The Good Word, as told by Trump
For a former president obsessed with delusions that the election was stolen from him, Holy Week became days of rage. Witness this Easter morning message from Donald Trump:
“Happy Easter to ALL, including the Radical Left CRAZIES who rigged our Presidential Election, and want to destroy our Country!” read Trump’s statement. That message, along with his other statements over the weekend, was emailed from Trump’s Save America political action committee, a platform that’s been a fallback since his ban from Twitter and other social media.
Trump’s message marking Christianity’s most solemn weekend was testament to his ability to free-associate his grievances with any occasion. Consider his appearance just a weekend ago, on March 27, at a private wedding reception held at Mar-a-Lago. He offered perfunctory words of congratulations for a newlywed couple, along with buckets of bile for President Joe Biden and how the election turned out. “It’s a rough thing, and I just say, ‘Do you miss me yet?’ ” Trump asked the wedding guests.
On Friday, he stewed about news coverage of the U.S. Capitol car-ramming attack on a pair of Capitol Police officers, including the slain William “Billy” Evans, that stirred memories of the insurrection he incited on Jan. 6 to overturn the election. His statement Friday night repeated his debunked claims: “Why is it that every time the 2020 ELECTION FRAUD is discussed, the Fake News Media consistently states that such charges are baseless, unfounded, unwarranted, etc.? Sadly, there was massive fraud in the 2020 Presidential Election, and many very angry people understand that.” The statement concluded, in the spirit of the season: “Other than that, Happy Easter!” There was no mention of the dead and injured officers.
Later Friday and Saturday, Trump turned his anger on Major League Baseball for its decision to move July’s All-Star Game from Atlanta to side with opponents of Georgia’s new voting law, which was inspired largely by Trump’s false fraud claims and which critics say will lead to suppression of Black voters. Major companies also have denounced the Georgia law.
Trump responded by assailing “WOKE CANCEL CULTURE” and called for conservative consumers to fight back. “Boycott Major League Baseball, Coca-Cola, Delta Airlines, JPMorgan Chase, ViacomCBS, Citigroup, Cisco, UPS, and Merck,” he said in a statement that concluded, “We will not become a Socialist Nation. Happy Easter!”
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