I did NOT watch the entire joke of a press conference Trump held last week at MAGA-Lardo, but I’m assuming it was a reporter from Fox News or a similar ilk who asked Trump about Willie Brown. Why would a reporter ask Trump about Willie Brown? Because MAGAts are trying to make Vice President Kamala Harris out to be a hizzy, a jezebel, a trollop, a skank, and a low-life ho. Let’s back up.
Harris and Brown dated in 1994 and 1995 when she was a prosecutor in Alameda County, which includes Oakland, and Brown was the Assembly speaker. Brown appointed Harris to two state boards before she ended their relationship. Brown was later the mayor of San Francisco. The reporter was trying to get Trump to attack Harris and claim Brown helped her career which fits into a right-wing narrative started four years ago that she slept her way to the top.
This is how sexism works. A man asks another man who has a long history of cheating on his several wives, sexually assaulting women and “grabbing them by the pussy” if he has a critical opinion of a woman’s sex life.
Trump got off track (no pun intended for the cartoon) and went down a rabbit hole about how he knew Brown very well and that they almost shared a helicopter crash.
Trump said, “Well, I know Willie Brown very well. In fact, I went down in a helicopter with him.”
Trump claimed they were riding in a helicopter, and while Brown was telling Trump “terrible things” about Kamala Harris, (Trump claims that Brown “was not fan of hers very much”), and at that point the chopper started having mechanical issues. It made a safe landing and Trump claims Brown’s face had turned white.
That’s a racist movie trope. Something will scare a Black man and he’ll get bug-eyed while his face turns white.
When asked, Brown said he had never flown in a helicopter with Trump or had talked trash about Harris to Trump because he “admires and respects her.”
“Those are the two things I am certain of,” he said. “All the rest of this is amusing.”
But, the episode did happen, just not with Willie Brown. It was another black guy.
Trump is threatening to sue The New York Time for reporting that the story isn’t true. Trump claimed there were “Logs, Maintenance Records, and Witnesses” to back up his account. Unfortunately, the only flight records they found were of him flying on Jeffrey Epstein’s plane to Penetration Island.
Nate Holden, 95, a former Los Angeles city councilman and state senator, said in an interview with The Times that he had been on a helicopter ride with Trump around 1990 when it experienced mechanical trouble and was forced to make an emergency landing in New Jersey.
That’s kinda like Escape from New York in reverse. In a future dystopian America, Manhattan has been made a prison and the president’s plane goes down in it. Snake Plisken (Kurt Russell) is roped in to rescue the president. None of this makes any sense because if a borough of New York City was going to be made into a prison, it would be Staten Island. Maybe it already has. Who could tell? Did I just go down a rabbit hole? Anyway…
Executive vice president of construction and development for the Trump Organization, Barbara Res, was also on the flight and she backs up Holden’s claim. Holden and Res both said it was Trump who turned white which you would know since he’s usually a hideous orange. Also, Res confirmed it was Holden in the helicopter and NOT Willie Brown.
If Trump does find those flight records, they’ll probably list…Passengers: Trump, Barbara Res, Black guy.”
Holden was upset that Trump failed to maintain his helicopters when just a year before, one of his choppers did go down and killed three senior executives to his casino business (which also later went down).
Holden said, “I just thought, how the hell do you let your staff not maintain your aircraft after you just had a crash that killed some of your staff? How could you let this happen again? I thought, if we go down, this is your fault.”
How, Mr. Holden? He’s cheap.
After Holden watched Trump’s wreck of a press conference, he recounted to The Times, “I said, ‘What the hell is this? Was he in two near-fatal helicopter crashes? He didn’t fix those damn helicopters yet?’”
And then Holden called Brown and asked if he too had been in a near-fatal crash with Trump. Brown told Holden it wasn’t him (why would he deny it?) and Holden replied, “Willie, you know what? That’s me! You’re a short Black guy and I’m a tall Black guy — but we all look alike, right?”
Well, you look alike to Donald Trump. He once confused Ben Carson for a brown M&M. Dammit. That’s a cartoon.
Willie Brown is about six inches shorter than Holden and is bald while Holden is not.
Holden said, “I just think he makes things up. That’s what I think. He never thought anybody’s going to check.”
When asked if Trump may have confused the two men because they’re both Black, Brown said, “I wouldn’t want to conclude that he can’t tell Black people apart, because I’d hate for him to think that I’m Beyoncé.” Dammit, Willie. That’s another cartoon!
Last night, Trump was in another wreck, this time a train wreck during an interview conducted by Elon Musk on Xitter. By the way, isn’t that a campaign contribution? He’s using his platform to promote Trump. If this was legit, Elon would conduct interviews with Trump and Kamala Harris…and he’d have a real journalist interview them, not someone (himself) who has endorsed Donald Trump.
The entire thing consisted of two rich white assholes fawning over each other and celebrating that they’re both trust-fund babies.
There were technical problems with the stream which Elon blamed on hackers and too many people trying to sign in. Maybe it was the Iranians who Trump has accused of hacking into his campaign. What would the Iranians find in the computer system of the Trump Campaign anyway? Documents on converting all campaign contributions into golden sneakers and legal fees?
During the interview, Trump told over 20 lies which is a slow day for him. But he also praised Elon for being the “greatest cutter.”
Trump praised Elon for firing striking auto workers and not allowing them to unionize. Let that soak in.
Trump is behind Kamala Harris in the blue auto states and he praised Elon for firing auto workers. Enjoy your next rally in Detroit, Tiny.
Trump also has a long history of trashing electric cars but now says he has to support them because Elon endorsed him. Elon has also promised to give Trump $45 million each month between now and the election. That’s what we call a bribe.
In November, let’s make sure we’re the cutters and cut Trump. Damn. that’s another cartoon.
Hopefully, the Trump train will continue to derail.
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Great cartoon and blog today, Clay! I couldn't bring myself to watch the interview since I'm still sick (3rd week) with COVID and didn't want to add vomiting to the mix of symptoms. I can't stand looking at either of those two creeps. I'm glad that Willie Brown and Nate Holden have a sense of humor at least.
Lot's of good Easter eggs in this one!