Donald Trump should befriend Tekashi 6ix9ine
By: Shamontiel L. Vaughn
Tags: Tekashi 6ix9ine, Election Fraud, FBI, Donald Trump, White Privilege

Every time I see outgoing president Donald Trump on the news or at press conferences after Election Day, I start humming Whodini’s “Friends” song.

Friends. How many of us have them?

There’s no way this president has any. If so, at some point, one of his close friends should have pulled him to the side to tell him to imagine he’s in a never-ending library and shut up. Imagine not winning a presidential election — hell, imagine losing at a video game — and being so determined you won that you keep paying legitimate attorneys to prove it. No evidence, no paper trail, no actual witnesses, and nothing more than good old-fashioned redlining and voter suppression to stand on. With more than 14 cases dismissed, he’s still completely oblivious to feelings of embarrassment or fear and working off of an overactive imagination.

Even the loudest mouthed rapper in the world — Tekashi 6ix9ine (although 50 Cent is a close second, and both rappers claimed they’d vote for Trump before Chelsea Handler offered to sleep with one of them) — was smart enough to admit that he’s scared of two things: God and the FBI. The difference between Trump and the rainbow-haired rapper is Tekashi 6ix9ine sang like a hummingbird against nine men to get himself out of jail after two years. Loyalty be damned. He realized he was up against a wall and gave in.

Meanwhile eight of Trump’s associates have charges against them:

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And even after he’s had eight examples to learn from, Trump has gone with the most irrational response that should even surprise Tekashi 6ix9ine— pick a fight with the Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation regarding the proven results of electoral and popular votes for Election 2020.

“You would think if you’re in the FBI or Department of Justice, this is the biggest thing you could be looking at,” Trump said on Fox News “Sunday Morning Futures.” “Where are they? I’ve not seen anything.”

He continued on with, ““Why isn’t the FBI all over the place? … They’re not, and it’s an embarrassment to our country.”

One would think that a man who has six outstanding legal cases against himself would be more focused on how to fight those concerns— or act like he’s still the president for three months and figure out how to leave on a positive note against a worldwide health outbreak that has infected 13.14 million Americans under his watch. Arguably Trump’s appalling comfort level regarding Election 2020 could be the same one that got him out of being impeached by the Senate, regardless of the House vote — a sitting president is immune. But once President-Elect Joe Biden moves into the White House and Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris heads to the United States Naval Observatory, the immunity perk is gone.

But listening to him speak unapologetically and loudly about two groups (FBI and DOJ) who could bury him underneath a prison, never mind send him to prison, is the epitome of privilege. And a man who has been living in a privileged world is the one thing that some of his supporters (including one with two hundred tattoos of “69” on his body) simply cannot relate to. This may be the “friend” he needs to finally realize what reality looks like.