Trump’s ‘Life Is Being Put In Danger’ If So, It’s Because He’s Such A Wuss

This is not going to be received the way it is intended. This is a very bad move that right-wing media is making about poor Donald Trump and how abused he is at the hands of Justice Juan Merchan. The intention is to make the judge into a monster. What is happening instead is that Jesse Watters at Fox News is making Trump out to be the wimp that he is and that’s going to blow up. But for now, here’s Watters’ best gambit.

On Monday, for example, anchor Jesse Watters declared that Trump is receiving “similar” treatment to terrorists imprisoned in Guantánamo Bay. And he was serious! “I call it pure evil,” Watters told his audience. “So they’ve taken away his freedom of speech. And now they’ve taken away his freedom of movement. So he has to sit there, all week, for six weeks, and if he says anything, they’ll throw him in jail. If he leaves, they throw him in jail. That’s crazy.”

“I think they bought a million-dollar soccer field for the people in Gitmo,” he added. “I don’t know if Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was able to visit his son for his high school graduation, but it’s similar. They’re freezing him to death, they’re putting him in a meat locker. He said it’s, like, 45 degrees in there, and they’re putting his life in danger. They’re telling the entire world, all the whackos, this is where the former president’s gonna be, at this date, at this time, surrounded by high rise buildings…it’s disgusting.”

It feels pretty silly to fact-check anything that anyone on Fox News ever says, but just a few things of note:

• Trump’s freedom of speech hasn’t been taken away; he’s just not allowed to attack any potential witnesses, among other key figures, in the trial.
• Requiring a defendant to be present for his criminal trial is not taking away his “freedom of movement.”
• Trump’s treatment is actually not “similar” to the treatment of people at Gitmo, that is unless Gitmo prisoners are allowed to fly home to their Palm Beach resorts on the weekends.
• “They’re freezing him to death, they’re putting him in a meat locker.” No notes here; we just wanted to repeat those words for emphasis.

Incredibly, that was not all Watters had to say last night about the supposed injustices Trump is facing. In an amazing moment of unintended hilarity, the Fox News at one point began prescribing a regimen for Trump—and came off sounding like he was giving directions to the pet-sitter taking care of his elderly dog:

Watters: Trump needs exercise. He’s usually golfing and you’re going to put a man who’s almost 80 sitting in a room like this on his butt for all that time? It’s not healthy. He needs sunlight. He needs activity. It’s really cruel and unusual punishment pic.twitter.com/xT1RKZyIgc

— Acyn (@Acyn) April 22, 2024

He needs a piece of bacon. He needs fresh water. I shudder to think if Trump actually would have to spend even a night in county jail, let alone prison. He should consult with his former attorney, Michael Cohen, on that issue. Or his former CFO, Allen Weisselberg, both men can tell him what it’s like in the House Of Many Doors — a place they ended up by doing his bidding.

And Fox News continues to wax historic when talking about Trump’s hush money trial.

Never cross the rube icon. 😁

— @Markle Ω (@Mr_Webcast) April 23, 2024

Now, what does a game show host who bangs a porn star and then pays her hush money have to do with Gaius Julius Caesar starting the Roman Civil War? Anybody? Because this reference is escaping me. I’m thinking I may have to contact that scholar of Roman history, Madison Cawthorn, and see if he can elucidate upon this concept and help us out here.

Bess Levin went on in her Vanity Fair column, quoted above, to predict that the logical progression of this insanity is to conflate Trump’s hush money trial with the crucifixion and since MAGA has already conflated Trump with Jesus Christ, that will come as no surprise to anybody.

Trumpty can stay home and rest tomorrow. He’s back to the meat locker on Thursday. Say, maybe he could bring some Trump Steaks and sell them, ya spose? And when he’s outside with his newest sheaf of articles penned by Legal Experts on how innocent he is, maybe he can sell a few of Melania’s necklaces as well? Is it too early to sell Mel’s Christmas ornaments, too?