Last updated on July 17th, 2023 at 09:56 pm
Donald Trump doesn’t just invent things – he changes the facts if the first set of facts doesn’t work out as hoped. For example, his executive order banning travelers from seven countries that primarily affected Muslims and was therefore widely known as a Muslim ban (and first a ban, not a ban and then whatever you want to call it), was derailed by a federal judge.
His response was to rip the judge as a “so-called” judge. That got him nowhere, of course. Which for Trump meant it was time for him to change his story.
As a result, Trump is no longer calling the ban an executive order. You know, the one he proudly held up for the cameras as part of his political theater. Trump vowed to act and now he has: Rather than take credit for his failed decision, the so-called president is claiming it was a Department of Homeland Security decision:
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What is our country coming to when a judge can halt a Homeland Security travel ban and anyone, even with bad intentions, can come into U.S.?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 4, 2017
Because the ban was lifted by a judge, many very bad and dangerous people may be pouring into our country. A terrible decision
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 4, 2017
Why aren't the lawyers looking at and using the Federal Court decision in Boston, which is at conflict with ridiculous lift ban decision?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 4, 2017
CNN’s Ana Navarro was quick to point to the real culprits in the Trump administration (if not Trump himself):
Not a Homeland Security Tavel ban. It's an unconstitutional ban cooked up by couple of malevolent and incompetent keystone cops in Trump WH. https://t.co/JjytDyx0Pq
— Ana Navarro (@ananavarro) February 4, 2017
Donald Trump can’t stand to lose. Unfortunately for him, there is nothing he can do right now but fume and lie. Though these are two things he excels at, they will get him nowhere.
The Department of Homeland Security did not issue the ban. Donald Trump did. Telling lies now won’t change the fact that he tried to ban Muslims from these shores and failed – failed spectacularly.
Hrafnkell Haraldsson, a social liberal with leanings toward centrist politics has degrees in history and philosophy. His interests include, besides history and philosophy, human rights issues, freedom of choice, religion, and the precarious dichotomy of freedom of speech and intolerance. He brings a slightly different perspective to his writing, being that he is neither a follower of an Abrahamic faith nor an atheist but a polytheist, a modern-day Heathen who follows the customs and traditions of his Norse ancestors. He maintains his own blog, A Heathen’s Day, which deals with Heathen and Pagan matters, and Mos Maiorum Foundation www.mosmaiorum.org, dedicated to ethnic religion. He has also contributed to NewsJunkiePost, GodsOwnParty and Pagan+Politics.
