(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Trump threatens to take his shirt off and show the “wounds” on his “beautiful” person [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.'] Date: 2024-06-22 There is no bottom. On Saturday, a man sinking into madness spoke to an adoring horde lost in self-delusion. The occasion was the Faith and Freedom Conference . The attendees were a crowd pining for theocracy and primed for religious imagery. Trump gave them what they wanted with both barrels. He told his base of fundamentalist Christians they needed to come out and vote for him in November in order to “defend religious liberty” from Communists, Marxists, and Fascists. But then, what had been regular crazy veered into absurdism. Trump looked the crowd in the eye, and lovingly stroking his chest and arms through his suit jacket, gave them the Jesus reference they had come to hear. He said, “I have wounds all over my body. If I took this shirt off, you’d see a beautiful, beautiful person. But you’d see wounds all over me. I’ve taken a lot of wounds. More than any president ever.” The man is indeed wounded - but he has no stigmata. The damage is all psychological - except the putative bone spur that kept the coward out of combat when his country needed him. Some wits suggested that perhaps he might have been telling the truth. That it is possible Trump, as an aging man whose sense of balance is compromised by dementia and drugs, has repeatedly fallen down. But in his confusion, he looks at the bruises and convinces himself he is a victim of assaults by others. It is impossible to say. The man’s mind is a dark hole of swirling and fragmented, imaginary images, that pop in and out of his consciousness. x Trump: I have wounds all over my body. If I took this shirt off, you'd see a beautiful, beautiful person but you’d see wounds all over me. I've taken a lot of wounds. More than any president ever pic.twitter.com/HlatABvmCD — Biden-Harris HQ (@BidenHQ) June 22, 2024 Trump is lucky that his fan club are historically illiterate morons. People so far down the rabbit hole they will dismiss Abrahams Lincoln‘s assassination as a shaving cut. Of course, it is not just Lincoln. The pantheon of American presidents contains three others who were assassinated. Reagan was shot. Jackson survived an attempt on his life and a duel in which shots were fired and the other guy died. In addition, there are many who wore the uniform of the United States in a shooting war. Bush Senior was shot down in the Pacific. Jack Kennedy (famously assassinated as President) had his patrol boat, PT 109, rammed and sunk by a Japanese destroyer in the Solomon Islands. Even the previously most corrupt president, Richard Nixon, served in the Navy during World War II. And Harry Truman served in France in World War I. Teddy Roosevelt was shot during a campaign speech in 1912. Then, after saying: "Friends, I shall ask you to be as quiet as possible. I don't know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot—but it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose,” he finished what he had to say, before getting the wound attended to. America’s problem is not Trump. Without followers, he would just be a guy standing on the sidewalk yelling at clouds. It is his audience. The cult. But if liberals sit this one out, and Trump repeats his 2016 success, his name will go down in infamy. And the people who enabled his promotion will be just like Hitler’s fans. Ordinary people who refused to recognize the insanity talking to them. [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/6/22/2247605/-Trump-threatens-to-take-his-shirt-off-and-show-the-wounds-on-his-beautiful-person?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=trending&pm_medium=web Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/