It's Time to Tell Trump and His Supporters They're Full of Shit

Democratic Presidential candidate Joe Biden caused a bit of an uproar when he told an auto worker he was "full of shit" during a campaign stop in Detroit on March 10th. While many on the right (and some on the left) thought he should have restrained himself, I -- not being the biggest Biden fan in the country -- felt immense relief that someone was finally saying what needed to be said.

While I have no proof the auto worker Biden went off on was a Trump supporter, he sure seemed like he probably was. It's way past time we, like Joe Biden, tell Trump supporters they're full of shit, just like the inept and ignorant object of their affection.

Despite efforts by Democrats in the House, Trump will not be removed from office and may even win reelection in 2020. Both of these facts should cause any thinking person to recoil in terror.

That there are apparently a lot of thinking people who rejoice in both of these facts makes ME recoil in terror.

Even before his weeks-long failure to recognize and properly respond to the current coronavirus crisis, it should have been obvious Trump doesn't deserve the accolades unthinkably heaped upon him by his worshipers. The evidence that Trump has engaged in wrongdoing worthy of impeachment and removal from office is overwhelming. The evidence that he is an unredeemable, awful human is even more overwhelming.

It wasn't politically advantageous for Hillary Clinton, in September 2016, to refer to half of Donald Trump's supporters as "deplorables." Although Russia, Facebook, and "but her emails!" had more to do with Trump's ascension than that comment, it certainly didn't do her any favors.

But I think she grossly underestimated how many of Trump's supporters are deplorable. What else are we to call people who continue to support this ignorant, dangerous madman?

It's easy  --  though disgusting  -- to see why Senate Republicans have stood by their Putin-loving, pussy-grabbing man. In most cases, politicians seeking reelection don't benefit from siding against their party's President, and even those retiring before another election don't want their post-Senate careers marred by being seen as a traitor to their leader.

It's a lot tougher to understand why people with no political skin in the game could possibly support Trump.

To be clear, they have their reasons, and I'm aware of them. They think the President is on their side when it's pretty clear the only side he's on is his own. They think he's great for the economy when much of the good news since his inauguration is actually continued momentum from the Obama years (thanks, Obama!). They think he cares about their "single-issue" concerns like abortion or gun control. He "tells it like it is."

It doesn't matter. Even if all the good things Trump supporters believe about him are true (and they're certainly not), it doesn't excuse his attempts at becoming one of the dictators he loves so much. It doesn't excuse his Nixon-like firing of anyone who dared to tell the truth about him. It doesn't excuse his meddling in DOJ business to get a lesser sentence for Roger Stone, who lied to Congress and threatened a witness on Trump's behalf. It doesn't excuse his publically pressuring New York Governor Andrew Cuomo to get New York's lawsuits against Trump dropped (never mind the fact that Cuomo doesn't file lawsuits in the first place).

Even if you think he's good for the country  --  and there's a mountain of evidence that implies he's not  -- how is it possibly worth it to support him? At this point, every single Trump fan is supporting him not because of his behavior but in spite of it.

Trump has told so many lies and made so many excuses since the coronavirus crisis started it's hard to keep up. Perhaps no lie has been bigger than his claim that he had no idea his administration disbanded the White House pandemic response team that Obama had created. In a news conference filled with Trump's lies (including that 17,000 Google engineers were working on a nationwide coronavirus testing website), he had several excuses ready for reporter Yamiche Alcindor of PBS NewsHour when she asked him about the pandemic response team. Among these excuses was that he didn't know anything about it, that maybe his administration had done it but he wasn't aware of it, and that "things like that happen."

Another whopper, which may just be chalked up to Trump's ignorance instead of being an outright lie: that "no one" could have predicted this pandemic. The truth of the matter is, Trump was briefed on the dangers of global pandemics before he was even inaugurated.

What is to be gained by holding back the frustration that any intelligent person should be feeling at this point? If someone still supports Trump after over three years of his nonsense, they're not going to be convinced to change their mind now. Even with literal lives at stake thanks to the ongoing pandemic.

Trump displays his ignorance and his duplicity every day, with almost every Tweet he Tweets and now with near-daily coronavirus news conferences. Anyone who is truly honest will see -- and should tell him -- that he's full of shit. And anyone who still supports him at this point is as well.