The substantive importance of the initial Trump error is extremely minor. George W. But since Democrats have an overabundance of serious Trump vulnerabilities to exploit, nobody is going to spend much time on his confusion between the two different Kansas Cities.
The importance, rather, lies in the willingness of his supporters to defend Trump regardless. Trump has taken the long, deep tradition of anti-intellectualism running through the American right and elevated it to almost cultlike status. Trump has created a hierarchy in which loyalty is determined by willingness to defend even his most absurd lies. The dynamic has been on display throughout the Senate trial, where Republicans have vied for his favor by openly declaring their lack of interest in weighing factual evidence.
But for some of his more trivial episodes, the stupidity is the point. The gleeful rejection of objective truth, throwing oneself fully into Trumpism, is a marker of tribal loyalty.
Trump obviously has no reason to credit Kansas rather than Missouri with hosting the Super Bowl champions. Already a subscriber? Log in or link your magazine subscription. Nick Bolton. Dicaprio Bootle. Cortez Broughton. Daniel Brown. Orlando Brown. Shane Buechele. Michael Burton. Harrison Butker. Shilique Calhoun. Frank Clark. Omari Cobb. Michael Danna. Gehrig Dieter. Laurent Duvernay-Tardif.
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By naming this town after the growing city on the Missouri side of the state line, city leaders in Kansas were able to capitalize on the success of Kansas City, Missouri. Today Kansas City, Kansas, and Kansas City, Missouri, remain two separately incorporated cities but together, along with a number of other cities and suburbs, as part of the Kansas City Metropolitan area.
Skip to main content. This area became part of the Kansas Territory in
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