WTH?
President Donald Trump is off the rails. Early Tuesday morning he retweeted an image that has many people stunned.
It’s an illustration of a train with the Trump name emblazoned across its side and front, plowing into a person apparently supposed to represent a CNN reporter. The tweet reads: “Nothing can stop the #TrumpTrain!!”
At the top of the image are the words, “FAKE NEWS CAN’T STOP THE TRUMP TRAIN.”
It’s a stunning image just days after a white nationalist plowed his car into a crowd of people protesting white nationalism, killing one and in during 19 others in an act of domestic terrorism.
The CNN metaphor is similar to the short video clip Trump retweeted earlier this summer of him beating up a Vince McMahon, whose head was altered to depict the CNN logo.Â
On Monday CNN White House correspondent Jim Acosta, at a small event with limited press, asked President Trump why he waited so long to condemn white supremacist hate groups. Trump, after stating passively they had been condemned, told Acosta, “I like real news, not fake news, and you are fake news.”
The veteran CNN journalist responded, “Haven’t you spread a lot of fake news yourself, sir?“
It’s safe to assume that response has been eating at the president since Monday afternoon.
Trump’s actions attacking the press are acts of fascism.
Tuesday morning Trump also retweeted, then quickly deleted a comment to a “Fox & Friends” tweet, presumably by accident.
That comment reads: “He’s a fascist, so not unusual.”Â
It was in response to an article stating Trump is considering pardoning former sheriff Joe Arpaio. Arpaio happens to be a hero to white supremacists.Â
It’s unclear what Trump was thinking as he had already retweeted the “Fox & Friends” story earlier.
Here’s what Trump’s Twitter page looked like before the tweets were deleted:
The man who called either Trump or Arpaio a fascist delivered this amusing response:
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