#Trump pillow salesman martial law tv#

Lindell was spotted entering the west wing carrying notes, which were captured by a Washington Post photographer. Meanwhile today, Trump loyalist Mike Lindell, also known as the My Pillow Guy, happened to pay a visit to the White House where Donald Trump was holed up all day. As 'The Washington Post' put it, Trump's incitement has galvanized a nationwide extremist movement and fueled those determined to disrupt the transfer of power. But all of this has become necessary to protect against the insurrectionist threat that the president of the United States, Donald Trump, has unleashed on our country. Setting aside the MyPillowness of it all, the nation is in a bad place where a person holding these ideas and suggestions a) spends substantial amounts of money on promoting those ideas, b) has an ongoing platform to spout those ideas on national television, and c) had any ability whatsoever to see the President of the United States.Now, it would not be a stretch to say that right now Washington, D.C., is preparing for armed conflict. That Lindell has been helping to bankroll lies and that he was able to get into the White House at all are both very bad things. That Lindell’s meeting with Trump was quite short and that he had been having trouble getting on the calendar are both good things.

Lindell said came after he’d been asking to get on the president’s calendar for days. White House officials said nothing came of the roughly five-to-ten-minute meeting between Mr. Now, the good news is, as per the NYT report on the meeting, is as follows:

His promise that Trump will “100% be president” is delusional.īut, hey, his nieces and some Minnesotans were down there, so I guess that forgives breaking into the building, disrupting a constitutional process, causing the Vice President to have to flee for his life, and the death of a police officer (but I digress). The video is a super weird combination of downplaying the actions of the crowd while at the same time calling it a “battle.” The Antifa lie is just galling and his assertions of “God’s hand” being at work ranges from insulting (that God would be on the side of lies and violence) to just plain kooky (I can’t conjure an appropriately academic-sounding word, TBH). He said he did, however, attend the rally before the march to the Capitol that day, and he spoke the day before during rallies at Freedom Plaza, near the White House.Īnd here is Lindell trying to downplay the capitol insurrection: He emphasized to Reuters that he did not help finance subsequent trips to promote the Jan. Lindell said his financial backing of the bus tour ended in mid-December. My Pillow is a major advertiser and sponsor of the Right Side Broadcasting Network, a conservative media group that went along on the tour to provide daily coverage. Lindell – a self-described former cocaine addict and alcoholic who says he found sobriety through Christianity – helped sponsor a two-week March for Trump bus tour that ended in Washington on Dec. Note that Lindell helped finance the March for Trump bus tour (via Reuters):Īnother important player and financier of the post-election protest movement was Mike Lindell, founder and CEO of the My Pillow company, whose advertisements and political commentary are a fixture on conservative media.

#Trump pillow salesman martial law tv#

Likewise, this headline does not strike one as serious, but rather as surreal (via WaPo): A pillow salesman apparently has some ideas about declaring martial law.īut here’s the bottom line: a CEO of an American company, who has cultivated a following in right-wing media via both his commercials and as a frequent TV guest/commentator showed up at the White House with a plan for the president to engage in an autogolpe (a self-coup) to stay in power by reshuffling key offices (such as CIA Director) and by instituting martial law. of MyPillow, Mike Lindell, who brought some notes with him” ( source) and not find it to be some level of amusing.

Look, it is hard to read the sentence “President Trump, isolated and watching the clock count down on his time in the White House, spent a few minutes of it on Friday with the C.E.O. “Mike Lindell” by Gage Skidmore is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0