Trump's 'Screaming And Crying' Scene Was Just His Own Sick Fantasy
Yesterday I clipped this piece of Donald Trump's press conference because it was so fantastic it was impossible to think it was anything other than the violence fantasy he replays in his own head, so I titled it that way.
It turns out I was right. Just like when he holds his rallies and describes women being raped and imprisoned by men spiriting them across the border -- a scenario which clearly arouses him -- so too is this.
“[Baghdadi] running into a dead-end tunnel, whimpering and crying and screaming all the way,” Trump told reporters.
He went on to say that Baghdadi then detonated a suicide vest killing him and his three children which he apparently used as human shields. "He died like a dog, he died like a coward. The world is now a much safer place,” he boasted.
Except none of it is true. Well, the part about the suicide vest may be true, and also the part about the tunnel, though we're not sure.
But the crying, screaming part is pure Trumpian violence fantasy. For starters, there was no live video, in spite of Trump's claims he watched it "like a movie."
The New York Times reports that what Trump saw on his screen was "heat signatures of those moving around — which analysts labeled friend or foe — at the al-Baghdadi compound near Idlib, Syria."
There was no sound. No real time imagery in the tunnel. That was just Trump's screenplay.