Former president Donald Trump called Melania ‘Mercedes’ as he praised his wife during a speech in Washington DC. The crowd at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) gave the former First Lady a standing ovation as Mr Trump described how “people love her”. “Oh look at that Mercedes, that’s pretty good” he said as the audience stood and applauded. The GOP presidential hopeful was making the keynote speech on 24 February on the same day as voters head to the polls in the South Carolina primary.
Foreign-funded propaganda masquerading as legitimate news and foreign-funded legislators have a LOT to do with this, as well as manipulated social media.
If it were still illegal for a media outlet to call itself news without holding itself to journalistic standards, we would not be having nearly the problems in the US we are having today. “Divided we fall,” and so it is.
And if you look around, that was also the case with Brexit in 2016, and with the rise of other far-right demagogues around the world since then.
One of the real reasons I want to see regime change in Russia. They’re too good at fucking with us.