*This story has been updated here (portions of the text were recycled).

Based on Donald Trump’s long-standing alliance with white supremacists and neo-Nazis, it’s difficult to be surprised that he recently retweeted anti-Muslim propaganda videos from Britain First, a fascist, anti-immigrant organization whose deputy leader Jayda Fransen has been convicted of hate crimes. However, this incident should be taken very seriously, since it could threaten the lives of Muslims in the U.S. and throughout the world.

In recent years, American Muslims have increasingly been victims of violent assault, intimidation, and discrimination. Hate crimes perpetrated against this religious minority have recently surpassed 2001 levels, and the number of anti-Muslim hate groups operating in the U.S. has increased exponentially since 2010. This disgusting series of tweets, combined with Trump’s attempted Muslim travel ban and his consistent xenophobic rhetoric, indicates a presidential stamp of approval when it comes to bigotry and violence against our Muslim brothers and sisters.

It’s also not surprising that one of the retweeted videos appears to be inaccurate in its claim that the violent assailant featured is a “Muslim migrant”, while the other clips were filmed during regional conflicts and are therefore deceptively displayed out of context, attempting to portray Muslims as blood-thirsty savages. But the context and accuracy of the content disseminated by professional bigots like Trump is secondary to ideological objectives.

In Trump’s delusional world, up is down and black is white. Legitimate criticism is dismissed as “fake news,” while Trump himself constantly makes unfounded statements that his followers swallow without question. I mean, this guy is the godfather of the racist “Birther” conspiracy theory, for God’s sake! There’s never been any indication that Trump or his associates take reality into consideration before making public statements or social media posts. And this time, they’ve even admitted it, to an extent. When questioned about the veracity of the “Muslim migrant” video, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said, “Whether it is a real video, the threat is real.”

Okay, so maybe the Tweetmaster is really just concerned with “threats” against the safety of American citizens. Maybe he’s concerned not only with radical Islamists, but also with right-wing domestic terrorism, which has accounted for 73% of the terror attacks in the U.S. since September 11, 2001. He must be concerned, since U.S. law enforcement agencies “consider anti-government violent extremists, not radicalized Muslims, to be the most severe threat of political violence.” And what about the rise in white supremacist violence? The Donald must lose sleep at night worrying that, as we speak, there’s another Dylann Roof or James Alex Fields in the making.

Just kidding. As Mehdi Hasan of The Intercept rhetorically asked:

“Why would a president who has repeatedly retweeted white supremacist Twitter accounts such as WhiteGenocideTM, appointed a white nationalist to be one of his delegates in California, accepted campaign donations from white nationalist leaders, picked a white nationalist as his chief strategist in the White House, and been officially endorsed by the Ku Klux Klan want to turn a blind eye to the domestic terror threat from white supremacists and nationalists and put American lives in danger?”

Okay, okay. Trump may turn a blind eye to white, cisgendered, heterosexual, Christian, family-man terrorism (as long as it’s making America great again), but he’s really concerned with foreign Islamist extremism, right?

As I’ve hinted at in other posts, much of the organized Islamist violence that does occur is a response to (or result of) Western imperialism and colonialism. If Trump truly cared about reducing this specific form of terrorism, he’d vehemently denounce our violent global empire, immediately withdraw American troops from the (at least) 70 countries they’re currently occupying, and slash the obscene $700 billion annual Pentagon budget. Alas, I admit this is a pipe dream. Maybe he could at least go after the main global purveyor of the ultra-conservative Wahhabi ideology behind terrorist organizations like ISIS and al-Qaeda. You know — the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia?

Saudi Arabia is not only the single largest exporter of Islamist terrorism in the world, but many Saudi individuals and organizations were also culpable in the largest terrorist attack on American soil. As Branko Marcetic of Jacobin explains:

The Saudi government has also armed extremists in Syria, and is currently conducting a large-scale bombing campaign against the defenseless, poverty-stricken population of Yemen. This is on top of the cholera epidemic that has recently ravaged the country, and some say this vicious military aggression may be reaching genocidal proportions. If that’s not “Islamic terrorism”, I don’t know what is.

Obviously Trump is strongly opposed to the aforementioned machinations of this infamous Gulf monarchy, right? Again — just kidding. After the president’s gleeful little trip to Saudi Arabia last May, he proposed a $500 million weapons sale to the kingdom (part of a $110 billion package), which narrowly passed the Senate in June. Oh, and remember that travel ban? Well, strangely enough, Saudi Arabia didn’t make the cut.