Monkey business.

Man these trumpiticians are not playing around. They don't even use dog whistles anymore. They just straight up blow their whistles and let their Klan flag fly. 

"Fresh off his victory in the Florida Republican gubernatorial primary, Rep. Ron DeSantis said Wednesday that voters would "monkey this up" if they elected his African-American opponent, Andrew Gillum, to be governor, immediately drawing accusations of racism.

The remark provides a controversial beginning to what will be a closely watched general election for the Florida governorship, which pits DeSantis, who has closely aligned himself with President Donald Trump, against Gillum, a progressive backed by Sen. Bernie Sanders.

Calling him "an articulate spokesman" for the far left, DeSantis said during an interview on Fox News when asked about his opponent Gillum, "The last thing we need to do is to monkey this up by trying to embrace a socialist agenda with huge tax increases and bankrupting the state."

Gillum would become the state's first black governor if he were to win in November.

"It's very clear that Mr. DeSantis is taking a page directly from the campaign manual of Donald Trump," Gillum told Fox News' Shepard Smith hours later." [Source]

DeSantis, of course, is trump's kind of guy. And this is right out of trump's playbook: Play the racist card much to the outrage of decent Americans, and fire up your base to come out because they secretly (or not so secretly) support and embrace the racism you are espousing.  It's a neat trick if you know how to pull it off. Desantis and trump are hoping that it will work in Florida, where they have just enough of those kinds of people to pull it off.  

Finally tonight, remember when trump was throwing paper towels in San Juan like Steph Curry at the free throw line? That was when he went down right after Hurricane Maria to take a victory lap and tell the rest of us how great FEMA was doing. ("Brownie, you are doing a heck of  a job.")

Not so fast. As it turns out this is a greater tragedy and disaster than Katrina in terms of human loss of life. trump declared that only 64 people had died during that dreadful storm. Well, as it turns out, we are now learning that 2, 975 Americans lost their lives as a result of that tragedy.

Sadly, like everything else with the charlatan- in- chief, it was all smokes and mirrors. Folks, believe nothing that this man tells you. Instead of fact checking, we should be truth checking him. This is because the truth rarely comes from his lips. 

“I think we did a fantastic job in Puerto Rico,” Trump told reporters Wednesday at the White House in response to a question about the new death tally. “Puerto Rico had a lot of difficulties before it got hit, and we’re straightening out those difficulties even now.”[Source]  

Almost 3,000 people lost their lives and he declares that they did a "fantastic" job. 

OK then.

Mr. Mueller, please hurry. 

Pic from huffingtonpost.com