Column By Gualterio Casias
You know, as I read Mike Bibb’s column on the Democratic candidate for president Kamala Harris and flip-flopping, (Editorial: Is it flip-flop or flop-flip? – Gila Herald – Aug. 26, 2024) I couldn’t help but wonder if in actuality he was holding a mirror up to the Republican candidate instead, Donald Trump.
This is not new. Republicans call others “snowflakes” and then they call for canceling something that dares express a view counter to theirs.
But the king of flip flops has to be none other than Donald John Trump, 78, of Florida, who has gravitated to merely being a puppet with his strings held by his financial billionaire masters.
What? Get out of here, you say. Well, there are the receipts.
Trump used to be 100 percent against cryptocurrency like Bitcoin and called it “a disaster waiting to happen” and that they were “based on thin air.” Throw in a meeting with some crypto lobbyists willing to fork over some campaign cash and hey, what do you know, Trump now loves crypto and vows to make the USA the crypto capital of the planet.
Ok, Ok, you say, that is just one example. Well, let’s go on.
What about TikTok? You know, the social media application that is so bad Trump called for Congress to ban it in America and even signed an executive order attempting to do so himself. Well, after meeting with a billionaire with a big stake in TikTok, Trump is on the bandwagon and making posts to the app himself.
Then there was Budweiser beer. Trump promoted a boycott of the beverage simply due to its questionable marketing strategy using transgender social media personality Dylan Mulvaney.
After Anheuser-Busch (the company that owns Budweiser) threw Trump a fundraiser the Donald reversed course and said everyone should be buying Budweiser now.
Have you seen a trend? Does it look like the biggest grifter in our modern times is just for sale himself? And not even to the highest bidder but anyone who gives him a chunk of change? Well, he does owe $450 million in civil fraud penalties in New York.
That wouldn’t affect his core principles though, would it? I mean, Trump has been against the electrification of vehicles as one of his big talking points. He wouldn’t flip-flop on that, right? Ain’t nobody gonna come to take my gas-powered truck, right?
Well, after Tesla owner Elon Musk reneged on a reported $45 million per month pledge to Trump’s campaign, the Donald changed his tune and now loves electric vehicles and thinks you ought to try one yourself. I know, this must be confusing to his die-hard followers who probably can’t keep up, but yes, Donald Trump is all for electric cars now because, you see, Elon Musk also owns X, (formerly known as Twitter) and Donald Trump would like to use that media application to spread his campaign. By the way, it was recently released that Musk partially utilized funding from the sons of two Russian oligarchs (Denis Aven and Jack Moszkowicz) to purchase Twitter for $44 billion. Both men’s fathers, Petr Aven and Vadim Moszkowicz have political and economic ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
For a group who says they have the best policy, it seems that Trump’s policy is that of whoever pays him.
And to finish this education on flip-flopping, we can now all rejoice in the total fall of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the wacky guy with the worm-eaten brain who dumped a dead bear in Central Park as a goof and chopped off a whale’s head and tied it to the top of his car.
Recently at a rally in Glendale, RFK Jr. announced his support for Trump after suspending his own campaign for president. And just like the long list of never-Trumpers who railed against Donald Trump until they wanted his favor (I’m looking at you J.D. Vance), RFK Jr. has kissed the pinkie ring.
RFK Jr. previously posted on X on May 10 that “UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES will I join Donald Trump on an electoral ticket. Our positions on certain fundamental issues, our approaches to governance, and our philosophies of leadership could not be further apart.”
And, according to the New Yorker, RFK Jr. called Trump, “a terrible human being” and “probably a sociopath.”
Yet there he was on Friday, now singing Trump’s praises hand-in-hand.
For his part, on May 1 in a post on Trump’s own Truth Social, Donald said FoxNews called RFK Jr. “the dumbest member of the Kennedy Clan,” and that he was a “Radical Left Lunatic whose crazy Climate Change views make the Democrat’s Green New Scam look Conservative.” (sic)
And in his May 9 video, he said he would rather have Joe Biden as president than RFK Jr.
“I’d even take Biden over (RFK) Jr. because our country would last about a year or two longer than it would with Jr., It would collapse almost immediately,” Trump said.
Trump was still calling Kennedy a “Phony Radical Left fool” (sic) when June hit but by August Kennedy had suspended his campaign and now they are two peas in a pod with RFK Jr. set to join Trump’s transition team if elected.
And as far as being the dumbest Kennedy, Trump now thinks the guy with the worm-eaten brain is brilliant simply because he now supports him.
Gee, who woulda thunk it?
One should probably remember the adage of a person living in a glass house not throwing stones. If you claim Harris is a flip-flopper, I’m happy to explain point by point how Donald J. Trump is the professor of flip-flopping.
The opinions expressed in this editorial are those of the author.
