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.
The natural question should be: what new immoral bullshit is he distracting the media and the public from with this video?
The video is horrible. But there’s always something worse coming that he’s trying to draw our attention away from.
Apparently US might invade Iran. Not sure that’s even in the top five, though.