So What Else is New?
Is it a plane crash? Noooooooooooo.
Is it a train wreck? Nooooooooooooo.
Is it the Titanic going down? Noooooooooooo.
It’s worse. It’s Donald John Trump, the leader of the free world who won the electoral college vote for president but lost the vote of the majority of the American public to Hillary (still not locked up) Clinton.
I hold no animosity toward the president but I would like to strip him down to his skivvies and force him to roll around in five-foot tall, tick infested grass, for two hours, every Tuesday.
News Flash: At a news conference today, the president boasted that he has irrefutable proof that John Wilkes Booth was the great-great-grandfather of Hillary Clinton. The president demanded the Justice Department investigate.
The president also disclosed that he had further evidence, that he would release very soon, that shows that Barack Obama is a transgender man who was born in Kenya to a pack of roaming hyenas. And he has the photos to prove it and will release them very soon.
The president also demanded a federal investigation into whether his MSNBC talk show host nemesis Joe Scarborough killed Lori Klausutis in 1980. Klausutis worked for Scarborough when he was a congressman and an autopsy showed that Klausutis had a heart attack and died when she fell and hit her head while Scarborough was 800 miles away. But Trump persists.
And despite various studies that showed that once again, Trump was lying and making up more stupid trash, the president mustered up his best conspiracy voice to warn the American public in great earnest that casting votes by mail would invite mass fraud and would cast a pall over the validity of the 2020 presidential race that sees Trump behind Joe Biden in the polls. Facebook responded by announcing it would include fact-check in future presidential posts. Trump responded by threatening to shut down social media platforms like Facebook.
Trump supporters responded with cries of violations of the president’s first amendment rights while there was a distinct, distant but growing voice of a Trump appeal of the 2020 results just in case he loses.
The president did make time to toss kudos at his uber-loyal Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. The kudos showered down in the wake of reports that while Pompeo was C.I.A. director, the first foreign-planned terrorist attack on U.S. soil since 9/11 was being organized in the U.S. and abroad. The reports noted that the plot was carried out while Pompeo was secretary of state.
A reporter at the news briefing said it smelled like Benghazi, Libya, and merited the same lengthy, uber expensive investigation that was led by then Congressman Pompeo who said that Hillary “Lock Her Up” Clinton was to blame for the deaths of four U.S. diplomats when terrorists struck the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi on Sept. 11, 2012. The results of the two year probe showed that Pompeo was nuts and Clinton was innocent.
A murmur of “Lock him up” could be heard in the briefing room whereupon the president screamed, “fake news,” and stumbled out of the news conference, apparently late for his daily dose of hydroxychloroquine.
I made up the stuff about John Wilkes Booth and Obama but not the other stuff.
But the thing about his news conference and tweets is not what Trump says but what he does not say.
Trump talked trash about mail in ballots, Joe Scarborough and praised the worst secretary of state in history. But not a word was spoken about the COVID 19 pandemic that has killed nearly 100,000 Americans, although Trump has said the number is greatly exaggerated and that the nation is ready to get back to normal and that there will be no second wave and that he believes in the Easter bunny.
Not a word was spoken about George Floyd, a 46-year-old African American who was ordered to stop sitting on the hood of a car and was then handcuffed and killed by a white Minneapolis police officer who had his knee on Floyd’s neck when the man was begging “I can’t breath” while another officer watched and did nothing.
The officer was on one knee, the one that happened to be on Floyd’s neck. Seems to me there was a big deal about some football player who went down on one knee. Trump was quick to talk about that knee, which happened to be part of an African American’s anatomy.
The president also was painfully mum after African American Ahmaud Arbery was shot to death by two big white guys for jogging through their moss-covered neighborhood in Georgia. Trump also didn’t mention that it took two months before any charges were lodged against the two big white guys who may or may not be white supremacists of the kind that Trump has protected.
And before he was president, Trump did not keep his yap shut in 1989 when he called for the death penalty for five African American teenagers who were arrested for raping a white woman in Central Park. Surprisingly (not), Trump did not eat his words after the five had spent from six to 13 years in prison, before they were freed after a serial rapist confessed to the crime.
And he was a virtual faucet of falsehoods when he tweeted a storm about the horrible Colin Kaepernick, the San Francisco 49er football star who bent down on a knee during the national anthem to dramatize the deaths of unarmed African Americans by white police.
I guess there’s a pattern but maybe it’s purely coincidental and maybe I’ll visit Dorothy and the wizard.