THE GREAT I-AM: The silliest child repeated his claim!

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23, 2025

The Great I-Am rides again: Has it been shown that Kilmar Abrego Garcia is an MS-13 gang member? Should that be regarded as something which is "known?"

Somewhere within the bowels of the Fox News Channel, the answer seems to be no. This very morning, the channel's broadcast day started at 5 o'clock Eastern, as it does every weekday morning.

Fox & Friends First went on the air, with the standard two friends in the saddle. That said, is Abrego Garcia a known gang member? In the program's first few minutes, the chyrons on the screen said this:

Chyrons on today's Fox & Friends First:
DEMS DEMAND SUSPECTED GANG MEMBER'S RETURN TO U.S.

DEMS FIGHT TO RETURN SUSPECTED GANG MBR TO U.S.

He was now a suspected gang member! Indeed, it was still exactly 5:00 a.m. when newsreader Brooke Singman read this:

SINGMAN (4/23/25): Good morning, guys—that's right. The Maryland judge overseeing the case of suspected MS-13 gang member Kilmar Abrego Garcia is accusing the Trump administration of acting in willful bad faith...

Singman continued from there. But the channel's news day had started with this:

"SUSPECTED SUSPECTED SUSPECTED"

The word is first cousin to "alleged." It means that Fox News doesn't know!

Yesterday, the Washington Post published a long, sympathetic portrait of Abrego Garcia and his wife and their three kids—a portrait of his family life before he was renditioned to a foreign prison. 

(For the record, we wouldn't say that he was "deported." His delivery to a foreign prison should make us stop using that word.)

At any rate, the lengthy profile in the Post painted a sympathetic portrait. Somewhere inside the bowels at Fox, someone has possibly been instructed to throw "suspected" in.

Somewhere behind the scenes, it looks like someone is being careful at the Fox News Channel. Is the channel tired of shedding hundreds of millions of dollars in defamation suits? Is this just Singman, restricting herself to what is known?

We can't answer that question. We can tell you this:

Any such caution is thrown to the winds when the channel's big stars get going. 

Jesse Watters started out as Bill O'Reilly's silly-boy-in-the-street. Now, he's one of this powerful "news channel's" biggest primetime stars.

Last night, on his eponymous 8 p.m. "cable news" show, Watters offered his own assessment of Abrego Garcia's status. During his opening presentation, he mocked the four Democratic Party members of Congress who are currently in El Salvador, seeking Abrego Garcia's return.

The word "suspected" had disappeared. Before long, Watters was offering this:

WATTERS (4/22/25): Democrats are jealous that [President Trump] is doing things that they ran on and never did. That's what's making them crazy.

[...]

Why do you think they're flying to El Salvador to un-deport MS-13? Even though he ended up out of the country, they don't like the process. 

The El Salvador Four are still down there, waiting to get margaritas with a gang member. But he's in jail because he's a gang member. So now they're just doing CNN hits from the hotel.

During the 8 o'clock hour last night, the word "suspected" was nowhere to be found. Inevitably, President Bukele's alleged margaritas had even been granted the status of fact.

Inevitably, as this imitation of life continued, the silly star said this:

WATTERS: The funny thing about crazy people is they don't know they're crazy. So Republicans are offering to pay for any Democrat who wants to go to El Salvador...

This never happened when Nancy was in charge. She wouldn't let her members fly to foreign countries for photo ops with MS-13.

The guy has MS-13 tatted on his knuckles! Even Nancy knows better than that.

Behind this silliest of all "cable news" boys—sitting directly over his shoulder—silly cartoon visuals supported his presentation. 

DERANGED DEMS, one of these cartoon visuals said. THE END OFAN ERA, another visual said, with a photoshopped photo showing "Nancy" (Nancy Pelosi) wearing a cartoon crown.

Inevitably, also this: 

A third visual showed a photo of Abrego Garcia. It sat above these words:

'VERIFIED MEMBER OF MS-13"

Early this morning, he was only "suspected." last night, in prime time, his status was broadcast as VERIFIED. 

Beyond that, inevitably, Fox viewers were also told this:

The guy has MS-13 tatted on his knuckles! 

So the silly child said.

Let's be fair to Watters, who's only 46 years old. That's what President Trump, "The Great I-Am," told the world last Friday evening in this post on X:

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump

This is the hand of the man that the Democrats feel should be brought back to the United States, because he is such “a fine and innocent person.” They said he is not a member of MS-13, even though he’s got MS-13 tattooed onto his knuckles, and two Highly Respected Courts found that he was a member of MS-13, beat up his wife, etc. I was elected to take bad people out of the United States, among other things. I must be allowed to do my job. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!

As you can see by clicking this link, the post included an alleged photograph. It seemed to show the knuckles on somebody's hand, allegedly that of Abrego Garcia.

Was it real or was it photoshopped? That's an important question. But the children who people Blue America's major news orgs have refused, to this very day, to address that obvious question.

Nothing to look at, those children have said. Let's just keep moving along. The president's claim has been allowed to stand—and it's being promulgated all over Red America, even as silence has invaded the suburbs of Blue America's floundering world.

So it has gone as the children of the Fox  News Channel enjoy the license they've been granted by the finer people at the New York Times (and at NBC News, and at two other news channels).

The players at the New York times largely went to the finest schools. That said, they continue to grant a very wide berth to The Great I-Am. 

Tomorrow, we'll return to Mary Trumps' best-selling book to show you her account of where that nickname came from. For today, we'll merely note this:

The finer people at the New York Times refuse to deal with reality.

As The Great I-Am keeps making ludicrous claims, the finer people in Blus America's elites keep saying this, if only implicitly:

Nothing to look at! Just move along!

As they avert their gaze, the former The Great I-Am's very strange statements continue. Checks are being mailed to millions of 140-year-old people. Also, just look at the gang member's hand!

When he stood before a joint session of Congress and made the speech about all those fraudulent checks, a tiny bit of desultory pushback may almost have seemed to occur.  But at the heralded New York Times, the finer, better and smarter children are still refusing to come to terms with this:

Something sems to be wrong with the sitting president. He keeps saying the craziest things

Last Friday evening, there he went again. The New York Times, but also the Washington Post, has responded by saying this:

There's nothing to look at here.  Try looking at Hegseth over there! Let's just keep moving along!

As of last Friday evening, The Great I-Am had spoken again. According to his niece, Mary Trump, how did this story begin?

Tomorrow: The clinical psychologist's tale