I do wonder whether he is aware of any of this, or if he and the people that surround him are so far deep into their bubble of groupthink that they do not realise just how wrong not only are they factually, but just how unpopular they are. I guess they only care about MAGA and their base and as long as they have that, that's all they care about, but even that seems to be slowly dimishing based on the Presidential Approval Ratings.
Even watching Karoline Leavitt during press briefings is totally cringe-worthy. She is younger than me and, seemingly, probably less qualified than me. Her qualification for the roll being she wrote for her university's student newspaper and lost in a US congressional race a few years ago, but because she was pro-Trump, she earned herself a roll in the Trump Administration taking questions from the world's media, and her (lack of) experience really shows. If there's a question she can't answer - she diverts to personally abusing the journalist, labelling them a "left-wing" hack and questions how they got press credentials in the first place. This, in the United States, which for centuries has been based on the idea that they were founded on a free press and free speech. The White House now, however, is becoming a place of free press, but only if you agree with Trump.
With a trip to the US in a couple of months time, it does make me wonder about my own safety. I've travelled to some places with serious limitations on free speech and press before (including Syria under Assad) and I feel more nervous now about going to the US than I did before Syria. I write this blog post under the freedom knowing that if they are to check my digital history, I've probably "liked" and "forwarded" so many anti-Trump posts on Instagram to get me detained by a border officer or ICE agent anyway.
Let's just hope I don't get shot in the face.
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