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The Weave is Unraveling [1]
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Date: 2025-04-25
In September of 2024, the then-aspiring Presidential candidate Donald Trump described his often-rambling incoherence, punctuated by stories of Hannibal Lecter and choices of being electrocuted or being eaten by a shark, as the weave. “I do the weave. You know what the weave is? I’ll talk about, like, nine different things that they all come back brilliantly together. And it’s like friends of mine that are like English professors, they say: ‘It’s the most brilliant thing I’ve ever seen,’” he told rally spectators. As a child of the ’60s and ’70s TV generation, I was a huge fan of the Dean Martin Celebrity Roast, especially one of his guests, Norm Crosby. I have always been a fan of the language and would marvel at the skill of comic Norm Crosby, who would purposefully toy with its etymology. His skill evolved to the point of being called The Master of the Malaprop. In the 80s, my friends and I would laugh at his beer ads.
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In the right comedic hands, murdering the language can be entertaining, but when it comes from the mouth of the world’s most powerful political office, it can have deadly consequences. In October of 2018, a right-wing extremist killed eleven Jewish congregants at the Tree of Life Synagogue. One of the reasons he gave was from a right-wing talking point that Jews were bringing in non-white immigrants to kill white people. That assertion was a widely disseminated belief encouraged by the xenophobic ramblings of Donald Trump. Chris Farrell, of Judicial Watch, leaned on the trope of Jewish financier George Soros funding the “caravan” of immigrants through what he called the “Soros occupied State Department,” a talking point used by Republicans to scare the American public.
In fairness, President Trump has refrained from direct anti-Semitic attacks but has signaled white supremacists and anti-Semites since he told anarchists and bigots in Charlottesville, Virginia, that they were a part of the “very fine people… on both sides.” Pardon me if I seem obtuse; were the fine people the ones dressed like Nazi wannabes shouting “blood and soil” and “Jews will not replace us” or the man who murdered Heather Heyer by running her down with his car the— very fine people? Mr. Trump's recent stops and starts with the economy will lead to deadly consequences as he weaves his tapestry of cruelty and despair. Just this morning, the public learned Mr. Trump is moving to stop funding to discourage suicide among LGBT youth, while ending the Meals on Wheels program, proving that cruelty is the point.
This week, the President hosted a group of wounded veterans. Listening to the brave service people recall their harrowing and life-changing service resulting in prosthetic limbs, Mr. Trump replied, “So you guys got hit, huh? Pretty good. You got hit. Amazing.”
So, while we wait for the President to weave us into his promise to end the conflict in Ukraine in 24 hours, lower the prices of food on day one, or apply his simple fix to the healthcare system—maybe with the money from Mexico for his wall—I will keep my sweater closed tightly because a half-basted weave stitch will leave us out in the cold.
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