Trump’s Birthday Party Bust Prompts Anti-Trans, Anti-Immigrant, Anti-Democrat Rant
On June 16, a day after millions of United States Americans hurt his feelings by not showing up for his tank parade birthday party and only one man tried to prove his love for Trump by shooting and killing Democratic legislators, Trump vented on Truth Social, vowing to begin an even harsher crackdown on undocumented immigrants. I’m going to quote from a redacted version of his post while refraining from repeating his demeaning, anti-immigrant language.
In the post, Trump vowed to “expand efforts to detain and deport [undocumented immigrants] in America’s largest Cities, such as Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York, where Millions upon Millions of [undocumented immigrants] reside.”
Millions of undocumented immigrants do, indeed, live in the U.S. However, the vast majority of these people are not gang members and dangerous criminals, as Trump and the Republicans want everyone to believe. Most of them are, like you and me, people just trying to pay the bills, take care of the people they love, and find a bit of joy in life every now and then.
So what do Los Angeles, Chicago and New York have in common? Well, they are the three biggest cities in the country. They’re also all run largely by Democrats at the state and local level. Houston, the fourth biggest city in the country, is in a red state, saving it from Trump’s enemies list.
Of course, given the political violence against Democrats that had literally just happened a day before when a gunman posing as a police officer shot four people in their homes, killing a Minnesota state representative and her husband and wounding another representative and his wife, Trump issued a solemn message to Americans condemning political violence. He did not trash Democrats in his post lest he inflame more violence.
I’m just kidding. Of course he trashed Democrats. And he didn’t say shit about the killings in the post.
Instead, Trump called Los Angeles, Chicago and New York “the core of the Democrat Power Center, where they use [undocumented immigrants] to expand their Voter Base, cheat in Elections, and grow the Welfare State, robbing good paying Jobs and Benefits from Hardworking American Citizens.”
Important to note that nothing Trump wrote there is true, despite being posted on Truth Social. Oh, the irony.
As Ed Kilgore, political columnist for Intelligencer, wrote, “It’s all completely fabricated but reflects a distinctly Trumpian mash-up of the ‘great replacement theory’ and crime-wave myths.”
In other words, these lies feed the even larger lie that there’s a white genocide happening right before our eyes, perpetuated by violent Black and brown people. Utterly racist bullshit.
“Every day, the Brave Men and Women of ICE are subjected to violence, harassment and even threats from Radical Democrat Politicians,” Trump, unfortunately, continued.
Ah, yes. ICE officers, so brave they cover their faces as they snatch people off of the street. They have to protect themselves from the mean Democrats who [looking at notes] have largely supported ICE for its entire duration (which is gross).
And how does Trump thank them for the decades of (unconscionable, mind you) support for ICE since its inception in 2003?
“These Radical Left Democrats are sick of mind, hate our Country, and actually want to destroy our Inner Cities,” Trump wrote. “There is something wrong with them. That is why they believe in Open Borders, Transgender for Everybody, and Men playing in Women’s Sports.”
That’s right! “Transgender for Everybody!” Somebody put that on a T-shirt.
Seriously, though. Trump’s fixation, along with the Republican party’s, on transgender people as the root of all of the country’s problems is based on a completely imaginary transgender person who lurks in bathrooms, lures children to be trans like them and rips gold medals away from little girls. These categorizations are dehumanizing — and dangerous.
“Aside from immigration, no group has received more attention from this administration’s ire than transgender people, with dozens of executive orders, agency rulings, and policy memos designed to make daily life more difficult,” reporter Erin Reed writes. “The vision advanced by Trump and those he’s empowered is not one of inclusion gone too far. It’s a world where transgender people are denied care, visibility, and existence. ‘Transgender for nobody’ is closer to the goal.”
The Trump administration doesn’t always get its way. There are still some courts willing to stop him. A good example is San Francisco AIDS Foundation v. Trump, a recent lawsuit brought by Lambda Legal.
“The Court blocked anti-equity and anti-LGBTQ executive orders that seek to erase transgender people from public life, dismantle DEI efforts, and silence nonprofits delivering life-saving services,” writes Lambda Legal’s Jose Abrigo.
It’s good news, but in the long run, how are the courts going to stop a lawless president willing to incite violence?
In Trump’s America, there is no room for transgender people, no room for immigrants, no room for any kind of opposition to his agenda. He wants to see huge swaths of the country eliminated.
It’s rhetoric like Trump’s that gets people — in this case, Democrats and transgender people — killed. Which, make no mistake, is exactly what he wants.
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