Donald Trump may already be working on his enemies list.
The former president spent much of his speech at Madison Square Garden on Sunday raising a now-familiar specter: so-called “enemies from within” the United States. Trump brought up a long list of people who made his naughty list for the usual reasons the Republican candidate brings up a topic: The thought just popped into his head and he knows it upsets his opponents.
At James Dolan’s palace, Trump expanded his already frighteningly loose definition of enemies to include journalists, political dissenters and an “amorphous” group of people who control the government through “ships.”
“We are dealing with something much bigger than Joe or Kamala, and much more powerful than them. It is a huge, brutal, corrupt radical left machine that runs the current Democratic party,” he said, before briefly stepping into a shadow government. conspiracy. ‘They’re just ships [for]…this amorphous group of people.”
Trump again targeted the press, calling them “the real enemy of the people” as he pointed them out in the crowd.
Trump’s divisive and suspicious rhetoric has increasingly worried his opponents in recent weeks, and there is reason to believe they have the right to manipulate his growing list of targets. Although Republicans have run for cover since they tried to distance the candidate from his words, Trump suggested using the military to target political dissenters in the days after his election.
Earlier this week, Vice President Kamala Harris warned of the petty and paranoid second term that Trump seemed to promise. [and] write down his enemies list.
