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Politics
Fred Onyango

‘God spared you’: Sychophantic Mike Huckabee implores Trump to go on war footing

The Trump administration has chosen the White House official X page to share a text the Ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, sent to the president. It’s disturbing in quite a few ways, but the blatant hero-worship has even the people who follow the account taken aback.

Make no mistake, the White House page on X is nowadays not to be taken seriously — and that’s by Trump’s own words, after he told off critics of the page posting an image of him draped up as the new pope. But there’s just something about Amb. Huckabee that went beyond the typical cringefest that Trump’s appointees usually inspire when they try to lie and feign ignorance over something obvious.

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