By JOHN KANELIS / johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com
Donald J. Trump is demonstrating hourly it seems that he truly is the horse’s ass we’ve all come to know and loathe.
He won’t agree to the revised terms of a second presidential joint appearance with Joe Biden. So what did the bipartisan commission on these events do? It canceled it altogether. The event that was supposed to occur next week won’t happen.
Biden will conduct a town hall meeting with voters in Philadelphia. Trump is going to resume his rallies.
The debate commission had cited the continued risk of the COVID-19 virus that Trump had contracted as its reason for canceling the event. That’s just as well, given Trump’s refusal to abide by changes in the format designed to avoid a repeat of the sh** show that erupted at the first appearance with Biden.
But we also have a lot of back stories to ponder.
Trump wants Biden and former President Obama indicted and jailed for “treasonous” crimes he said they committed. He won’t specify the crimes. Oh, he’s also going after Hillary Clinton — his 2016 campaign foe — over those emails. How about that?
So help me, Hanna … Trump is sounding and acting like someone who knows he is going to lose the next election. He is behaving in a manner that suggests a surrender to a grim reality, which is that he is incapable of demonstrating real leadership in a national crisis.
Yes, we have that pandemic!
Trump will have an event this weekend at the White House, which health officials have identified as a “super spreader” location. The place is infested with individuals who have been exposed to the killer virus. Trump then is endangering every person who will attend his campaign rally simply refusing to demand they wear masks and that they maintain appropriate “social distance.”
Will there ever be a second joint appearance with Biden and Trump? For now the event scheduled for Oct. 22 is still on. The debate commission likely will seek to revise the rules per its attempt to improve from that clusterfu** that revealed Trump to be the Bully in Chief.
So, the campaign is starting to stagger toward the finish line. That’s a good thing. The sooner we can get this disaster behind the sooner we can begin to heal the wounds that Donald Trump has inflicted.
That, of course, presumes a Joe Biden victory. I am banking on it.