Like in 2016, President Donald Trump seems to want to found his re-election campaign on outright lies. On Wednesday, the day after Trump delivered a rambling, campaign-style speech in the Rose Garden in which he ranted against presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, Trump continued the anti-Biden meltdown with an array of anti-Biden Twitter posts that he shared. He brazenly and ludicrously lied about the Biden campaign platform. For example, Trump claimed that Biden wants to “Abolish Police, Abolish ICE, Abolish Bail, Abolish Suburbs, [and] Abolish the 2nd Amendment” — all of which is an outright lie and some of which is brazenly ridiculous to even claim about Biden in the first place.
Trump’s latest Rose Garden rant illustrated why his daily coronavirus press conferences ultimately backfired and damaged him politically. Unhinged and borderline delusional isn’t a good look, especially while a deadly pandemic is ravaging the country.
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 14, 2020
Trump posted:
‘The Biden-Sanders unity plan takes a sledgehammer to charter schools, punishing students for their zip codes. No one will be SAFE in Joe Biden’s America!.. Joe Biden and the Radical Left want to Abolish Police, Abolish ICE, Abolish Bail, Abolish Suburbs, Abolish the 2nd Amendment – and Abolish the American Way of Life. No one will be SAFE in Joe Biden’s America!’
The Biden-Sanders unity plan takes a sledgehammer to charter schools, punishing students for their zip codes. No one will be SAFE in Joe Biden’s America!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 15, 2020
Joe Biden and the Radical Left want to Abolish Police, Abolish ICE, Abolish Bail, Abolish Suburbs, Abolish the 2nd Amendment – and Abolish the American Way of Life. No one will be SAFE in Joe Biden’s America!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 15, 2020
What is that even supposed to mean? Trump says that Biden wants to “Abolish Suburbs” — can he explain, in actual, tangible terms, what that’s even supposed to mean? It’s clearly supposed to sound scary to his base, but it means nothing and has no apparent relationship whatsoever to the actual substance of Joe Biden’s policy proposals. This week, Biden rolled out policy proposals like a plan to spend trillions on modernizing the nation’s energy infrastructure in order to make it more protective of the climate. That’s an actual, tangible plan, whose specifics can be pointed to — and all Trump has is this nonsensical gobbledygook.
"Is there anyone around the president who shakes their head when they hear him rambling in the Rose Garden like this?"@Acosta: "No. We are down to kool-aid drinkers and next of kin here at the Trump White House. There are no more adults who will level with the president." pic.twitter.com/UM15OvZmZ1
— Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen) July 15, 2020
He’s panicking in the wake of seemingly forever dismal poll numbers. Currently, Biden leads Trump by an average of 8.8 percent in national polls, according to RealClearPolitics. Biden also has leads in crucial swing states like Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, all of which Trump won in 2016 and were crucial to his victory. Meanwhile, on Wednesday, Trump also tweeted messages of support for individuals in Iran who the government was planning to execute. He included the hashtag “#StopExecutionsInIran.” Just this week, Trump’s own administration restarted the death penalty after 13 years of no federal executions.
Three individuals were sentenced to death in Iran for participating in protests. The execution is expected momentarily. Executing these three people sends a terrible signal to the world and should not be done! #StopExecutionsInIran
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 15, 2020
Check out Twitter’s response to Trump below: