Donald Trump has expressed contempt for American governing ideals and has cooperated with its enemies while chasing secret payoffs from them. That he can accuse his opponents of lacking patriotism boggles the mind, writes jonathanchait
Photo: Brendan Smialowski /AFP/Getty Images In the smoldering wake of President Trump’s unscripted racist outburst, his allies have sought to wrench him back onto favorable terrain. They hastily insisted that Trump meant to say, or actually did say, something different from the words he typed. He was merely attacking left-wing critics who hate this country and prefer governments elsewhere in the world.
Since Trump is apparently going to at least attempt to repeat this message for the next 16 months, it’s worth noting that even the cleaned-up version of his attack is also absurd. Finally, and most absurdly of all, Trump does not even satisfy the common standard of patriotism that virtually any politician in either party would meet. While Republicans spent years falsely accusing President Obama of dismissing “American exceptionalism,” Trump actually did the thing they smeared Obama for. When Vladimir Putin attacked the notion of American exceptionalism in 2013, Trump publicly sided with Putin.
No Democrat has praised foreign dictators for having more “strength” than an American president. That would be Trump, who frequently said things like: “I think Putin’s been a very strong leader for Russia, he’s been a lot stronger than our leader, that I can tell you.”
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