Politicizing to Meet Agendas
2025 August
2025-08-22 After the killing of Iryna Zarutska, multiple right-wing figures politicized this tragedy as a red herring fallacy to rile up the MAGA base and to use the incident as an excuse to send National Guard troops to Charlotte.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Iryna_Zarutska
2025 October
2025-10-01 The White House began a series of childish digs during the shutdown, adding horrendous messages to all government sites blaming Dems for the shutdown. By October 14, Kristi Noem released a new video for TSA employees, also blaming Democrats for the shutdown. Many argue the Trump administration is using federal resources for political coercion which would be a violation of the Hatch Act.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/government-shutdown-clock/
2025 November
2025-11-27 Trump posted on social media, claiming that “hundreds of thousands of refugees from Somalia are completely taking over the once great State of Minnesota. Somalian gangs are roving the streets looking for “prey” as our wonderful people stay locked in their apartments and houses hoping against hope that they will be left alone”. He also made similar posts roughly a week prior. As part of this post, Trump made it a point to attack Governor Tim Walz, calling Minnesota a “hub of money laundering”. During an interview on CNN, Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar stated “…this is what he does, and he tries to stoke division and make people hate each other”.
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115625429081411360
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115590786862216464
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/30/walz-klobuchar-trump-attack-minnesota-00671132