The Obese, Woman Abuser Gets Increasingly Desperate, Sinister
Trump’s only brush with violence came when he punched his second grade teacher in the face.
The closest Paul Gosar ever came to knocking someone’s teeth out was when he pulled an infected tooth from a patient in his dental office.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, 49, also is big on violent rhetoric as long as it’s all talk.
The three have used increasingly violent words to captivate their followers and while the three intimidators sit safe behind their Washington, D.C., desks, many of their followers have ended up in jail or worse for doing their leaders’ bidding.
Trump, of course, is the gold standard for hypocrisy. While egging on his followers to violence, the only personal, physical violence in trump’s long, sordid life came in the second grade and that probably never happened.
In his 1987 book, “The Art of the Deal,” trump described an incident when he was younger.
“Even in elementary school, I was a very assertive, aggressive kid,” trump wrote. “In the second grade I actually gave a teacher a black eye — I punched my music teacher because I didn’t think he knew anything about music and I almost got expelled. I’m not proud of that but it’s clear evidence that even early on I had a tendency to stand up and make my opinions known in a very forceful way. The difference now is that I like to use my brain instead of my fists.”
Trump was asked about the story in an April 21, 2016, interview with the Washington Post. This time, he backed off from the details, in other words, admitted he had lied.
“When I say ‘punch,’ when you’re that age, nobody punches very hard. But I was very rambunctious in school, and it was good to go to a military academy because in those days it was a lot tougher than it is now. It was a different environment,” trump said.
Trump wraps himself in the flag, bellows about patriotism and America and curses out all the Democratic traitors. But trump never did serve in the military. He certainly never volunteered as he received four years of education deferments. In 1968, during the white hot time of the killing fields of the Vietnam War, when millions of young men were dying for a cause they believed was righteous, the future president got a medical disqualification because of bone spurs.
The Mayo Clinic explained that bone spurs are bony projections that develop along bone edges. They often form where bones meet each other in the joints.
“Most bone spurs cause no symptoms and can go undetected for years. They might not require treatment. If treatment is needed, it depends on where spurs are located and how they affect your health,” the Mayo Clinic reported.
Trump must be one tough dude; just ask the 26 women who claim he sexually assaulted them. Pity the poor victims who were confronted by a Big Mac eating, Coke swigging 244 pounder who is considered clinically obese and has a Body Mass Index (BMI) of 30.3.
Trump’s bombast has been getting more and more sinister and increasingly desperate as the threat of a third indictment grows.
He reposted a threatening video message on Truth Social from a verified MAGA account on the same day a federal grand jury convened to determine whether to charge the ex-president over Jan. 6. The voice over was about as sophisticated as the sixth grade bully than a candidate for president of the U.S.
“If you fuck around with us, if you do something bad to us, we are going to do things to you that have never been done before,” trump is heard saying in the 9-second-long clip.
Dramatic music plays in the background as an ominous, black-and-white photo of trump zooms out and his 2024 campaign logo appears. While the audio itself is from a 2020 conversation about Iran, the message seems clearly to target special counsel Jack Smith, one of trump’s current biggest foes.
Earlier this week, Trump went into a fit of rage after prosecutors warned him that he is the target of another criminal investigation. He called it “HORRIFYING NEWS for our Country” and labeled Smith as “deranged.”
The “if you fuck around with us” audio had 9,538 likes as of Friday and was linked to a rambling interview with Kari Lake, the losing Republican candidate for governor of Arizona who continues to repeat her debunked claim that she was a victim of widespread voter fraud. The interview was podcast on Rumble, a far right Internet site by something called Inthelitterbox.com. The sponsor is identified as Brickhouse Nutrition, an on-line nutritional supplement.
Trump’s latest violence-laced campaign speech is nothing new, although it is reaching a new crescendo of terror. His comments to a raucous crowd of an estimated 10,000 followers on Jan. 6, 2021, ignited a blaze of attempted insurrection by at least 1,200 people who violently breached Capitol security and marauded into the building. Five people died during or after the attack, including four protesters and one police officer, and around 140 officers suffered injuries, according to the Department of Justice.
“We have hundreds of thousands of people here, and I just want them to be recognized by the fake news media. Turn your cameras, please, and show what is really happening out here because these people are not going to take it any longer, they’re not going to take it any longer,” trump told his followers, once again, greatly exaggerating the size of the mob.
“All of us here today do not want to see our election victory stolen by a bold and radical left Democrats which is what they are doing and stolen by the fake news media. That is what they have done and what they are doing. We will never give up. We will never concede. It doesn’t happen. You don’t concede when there’s theft involved,” trump shrieked. “Our country has had enough. We will not take it anymore, and that is what this is all about. And to use a favorite term that all of you people really came up with, we will stop the steal.”
He told the crowd rallying south of the White House to “walk down to the Capitol,” adding, “You will never take back our country with weakness.”
Before the Capitol vitriol, there was trump defending the white nationalists who protested in Charlottesville, Va., in August 2017, saying there were “some very fine people on both sides” of the rally which left one woman dead, while expressing sympathy for their demonstration against the removal of a statue of Civil War Confederacy General Robert E. Lee.
There was trump telling a campaign rally that the police need to get tougher and ignore the rights of the accused.
“When you see these thugs being thrown into the back of a paddy wagon, you just seen them thrown in, rough. I said, ‘Please don’t be too nice,’” he said. “When you guys put somebody in the car and you’re protecting their head you know, the way you put their hand over [their head] like, ‘Don’t hit their head and they’ve just killed somebody, don’t hit their head.’ I said, ‘You can take the hand away, OK?’”
During a rally for Montana Republicans, trump praised Rep. Greg Gianforte, who allegedly body slammed a reporter when he was initially running for congress in 2017.
Jacobs allegedly approached Gianforte for comments on the Congressional Budget Office’s analysis of the American Health Care Act as he was preparing for a television interview. Suddenly, Gianforte “seemed to just snap,” Jacobs said. “He grabbed my recorder, and next thing I knew, I’d gone from being vertical to horizontal on the floor.”
Trump’s response was, “Any guy that can do a body slam, he is my type!”
At a Las Vegas rally, trump said security guards were too gentle with a protester.
“He’s walking out with big high-fives, smiling, laughing,” Trump said. “I’d like to punch him in the face, I’ll tell you.”
Trump’s violent rhetoric has given license to others to use violence to rile up their constituents. One of the most infamous lawmakers to use violence as a political tools is Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga. Before she was elected to office in 2020, Greene repeatedly indicated support for executing prominent Democratic politicians including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, former President Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and John Kerry and FBI agents in 2018 and 2019.
Greene created a White House petition to impeach Pelosi for “treason” after Pelosi did not vote to fund former trump’s border wall in 2019. In uncovered tweets and posts, Greene liked a call to put Pelosi to death.
Greene posted on her candidate Facebook page in September 2020 an image of herself holding a gun alongside images of Democratic Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib. The caption encouraged going on the “offense against these socialists” and was interpreted by observers as a threat against the politicians.
In other videos from 2019 and 2020, respectively, Greene encouraged protesters “to flood the Capitol” and endorsed political violence to defend freedom.
Before she ran for Congress, Greene embraced violent, fringe conspiracies, including the QAnon conspiracy theory that pits trump in an imagined battle against a cabal of Satan-worshipping, child-abusing Democrats and celebrities.
Gosar, a dentist, was censured by the House of Representatives in November 2021 for posting an anime video that was edited to show him killing Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and attacking President Joe Biden.
The latest reference to political violence is in a popular song “Try That in a Small Town” by the award-winning, country western singer, Jason Aldean.
A music video features blatantly racist clips of Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests interspersed with footage of crimes including an apparent convenience store robbery, a carjacking and depictions of people setting American flags on fire.
Singing over the clips is Aldean:
“Stomp on the flag and light it up.
Yeah, you think you’re tough.
Well, try that in a small town
— See how far ya make it down the road.”
The video was filmed in front of the Maury County Courthouse in Columbia, Tenn. In 1927, 18-year-old Henry Choate was famously lynched at the courthouse, his body hanged off the balcony after he was accused of assaulting a white girl who never identified him.
It stretches the limits of imagination to believe as Aldean, a Georgia native, claimed that did not know the history of the lynching.
Choate was an 18-year-old African-American man who worked for a road construction project in Coffee County, Tenn. On Nov. 13, 1927, Choate was accused of sexually assaulting a white girl and was taken to the Columbia, Tenn. jail. A mob of hundred of people sprang Choate from jail, killed him, dragged him through the city behind a car, and then hanged the body from the courthouse.
Maury County also was where Cordie Cheek, a Black teenager, was taken from his home, beaten, castrated and lynched after being falsely accused of raping a White girl in 1933.
The two incidents were among the factors that resulted in the “Columbia race riot” of 1946. Hundreds of state police and other law enforcement officers forced residents from their houses and confiscated their guns, jewelry and money. Homes and businesses were destroyed.
Video images of recent demonstrations and destruction are projected on the Maury County courthouse, from which hangs a large American flag. And Aldean sings:
“Full of good ol’ boys, raised up right,
If you’re looking for a fight,
Try that in a small town.”
And then there is the verse that riled up gun control supporters.
“Got a gun that my granddad gave me,
they say one day they’re gonna round up.
Well, that s — might fly in the city, good luck,” Aldean sings.
Country Music Television (CMT) has since pulled the video from rotation. Aldean, 46, a native of Macon, Ga., Tweeted there is nothing racist about the song and that he didn’t know about the Maury County lynching.
“There is not a single lyric in the song that references race or points to it — and there isn’t a single video clip that isn’t real news footage — and while I can try and respect others to have their own interpretation of a song with music — this one goes too far,” Aldean said.
Trump, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and other Republican presidential hopefuls jumped to Aldean’s defense.
“Jason Aldean is a fantastic guy who just came out with a great new song. Support Jason all the way. MAGA!!!” Trump posted on his Truth Social account.
Aldean has been no shrinking violet when it comes to controversy. In 2015, he put on blackface and dressed as Lil Wayne for Halloween. He’s also spoken out against vaccine mandates, and last year he was dropped from his public relations firm after transphobic comments from his wife, Brittany Aldean.