TRUMP’S CALIFORNIA ONLY EXISTS IN TRUMP’S WARPED MIND

…Trump the Grump

Trump’s California is only a figment of his warped imagination.

In all of Trump’s campaign rallies, it is appearing that Trump has decided he will say whatever is helpful to him and the GOP, and what is harmful to the Democrats, even if it is all lies.

Once he gets started, whatever comes to mind is what he says, and most of the time it is blatantly false.

As an example, Trump said this week that there would be an additional middle class tax cut of 10% that well occur before the mid-term elections.  That’s impossible, as there is no pending legislation and the Congress is not in session….?

He said that the Republicans would protect those Americans with pre-existing medical conditions, while the Democrats won’t protect those Americans.  This is coming from the party that tried to get rid of Obamacare, which they failed, and it protects those with pre-existing conditions.  

In addition, due to the Republicans and Trump’s latest tax cut that increased the US deficit by 17%, now the Republican Senate Majority Leader says they will have to go after Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid to pay for the tax cut.

As one op-ed writer put it, “Trump has spent a lot of time delivering off-the-cuff comments into microphones, which in turn has meant a lot of assertions that are obviously false or likely made up on the spot.”

It is amazing that this president gets away with telling stories about people who are nonexistent, but whom Trump continues to produce, just to support his policy or his political standing.  As an example, there was some Trump guy named “Jim,” a made-up friend who once told Trump that he would no longer visit Paris, a city he loved, because of the threat of terrorism.

There are, according to Trump, all those unnamed business leaders who tell Trump about things they’ve said that supports the president’s ideas and of course, according to Trump, they praise all of his decisions.

In Trump’s latest rallies, he has attacked the state of California as a foil for his rhetoric that the state’s progressive policies on immigration are turning the state into a Venezuela.  In fact, the Venezuela subject has become one of his “figures of speech” about what he says the Democrats want to turn America into.

Due to Trump’s false comments, his base now looks at California with views of serious skepticism.

Of course, there is never any proof of any of the things that Trump makes false statements about.  We are just supposed to believe our president that has already told more than 5,000 lies.....Right!

As an example, here is what he said at a rally in Arizona: “That’s why Democrats want to give illegal immigrants the right to vote. How about in California, where illegal immigrants took over a town council, and now the town council is run by illegal immigrants in the town!” he exclaimed. “I mean, is this even believable?”

Actually no, it isn’t.  It is all a pile of Trump B.S.!

That’s just an example of a classic Trump imagination.  I’m sure that statement was something that came to mind on the spur of the moment.  To Trump, “that’s so Californian”.  A town where immigrants illegally take over a town council.

The truth is that there was a California town, back in 2015, that appointed two undocumented immigrants to a city commission such as the ‘Commission for Parks & Recreation’, not to the town council.  Apparently to Trump, this appointment is the same as “taking over the town council”.

But Trump wasn’t finished with that.  He then continued with: “Democrats believe American taxpayers should provide free welfare to illegals. That’s wonderful. How about in California? They owe 2 trillion dollars! They owe more money than any place has ever even dreamt of.”

Also, a figment of Trump’s warped mind.

The truth is, for the state of California, if it were a country, it would be the 7^th largest economy in the world.  But back in 2017, a conservative policy organization did estimate that the total state debt was about $1.3 trillion. This year however, the state budget is expected to run a surplus.  The California state budgetary position is always in a flux, but it’s definitely not hemorrhaging money.

The reality is that there is only one place that has a much larger debt than California’s: That is Trump’s United States of America, in which the debt grew by nearly $780 billion, in the last year alone.

Trump’s rallies seem to be the source of most of this miss-information. 

When Trump gets behind the rally podium, his brain starts working over-time and out comes whatever is good for him and the Republican candidate, and bad for the Democrats, regardless of whether it is true or is most likely false.

He did it again at a rally in Nevada.  But this time, there was some hitting back.

Trump stated at the rally, that Jacky Rosen, the Democratic candidate for Senate in Nevada had, "voted in favor of deadly sanctuary cities,” Trump said.

“I don’t think we like sanctuary cities up here,” he continued. “By the way, a lot of people in California don’t want them, either. They’re rioting now. They want to get out of their sanctuary cities. You know, there’s a big turn being made, folks. A lot of these sanctuary cities you’ve been hearing about in California and other places, but California, they want to get out, they’re demanding they be released from sanctuary cities.”

They’re . . . rioting?  Really?

It wasn’t clear whether Trump meant that literally, so a reporter asked him about it.

REPORTER: Hey, Mr. President, you said Californians were rioting over the sanctuary cities. Where?

TRUMP: Take a look. They want to get out of sanctuary cities. Many places in California want to get out of sanctuary cities.

REPORTER: But that's not rioting, sir, right?

TRUMP: Yeah, it is rioting in some cases.

REPORTER: Where are the riots, sir?

Obviously, Trump didn’t respond.  It was all a lie.

However, California has still become Trump’s favorite foil.

At another rally in Texas, he made another indictment of California that obviously doesn’t exist. This one was an old Trump favorite that he has repeated.

“The Democrat plan to destroy American health care includes free health care and education to illegal aliens, paid for by you, thank you very much, the American taxpayer,” Trump said. “And they absolutely demand….and that’s happening….they want to demand to vote. They want to be able to vote. They want to be able to vote! Oh, don’t worry about the illegals.”

“Hey, by the way,” he continued, “I hate to tell you, you go to California, you go….they vote anyway. They vote anyway, they’re not supposed to. And every time I say it, the fake news says, ‘Oh, they said they got so many people voting illegally in this country, it’s a disgrace.”

Back in the 2016 election, Trump pointed to Pennsylvania as the focus of alleged voter fraud.  After the election, he then pointed to California and New Hampshire, of course, it was two states he lost big.  

Why does Trump focus on California?  

That’s because, first, it alone voted heavily enough against his candidacy to more than make up his major ‘popular vote’ deficit.   And, second, because California is a place where a lot of immigrants live.  So for Trump, those illegal immigrants, they all come into California and they all vote illegally.

All of these assertions by Trump, to his base sound very true. There will be numerous Trump supporters defending Trump’s line on voter fraud as if it has merit, even though it has none.

To Trump, a free-spending California, that hands over cities to immigrants and spends lavishly on benefits for those here illegally, will simply agree with what a lot of people think actually happens in places like California, which is all false.

As with Trump’s bogus friend “Jim”, this bogus California only exists in Trump’s mind and in his rally speeches.

Copyright G. Ater  2018