Video deleted by White House breaks through numbness barrier and raises further questions about fitness for office
It is a singular if highly dubious distinction of Donald Trump’s pungent contribution to the political discourse to have essentially bankrupted the English language’s capacity for outrage.
So unremitting and extreme have been the avalanche of affronts since Trump descended the golden escalator in Trump Tower in 2015 to declare his presidential candidacy that even his most ardent critics have become desensitized, leading to a level of shock fatigue.
Yet Trump’s highly racist and offensive late-night Truth Social post depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes broke through the numbness barrier to register on the political Richter scale at a level few of his many previous insults ever achieved.
LOL, numbness barrier my ass.
Everyone knows he had deep ties to a paedophile ring and is heavily implicated in many crimes including rape, murder, and trafficking. No hyperbole required.
Yet there’s no consequences for any of it.
This monkey video is just today’s episode of awful, awful behaviour from the worst human ever conceived elected by the worst among us to be the most powerful man in the world.