How Trump Uses Nonsense to Distract From His Nonsense

Let's talk nonsense this morning. Or, more specifically, let’s talk about why Trump talks so much nonsense. He does it to distract reasonable people from his unreasonable policies.

Let's start with some facts.
The number of children living in poverty doubled from 5 million to 10 million between 2021 and 2023. Why? Because the expanded Child Tax Credit (CTC) expired at the end of 2021.
Meanwhile, the U.S. has 800 billionaires. This morning the five richest Americans are worth a combined one trillion dollars.

Trump’s policy is simple: He sees 10 million children in poverty and believes we should cut their benefits. He sees 800 billionaires and thinks we should cut their taxes.

Trump believes that the rich and powerful should be richer and more powerful, and that the poor should be poorer.

That is nonsense.

So, how does he distract you from this nonsense? With other nonsense.

"I'm still gonna call them an illegal alien," JD Vance recently said about Haitian migrants who are in Ohio legally. This echoes Trump's rhetoric, who claimed during his one debate with Harris that immigrants were eating people’s pets —a claim that originated from a false Facebook post and has no basis in reality.

When Trump pushes this nonsense about Haitians eating pets, it does two things: First, it excites racists and fuels racial division. Second, and more importantly, it distracts voters from his agenda based on his conviction that poor children are not poor enough and the wealthy are not wealthy enough.

He spouts nonsense about immigrants eating your pets or claims that children are coming home from school to unsuspecting parents surprised to learn that their child has had transgender surgery between classes. He spouts nonsense to distract you from the fact that the combined wealth of the five richest Americans is one trillion dollars, and he plans to give these men even more tax breaks.

In short, he’s distracting you from his nonsensical policies with nonsensical lies - his hope apparently that we will be made numb, or senseless with all of his nonsense.

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Here fact checker Daniel Dale of CNN lists some of the completely fictional stories Trump has been recently telling.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/19/politics/fact-check-donald-trump-fictional-stories/index.html