The political mix master that is the mind of Donald Trump is busy grinding away today and here’s the latest mishmash of history, hyperbole and disinformation.
Sleepy Joe Biden has spent 47 years in politics being terrible to Hispanics. Now he is relying on Castro lover Bernie Sanders to help him out. That won’t work! Remember, Miami Cubans gave me the highly honored Bay of Pigs Award for all I have done for our great Cuban Population!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 13, 2020
His Bay of Pigs Award is on the wall with his Michigan Man Of The Year award — both invisible, because they don’t exist.
After all, Osama bin Laden’s niece Noor bin Laden also recently endorsed Trump. Does that mean that Trump has won the prestigious Osama bin Laden Award?
— Eugene Gu, MD (@eugenegu) September 13, 2020
The thing is that it was, according to local news coverage, an unprecedented endorsement from the Bay of Pigs Veterans. So Trump could accurately boast about it. But he often seems to prefer wrongness to even impressive-sounding correctness – no truth too good not to embellish.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 13, 2020
I wonder if those vets would endorse him again?
There is a huge Cuban Republicans for Biden movement in Miami. We know dictators and Trump is it.
— Fabulous Woman (@RedondoRox) September 13, 2020
It looks like, once again, Florida will be the centerpiece of this election. Or, at least an interesting spectacle in it.
Well he is a pig and the way the polls are going, he’s at bay
That’s an award he could win. Also, if baying at the moon was something to be awarded, he could probably get in that competition as well.
Maybe it was the Baying Pig award. That’d make more sense.
‘at bay’ means , more or less, trapped in a corner and hitting out at anyone in range
Where did he hang Twit of the Year?
Or even of the century?
Florida COULD get surpassed as a centerpiece if Texas goes for Biden by however slight a margin.
Fabulous Woman nails it, and the Bay of Pigs was a disaster. If there were such an award, Trump would get it.
Roger, that was my first thought!
Ah, the irony of Trump’s “award” (no matter how bizarre it would be, even if a real thing) is that, in his last run for the White House, he played the fears of a “caravan” of illegal immigrants (mainly populated by bloodthirsty gang members as well as run-of-the-mill murderers and rapists) coming to the US from Mexico and Central America and taking over and terrorizing “good (White) Americans” and that he, the Donald, was the lone person to stop this horde.
Now, he’s bragging about an endorsement from a group representing the only bunch of ILLEGAL immigrants to get to enter the US with no real obstacles–even in the past few decades, the only “obstacle” was they had to set foot on US soil *before* being intercepted by the Coast Guard or Navy. The overwhelming majority of the Cuban-American community (most of whose older members spent more time planning on returning to Cuba, rather than truly integrating into US society), after 1961, needed merely to claim “political” persecution and they were allowed to stay in the US without all the other obstacles other immigrants face; the “political” claims didn’t even have to be proved (immigrants fleeing genuine political persecution in places like Guatemala and El Salvador–two US allies–would be denied, no matter how much evidence they had).
It’s actually beyond ironic that the man who famously claimed not liking “losers” is bragging about this endorsement by an actual group of “losers” who wouldn’t be around to have endorsed him in 2016 if they’d won their fight back in 1961.
Joseph, ????????
Well now Joseph, you hit upon a part of American history that isn’t widely reported on. True dat!
What does Himself know of the Bay of Pigs? He really should be asked what it was about, at a press “conference”.
I had a friend/girl friend growing up that came from Cuba. Her dad had been a dentist in Cuba, but taught Spanish at the local black college. This was back in the 60’s. My cousin married a Cuban girl down in Homestead back several years ago. She pushed a bogus resume claiming she was a CPA and got a big job with Hostess. She didn’t even have a college degree. The Cubans control what the Russians don’t down in Miami it seams. That may be a bit simplistic. However, they do seem to have an inordinate amount of power.
The Cuban’s anger at Democrats because of Kennedy and the Bay of Pigs is about like Mississippi racist anger over the voting rights act and LBJ. Both attitudes are childish and immature and have resulted in god knows how much death, theft and destruction by Republicans.
It’s mostly older Cubans, I suspect – just like in California it’s the older Vietnamese who are strongly conservative.