He abuses his position, calling upon the many powers that presidents possess for purely selfish revenge campaigns. Today, although he denies any involvement, he has sought to crucify John Bolton - using the FBI as hunting dogs. Bolton was in the president's first cabinet as National Security Advisor and has held other high offices of state.
However, like many others before him. he fell out of favour with the current president and later even wrote a book titled "The Room Where It Happened" in which he dared to dig into the reasons why the current president is not fit to lead his country.
Yesterday, I noticed that the 47th president is wearing a new red cap with this legend embroidered upon it: "TRUMP WAS RIGHT ABOUT EVERYTHING". The audacity of this is breathtaking. Such arrogance. Such ignorance. And of course the claim is far from being true.
Just as an example - has Mexico yet paid for the southern border wall as he promised? Besides, that southern wall is far from being complete - in fact it will probably never be finished.
And was he right to form a brotherly friendship with the disgraced and now deceased financier Jeffrey Epstein? The current president appears to be doing everything in his power to distract the media and the American people from what went on between him and Epstein. At one point he even claimed that he did not know Jeffrey Epstein.
The blaggard bigs himself up at every opportunity and any humility he very occasionally appears to show is merely theatrical - as hollow as a drum. Though his social media site is called "Truth Social", truth really does not matter to him.
John Bolton is in his own way a rather despicable character and a warmonger too. In spite of that and just like the current president, he also dodged the draft that should have seen him fighting in the war in Vietnam like his peers. However, I hope that today's invasion of his home by the FBI sees him getting away without charges against him - pouring yet more disgrace upon the so-called Commander in Chief.
Speaking for the many Americans who are equally appalled as you are at what has happened to our country . . . I'm sorry.
ReplyDeleteI do not blame you personally Bruce - even though that course is tempting!
DeleteTrump is like a mob boss settling scores.
ReplyDeleteVindictiveness is his foremost quality.
DeleteThe whole thing is a fucking goat rodeo and trump is the biggest, smelliest, loudest old goat. I hope his heart gives out on him, assuming he has one.
ReplyDeleteAre nurses allowed to think that way?
DeleteYou live with one. I'm sure you know that we think that way at times:)
DeleteI'm presently reading a book by Naomi Klein on Trump's first term. It's rather scary as you see Trump setting things in motion for a dictatorship.
ReplyDeleteThe principles of democracy seem to have eluded him.
DeleteI won’t waste my spit , everyone knows how I feel about him
ReplyDeleteHow do you feel about him? I don't know.
DeleteSurely even wavering or half hearted supporters must be quite fed up with the nonsense and antics by now.
ReplyDeleteYou would hope so but somehow I doubt it.
DeleteI know nothing of John Bolton and don't want to know anything. I wish I didn't know about Trump either.
ReplyDeleteI bet Bolton and Trump feel the same way about you Elsie.
DeleteThe whole state of affairs across the water is becoming more and more unbelievable. If only it were possible to extract ourselves from any dependence and sever all ties.
ReplyDeleteIn the course of time Trump will be gone but what or who will replace him? Will the damage left behind be repairable?
DeleteYorkshire Pudding is right about everything! At least, in this post. :)
ReplyDeleteThat gives me an idea for my own cap!
DeleteI congratulate you on writing a coherent post on Trump. The best I seem to manage is a couple of sentences which then dissolves into spluttering. The man is beyond contempt and don’t get me going on that press secretary of his….oh to have the White House of President Bartlett.
ReplyDeleteKaroline Leavitt is too young, too ill-educated and too "Christian" to be an effective White House press officer. She treats many members of the press with utter contempt.
DeleteI think “ability to treat others with contempt” is a required skill set for most of Trump’s staff.
DeleteThe normalization of appalling behaviour is one of the many things that angers me about that man.
In "olden days" (i.e. before Trump) if someone had told us how this has all played out, would we have believed them? It must seem like some never-ending nightmare to the sane Americans who didn't vote for this idiot! Imagine having to live under such a narcisstic, unstable politician and his equally narcisstic useless party. Perhaps he will cause the "death" to the U.S. as a world power - after all you can only accept so much instability from someone with obvious dementia.
ReplyDeleteFortunately, the Americans who visit this blog tend to be intelligent and quite liberal in their outlooks.
DeleteWhen the anger is over it makes one weep for the stupidity of those who vote for him. The world, as far as he is concerned is a business for him and his family. "How much money can I make?" Also, of course everyone keeping highlighting this stupid man Neil! Craven European leaders should have been given stronger back bones and be able to shout 'boo' to him.
ReplyDeleteDon’t think the European leaders had much choice. The President of the US carries a very big stick - the US economy - had the leaders not praised him and fed his ego he would be back on tariffs.
DeleteI agree with Traveller. The European leaders were obliged to kowtow to The Great Man Baby.
DeleteJust endless stupidity and grifting. Watching him talk about painting the border wall black almost made my head explode. It is ridiculous. A farce. Every day it is something else nonsensical. And yet every single MAGA I unfortunately know of still supports him wholeheartedly.
ReplyDeleteBlind faith despite the evidence before their eyes.
DeleteI love how you know more about American politics than many Americans. Your post encapsulates everything that I despise about him. I saw a video clip of him talking about grass the other day. It was nonsensical and stupid. If Biden had done something like that, people would have been calling for his resignation because he quite obviously had dementia. I actually think that the felon is too stupid to actually understand the workings of government. I think Stephen Miller is behind all of the nutty things that he has done.
ReplyDeleteThere are a lot of simple things that The Orange Man Baby does not understand - such as the meaning of "asylum" and what "groceries" are. With his privileged life, I wonder if he has ever shopped for groceries. He also seems unclear about who instigated the war in Ukraine.
DeleteOf course, we all know that he is an awful, terrible human being. He always has been. Does it help us to read this post? It really doesn't even tho I know you mean well, Neil. I want to read about the people around the world who are making the world a better place. I want to read about positive ways we can be decent people all over the world
ReplyDeleteSorry about that Ellen. I really do try hard not to harp on about your 47th president all the time.
Delete64% of the electorate turned out in 2024. Would things have been better/different if the other 36% had bothered?
ReplyDeleteProbably. You could say exactly the same about our Brexit referendum in 2017. The ones who did not vote are largely to blame for the result.
DeleteHis ego is so giant and his talent is so puny; that's where the terror comes in.
ReplyDeleteThat is an apt way of putting it Bob.
DeleteNow imagine having to live in a country that elected him president.
ReplyDeleteThat is very hard.
DeleteYour commentary is a sharp and personal critique of the former president’s behavior. You capture a strong sense of frustration with pettiness, arrogance, and the use of power for revenge, while also noting hypocrisy and historical controversies.
ReplyDeleteAre you an A.I. person Asep? After all he is not "the former president" is he?
DeleteWhat a very strange person he is. I'm always willing to give people the benefit of the doubt, but in his case it very quickly faded. The oddest thing about him is that he often doesn't make any sense at all (when speaking). 'Verbal diarrhea' suits him perfectly.
ReplyDeleteI thought I had caught you in an error, but to my surprise 'blaggard' really is a word. I was thinking you should have said 'blackguard' but obviously 'blaggard' is a deterioration of 'blackguard'. On the rest of your post, I cannot comment.
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