, trump restricted travel from seven Muslim-majority nations, Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen. The order was first blocked by the courts but the White House claimed it was not a ban on Muslims and it was eventually upheld by the Supreme Court in 2018.
The ban was overturned by president Joe Biden after he took office in 2021.
In vowing to restore the travel ban, trump was returning to a topic that proved very popular among many Republicans and was repudiated as racist and xenophobic by many Democrats.
His first travel ban, executive order 13769, “Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States,” restricted travel for people from seven majority-Muslim countries including Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen, for 90 days, with certain exceptions. Trump also suspended refugee resettlement for four months and banned Syrian refugees indefinitely.
After the court rejected the ban, trump revised it to include people from six majority-Muslim countries, excluding Iraq, for 90 days. The ban exempted those who already had visas and green cards. He also suspended refugee resettlement for 120 days.
Yet a third ban, again revised after legal opposition, shut down travel for certain nationals of Venezuela, North Korea, and six majority-Muslim countries, excluding Sudan and adding Chad.
A final executive order suspended processing and admissions of refugees from North Korea, South Sudan and nine majority-Muslim countries including Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Libya, Mali, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen for at least 90 days while agencies “conducted a review and analysis.”
After a 90 day review process, the Department of Homeland Security reported that all refugee processing would resume, but additional security measures would be applied to certain countries.
Trump also dipped into the pot for another strand of spaghetti, known as a “spaghetto.” In yet another unproven claim, he implied that COVID-19 was released by China as revenge for his economic policies and to sabotage his chances of getting reelected.
Speaking in a Fox New interview, trump whined that he was never given the credit he deserved for how his administration handled the pandemic. Not surprisingly, trump did not mention that his delays and inaction cost hundreds of thousands of American lives.
A 2021 report by the Lancet commission concluded that about 40 percent of U.S. COVID-19 deaths “could have been averted,” if not for trump’s public-health policies. The report said that Trump’s handling of the pandemic and general approach to public health. “expedited the spread of COVID-19 in the US.”
Trump also said last week that he was “probably the first one” to run with the theory that the virus leaked from an experimental lab in Wuhan, China. Most experts debunk the lab leak theory and believe the virus was spawned by infected animals sold in Chinese markets. The World Health Organization has concluded that it was “extremely unlikely” that the virus came from a laboratory leak.
“But I said, and I’ve said right from the beginning, it was the lab in Wuhan. It got out. It got out of the lab. I think it was incompetence, I really believe it was incompetence,” trump said.
He not so deftly switched to another explanation for the pandemic, that the Chinese intentionally created and released the virus both to punish trump for his punitive, trade tariff policy toward China and to thwart his re-election.
Funnily enough, in 2020, Trump repeatedly praised Chinese President Xi Jinping for their handling of the virus, even as the pandemic was killing millions around the world.