They say we shouldn’t be judgmental of Trump supporters, but it is hard not to be when they accept obvious lies and absurdities as truths and follow blindly as if in a cult. This was on view during Trump’s rally at Nassau Coliseum on Long Island.
After Springfield, Ohio, officials repeatedly told Trump and his Mini-Me VP, JD Vance, that there was no truth to their tall tale of Haitian migrants kidnapping and eating pets, Vance admitted to lying as a political tactic “to get media attention” but more accurately, to enflame hate, stir political violence and get votes. The Haitians are legally in the U.S., having been granted Temporary Protected Status and invited to Springfield to help resuscitate their moribund economy.
A candidate who would lie about legal migrants eating pets to trigger votes would lie us into war for political or personal benefit. Trump has already proved he will sell out national security – extort a desperate foreign leader like Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy by withholding appropriated military aid; sell arms to Saudi Arabia; sell out allies (like NATO); set the powers of government against opponents who he has called “vermin,” “animals” and “unhumans” while pardoning actual criminals and insurrectionists because they support him; obstruct justice and steal classified secrets.
So Trump comes to Long Island and repeats the lies about “illegals” invading New York and promises the biggest deportation crusade in history (never mind actual laws and due process).
He lies about rampant crime when, in fact, New York City has the 96th lowest crime rate among America’s 100 largest cities, while violent crime, thanks to the Biden-Harris administration and Gov. Kathy Hochul’s gun safety policies and community policing investment, has dropped at record pace after spiking under Trump. But while violent crime has dropped, hate crimes increased 39% in 2024, double the incidents against Jews and Muslims, largely because Trump stokes hate and political violence for his own ends. Meanwhile, gun violence is highest in 2024 in states with the loosest gun restrictions: Mississippi, Louisiana, New Mexico, Alabama, and Montana (statista.com/statistics/1380025/us-gun-violence-rate-by-state/)
Trump actually said this: “They would take me to a subway, put me on and say, ‘Bye, darling. Bye.’ If you do that today, you have about a 75% chance that you’ll never see your child again. What the hell has happened here? What has happened?”
Clearly, his addled mind is confusing riding the subway (when have you heard about any school kid getting assaulted on the subway?) with being massacred at school, the movies, the mall, the grocery, a parade because of his promotion of easy access to assault weapons, his glorification of gun violence and his refusal to push for Red Flag laws or provide resources for mental health.
Trump also presented himself – get this – as the “law and order,” “tough on crime” candidate: “But when I get back into the Oval Office, the madness ends, and the law and order is going to return to our country. A fully reformed Federal Department of Justice will deliver massive public safety funding for New York and other Democrat-run cities that are under siege. Give me a shot. You will have a safe New York within three months.
On the other hand, Trump, who is the first person to run for office as a convicted felon and has yet to face trial on charges of stealing national secrets, obstructing justice, attempting to overturn the election, inciting an insurrection and disrupting the peaceful transition of power, already has a record for doing the “lawfare” he accuses Democrats of – that is, weaponizing law enforcement. The guy who says he will restore “law and order” and derides former District Attorney and Attorney General Kamala Harris as “soft on crime” pardons actual criminals (he commuted the life sentence of a convicted murderer who was just convicted of domestic battery on Long island), and promises to pardon the Jan. 6 insurrectionists he calls “political prisoners” (sending a message to those he wants to riot to insure he takes office in 2025).
One of the biggest lies is when he promised Long Island he would “cut taxes for families, small businesses, and workers, including restoring the SALT deduction,” which he maliciously put into place to stick it to Blue states (the donor states that send billions of dollars more to the federal government than are returned) and had his minions in Congress repeatedly reject repealing the SALT cap, as Democrat Congressman Tom Suozzi has been trying to do since taking back the seat from Republican fraudster George Santos.
Take the blinders off. Does this remotely sound with what you see around you? “New York, with crime at record levels, with terrorists and criminals pouring in, and with inflation eating your hearts out, vote for Donald Trump. What the hell do you have to lose?” he said recently.
What the hell do we have to lose? How about our freedom. Women have had a taste of what they have to lose under Trump and it will only get worse. Women are needlessly dying now for being denied access to reproductive and emergency health care.
“Together, we will rebuild our roads, bridges, highways, and airports. They’re falling apart. They’re falling down. We will renovate New York’s subway,” Trump said.
Actually, thanks to Gov. Andrew Cuomo (yes, that guy), Gov. Kathy Hochul and Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Act, New York’s infrastructure is being rebuilt for the 21st century – new LaGuardia and JFK airports, new Penn Station and Grand Central Madison stations, new LIRR third track and subway lines, new UBS and Barclays Center arenas, new Tappan Zee (Cuomo) and other bridges.
To say he is “transactional” is an understatement. At a fund-raiser, he promised Big Oil that if they donated $1 billion to his campaign, he would sweep away Biden’s historic climate actions and told Long Island he would end the electric mandate on cars and “terminate the Green New Scam…one of the greatest scams in the history of our country.”
Ditto Big Pharma and Project 2025 intention to repeal negotiated rates for prescription drugs like insulin. Ditto a promise to sweep away any regulations on the already massively corrupt crypto currency scam.
But how creepy is it that just days before the election, Trump announces he is launching a crypto currency company, to get in on the con and promises to make the U.S. “the crypto capital of the world” (undermining his next promise “to keep the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency).
To sum up, Trump spewed a rambling list of promises, or rather, obsessions: “We will stop the invasion, the migrant crime, support our police, strengthen our military… We will build a missile defense shield around our country, keep critical race theory and transgender insanity out of our schools, and we will keep men out of women’s sports. We will defend the Second Amendment, restore free speech, and we will secure our elections, and we will secure our borders. Everyone will prosper, every family will thrive, and every day will be filled with opportunity and hope..
“But this is how we will end the era of inflation, mayhem, misery, under Kamala and Crooked Joe, and unleash safety, prosperity, and peace for Americans of every race, religion, color, and creed. That’s what we’re going to do. Together, we will deliver low taxes, low regulations, low energy costs, low interest rates, low inflation, so that everyone can afford groceries, a car, and a home. Very simple. Right?
But while Trump doesn’t actually have a plan or even an understanding of economics, public policy or foreign policy, his handlers who created Project 2025 do.
So easy. Very simple. Right?
