U.S. President Donald Trump aims to create ātheatrics of the spectacleā and itās not going to get any better, says a cultural studies professor and prolific author.
Henry Giroux, a Rhode Island native who teaches at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ont., and penned āAmerica at War with Itself,ā says he believes it will be increasingly difficult to understand what the president is doing or why.
Trump intentionally sows an environment of āshock,ā āsensationalismā and āconfusionā where itās unclear what is true or what is happening, Giroux told Ā鶹“«Ć½ Channel Monday.
āHeās more concerned about throwing information out that causes uncertainty and chaosā that drives the press to have to chase stories about what he means rather than asking serious questions about what heās doing, Giroux said.
Trumpās allegation via Twitter on the weekend that former president Barack Obama ordered Trumpās phones to be wiretapped has been rejected by both FBI director James Comey and former National Intelligence director James Clapper, though the House and Senate intelligence committees say they will honour the presidentās request to investigate.
Giroux, who spent his life studying and teaching in the United States before coming to McMaster in 2004, says Trumpās charge has no credibility because he has āmade a career about lying about Barack Obama.ā
And if there was anything to back Trumpās claim, the president holds the power to declassify information.
āHe could easily, if there is anything that he knows, he could simply declassify this and make it public and to provide some sort of evidence, which he has not done.ā
Giroux says the allegations are part of Trumpās much-used tactic to create āmassive diversionā from issues of substance, such as the controversies surrounding Attorney General Jeff Sessions and the administrationās connections to Russia.
Giroux, whose book explores the role of hate in the presidential campaign, says the newly revised travel ban announced Monday, which takes the target list down to six nations, is not a toning down of Trumpās anti-immigration stance.
āSimply because he eliminates Iraq or modifies the wait time, I mean this is still an act of massive discrimination against an entire religious group.ā
