Donald Trump’s butler problem
By Janell Ross May 13 at 10:15 AM
There are Americans — some of them Trump voters and some of whom
write about Trump voters for a living — who have all but bent themselves
into pretzels over the course of the Trump campaign. They've tried to
find a label for Trump's way of thinking that Trump and his voters will
not find offensive.
There is an ultra-rich kind of irony in that strenuous effort, since Trump and many of his voters have repeatedly expressed nothing but love for political incorrectness and all forms of speech that seek to or ultimately do offend.
So allow us a moment for this unvarnished truth.
There is really very little in the way of interpretation necessary when reading the Facebook feed of one Anthony Senecal, former butler and estate historian to Donald Trump. Senecal maintains a social media feed that has drawn the attention of the Secret Service because on Wednesday Senecal updated it with a post suggesting that President Obama, whom he usually refers to as "zero" or "0," should be killed. He paired it with a kind-of-endorsement for Trump.
There is an ultra-rich kind of irony in that strenuous effort, since Trump and many of his voters have repeatedly expressed nothing but love for political incorrectness and all forms of speech that seek to or ultimately do offend.
So allow us a moment for this unvarnished truth.
There is really very little in the way of interpretation necessary when reading the Facebook feed of one Anthony Senecal, former butler and estate historian to Donald Trump. Senecal maintains a social media feed that has drawn the attention of the Secret Service because on Wednesday Senecal updated it with a post suggesting that President Obama, whom he usually refers to as "zero" or "0," should be killed. He paired it with a kind-of-endorsement for Trump.
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