Perhaps this is the nadir, maybe not but can the current U.S. president really sink any lower?
Along the wall of a colonnade in The White House, portraits of past presidents have been put up going right back in time. Only, one of the portraits is missing. Instead of Joe Biden, America's 46th president, there is instead a picture of an autopen.
The current president and his minions have made a big deal of the fact that Joe Biden sometimes had his presidential signature written with the aid of a computerised autopen - instead of by hand. The ironic truth is that the 47th president has also used an autopen on many occasions to sign documents so why has he made a big song and dance about this matter? After all, he has done just the same.
President Biden was fairly and legitimately elected to office by the American people. He served his country well and made many beneficial decisions and choices. What is more, in spite of the fact that age began to catch up with him, he conducted himself with dignity and a healthy measure of humility. He is and was a decent man, a listener and a true patriot. At least - that is how it appears to me.
Not putting his picture up and instead unveiling the framed image of an autopen is unfair and unfunny. It disrespects all those who voted for Mr Biden in November 2020 and it disrespects American history. You might not have agreed with him and you yourself might even wear a red Republican cap but Joe Biden was the president. He wore that mantle with pride.
Rather than the autopen, the equivalent for the current incumbent might be a jar of orange foundation cream or a golf club and ball to represent all the many times he has been A.W.O.L. on private golfing breaks during his presidency. But pursuing that notion would surely be juvenile and petty - sinking right down to the current president's level.
So yes - this could easily be the absolute pits - the nadir but I have a sneaking suspicion that Mad Donald might go even lower - such is his terrible vindictiveness and his apparent inability to simply let things go and move on.
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