Donald Trump has spent the last four years strenuously making the case that, excepting a few dictators here and there, he’s the worst person on earth. Child separation, one-sided fights with dead people, neo-Nazi embrace, environmental devastation, “suckers” and “losers,” the COVID-19 lies—you know all his greatest hits. But with fewer than 43 days until the election, the guy who once cut off health care to a sick baby out of spite is clearly feeling the pressure to make sure voters know that he’s truly an invasive tumor. On Monday, he took that opportunity while discussing the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Speaking to his buddies at Fox & Friends, Trump said that, despite the rank hypocrisy of Republicans blocking Merrick Garland’s nomination about nine months before the 2016 election, he’ll be revealing his nominee to fill RBG’s seat on Friday or Saturday. (Because he’s such a thoughtful guy, he doesn’t want to do it until services for Ginsburg are over, though he announced his intention to recommend a replacement for the liberal jurist before her body was cold.) While the move underscores the absolute shamelessness of Mitch McConnell and the rest of the GOP—which for anyone paying attention, was never in doubt—according to Trump, Ginsburg would actually be okay with it, even though she used her last breaths to tell her granddaughter: “My most fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a new president is installed.” Why is Trump so sure RBG wouldn’t have an issue with Senate Republicans ramming a nominee through with barely a month and a half until the election? Because according to President QAnon, she didn’t actually say anything to the contrary.
“I don’t know that she said that or was that written out by Adam Schiff and [Chuck] Schumer and [Nancy] Pelosi,” Trump said of Ginsburg’s literal dying wish. “I would be more inclined to the second, okay, you know, that came out the wind it sounds so beautiful. But that sounds like a Schumer deal or a maybe Pelosi or a Shifty Schiff so that came of the wind. Let’s see.”
Of course, it’s in no way surprising that Trump would claim that someone’s deathbed request is a Democratic hoax, and not just because he’s a plague on society but because just one day after Ginsburg passed, the Trump campaign started selling T-shirts capitalizing on her death: