Column by Gualterio Casias
You know, when I read Mike Bibb’s column about Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris and her disagreements, (Editorial: Is it flip-flop or flop-flip? – Gila Herald – August 26, 2024) I couldn’t help but wonder if he was actually holding up a mirror to Republican candidate Donald Trump.
This is nothing new. Republicans call others “snowflakes” and then demand the removal of something that represents an opinion that contradicts theirs.
But the king of opinion change is probably none other than 78-year-old Donald John Trump from Florida, who has now become a mere puppet whose strings are pulled by his billionaire masters from the financial world.
What? Go away, you say. Well, there are the receipts.
Trump used to be 100 percent against cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, calling them “an impending disaster” and “non-existent.” Add to that a meeting with some crypto lobbyists willing to shell out some campaign cash, and hey, what can you say: Trump now loves cryptocurrencies and vows to make the US the crypto capital of the planet.
“Okay, okay,” you say, “that’s just an example. Now, let’s move on.”
And what about TikTok? You know, the social media app that’s so bad that Trump asked Congress to ban it in America and even signed an executive order himself to make that happen. Well, after meeting with a billionaire who owns a large stake in TikTok, Trump has jumped on the bandwagon and is posting on the app himself.
And then there was Budweiser beer. Trump called for a boycott of the drink simply because of a questionable marketing strategy involving transgender social media star Dylan Mulvaney.
After Anheuser-Busch (the company that owns Budweiser) held a fundraiser for Trump, Donald changed his mind and said everyone should now buy Budweiser.
Have you noticed a trend? Does it seem like the greatest fraudster of our modern times is himself for sale? And not even to the highest bidder, but to anyone who will give him a little change? Well, he owes $450 million in civil fraud penalties in New York.
But that wouldn’t affect his core principles, would it? I mean, Trump has always been against electrification of vehicles, and that was one of his main arguments. He wouldn’t change his mind, would he? Nobody is coming to take away my gas-powered truck, right?
After Tesla owner Elon Musk reportedly broke his commitment to donate $45 million a month to Trump’s campaign, the Donald changed his mind and now loves electric vehicles and thinks you should try one yourself. I know this must be confusing for his diehard supporters who probably can’t keep up, but yes, Donald Trump is now all for electric cars because, you see, Elon Musk also owns X (formerly known as Twitter) and Donald Trump wants to use this media application to spread his campaign. By the way, it was recently revealed that Musk partially used funds from the sons of two Russian oligarchs (Denis Aven and Jack Moszkowicz) to buy Twitter for $44 billion. Both men’s fathers, Petr Aven and Vadim Moszkowicz, have political and business ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
For a group that claims to have the best policies, Trump’s policies seem to be those of the person who pays him.
And to conclude this lesson in disagreement, we can now all rejoice in the complete fall of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the crazy guy with the worm-eaten brain who, for fun, dumped a dead bear in Central Park and chopped off the head of a whale and tied it to the roof of his car.
Recently, RFK Jr. announced his support for Trump at a rally in Glendale after suspending his own presidential campaign. And just like the long list of Trump opponents who railed against Donald Trump to the point of wanting his favor (I’m looking at you, JD Vance), RFK Jr. has kissed the pinky ring.
RFK Jr. had previously posted on X on May 10: “UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES will I join Donald Trump on a ballot. Our positions on certain fundamental issues, our approaches to governing, and our leadership philosophies could not be more different.”
And according to the New Yorker, RFK Jr. called Trump “a terrible human being” and “probably a sociopath.”
And yet there he stood on Friday, hand in hand singing Trump’s praises.
Donald, for his part, said in a May 1 post on Trump’s own Truth Social that FoxNews had called RFK Jr. “the dumbest member of the Kennedy clan” and that he was a “radical left-wing lunatic whose crazy views on climate change make the Democrats’ new green hoax look conservative.” (sic)
And in his May 9 video, he said he would rather have Joe Biden as president than RFK Jr.
“I would even prefer Biden (RFK) Jr. because our country would last about a year or two longer than with Jr. It would collapse almost immediately,” Trump said.
In June, Trump was still calling Kennedy a “fake idiot of the radical left” (sic), but in August Kennedy suspended his campaign, and now the two are very close: RFK Jr. will join Trump’s transition team if elected.
And as for the claim that Kennedy was the dumbest president, Trump now thinks the guy with the worm-eaten brain is brilliant simply because he now supports him.
My goodness, who would have thought?
It’s probably worth remembering the saying that people who live in glass houses don’t throw stones. If you claim that Harris is a flip-flop patient, I’ll be happy to explain to you point by point why Donald J. Trump is the flip-flop professor.
The opinions expressed in this editorial are those of the author.
