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| Danielle Carter-Walters |
The president sat in the Oval Office Friday, praising the National Guard. In mid-August, he deployed the D.C. guard to Washington, where they patrol the National Mall, keeping a careful eye on tourists — what tourists there are, considering the number of visitors to the United States is down by 22%, a loss of $12.5 billion, thanks to America's performative hostility to foreigners.
Fresh from that triumph, he said Chicago is next.
Why us? Why are we so fortunate?
"The people in Chicago ..." the president said, "are screaming for us to come."
They are? Did I miss that? Who in Chicago, exactly, is screaming?
The president gave hints. Chicagoans who "are wearing red hats, just like this one."
He himself was wearing a jumbo baseball cap emblazoned "TRUMP WAS RIGHT ABOUT EVERYTHING!" Part of his new line of Trump merchandise that includes "Trump 2028' and "4 More Years" hats. There are photographs.
"They are wearing red hats," the president continued. "African American ladies, beautiful ladies, are saying, 'Please, President Trump, come to Chicago, please."
They are? I was about to laugh this off as mere mendacity. But for all the slander directed at the media, we still do that truthy-facty thing. Before I could ridicule the notion of Black Chicago women begging for troops to frisk them at bus stops, I had to go looking.
I quickly found Danielle Carter-Walters, a personal fitness trainer. She indeed has been pleading for precisely this.
"We knew he had been listening to us," said Carter-Walters, a co-founder of Chicago Flips Red, a group of Trump supporters. "When I saw it, I said, 'Oh, wow.' We've been asking for it in our videos. Now, he's doing it."
So I asked: She sincerely believes Chicago will benefit from the National Guard patrolling its streets?
"Yes, I do," said Carter-Walters, who lives in Marquette Park. "Our communities are out of control. The destruction. The devastation of what's happening. We are being displaced out of our homes by illegal aliens.
"I stay on the South Side of Chicago. I'm living the experience. You can't sit in your car without worrying about being robbed, mugged, shot, carjacked. We definitely need something to be done."
She said her group has only eight members, but more are out there.
"There's a lot of us, thousands, silently supporting us," she said. "People think that Black women can't be MAGA. People are starting to see there's a lot of us."
I did not start writing today's column intending to platform a Trump fan. But the story led me there.
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She has a point but Trump isn't the answer.
ReplyDeleteThat woman is a gullible fool.
ReplyDeleteHe doesn't love America, he hates it, he wants to turn it into Putin's Russia or with that disgusting Stephen Miller around, into Nazi Germany!
he's an outright fascist who wants to be king & then pass the crown to his coke addled son Junior, or his massively plastic surgery altered equally stupid daughter, the one he's apparently molested, Ivanka.
BTW, apparently Ivanka tweeted out yesterday attacking South Park, saying "his penis isn't that small".
Now exactly how would she know that about her father, unless of course she's saying he did molest her?