04 February 2020

Kansas City

Minutes after the Kansas City Chiefs won the Super Bowl on Sunday, Donald Trump posted on his Twitter account: "Congratulations to the Kansas City Chiefs on a great game, and a fantastic comeback, under immense pressure. You represented the Great State of Kansas and, in fact, the entire USA, so very well."

Kansas City, the team's hometown, is in Missouri, not in Kansas.

This sort of Trumpian ignorance is not a surprise. A lazy, underwhelming student at best in his younger years, as an adult he brags about how he reads as little as possible.

This incident is hardly a surprise and, in the big picture, he's done far worse.

What's truly surprising and disturbing is how his loyalists were bending over backwards yesterday weaving up stories about how Trump was not wrong about Kansas City (details here). This sort of obsequious groveling is commonly seen in cults and dictatorships.

Any other President would attempt to tamper down such idolatry because it's inherently un-American. Trump, however, revels in it, in yet another demonstration of why he's unfit to serve as President.

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