It Goes On

In their bid to cement the administration as the hands-down winner of the “Which presidency most reminds you of an unflushed public toilet?” contest, Donald and his strumpets relentlessly proffer half-truths and lies.

That is, when they're not delusional.

In a rambling interview with Laura Ingraham, Trump spoke of airplanes full of thug-radicals in riot gear and mysterious men in dark shadows controlling the streets and manipulating Joe Biden.

Sadly, Donald couldn't elaborate because all are currently under official investigation.

I can imagine.

Even coming from a habitual liar like Donald Trump these comments are unhinged. Perhaps Sir Lies-A-Lot is so far down the QAnon rabbit hole he can no longer distinguish truth from fiction.

Witness the confused logic of comparing Rusten Shuskey's seven shots into the back of Jacob Blake to a golfer missing a putt.

Or characterizing the Corona virus, where thanks to Donald's sonambulant response, four-percent of the world's population is responsible for twenty-two percent of the world's deaths, as a bump in the road. “It is what it is” quoth Donald.

Try to decipher the laughable, smack-your-forehead idiocy of his rants against mail-in voting, despite the fact he and Melania apparently did just that with complete confidence in Florida recently.

Best of all are the law and order quotes made to stimulate the base's perpetual fear. As Clarence Page asked in last Sunday's Chicago Tribune, does Trump even know he's president?

Trump's assertions that this summer's rioting and civil unrest is what America will look like under Joe Biden gives one ample reason to wonder.

Um, Don? You know you're the guy in the White House, right? That this is on you? That this is what America looks like under our (cough) law and order president?

And could be if your base would just vote twice?

If Donald is to become the world's most-famous example of the Peter Principle, we can only wonder at the effect this very public failure will have on his brittle psyche. One thing is for certain—it won't be pretty.

Not unlike Saddam Hussein's retreat from Kuwait following his defeat in the Gulf War, it will be filled with booby traps and destruction. 

Trump may not set fire to oil wells (although I certainly wouldn't put that past him), but further rollbacks of environmental protections, the gutting of Social Security, Medicare and the Post Office and a declaration that he has received the Mandate of Heaven to rule forever wouldn't surprise me at all.