"The Visionary" (1989)
at Mar-a-Lago
Where is the 47th President of the USA this weekend? Do you really need to ask? He's at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida of course. He flew down there from Washington DC aboard Air Force One - a Boeing 747 - on Friday afternoon and he will be flying back on Monday morning.
It is the same most weekends. And why does he do this? Well, it is mostly to rest and relax, play golf and meet up with his chums. Apparently, he has taken to hosting dinners at which guests pay tens of thousands of dollars for the privilege of dining with him.
The cost of each flight alone is about $1 million but there are many other costs surrounding security. The bill for these weekends away falls on American taxpayers. No thought is ever given to the blatant waste of aviation fuel and the 47th president's personal carbon footprint.
One might have imagined that a president's "to do" list would be as long as your arm, requiring very long working weeks at the political grindstone - but not so with #47. Effectively, he only puts in half a working week though I imagine that he still takes classified documents to his private mansion, scanning them briefly as he sits on what Americans sometimes call "the john".
As the Mar-a-Lago weekends are now part of an habitual presidential pattern, many of #47's fans now know when and where to wait for his motorcade - ready to wave and cheer.
One of them is a 31 year old landscaper and food delivery worker originally from Indiana. He is called Bradley Collier. After a recent presidential motorcade passed by he said, “Today was special.” This time, the limo seemed to roll slower and closer to the 'sidewalk', giving Collier a better glimpse of the president. “There’s nothing cooler than that,” he said, "other than Jesus Christ.”
Has there ever been a lazier president than the current incumbent? His time sheet speaks for itself and yet, as in the pitiful mind of Bradley Collier, #47 has in the eyes his doting support base taken on the character of a messianic figure who can do no wrong in spite of the evidence stacked against him.
By the way, the painting at the top in its ostentatious gilded frame is not some kind of jokey internet meme. It is genuine and hangs upon the barroom wall at Mar-a-Lago. In Trumpworld, truth is not only stranger than fiction but more horrific too.
He is dragging the entire US into the gutter.
ReplyDeleteWhen he finally goes, it will be nigh on impossible to restore America to the enterprising, warm, generous and happy country that it used to be.
DeleteYou were very easy on the criticism of this evil guy.
ReplyDeleteIt is incredible that so many millions of Americans have been hoodwinked by him and his gang of sycophants.
Delete$26 million dollars and counting, with much of that funneling right back into his own pockets as payment for rooms and meals for the secret service for the weekend.
ReplyDeleteHe even sees Ukraine as a business opportunity. Imagine that - people dying for their country but Trump is mostly thinking about mineral rights.
DeleteThe only way that "visionary" painting could be any tackier is if it were painted on velvet.
ReplyDeleteThe only vision that guy has got is increasing his personal wealth.
DeleteWell said but you're not the first.
ReplyDeleteI know that many Americans have already begun the fight back - even a handful of senators and representatives.
DeleteI'm a little surprised that Trump was ever that young and slim. At first I thought it was a painting of a cricketer, the clothes certainly suggest cricket. To me, anyway. I don't call him President, to my mind he doesn't deserve that title.
ReplyDeleteIf he was a cricketer he'd be out first ball and if Dennis Lillee was bowling at him he would soon be wearing brown trousers.
DeleteI feel ill, but I suppose the more time he spends in the air the more chance there is of him being sucked out of the plane or something similar.
ReplyDeleteSurely there will be another assassination attempt before his term is through.
DeleteI came to the conclusion last week, he is not a joke but a danger to everyone. We should start thinking of how to get rid of him. Boris went because of his foolishness and his sins hardly have any rating against the dictatorship of you know who.
ReplyDeleteWhen it comes to sinning, Johnson was a novice compared with The King of America.
DeleteHow uncannily accurate is that portrait! Such a handsome man isn't he {{swoon}}
ReplyDeleteI think a trip to "Specsavers" is in order JayCee.
DeleteIs that a Cricket outfit?
ReplyDeleteNo. It's a clown outfit.
DeleteBradley Collier should seek help for his delusions.
ReplyDeleteAnd We The People should demand that the president not charge us for golfing at HIS golf club.
I didn't think that Jesus was "cool". After all, he didn't wear jeans.
Deletehttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/feb/27/michael-cohen-testimony-trump-painting-foundation-money
ReplyDeleteDoes his corruption know no bounds?
DeleteBradley Collier obviously isn't the only one who's delusional, but who is it really in the painting - a D list actor? Before I read your blog I thought it was a cricketer too!
ReplyDeleteIt is a felon.
Delete#47 gets more done in a couple of "half-weeks" than #46 managed to accomplish in four full years, most of which he spent lying on a beach in Delaware and sleeping, or babbling like an idiot, or wandering clueless off a platform, which brings up the question, just who was running US national affairs from Jan 20, 2021 until Jan 20, 2025? Maybe "Dr. Jill", maybe a bevy of non-elected behind-the scene folk, who knows? Don't look now, but #47's first 100 days are rivaling FDR's in 1933, but moving to the right instead of to the left. That is the true basis for all the vitriol.
ReplyDeletePresident Biden achieved many noteworthy things during his four years in office - including inflation reduction, bringing unemployment down, increasing the production of US made semiconductors, reinstating The Affordable Care Act, improving infrastructure and internet access, mending relations with several foreign countries that had been damaged by Trump, defending Ukraine from the Russian despot Putin. I could go on but I must say Bob that I am very surprised that you, an intelligent, compassionate and patriotic Christian American can support #47 in any way. He is wicked and somewhat demented as many of his actions since returning to The White House have shown.
DeleteYou must getting your information from FOX News, Rhymeswithplague. I'm so disappointed to read this from you. Your comment is so wrong.
DeleteAnd yet the right-wingers constantly rode Joe Biden any time he went to his family home in Delaware, which is a heck of a lot closer to DC than Mar-a-Lago!
ReplyDeleteI don't know what it will take to remove the blinders from people like Bradley Collier. Even Trump's failures, in their minds, will not be his fault. The "deep state" will be to blame, or the courts, or immigrants, or "leftists," or gays -- the list goes on and on.
bless him in his little cricket outfit
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