Donald Trump has the unique ability to turn every story, tragic or happy into a mini novella about him. It has reached a point of overshadowing legitimate investigations or news events. Republican legislators are out again inundating the airwaves with the narrative of a border crisis threatening the safety of United States citizens. There is a crisis at the border just not the one the President offers. People are running for our border to escape murder, kidnapping, rape and gangs in their places of origin. The President paints the picture that killers and thieves are at our doorstep. On the contrary, that crime element is remaining in Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Mexico. Who leaves hundreds of thousands or in some cases millions of dollars in criminal profits to become a migrant farm worker in the fields of California? The mothers and fathers crossing deserts, with children in tow, and little food and water, are not bringing crime and drugs, they are bringing the hope of freedom and safety for themselves and their kids.
In the aftermath of the tragic fire that threatened to completely destroy Notre Dame Cathedral in France, the President’s Twitter finger would have served a better purpose had he used it to keep his foot out of his mouth. In the midst of brave French firefighters working to not only save the structure but to save priceless artifacts as well, were advised by the President to drop tons of water from flying tankers on the fire. Experts now tell us, after doing what the President rarely does, analyzing the situation, that dropping enough water from the height required to put out the fire would have demolished the building. Some estimates were that the impact would have been the equivalent of dropping 3 tons of concrete at 155 miles per hour. Mr. Trump ended his advisory to the French authorities with the words, “must act quickly.” Those words are the story of his presidency acting quickly with no thought of consequences.
The recent applause garnered by Senator Bernie Sanders, who appeared on a Fox News town hall, was so upsetting to him [Trump] that he questioned his own propaganda arm, “ Many Trump Fans &Signs were outside of the @FoxNews Studio…What’s with @FoxNews,” he tweeted. The mere thought that his real advisory Cabinet colleagues, made up of Sean Hannity, Jeanine Pirro, and Lou Dobbs, talked to his enemy, drove him to Twitter-mania.
We saw this over and over on the campaign trail and beyond. The death of the son of Khizr Khan became a public scab pulling on the healing wounds of a Gold Star family; Captain Humayun Khan and Sgt. La David T. Johnson and his widow became his signal to White Supremacist and his base that even the death of Americans, one a Muslim born soldier, the other a Black soldier did not deserve dignity. Heather Heyer became the collateral fallout of “very fine people” on both sides. Anything that does not start with the headline: Donald Trump…becomes a target to insert his narcissistic behavior. Going into this weekend, starting tomorrow, the Mueller Report, or what we get to see of it, is scheduled for release. I plan on turning off my Twitter feed Friday, maybe I can get a few hours of sleep. I have a feeling the explosion from the mother of all tweeters is on the horizon.
Vote in 2020 for Change.
