According to this report in the Guardian, President reject, Donald J Trump, has launched his new cult website (45Office.com) with an account of his disastrous presidency in which he appears to have forgotten certain key events.
Consistent with his narcissistic personality disorder, it is full of self-praise and 'alternative facts', such as his claim to have acted decisively over the coronavirus pandemic and implying that he was personally responsible for innovative medical treatments and two vaccines. What he 'forgot' to mention was that he had dismantled the plans and contingencies that his predecessor, Barak Obama had put in place in preparedness for just such a pandemic, in his obsessive zeal to undo everything Obama had done.
In what could pass for a parody of the kind of self-eulogising, and disregard for the facts, that characterises Trump's personality disorder, in his opening 885-word braggadocio, written in the third person, which is hard to read without laughing out loud, he says:
In his rambling braggadocio he claims to have "ushered in a period of unprecedented economic growth, job creation, soaring wages, and booming incomes". Claims he repeated often during his term of office and claims which were debunked repeatedly and comprehensively by the Washington Post.The 45th President of the United States
Donald J. Trump launched the most extraordinary political movement in history, dethroning political dynasties, defeating the Washington Establishment, and becoming the first true outsider elected as President of the United States. His inspiring, groundbreaking campaign proved pollsters, pundits, prognosticators, and the corporate media spectacularly wrong. He mobilized voters with massive rallies, reached America's hearts and minds with his vision for national rejuvenation, and overcame virtually every entrenched power structure—political and financial—and achieved a decisive victory, winning states no Republican presidential candidate had won in decades.
The forgotten men and women of America were forgotten no more because we finally had a President who put America First.
Through his pro-American policies on trade, taxes, energy, regulation, immigration, and healthcare, President Trump ushered in a period of unprecedented economic growth, job creation, soaring wages, and booming incomes. Median household income reached its highest level ever recorded. Middle-class family income increased more than five times from the previous administration. Unemployment reached its lowest rate in half a century. African-American, Hispanic-American, and Asian-American unemployment reached their lowest levels ever recorded. And more Americans were employed than ever before.
President Trump boldly unleashed American energy, and our Nation soon became the world's number one producer of oil and national gas in the world. America's newfound Energy Independence not only meant historically-low energy prices, but also bolstered our economic and national security. At the center of this pro-American energy vision was a robust commitment to environmental conservation, renewable energy production, prioritizing the clean-up of major pollution sites, and investing billions in clean water infrastructure. Under President Trump, America led the world in reducing carbon emissions. As a steward of our natural resources, President Trump signed the Great Outdoors Act, the most significant investment in our national parks since Theodore Roosevelt's presidency and joined the One Trillion Trees Initiative to protect and restore one trillion trees by 2030.
As President, he was an unwavering champion for our Nation's heroes in uniform. He always stood proudly with our Nation's extraordinary and courageous police officers, sheriffs, and law enforcement professionals. He fought relentlessly for our Nation's military service members and invested trillions of dollars in the American Armed Forces to ensure our warriors had the tools, support, and resources they need. He fundamentally reformed the Department of Veterans Affairs, ending the past era of scandal and ensuring our Nation's treasured Veterans were given the treatment and care they have earned and deserve.
Understanding that border security is national security, President Trump achieved the most secure border in United States history and signed a series of historic agreements with our partners in the Western Hemisphere to stop smuggling, trafficking, and illegal migration. He fundamentally reformed the H-1B program to protect American workers and families. He restored the principle that newcomers to our country must be financially self-sufficient. He empowered Immigration and Customs Enforcement to dismantle criminal gangs and deport dangerous offenders who threaten our communities. He ended systemic asylum fraud, reduced refugee admissions to sustainable levels, blocked the entry of terrorists and national security threats, and banned unsafe travel from regions where proper screening and vetting cannot occur. No President has done more to build an immigration system that promotes safety, dignity, security, and prosperity for the American People.
By restoring America's prestige and advancing a policy of principled realism, he forged historic peace agreements in the Middle East, withdrew troops from endless conflicts, confronted oppressive communist and socialist regimes, advanced stability around the world, and strengthened the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and other international alliances and partnerships by getting other nations to contribute their fair share.
When the coronavirus plague arrived from China, afflicting every nation around the globe, President Trump acted early and decisively to ban travel from China and Europe, which saved countless lives. He launched the greatest national industrial mobilization since World War II, refilling our depleted stockpiles of medical supplies, bringing our critical supply chains back home, pioneering life-saving medical treatments in record time, leveraging the Defense Production Act, mass producing and mass distributing masks, gowns, gloves, and other protective equipment, and getting new breakthrough therapies into the hands of hospitals, doctors, and patients. President Trump, from scratch, built the most robust testing system in the world and, at his direction, temporary hospitals and new medical beds were built from scratch to keep hospitals from overcrowding. Aggressive action was taken to get critical supplies to nursing homes in order to protect the most vulnerable among us. Through Operation Warp Speed, the Manhattan Project for vaccines, two different and powerfully-effective vaccine candidates were approved in record time, with more vaccines following quickly on their heels—a true medical miracle. In order to get these doses to the population as quickly as possible, all of the leading vaccine candidates were manufactured in advance—an industrial breakthrough that further saved countless lives.
Whether it was combating the virus, fighting foreign terrorists, creating jobs, securing America's borders, unleashing American energy, revitalizing American patriotism, or restoring the American spirit, President Trump never wavered in defense of our values, our families, our traditions, and our freedom.
President Trump knows that as long as we remain faithful to our citizens, our country, and our God, then America's best days are yet to come.
What he appears to have also conveniently forgotten is:
- Promising to build a border wall between Mexico and USA, with Mexico paying for it. The wall never got built and Mexico paid nothing.
- Making a hash of the coronavirus pandemic by misjudging the seriousness of it, then bullying scientists and officials who tried to warn of the dangers from it. The result was over 30 million cases (24% of all cases worldwide) and 550,000 deaths (20% of all deaths worldwide) with the USA doing worse than most developing and third-world economies whilst the economy tanked.
- He politicised the coronavirus pandemic for his own political ends and as a cover for his inept handling of the crisis, resulting in a high degree of non-cooperation with the measures to mitigate its effects. Even wearing a face mask and maintaining a safe social distance became a symbol of disloyalty to the Trump cult.
- Under his leadership, America became more divided both politically and racially, with openly white supremacists, neo-fascist groups growing in strength and influence by coming out in support of Trump.
- He became the first president in history to be impeached twice, once over his criminal use of federal funds to try to buy Ukrainian cooperation with a specious 'investigation' into his rival's son, Hunter Biden, and the second time for fomenting a violent attempted coup d’état to prevent the democratic process of confirming Joe Biden's election.
- He encouraged the growth of conspiracy theories and the dissemination of disinformation by repeating false claims originating with the pro-Trump QAnon conspiracy theory source.
- His presidency descended into farce as he refused to accept that he had failed to be re-elected and refused to cooperate with a smooth handover of power to the president elect, instead opting for a big sulk and eventually precipitating the grotesque spectacle of a deadly attack on the Capitol by his cult followers with intent to capture and assassinate elected public figures.
- He lost the election in 2020 by a record vote to his rival and managed to increase the margin by which he lost the popular vote to Hillary Clinton in 2012, becoming the first presidential candidate to lose the popular vote twice.
- Under his leadership, American influence in the world was diminished and America became a laughing stock on the world stage.
- Under his leadership, the White House came to resemble the HQ of a crime syndicate, so much so that he had to issue presidential pardons to a record number of his associates and his family to give them immunity from prosecution for the crimes they committed in his name and often ad his behest. He even, at one point, mooted the possibility of pardoning himself for past crimes and the crimes he had committed whilst in office.
- He neutered the Environment Protection Agency by appointing a climate-change denier to oversee it and forbidding any mention of climate change or any measures to mitigate it.
- He pulled out of the Paris agreement on measures to reduce global warming and introduced measures intended to increase the use of fossil fuels and reduce the use of renewable energy sources, claiming that climate change was a hoax and a Chinese conspiracy to increase the cost of American manufacturing.
- He unilaterally abrogated the nuclear non-proliferation agreement with Iran, and moved the American embassy in Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, tacitly recognising Israeli annexation of territory conquered in the 1967 6-day war and occupied in defiance of UN Resolutions 242 and 2334, further destabilising the Middle East and making any long-term solution to the problem of Palestinian coexistence with Israel, harder to achieve.
Presumably, this is an example of the fake news and lies to which the American people are going to be subjected as this dangerous narcissist prepares for another bid for power in 2024, supported no doubt by his Trumpanzee cultists, Talibangeilical Christian fundamentalists, anti-democratic insurrectionists and neo-fascist white supremacists.
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