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If only Trump could see what others see

I am writing this blog post in the wee hours, so I’ll be brief with what I want to get off my chest.

We all have come to accept that Donald J. Trump is an extreme narcissist. He sees himself only in one light, that of self-indulgence and self-aggrandizement. After all, he spent his entire adult life aiming to improve his financial wealth.

If only this clown could see himself as others see him. He heaps praise on himself and expects whoever is listening to it to accept it as the truth. Damn! It isn’t!

Every one of his business ventures has ended in failure. The university. The steaks. The booze. The gambling casinos, for God’s sake!

Now that he’s president, he is enacting policies that make him look like a dimwit. The world is laughing its ass off at the POTUS. He doesn’t hear the laughter. He doesn’t take any of the ctiticism seriously.

Dude is now 80 years old. He clearly is on the way out. I just don’t want this guy to inflict any mortal damage to the government he seeks to control.

Do our eyes now turn to Barron?

Barron Trump remains the mystery member of the nation’s premier political family.

I am more than willing to admit that the young man has stirred my curiosity more than just a little bit.

I mention Barron because he now is an adult. He is past the age of majority, which in some circles makes him an open target for all kinds of rhetorical mischief. I will not go there.

I do intend to express some interest in the kind of man he has become, living as he has in the crucible known as the White House.

Barron Trump, born in March 2006, now towers over almost everyone he sees. His father stands 6 foot 3, and Barron appears to be around, oh 6 foot 9 or 10.

Soon enough, probably when Dad leaves office in January 2029, we’ll get to see more of the youngest of Donald’s five kids. Don Jr., Eric and Ivanka all have made their marks on some fashion or another. A second daughter, Tiffany, has obtained her law degree and has remained out of the limelight.

Now we have Barron.

Here’s my hope for the young man. I hope he has learned from the plastering his brothers have gotten because they chose to become political animals, just like Dad. My hope for Barron Trump is that somehow, someway and through some channel that escapes me, he is able to carve out something akin to a normal life.

I suppose there’s always hope that the young man can stumble into a relationship that gives him complete happiness. I realize that’s a difficult order to fill, being the member of a family led by a fraud, a con man, a charlatan … and a loser!

He’s not my POTUS

Some of you who have read this blog over the span of many years might recall a pledge I made, which was to never insert the word “President” in front of Donald Trump’s name. I have been faithful to that pledge.

Why? Because he’s not my president and that is a feeling I never have experienced with any man who didn’t get my vote for high office. Every single day he is in office, Trump demonstrates he doesn’t give a damn about me, my family or any American who fits our profile.

And that is …

We pay our taxes on time (generally) without complaining, we serve our communities, we have worn the uniform and in many cases have gone to war when ordered, we play by the rules, we worship a holy God.

OK, you get the idea? Trump has many issues on his plate that present existential threats to our way of life. Does he deal with them in public, with the same aggressive nature he spends on trivial matters? Not in the least. Average patriotic Americans like my family members and me insist that he right some of those wrongs. He doesn’t give a damn about any of them.

He once told a reporter that he doesn’t spend any time worrying about the effect the Iran war was having on Americans’ financial condition. Never mind that the price of automobile fuel has doubled since we went to war with Iran, or that the worldwide tariffs he has imposed has spiked the price of damn near everything we buy at the grocery store.

My president would care about those effects on my family and me. Not this one.

He sickens me.

Trump’s hair is the new ‘thing’? What the … ?

As if there isn’t enough to comment on regarding Donald J. Trump, there now appears to be a new “thing” on which some pundits have become fixated.

It happens to be Donald Trump’s new “do,” the hair on his noggin, the thing that has by itself become the subject of barbs, guffaws and speculation about what it’s covering up.

You want my take on what we’re seeing? I think it looks pretty good. All elements considered …

Let’s face facts, the POTUS isn’t exactly Chippendale/firefighter calendar material. So, he’s got a new “do.” To borrow a quote from President Biden … big fu***** deal!

Some of you might wonder, oh, geez, is the blogger going soft on the Orange Man? Hell no! He is leaving behind a legacy worthy of every bit of scorn imaginable. We have that Iran war, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, those destructive tariffs, the dude’s bizarre behavior on the world stage, the East Wing disaster, the Reflecting Pool, Trump’s obsession with gold trimmings and that idiotic notion of slapping his name on a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier that already carries the name of the only Black enlisted man so honored.

Trump’s hairdo? This is the final thing I likely ever will say about it.

A real prediction, or just hot air?

There are times for sure when you want to believe predictions that come from “experts” who not only claim to know many things, but who have track records to demonstrate to predict the future.

I am not sure about what I have just read regarding what is percolating in the political mind of James Carville.

Carville is a political pistol to be sure. He says Donald Trump is a “soft man” who will be unable to tolerate the shellacking his Republican Party will suffer in the midterm election that’s just around the corner. So … Carville said that Trump will quit the office and hand it over to Vice President J.D. Vance.

Part of me wants to happen. Trump is a fool, a buffoon, a dangerous wanna-dictator who has no business being anywhere near the nuclear codes. Vance … ? He’s another cat altogether.

He’s also a fool, but not quite the buffoon that Trump has shown himself to be. He is able to string sentences together. He makes them sound like they make sense even if they don’t.

According to the Irish Star: Trump simply lacks the strength to face the crushing defeat headed his way, Carville argues: “He’s a soft man.” Concerns have also mounted over Trump’s health, with noticeable signs including drowsiness, swollen ankles, and dark bruises on his hands. Current projections indicate that the Democrats have a 76.9% chance of securing a majority of seats in the House, a number that has climbed consistently in recent months. The president will bear the brunt of his party’s collapse, Carville says: “They’re going to blame [Trump] – the whole culture is going to change. The whole conversation is going to change.”

Vance clearly wants to be elected to the presidency in 2028. I don’t know that factually, but it makes a whole lot of sense for him to position himself as a possible frontrunner. But he’s going to carry a lot of the baggage that Carville and others say will doom Trump to feckless lame-duck status once the dust clears from the midtern election.

Carville once guided Bill Clinton to a decisive victory in 1992. He developed the “war room” where all the key Clinton campaign decisions were made. He goes through life seemingly feeling as if certain things are going to happen. As often as not, they do. That gives this prediction a bit more weight than others might have.

I am just going to sit on my hands and watch Trump as carefully as I can from my distance far from the center of the universe.

And I suppose I can hope that if Democrats get control of both congressional chambers, then an impeachment and probable conviction in a Senate trial would spur Trump to pack it in.

Let’s all get ready to rumble.

If only we understood the truth

Flash back about six decades, to Jan. 6, 1961, when Vice President Richard Nixon performed a task that Donald Trump sought to prevent Vice President Mike Pence from performing.

Nixon had just lost a razor-thin election to President-elect John Kennedy. He might have had reason to contest the results from Cook County, Ill., but chose instead to let the numbers stand, giving JFK a narrow win in and ultimately the presidency. The vice president on Jan. 6 of ’61, certified the Electoral College count giving Kennedy and Vice President-elect Lyndon Johnson the keys to the Oval Office.

Prior to affirming the count, Nixon stood before his colleagues and said it was the first time in a century that a sitting VP had to certify an election result in which he was the losing candidate for president. However, he told the nation, that singular act spoke more eloquently about the greatness of the nation that it could conduct a peaceful transition of power from one party to the other, and then carry out the nation’s business.

Nixon understood something that Donald Trump never will grasp. Trump launched an insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021 after losing the 2020 election to President Joe Biden, damn near succeeding in stopping the Electoral College count. And I’ll be damned if Trump is still bitching about an election he contends was stolen from him.

Trump seemingly will never grasp the very notions that give this country its standing as the world’s indispensable nation.

Richard Nixon, of course, went on to be elected president in 1968 and then got himself into serious trouble by covering up a scandal that unfolded before the world in real time. That shining moment in 1961, though, stands out as a singular act that will stand for all time as a moment in which this great nation exhibited a profound moment of political grace.

Trump is none of these things

Donald John Trump would have you believe a number of things about him that make many of us want to laugh out loud, such as …

  • He is the smartest man in human history.
  • He knows more about how to win wars than any of the decorated soldiers, sailors, Marines and airmen under his command.
  • He keeps every promise he makes.
  • He was elected twice to the presidency in landslides.
  • The Iran war is done, that he is able to declare victory over the Islamic Republic in a war that he started for no apparent reason, or strategy to end it.

That’s five items, all of them are demonstrably false. What’s more, while he vowed to surround himself with the “best people,” he has instead hired a collection of clowns, BS artists and sycophants whose only qualification is that they pledge complete loyalty to the liar in chief.

He said the Iran war would be over in weeks. It’s now into its seventh month. Eighteen American service personnel have died, hundreds more have been injured.

Americans need to look inward at what we have done to the democracy we say we cherish. We elected someone who expresses admiration for the tyrants of this world. He contends he has “very strong relations” with Kim Jong Un, the murdererwho presides over North Korea. He has denigrated the intelligence work of our own network of spies, spooks and analysts. He continues to insist the 2020 election — which he lost to President Joe Biden — was stolen, even while lacking a shred of evidence to back up that ridiculous assertion.

Americans were sold a dose of snake oil from a known fraudster, a crook and a charlatan.

And guess what. Americans got fooled twice, in 2016 and in 2024. You know the saying: Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.

We had better start looking for ways to repair the damage we have inflicted on ourselves.

We haven’t won anything yet … Donald

Donald J. Trump keeps heaping superlatives on our war with Iran, such as declaring complete victory, saying we have accomplished all we intended to do when we went to war more than six months ago.

The only thing he hasn’t done is land aboard an aircraft carrier and emerge under a huge “Mission Accomplished” sign.

Hmmm. We know why, I reckon. It’s because Trump must know in its private self what many of the rest of us know, which is that Iranians haven’t yet lost the war. Trump went to war without explaining how it would end, or what he intended to accomplish. He has done not a damn thing to unite the nation behind this feckless effort.

Still, POTUS 47 continues to boast — along with his defense department blowhard/mouthpiece Pete Hegseth — that the Iranians have been rendered “combat ineffective for years to come.” Hegseth even has declared the Iranians have been rendered defenseless against U.S. forces “for decades.”

Someone needs to explain to me why we continue to have forces on duty against Iran if we already have accomplished all we have intended.

Oh, wait. I almost forgot. Trump is lying about it all.

Just who suffers from TDS?

Many of you already are aware that I’ve been accused of “suffering” from Trump Derangement Syndrome. I actually don’t consider it a malady I should shake. I am proud of the variation of the syndrome I lug around in my head and heart.

What I should say right off the top is that my accusers suffer from it, too. Only their syndrome is an affliction that is causing them distress that might be going unrecognized.

A pro-Donald Trump reader of this blog, and I believe I have more of them out there than I probably know about, is as stricken with the ailment as I am. Only he or she will never acknowledge it publicly. Therein might lie a fundamental difference between them and me. I wear my TDS proudly and I call it what it is. They don’t. They hide behind some fiction that life has been better for them and for the country since Donald took office a second time in January 2025.

How in the world can it be that they believe such fecal matter? We’ve gone to war with Iran after Trump said categorically he would never sanction such an activity. The individual has imposed tariffs against the entire planet, driving up the costs of essential goods and services. He said he would end the Russia-Ukraine War on “day one” of his new administration; it rages on.

He continues to lie about the scope of his victory in 2024 over Kamala Harris, calling it a landslide when in reality he just barely squeaked by her.

If you’re going to accept his lies and disregard the fact that he has added trillions of dollars to our national debt, well … I believe you have the Trump Derangement Syndrome you accuse me of having.

Just own it, OK?

Trump wants to do … what?

What in the name of betrayal has invaded Donald Trump’s vacuous skull? I heard this today and I cannot to this very moment actually believe it.

I understand that Trump, following the advice of his morally unfit defense secretary, is considering taking back a decision to name a battle carrier after a Black enlisted man who performed acts of heroism during the attack by Japanese aircraft at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on Dec. 7, 1941.

The hero’s name was Doris Miller, born in Waco, Texas, in 1919. He died in combat in 1943.

When the attack at Pearl occurred, Miller was stationed aboard the USS West Virginia, where he served as a mess attendant. During the bombardment, the captain of Miller’s ship was mortally wounded. Miller rushed to the aid of his skipper, evacuated him to safety, then manned an anti-aircraft gun — on which he had zero training — and fired at the aircraft until he ran out of ammo.

For his action, Miller was honored posthumously with his name being attached to a newly commissioned carrier.

Now comes the despicable part of this brief tale. Trump is considering taking Miller’s name off the ship and putting his own name on the new warship. Imagine the gall, the unmitigated hubris of a sitting POTUS — who dodged the draft during the Vietnam War — acting in such a disgraceful manner.

I should note that a fellow Texan, Admiral of the Navy Chester Nimitz, awarded Miller the Navy Cross in May 1942, making him the first Black sailor ever to receive such an honor. Miller, by the way, was credited with shooting down one of the Japanese planes, but eyewitness accounts say he may have shot down four to six enemy planes.

Miller might not get the honor of a ship carrying his name, if Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has his way. Hegseth already has shown astonishing contempt for Black service personnel by firing Black flag officers and denying women their rightful promotions up the ranks.

I swear to Almighty God in heaven that Donald Trump’s needs to be impeached a third time by the House of Repesentatives and then given the boot by the U.S. Senate if he follows through with this disgraceful act.