We are witnessing the most outrageously preposterous
presidential transition by Donald Trump, following the most outrageously preposterous
campaign ever run. During his campaign
Trump committed a plethora of (normally) lethal sins from mocking
a disabled reporter to
drooling over his own daughter. He was exposed as a con man for his fake
university, a racist for his refusal to rent to African Americans as well
as his very political birth as a Birther and a misogynist for his “pussy
grabbing.” He made claims so ridiculous, ludicrous and
outrageous (Build a wall and have another government pay for
it. Really??!! ) that the
village idiot was quoted as responding, “Oh
no he di’in!” He promised to create
jobs while manufacturing everything he sold overseas. Just completing this list would take up several
blogs. Despite Trump’s phenomenal
dysfunction (and we haven’t even begun to address his intellectual
deficiency.) he still received just under three million votes fewer than
Hillary Clinton, and enough to carry the Electoral College. They saw what they wanted to see and they
heard what they wanted to hear.
The pundits have all been bewildered by Trump’s lack of an apparent
ideology or any semblance of consistency that might suggest what his next move
might be. He claimed he would “drain
the swamp.” Instead he has quadrupled it
and filled it with appointments who are every bit as inexperienced and
unqualified as he is. He is so
uninterested in national security that he is refusing to receive the daily briefings,
unless “something new” happens. Apparently he has someone designated to
determine what “something new” is. The
last time we had a president that uninterested, we wound up being attacked
on 9/11.
This disinterest in security intelligence goes well beyond
the day to day. It extends specifically to
the Russian hacking of the election. I
would ask those who are confounded by Trump’s refusal to accept the official
report that Putin authorized the hacking of the election to help elect Trump
why they would not expect that reaction from someone who has already stated, I
know more about ISIS than the generals.”
Before we move on from the ego that not only lead to this preposterous
statement, but also plays a major role in Trump’s denial of the facts in the
Russian hacking issue, we have to examine just a bit more of the role it’s
played in this denial. First, Trump has
to attack anything that suggests he didn’t win it, “all by myself” like the
child who goes potty alone for the first time.
After that, the question we need to ask- the 800 lb. gorilla in the room
- is why
would Putin care who won an American election? It’s one thing to say that he tried to sabotage
the process, but quite another to say he preferred a particular candidate. Unprecedented.
Maybe Putin wants Trump because Trump is his Mini Me. As the absolute ruler of Russia, Putin has become, reportedly the world’s wealthiest man with an estimated worth of $200 billion dollars. As America’s first full time business man and part time president, ( no way will he divest, I guarantee it) there is little doubt Trump has similar ambitions. Neither man will brook criticism of any kind. Journalists who do criticize Putin somehow wind up dead. Trump throws tantrums and will try to silence the media on anything he doesn’t like. While right wing gun nuts cry about the Second Amendment, Trump may not kill the First Amendment (Free Press) but he will seriously hospitalize it! Neither man serves his country, but rather both see their country serving them. Trump will never admit his spiritual twin Putin (in much the same way J. Edgar Hoover and Dick Cheney were spiritual twins) hacked the American election. Nor will he ever understand the enormous ramifications of that action. Just like his followers, he sees what he wants to see and hears what he wants to hear.
The Donald Trump presidency represents the greatest threat
America has ever faced. With a
Republican Congress and a Supreme Court that will be manned by Trump
appointees, there will be no checks and balances. (We haven’t even begun to discuss his absurd
choices for Cabinet position!) We are
already in “post
truth” America, where truth no longer matters. The scary part, of course, is that these
possibly fatal wounds are all self inflicted. The real threat to America lies
in the people who get their “news” from Fox when they aren’t listening to people
like Rush Limbaugh, and vote for someone like Donald Trump all because they see what they want to see and hear what
they want to hear. It doesn’t
bother me that Trump supporters (that includes any black folks who didn’t vote
for Hillary) will have him as their president.
They deserve him. But the rest of
us don’t.
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