Donald Trump caves yet again

If Donald Trump has shown us one thing this week, it’s that he’s even more deranged than we thought possible. If he’s showed us anything else this week, it’s that he’s still as much of an empty suited wuss as ever. The guy keeps making threats he knows are impossible, and when his bluff is called, he just acts like it never happened. Now he’s done it yet again.

At around lunchtime on Friday, Donald Trump posted a series of tweets calling for the states of Minnesota, Michigan, and Virginia to be “liberated” – and he mentioned the Second Amendment by name while doing so. This was a depraved, evil, and illegal call for the violent overthrow of the elected governments in those states.

Yet by the time Trump held his daily press conference six hours later, and the first question was inevitably about his treasonous tweets, he caved. He had an opportunity to repeat or expand upon his domestic terrorist threats while millions of people were watching at home. Instead he merely generically said that he stood by his tweets, while refusing to elaborate, and downplaying their significance.

In other words, Donald Trump is the same cut-and-run coward as ever. Sure, he’ll post tweets aimed at inciting violence against Democratic governors, in the hope that one of his deranged supporters will follow through on it. But he doesn’t have the guts to stand by his own domestic terrorist threats when the cameras are rolling. Trump is as dangerous as they come, but he’s also as pathetic as they come.