Creeps and Cowards

Trump is not a drinker. In fact, he’s a teetotaler. This makes it doubly weird that his tweets sound like the crapulous drivel of a drunken buffoon.

But not always.
 

The racist rant that appeared on his twitter feed Sunday was grammatically correct and thoroughly coherent. Because of this, commentators have been speculating that it may well have been composed not by Trump, but by one of his henchmen. 

 Here is what the tweets said:

So interesting to see “Progressive” Democrat Congresswomen, who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world (if they even have a functioning government at all), now loudly......

....and viciously telling the people of the United States, the greatest and most powerful Nation on earth, how our government is to be run. Why don’t they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came. Then come back and show us how....

....it is done. These places need your help badly, you can’t leave fast enough. I’m sure that Nancy Pelosi would be very happy to quickly work out free travel arrangements!

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Except for a missing question mark, that tweet series was quite coherent - albeit ignorant and racist.

So, who do they think they're kidding? Nobody who tweets about the “Prince of Whales,” as Trump recently did, could compose those lines. If Trump himself had authored these tweets, they would have come across something like this:

Those four Black, Muslim and Mexican girls are DUM and DISGUSTING! They shuold go BACK to the SHITHOLE countries they CAME FROM!

So, who authored the racist tweets? The prime suspect is Stephen Miller. You remember him, right? He’s that creepy, skinny guy who slithered into the inner sanctum of the Oval Office alongside Steve Bannon when Trump first took office.

           Secretary of Bigotry Stephen Miller

The other big question raised by these White House tweets is, “Why don’t Republicans loudly denounce them?” Other world leaders have done so, some with gusto. British Prime Minister Theresa May criticized them sharply and so has her probable successor (and Trump friend), Boris Johnson, who said they were “totally unacceptable.” Johnson went on, “If you're the leader of a great multiracial, multicultural society you simply cannot use that kind of language about sending people back to where they came from…I simply can't understand how a leader of that country could come to say it.” [Editor’s note: I can.]
 

Even George Conway has spoken truth to power. (His wife is, after all, Kellyanne). Conway declared, “That’s racist to the core. It doesn’t matter what these representatives are for or against — and there’s plenty to criticize them for — it’s beyond the bounds of human decency. For anyone, not least a president.”
 

Conway was also scornful of Republican leaders in general for not condemning Trump’s remarks. And well he should be. Their lack of outrage is disgraceful.

I, for one, would like to know what my own senators have to say, especially the Honorable Marco Rubio. Is he, like the other Republicans in Congress cowering in the shadows of Capitol Hill like a fearful mouse? Or is he just playing a soulless, political game.
 

What’s the story, Senator Rubio – are you not the child of immigrants? More to the point, have you no courage?

¿No eres valiente?

If you still see yourself as presidential timber, Senator, speak now or forever hold your peace.