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'God is angry': Internet bemused as Mother Nature comes for Trump's Mount Rushmore speech
Mount Rushmore Meets the Weather, and the Neglect ShowsStagecraft FirstThe source is simple enough: Trump flew to South Dakota for a July 4 and America-250 stop at Mount Rushmore, then a severe thunderstorm warning forced the event into chaos. Fox News had to interrupt its own coverage and tell viewers to get inside. The internet did what it always does when Trump’s pageantry gets embarrassed by reality: it mocked him.Power Was Not in the SkyThe storm is the headline gimmick, not the political story. The actual power sits with the president, the agencies he starves, and the media apparatus…
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