The word trump derives from triumph, implicit in Ivanka Trump’s book a decade ago, The Trump Card: Playing to Win in Work and Life. It was “written as a self-help book aimed at helping women achieve success in work and life,” according to Wikipedia.
The term trump card and race card share common ground, described by the online dictionary as “something that gives one person or group the advantage over another” or the “final resort but often the easiest way out.” Ironically, the race card is a version of the trump card that peppers the evening news as it attacks President Trump.
Yes, the Democratic Party is synonymous with its all-but-unanimous mouthpiece, mainstream television. While the one angrily screams “racism,” the other calmly pretends to portray it as factual news. Woe to all those in the population who are presented with no other alternative, including sophisticated and educated people who are too busy to check further sources, like Donald Trump in his own, brief words.
We can thank journalist Monica Showalter today at American Thinker for putting some of Trump’s Tweets into context: “Just as he forced Democrats to defend the far-left ‘Squad’ in his unexpected ambush on Rep. Ilhan Omar and her pals, he’s now forcing Democrats to own the urban shambles and filth that characterize one-party blue-city rule, putting all Democrats on their backfoot. That’s what’s behind his surprise Twitter assault that began with Rep. Elijah Cummings and his rat-infested Baltimore district, which pretty much came out of the blue.”
Showalter collects some of Trump’s “unusually long string of street-fighting tweets, all of them calculated to hit Democrats where it hurts” in her article “Baltimore Ambush: Trump forces Democrats to defend the indefensible, again”:
She concludes by asking “What’s he doing? Forcing a new narrative as election time kicks in, making Democrats have to address the reality that they have been in power for decades in one-party blue districts and cities, and they have left those districts smoking ruins, rat-infested hellholes, ‘places no human being would want to live,’ complete with live-action shots. The video of the Baltimore resident decrying the Democratic area’s neglect is absolutely deadly.”
Trump is out to capture large swaths of the black and urban voting base, now Democratic Party strongholds and Sanctuary Cities, including being the home of Big Liberal Media which is the news and entertainment transmitter to rural and small town America: “Obviously, Trump’s aim is to cut deep into the black vote, by laying the blame for the decayed urban cities many are forced to live in, on Democrats and forcing them to defend that record. Blacks are Democrats’ political base, and they’re also the prime victims of blue-city policies as well as all the neglect inherent in them as Democrats focus on saving the earth by banning plastic straws or else offering free health care to every illegal border crosser, so it’s an unusually bold attack.”
Democrats are mindlessly playing the race card, leaving Trump free to creatively respond with the only real political tool still remaining, Twitter: “How are Democrats going to defend themselves from this one? In one-party blue cities, states and districts, there’s no one to blame but themselves. Trump’s tactic is particularly ripe for propagation in solid-blue, shambling expensive California and already Trump is moving his attack onto Pelosi with his latest tweets. Thus far, Democrats are fighting back by yelling ‘racism.’ It’s a tired, weak weapon, grotesquely overused, and unlikely to rally black voters to Democrats, given the truth of Trump’s tweets. What’s more, it can’t be employed by Pelosi, who’s white. The issue and the narrative Trump is pushing out there is that all-blue cities are hellholes and they’ve been made hellholes because Democrats did it.”
Showalter must be right, especially since the Democratic Party/Big Media coalition was identical during the 2016 election. Trump’s triumph or trump card victory was more than a miracle, really a testament to his strength. Conservative GOP became the center, diminishing the machines run by establishment careerists: “This is political brutality cubed, a sign that Trump is a going to be[a]formidable candidate to Democrats seeking to unhorse him. What it shows is Trump not only means to ‘win’ against his opponents, he intends to annihilate them. His election game is on and he’s not playing beanbag. He using the same powerful tactics he was able use on Pelosi and her bickering ‘squad’ which had the effect of forcing Pelosi to defend the indefensible and making Rep. Ilhan Omar the face of the Democratic Party. Now he’s making urban decay the second face of the Democratic Party. His poll numbers went up after the first one. Count on them going up again after this.”
President Trump’s latest tweet (as I type):
“More Baltimore’s numbers are the worst in the United States on Crime and the Economy. Billions of dollars have been pumped in over the years, but to no avail. The money was stolen or wasted. Ask Elijah Cummings where it went. He should investigate himself with his Oversight Committee!”