American eclipse: fake news created by liberal media?

Today the American people are most fortunate in being able to see a total solar eclipse pass over their heads without them having do any more than stand out in their back yards. I've stood under the shadow 3 times in my life, and I had to travel great distances to do it.
         The fact is 70% of the earth's surface is open ocean, and much of the land is uninhabited and remote from centres of population. Not this time. And as Bill Maher has pointed out, by an odd coincidence, 90% of the counties the track of totality will pass over in its track across the US voted for Trump. "That's what they need, right? To be even more in the dark than usual."
          I don't blog about Trump much. He's kinda too easy a target. But when he said there was "equivalence" between the ultra right wing racists and the people who protested against their hate-filled rhetoric, he crossed a line. And not just for me, but even for a lot of pretty far right folk in America, who distanced themselves from his incredible views. "There were many fine people among that group", he said. "Fine people" in the KKK, the American Nazi party? And bad people among the protestors, who were just as bad as the worst elements in the groups they were protesting against. Again, as Bill Maher put it, "I mean, we killed a lot of people in World War 2, but at least we knew who the good guys were: us."
         I'm not as witty as Bill, but when I heard what he had said last week I thought: say some Jews escaped from a concentration camp and killed some guards doing it. Would Trump say, hey there was violence on both sides here, and some fine people on both sides?

What really happened last week was that Mr. Trump showed the world how he really feels about his country. He knows the "alt right", or racist/fascist constituency was a significant part of him winning the election, and he was wary of upsetting them. This despite the fact that a number of Jews work in his administration, and are even his in-laws. I wonder how they feel right now, with the boss exonerating the people who would drive them into the sea if they could.