US President Donald Trump delivered a fascist rant Tuesday to the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly in which he proclaimed "America First" should be the world’s organizing principle, threatened war and aggression the world over, and lionized the criminal actions of his administration at home and abroad.
The Democrats are desperate to maintain funding for a fascist administration that is waging war on democratic rights and on the social conditions and jobs of the working class.
Monday’s press conference represents not merely a return to Trump’s prior medical quackery, but a deepening of what can only be characterized as a policy of deliberate social murder that has developed throughout the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
The event in Glendale, Arizona was staged for the purpose of preparing a fascist assault on the working class.
It was not until Tuesday’s cabinet briefing that Starmer spoke against “calls to violence from [a] foreign billionaire”. But even then, the (unnamed) billionaire’s incitement of a far-right coup against his own government passed without comment.
Trump went on national television Wednesday to exploit the shooting and turn Kirk into a martyr to legitimize escalating violence from the far-right and threaten his political opponents.
Over the weekend three Republican governors announced plans to supplement Trump’s deployment of D.C. National Guard, bringing the total number of troops in the capital city to 1,500.
The appointment of E. J. Antoni, to what is supposedly a non-partisan position in the administration, is another significant step in Trump’s efforts to establish a personalised regime.
