Trump's Civility Con Job Falls Apart
"Shut up and build the ballroom" is dumb — even for MAGA.
The MAGA brain trust, summoned to its keyboards like dyspeptic moths to a Twitter flame, settles on its message within roughly the time it takes Karoline Leavitt to blink her dull, porcine eyes. That message, in full: Democrats did this, shut up forever, and also, taxpayers should fund Donald’s $400 million party bunker.
It is, even by the historically generous standards of the MAGA cinematic universe, a thunderingly stupid response to a serious moment.
Let’s take it apart, because I’m never, ever going to shut up about the profound damage Trump has done to this nation and the world until he’s moldering in his piss-soaked grave…and the ballroom might just become the nail in the political coffins of more than a few Republican Members of Congress.
Demand One: “Stop criticizing Donald Trump, or you are responsible for political violence.”
This is the rhetorical equivalent of the arsonist suing the fire department. The same political movement that pardoned more than a thousand J6 attackers, including the ones who curb-stomped Capitol Police officers and attacked them with flagpoles and bear spray, is now lecturing the country about the dangers of inflammatory speech.
You know, President Donald Trump, America’s voice of civility and reason.
That President.
The same president who has posted on Temu Social hundreds of times about charging his political opponents with treason, which carries the death penalty. The same President who fantasized aloud about “one really violent day” of crime purging America. The same President who said Liz Cheney should face a military tribunal, who mused about shooting shoplifters, who routinely calls the press “enemies of the people,” and who joked about Paul Pelosi getting his skull caved in with a hammer.