The problem is, after the election—and Trump's loss—we're still going to be hearing more and more outrageous crap from the guy. He'll have inserted himself even more deeply into our national consciousness.
Not to mention the 2020 election.
Trump's latest outrage is, of course, his comments about the judge handling the Trump University case. (Trump University? Seriously?)
Forget, for a moment, Trump's whining about having an Hispanic judge in charge of his affairs, what with the Wall and everything clouding the issue.
Trump is actually making two separate statements. His most recent chunk of racial insensitivity is but the second one. The first is that he's being treated "very unfairly" by the judge.
Could someone please look into this? Is Trump really getting jobbed by the judge? Or is this just a case of Trump not getting what he wants and lashing out?
It's pretty normal for human beings to think any undesired treatment unfair. Nobody deserves (we think) the horrible outcome that has befallen us. There must be something wrong, something outside of us. Someone must have dropped a monkey-wrench into the machinery. The deck must be stacked against us.
Frankly, it's the only plausible explanation.
God knows we're doing everything we can to get the right outcome—the outcome we deserve, damn it!
So when things go wrong, despite our best efforts, we examine the details to discover how the universe effed up. What (outside) glitch has jerked the steering wheel out of our hands and sent our excellent vehicle into the ditch?
Trump knows he's being treated unfairly. That's a given. He looks around. What's that judge's name again? Hey, wait a minute! Is that a Mexican name? Oh, thank God! Because that explains everything!
See, there's this Wall, right? This famous Wall that's going up in the first few days after Trump's swearing-in. The infamous Mexican Wall. Has to be the Wall, right?
(Trump, of course, has no problem with Mexicans, per se. He knows they all love him, because he's going to give them jobs. Unfortunately, this judge already has a job, so he's immune from the beneficence of Trump's gooey love. But wait, if the Donald could get the guy fired from that job, the fellow would just naturally love Trump for giving him his next job! Right?)
When humans come across a message we don't like, we consider where it came from. By discrediting the source, we can repudiate the message. Then bury it.
A whistle-blower rages against some company? Just label the bastard what he is: a disgruntled ex-employee. Problem solved!
Trump knows it can't be his fault he gets annoying treatment from judges and pesky reporters. (He probably hates reporters worse than Richard Nixon did.) So, to get to the bottom of the situation, he has to look elsewhere.
And with the Wall looming on the horizon, and the suspicious ethnicity of the judge in place, Trump need look no further.
Like, if maybe the judge has it in for loud-mouth a-holes.
(Mexico might want to build its own wall, if only to keep Trump out of the country.)
As is usual for Trump, he refuses to back down when faced with criticism over his comments. Right now he's calling for prominent Republicans to scold the press for harassing a blameless Trump over the case of the biased judge. Besides, Trump tweeted, those reporters are the real racists in the story.
In a television interview, Trump speculated he might also get unfair treatment from a Muslim judge, on account of that whole "ban Muslims from America" thing.
Trump certainly has his work cut out for him, but in time he could alienate enough ethnic and religious groups he would be unable (according to him) to get a fair trial anywhere—and therefore immune from prosecution for anything.
(Is that the real reason behind Trump's bid for the Presidency? He needed a juicy national platform to spout incendiary messages that would render him legally bulletproof for the rest of his life?)
As for the question of illegal immigrants from South of the Border, the only viable solution is to make Mexico a paradise no one would ever want to leave. Such a utopia would no doubt drain this country of Mexicans, illegal and otherwise—almost certainly to the detriment of the US economy.
But that's another story.
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