In the 1962 film ‘The Music Man,’ grifter Harold Hill came to River City with money on his mind and the gift of gab. For you youngsters, Hill went from town to town promising to organize a marching band to bring pride to the city; Of course, he would skip town with the money.
A new Music Man has come to the city by the river, banging drums, tooting horns, blowing smoke and Trump-ets. In less than a week in office, the Donald Trump trinket store was open for business. As far as I can tell this is the earliest any President has started hocking his wares in modern American history http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/2/22/14533864/president-trump-fundraising-2020.
The rumor is he has started fund raising from big donors for his 2020 campaign, so much for draining that swamp. I think, just like his run for President, this is a money grab. I still contend Donald Trump never intended to win the presidency, it was an elaborate pre-production for the greatest reality show of all time, ‘My Run for President.’ Evidence of his unpreparedness is the lack of nominees for undersecretary post and administrators that must be approved by the Senate. As of my last count of the 690 vacancies, many involving national security post only 30 have been filled and of the remaining 660 many have not even had a nominee named http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/trump-leave-unprecedented-number-federal-jobs-vacant-article-1.2950832. When former President Barack Obama would take, a golf weekend the Republicans would run around with their hair on fire screaming about his, dare I say laziness. Mr. Trump has matched the vacation budget of Mr. Obama’s first year in office with three golf weekends in his first month in office https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2017/02/22/trumps-family-trips-cost-taxpayers-nearly-as-much-in-a-month-as-obamas-cost-in-a-whole-year/#6177241836e4.
Also, keep in mind the self-named “Winter White House” at Mar-a-Lago is being protected and upgraded for security at the expense of the American government. Hear the first trombone? This grifting started during the campaign and is in full gear now. You had better believe an ad company is working right now ‘join the elites at the winter White House, dine with the former President.’
Set aside all the nonsense and daily soap opera sludge emanating from the White House, we have serious problems in the world and no one at the helm of the ship. Yes, there is a captain and a few lieutenants but who is hoisting the sails and swabbing the decks? Even the communication among the officers is lacking cohesion. Yesterday White House spokesman Sean Spicer, said Attorney General Jeff Sessions was the victim and had, “nothing to recuse himself, he was 100 percent straight”http://crooksandliars.com/cltv/2017/03/sean-spicer-jeff-session-theres. By afternoon the President said he[Sessions] had his “total” confidence. With no consultation from the White House attorney, Mr. Sessions gathered his own staff for advice and decided to recuse himself. Mr. Obama was derisively accused of leading from behind, well, Mr. Trump must be leading from behind the “Wall” he wants to build.
Very little in this world scares me. Not since the death of Martin Luther King Jr. when I was a naïve little black kid in Washington DC has anything worried me so much. We are dancing on the head of Putin’s pin and while the democracy burns Trump fiddles. Only thing missing are the other, Seventy-Five Trombones.
’18 and Change”
