trump is a traitor who hates america, so are his followers

For the past eight years Fox News has raked President Obama
over the coals alleging (falsely) that he doesn’t believe in
American exceptionalism. It became a fixed component of their
formulaic anti-Obama messaging that dove-tailed with their
attacks on his patriotism and demands to see his birth
certificate. They wanted to know how he could possibly be
president if he didn’t have an all-consuming sense of national
superiority. RELATED: Trump To America: I Got A Big D (Ahem)
“Ego” 

For the record, Obama frequently articulated a deep and
personal gratitude for his homeland and cited his own
remarkable career as evidence of what makes America
exceptional. But that wasn’t enough for the tunnel-blind Fox
Newsers and Republicans who don’t see or hear anything that
conflicts with their bigoted preconceptions. 

So what will they do now that Donald Trump has explicitly said
that he doesn’t believe American exceptionalism, as he did
recently at a meeting of Tea Party “patriots” in Texas? Do you
think the GOP and Fox zombies will mind? Try and wade through
this dialogical disgorgement to see exactly what Trump thinks
of the country he says he will make great again: 

    “I don’t like the term. I’ll be honest with you. People
    say, ‘Oh he’s not patriotic.’ Look, if I’m a Russian, or
    I’m a German, or I’m a person we do business with, why, you
    know, I don’t think it’s a very nice term. We’re
    exceptional; you’re not. First of all, Germany is eating
    our lunch. So they say, ‘Why are you exceptional. We’re
    doing a lot better than you.’ I never liked the term. And
    perhaps that’s because I don’t have a very big ego
    [audience laughs] and I don’t need terms like that.
    Honestly. When you’re doing business — I watch Obama every
    once in a while saying ‘American exceptionalism,’ it’s
    [Trump scowls]. I don’t like the term. Because we’re
    dealing — First of all, I want to take everything back from
    the world that we’ve given them. We’ve given them so much.
    On top of taking it back, I don’t want to say, ‘We’re
    exceptional. We’re more exceptional.’ Because essentially
    we’re saying we’re more outstanding than you. ‘By the way,
    you’ve been eating our lunch for the last 20 years, but
    we’re more exceptional than you.’ I don’t like the term. I
    never liked it. When I see these politicians get up… ‘the
    American exceptionalism ‘- we’re dying. We owe 18 trillion
    in debt. I’d like to make us exceptional. And I’d like to
    talk later instead of now. Does that make any sense?
    Because I think you’re insulting the world. And you, know,
    Jim, if you’re German, or you’re from Japan, or you’re from
    China, you don’t want to have people saying that. I never
    liked the expression. And I see a lot of good patriots get
    up and talk about Amer… — you can think it, but I don’t
    think we should say it. We may have a chance to say it in
    the not-too-distant future. But even then, I wouldn’t say
    it because when I take back the jobs, and when I take back
    all that money and we get all our stuff, I’m not going to
    rub it in. Let’s not rub it in. Let’s not rub it in. But I
    never liked that term.“ 

Did you sort of get the feeling that Trump doesn’t like the
term American exceptionalism? If you managed to make it through
that nearly incoherent rambling, you will also have noticed
that, not only does Trump not believe that America is
exceptional, he doesn’t believe it’s even adequate. He rattles
off a long list of failings that portray a “dying” America as
inferior to many other nations who are “eating our lunch.” No
wonder he titled his book Crippled America. RELATED: Fox News
‘Psycho’ Analyst: Donald Trump’s Narcissism Is Exactly What
America Needs 

The question now is whether Fox News and the robo-conservatives
will hold Trump to the same standard that they held Obama. Will
they condemn him as traitorous and unfit to lead a nation of
patriotic narcissists? Or will they convince themselves that
this never happened and their hero is still the anointed orange
savior of America? I think we already know the answer. Watch
Donald Trump repudiate American exceptionalism