See that man. Watch that scene. He is the drama queen.
It’s only been a couple of months now and every day a new drama with this guy, even 3 a.m. Twit storms. If the intellectual overload is not from the 24-hour news media just trying to report on the U.S. presidency, separating fact from fiction, and assorted televised political pundits spinning in place, then it’s the president himself saying whatever whenever.
It’s got me longing for the previous eight years of relative serenity with our former president: Mr. Calm, Cool and Collected. President Obama said that was how he would be as president, taking advice from his favorite predecessor, Abraham Lincoln. The American people, Lincoln and Obama theorized, want a leader who brings a sense of calm, where there is no daily uproar or scandal amidst dozens of investigations, whereby the People can just live their lives in peace and freedom and let their elected leaders take care of governmental affairs. This is not what we are experiencing now and may never for the next four long years.
Mama Mia
I can’t get this image out of my mind. It’s when both Obama and Trump met officially in the Oval Office shortly after the election. Obama and his key commanders met with Trump privately, revealing all the world’s secrets past and present and perhaps U.S. obligations and commitments. When the two world leaders sat down together for the international photo op, Obama had a certain smile on his face and a knowing twinkle in his eye … while Trump looked like he was sick to his stomach, like he really didn’t want to be President of the United States of America after all. I’ve seen the cocky Obama countenance in the movie Amadeus. The look is from Mozart when his secret rival Salieri asks with all humble graciousness for him to look over a new composition. Mozart takes a swig of wine from the glass goblet in hand and shoots his tongue in his cheek, his eyes smiling with sarcasm. The Obama look was ‘Checkmate.’ The look was ‘I know all your secrets, man.’ Trump’s look was ‘I’ve bit off more than I can chew. I’m President, leader of the Free World, the most powerful man on Earth, and it ain’t going to be any fun, too scary’—because the World, the universe, is a very dangerous and uncontrollable place.
Waterloo
How many bets are ongoing about the days left to the Trump presidency? Or his ultimate demise? Impeachment? Heart attack? Stroke? Just simply stepping down and leaving it to the rest of us? There are talk show hosts projecting an itch for war with Trump’s call to beef up the already mighty U.S. military complex. Trump has managed to offend several world leaders important to the U.S. including those south and north of our borders. There are millions, tens of millions, of American people hollering to keep ‘Obamacare.’ There is a split among Republicans, some fearing election turnout if Obamacare is killed and not replaced as they all had promised with typical political sincerity. On the other side are Republicans whose intent always was to dismantle and bury the very idea of affordable health care, hoping no Americans, the ones who matter anyway, would raise a fuss or even miss the humane benefits of universal healthcare.
There is 100% proof from our very own federal investigators of Russian connections and interference in the 2016 U.S. election simply to discredit Hillary Clinton and leave Americans thinking Trump our lone salvation. And just when Congress is investigating the Russian connection, Trump himself claims President Obama had his New York palace wiretapped. Obama did insist on a hot and heavy federal investigative report on Russian tampering in the U.S. election whether through hacking the Democratic national website and emails or infiltrating the internet with fake news that passed as legitimate by millions of American readers—Americans not known to take the time and trouble to verify everything they read online. Obama had this investigation report presented to Congress by the time he left office. Perhaps that is where President Trump is thinking his home was investigated by the feds.
There is President Trump’s dubious selection of multi-billionaires to lead major tax-supported federal departments, some of these new radical leaders touting their sole intent to dismantle and dissolve from the memory of the American people any benefits from their government programs. There is the Trump gold-standard budget that would kill federal funding to schools, education, health care, food programs, the arts and humanities, and any type of Democratic program created long ago to help the poor and disenfranchised. How did Trump ever get away with being a Democrat for most of his very rich life? And like other former weenie Democrats whose number one goal was to get elected at any and all costs, he proved a turncoat when sensing the rage of angry Americans over global economics and religious indignation—over circumstances they cannot control. And half the American people bought New Trump.
All the current political upheaval can be blamed on Comedy Central and their Trump roast. Every single celebrity on the dais told the Big Man over and over again how they hoped he would run for President and what a great President he would be. This is when the Golden Dream occurred. But the stars and celebs were referring to the former Cool Trump who was all business and pizzazz and nonreligious and apolitical.
But not only did Trump need to switch parties for some reason, he also needed to go far right. During the hotly watched televised Republican debates, Trump verbally assaulted every decent contender right in the morals as they were unwilling to punch back. They could have and should have. Evidently Americans don’t mind. Lesson for the future. The other Republican presidential hopefuls were first gentlemen and second politicians. Trump came across as the non politician, the savvy businessman whose immense wealth put dollar signs in everyone’s eyes. Yet he is the consummate politician and displays it and plays it every single day.
It’s been … exhausting—and remains dangerous for all Americans and anyone else living on the planet at this point in time.