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I would like to take credit for being among those observers who predicted that Donald Trump would be a disaster as president of the United States.<\/p>\n

But I cannot.<\/p>\n

That is, I didn\u2019t envision the level of ineptitude, incompetence and abject idiocy we would witness during the course of the time Trump was masquerading as head of state and commander in chief.<\/p>\n

He actually is worse than I thought he would be.<\/p>\n

Then again, I didn\u2019t foresee a global pandemic storm ashore in this country, wiping out tens of thousands of Americans, sickening many more than that. Nor could I foresee the absolute ineptitude from the top of our governmental chain of command.<\/p>\n

I had this notion up front that Donald Trump is incapable of exhibiting empathy or compassion. I mean, I recall writing early and often that Trump geared his entire professional life toward enriching himself. What has been stunning to me has been that Trump doesn\u2019t even pretend to care about those who are suffering from the pandemic. My goodness, he speaks almost exclusively about the economic damage being done while virtually ignoring any mention of the human<\/em> damage in terms of lives lost, families shattered by illness.<\/p>\n

He is running for re-election on a platform that is virtually identical to the one on which he ran in 2016, which is to say he has no forward-looking plan.<\/p>\n

I had harbored this thought \u2013 which I kept mostly to myself \u2013 that if Trump were to win that he might craft some sort of message on which to seek re-election. What, I have to ask, has happened to the message?<\/p>\n

He had boasted about the economy. That is now off the table. He had bragged about how he would \u201cput America first.\u201d He tossed our intelligence community under a freight train by siding with Vladimir Putin\u2019s stated denial that Russia interfered in our 2016 election; that ain\u2019t putting America first, man.<\/p>\n

I have said damn little about how Trump has (mis)handled the racial tumult that has erupted since the death of George Floyd.<\/p>\n

And all of this has come after a series of blunders, gaffes, key staff firing and assertions from former Cabinet officials that Trump has behaved in a manner ranging from disinterested bystander to fu**ing moron.<\/p>\n

I wish I could have predicted all this. I cannot. Nor can damn near anyone else.<\/p>\n\n

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I would like to take credit for being among those observers who predicted that Donald Trump would be a disaster as president of the United States. But I cannot. That is, I didn\u2019t envision the level of ineptitude, incompetence and abject idiocy we would witness during the course of the time Trump was masquerading as … Continue reading He’s worse than I thought!<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1424],"class_list":["post-43325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-donald-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43325"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43327,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43325\/revisions\/43327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}