Donald Trump was president as the United States continued its war in Afghanistan, as Russia continued its incursions in Ukraine, as Iran bombed U.S. soldiers in Iraq – an act that Trump denied happened, and never responded to.
This Donald Trump, today, is trying to tell you that “none of this happened while I was president.”
“The World is on fire and spiraling out of control,” Trump said in a statement, issued after Iran launched a missile attack on Israel, a response to recent Israeli actions in Lebanon to attack leaders of the Iran-backed Hezbollah.
“We have no leadership, no one running the Country. We have a non-existent President in Joe Biden, and a completely absent Vice President, Kamala Harris, who is too busy fundraising in San Francisco, a City which she and Gavin Newscum totally destroyed, and staging fake photo ops. No one is in charge and it’s not even clear who is more confused: Biden or Kamala.”
The answer to that last point would be, obviously, Trump, who may not be entirely just flat out lying here, pretending that nothing untoward happened on his watch.
At 78, and clearly diminished, Trump may not actually remember the part he played in setting the world on fire and spiraling out of control – how he failed to stand up to the Iranians after the attack on a U.S. military base in Iraq that injured 110 soldiers, how he never stood up to Vladimir Putin for the continued violations of international law with Russian troops in Ukraine.
How he negotiated directly with the Taliban to try to get the U.S. out of Afghanistan, releasing thousands of militants in the ensuing deal, militants who helped precipitate the massacre in 2021 that Trump has taken to trying to pin on Biden’s shoulders.
Even the “fake photo ops” dig that Trump lobbed at Harris reeks of projection: seeing as Trump took up time and important resources so that he could be seen in Georgia on Monday pretending to care for people whose lives were upended by flood and wind damage from Hurricane Helene.
Trump’s Project 2025 would gut FEMA to the point that it wouldn’t be able to assist communities with recovery after natural disasters like Helene, which would be in line with how he ran things in the Trump administration, which famously only approved 1 percent of the request for aid by the state of North Carolina after a 2017 hurricane, and delayed aid to Puerto Rico after another 2017 for a full three years.
And, remember him making California beg for help in 2019 and 2020 as the state was ravaged by wildfires?
Any political party in the world with a shred of respect for itself and its constituency would exile a guy with this kind of record.
The Republican Party made him its presidential nominee for the third time.
Says a lot about that Republican Party.
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Chris Graham
