What is it about the TV yellers, handwringers and spitting mad pundits that insist on normalizing Donald Trump? The comparisons to the absurd never stop with the current President. My latest revelation came this weekend in seeking the solace of cartoons for a political respite. With sailor hat askew, one eye pinched closed, bulging forearms and a can of courage, Donald-ehh, Popeye said, “I am what I am, and that’s all that I am. When do the searches for a reason and intelligence stop for the TV mavens who keep trying to convince us the untruth of Donald Trump is worth the effort? He is not a strategist nor a tactician, he possesses a limited command of the language, spurred on by a small minded, petty, rude, crude and lewd personality, none of which are qualifications for President.
Trying to assign integrity to someone whom you cannot trust past the period of their last sentence, is as ridiculous as believing Donald Trump deserves a place on Mount Rushmore. Recent history is the best evidence. Trump has praised North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un’s love for his citizens (despite the fact he is literally starving his people), regaled the fairness of Vladimir Putin (who is poisoning his enemies) and talked about the just treatment of Turkish citizens by President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan ( who not only jails his own citizens for protesting his regime but) was allowed by Trump to have American protesters beaten by Erdogan’s thugs during his visit to Washington D.C. in May of 2017.
Trump’s latest affront to decorousness is his ridiculous mimicking of excuses by the Saudi Arabian government. Their story, despite the increasing evidence of the murder of the Washington Post journalist, Jamal Khashoggi, is at best a lie and at worse a human rights atrocity. Without details how hard is this story to decipher; man arrives at a building with his fiancé, she waits outside while he picks up paperwork; after 3 hours he does not return and she never sees him again, and video surveillance shows him going in but not leaving. If you allowed your ten-year-old to read that account, he or she would exclaim, ‘Mommy, Daddy something happened to him in the building.’ Yet the President of the United States response is “they strongly” denied anything happened inside.
Of course, as with his personal ties to Russian banks and his family’s newest reliance on Saudi Arabia’s money, Trump tossed veracity in the trash for a ruble, riyal or two—billion. Presidential adviser, Middle Eastern guru, man-about-world, and Trump son-in-law, Jared Kushner, has reportedly been “in the pocket” of Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, since October of 2017.
Again, how is any of this considered normal?
I woke up yesterday morning to a President in a twitter rage with a porn actress, over whether she looks like a horse and if he is phallically challenged; whether a Senator qualifies as a Native American and Trump alibiing for the fantasy of his dreams, being a Crown Prince. His moistest dreams, I am sure include, gold plated thrones, gold-tipped toothpicks and a legal stable of concubines, without a price tag of either 130 or 150 thousand dollars. In the midst of all this stupidity, chaos and disrespect; pundits, strategist and people who have covered politics for 30 years or more, keep ascribing strategy to this madness. Sometimes a lump of coal is just a lump of coal, Trump is no diamond just the rough.
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