Coming
up on 60 days of Donald Trump’s presidency, I imagine that a
million more Americans are so sick they’re throwing up (their
hands too) at the audaciousness of his administration and acts of
inhuman…but they’re not. The man has fictionally
re-framed incident after incident and lied about inconsequential
matters - and for no good reason. Is there ever a good reason to
lie? The latest affront to one’s intelligence is the assertion
that former President Barack Obama wiretapped his phone during the
Presidential primary. Since the allegation is categorically untrue
and he’s choosing not to relent on this outright lie, I’m
questioning (as if I haven’t been since the January 20) his
authority.
Needless
to say, I’ve been in constant agreement with Rep. John Lewis
(D-GA), who said in mid-January that he didn’t “see the
president-elect as a legitimate president.” It wasn’t
without good reason. Trump’s propensity to revise recent
history with outright lies, mischaracterizations and sleight of hand
machinations are enough to throw any authority he might
have out the damned window. Ol’ heads have told me, “don’t
throw the baby out with the bathwater, ” but when it comes to
Trump, I’m all for throwing him and his BS out of a window - any
window, the nearest window!
There is no way on this
green earth that I can with any degree of human conscience follow a
man so petty and juvenile (which, coincidentally, the way I feel
about conservatives). I wake up pissed every day I think about the
fact that Donald Trump is the face of this country. I get even more
pissed when I see news clips of Trump making policy with the people
he chooses to seat around the table—only white people. His
anti-diverse, monochrome-complexion staffing evaporates any respect I
might have for the authority invested in him by the US
Constitution.
So now the White House
has walked back a key point of President Donald Trump's
unsubstantiated allegation that President Obama wiretapped his phones
in Trump Tower during the 2016 election. That only happened because
the mainstream media, whom Trump so viciously attacked for the past
year-and-a-half grew a pair of balls and are now collectively
challenging him on the “fake news” he’s putting in
the human-sphere. About damned time! He characterizes any negative
news as fake news.
To
watch the so-called president’s surrogates clumsily re-create
the narration of Trump’s tweets, namely, White House press
secretary Sean Spicer who said Trump wasn't referring to wiretapping
when he tweeted about wiretapping. "I think there's no question
that the Obama administration, that there were actions about
surveillance and other activities that occurred in the 2016
election," Spicer said. "The President used the word
wiretaps in quotes to mean, broadly, surveillance and other
activities."
Another
act of idiocy that you should find alarming of this so-called
president is his use of Twitter as a means to bypass the media, whom
he acts like he hates, yet begs for their coverage; he says his
tweets are his way of communicating directly to the American people.
First, he refuses to use @POTUS, which would be his official Twitter
handle. This is an unsecured means of communicating what we are to
wholly believe and accept as his voice. Second, his 5-year-old cell
phone (a clam shell model) is in no way secure enough to discuss
responses to North Korea’s missiles as he dined in a Mar-a-Lago
dining room among strangers., but he did that…
Giving
further credence to John Lewis’ statement, Trump insisted that
millions of illegal votes were cast for Hillary Clinton, with
Massachusetts complicit in the illegality by busing thousands across
the border to New Hampshire. The Republican New Hampshire Governor,
Chris Sununu stated that he’s had not encountered serious
instances of fraud. Should we believe a man who’s been in the
state for decades or a money-grubbing opportunist who has shown
himself repeatedly to be a liar?
And
then, we could talk about his clumsy grammar in paying tribute to
Frederick Douglas as though he were still alive, and his attack on
civil rights icon and Congress Member John Lewis - referring to him
as “all talk, no action.” A clear indication that he
hates Black people and will use any petty, juvenile excuse to malign
them. What an idiot!
Or,
his abrupt end to a phone call with the Australian Prime Minister,
describing the call as the ‘worst call yet” [of that
particular day]. May I insert a “WTF” here? Just
because you and the person you are conversing with don’t agree,
you’ll run and tell the world it was the worst phone call ever?
Geez, this man’s an idiot! How can anyone with a pulse
respect his authority?
Finally,
I’ll cap it with his duck-and-dodge maneuvers related to his
tax returns, which he told America while on the campaign trail that
he would release them. He was inaugurated on a Friday; that Sunday,
his senior legal advisor, Kellyanne Conway told a viewing TV audience
that Trump will not release his returns. And then, if all else can
be topped, there’s Trump surrogate Stephen Miller, who said:
“The
end result of this, though, is that our
opponents, the media and the whole world will soon see as we begin to
take further actions, that the powers of the president to protect our
country are very substantial and will not be questioned.”
What?
I’ve witnessed enough acts and actions that have affirmed one
of my most reserved prognostications regarding the current
administration: impeachment. I fully realize that impeachment
wouldn’t mean an end to Trump’s term as president, but in
the same vein, it would put him on the fast track to an early exit.
On that fast track, (and I’ve said this before) he’s
engineering a gas-filled train with no brakes, full of dog sh#@%, and
gun-toting screaming conservatives, speeding downhill, hair on fire,
with no lights and it’s crashing through the dazed and confused
poor people of the United States. At the climax of this crash may
very well lay an impeachment - and a free to Mara-Lago, Trump Tower
or anywhere in hell he needs to go! After 50 days, I’m just
ready for him to go.
The
bottom line is this: anybody with this type of behavior , attitude or
record standing behind them needs to have their authority questioned;
and if you don’t do it, then you need to have your sanity
questioned.
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