Trump’s Insistence on Real ID Has Become a Flashpoint for His Tinfoil Hat Fans

After several false alarms over the past two decades, it looks like Americans will soon need a Real ID-compliant form of identification to board a plane. President Donald Trump’s administration has made it clear there won’t be another extension of the deadline, and that’s creating some real tension with some of Trump’s most ardent supporters: batshit crazy conspiracy theorists. Alex Jones, a conspiracy theorist and Trump supporter for years, took to his Infowars show Monday to try and explain how Real ID was dangerous and insisted Trump must not understand how it actually works. “So Trump is being told this,” Jones said, suggesting Trump was being manipulated to support Real ID. “We have to explain that you’re against the central bank digital currency. You’re against this world ID.” Jones insisted that Real ID must be like Operation Warp Speed, the program for developing the covid-19 vaccine during Trump’s first term, which conspiracy theorists believe is dangerous and filled with t ... Read full article.