WASHINGTON: Vicious rumors about President Joe Biden‘s “terminal illness” “imminent death” and a “White House coup” and racist dogwhistles surrounding Kamala Harris’ life and career flowed through the sewers of social media on Tuesday as MAGA maniacs went into full meltdown mode following an unexpectedly smooth transition in the Democratic Party.
With hashtags such as #whereisjoe and #dumbasarock, Trump supporters rained abuse on his opponents, going so far as as to claim Democratic back room operatives had orchestrated a “palace coup” by blackmailing Biden into bowing out of the Presidential race.
Laura Loomer, one such supporter patronized and praised by Trump, claimed Biden is “terminally ill and unable to perform his duties” and “final preparations are being made for him, and “soon we will have President @KamalaHarris as the 47th President.”
Such insights were apparently based on Biden not being seen in public for five days (he is at his beach home recovering from Covid).
A slow-moving Biden getting into a limo to head back to the White House fueled further rumors about his health.
But in a statement, Biden said he would address the nation from the Oval Office at 8 pm on Wednesday, “on what lies ahead, and how I will finish the job for the American people.”
Such is the unvarnished ugliness of the MAGA maggots, as they are referred to in some liberal circles, that they even prematurely killed off former President Jimmy Carter, who is 99 and in hospice care. A fake letter announcing his death made its way swiftly through MAGA circles on social media before it was debunked.
Toxic MAGA trolls also continued to attack Kamala Harris with fake narratives on X, now owned by Trump supporter Elon Musk, including posting digitally altered photos showing sex predator Jeffery Epstein’s face is super imposed on the face of her husband Douglas Emhoff.
Some of the right-wing rage is tacitly encouraged by Trump himself with his vitriolic and sexist attacks on Kamala.
Trump’s running mate JD Vance has also taken the cue, fueling rumors about an impending White House coup by telling Fox News “If Joe Biden can’t run for president, he can’t serve as president.”
In the MAGA narrative, Democratic operatives will invoke Article 25 to replace Biden with Kamala Harris in a “soft coup” to make her the 47th President even before the elections.
The MAGA meltdown is quite inexplicable considering most polls conducted after Biden ceded the nomination to Kamala show Trump leading her by two to five points.
Evidently, the prospect of Trump being challenged by a liberal woman, and a brown one at that, has brought out the worst in them.