25th Amendment, Anyone?
Everyday, more Trump. Trump … Trump … Trump. A water torture of dripping tweets, outrageous declarations, petulant tantrums. Never ending. Constantly updated. And always more crazed. Yesterday he labeled the Danish Prime Minister a nasty woman for treating him badly by refusing to negotiate a real estate deal for Greenland. Then he canceled a state visit to the land of Hamlet. Kim Jong Un is busy across the Pacific testing intermediate missiles, but that’s no big deal, he tells the Japanese who are strangely troubled by their nuclear neighbor. The big deal was Greenland.
Now he’s calling himself the Chosen One in his dealings with China, the Lion of Judah and the King of Israel in the Middle East, the God-King here on earth. Let the nations of the planet tremble, he is the Second Coming. Irritate him and he will breathe fire on your people. Try to reason with him and he will raise your tariffs. If the entire world is plunged into a new recession, so be it. Mighty is his will and terrible is his wrath. He no longer has or needs advisors, so great is his intellect. He keeps an army of court jesters, mostly in cabinet posts, that he rages at, compliments, ignores and eventually fires. If and when he resorts to having them executed, his followers will cheer heartily.
These are the best of times, these are the worst of times, these are quintessentially Trump Times. Madness rules the Kingdom and all semblance of order has been banished. What does it matter if we are thrown into chaos, what we want, what we expect, what we seemingly demand are daily plot twists that hold our collective interests. Crazy? Not if it boosts the ratings. Insane? Not if every waking hour Trump holds our attention.
Some say we should invoke the 25th amendment. Remove the madman from office before he does more harm than what he has wrought already. You know and I do too, we’re the madmen, we’re the crazy, we’re the hopelessly insane. We tune in to this the way we hunger for a good catastrophe, TV cameras focused 24/7 on the dead, the victims, the carnage. And then we move on to the next mass killing, the next hurricane, the next flood, the next car pile-up, the coming pandemic, the future economic crash.
When life has become a reality show, you definitely need a good narrator.
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Yes Virginia, there is a 25th Amendment.
Virginia, your little friends Alabama, Kentucky, Utah, and the other red states are wrong. They have been affected by lies in an age of lies.
Not believe in the 25th Amendment! You might as well not believe in competent decision making!
(With apologies to Francis Pharcellus Church)
Don’t you wish you’d become a historian? This guy will be studied longer than either Caligula or Nero. That, or don’t you wish you had Jon Stewart’s old job? More jokes than clowns in Volkswagens.
Yes, historians should have 24/7 job security as people of the future dig out of the hole we put them in and ask “what the heck happened?”
The comedians will see the launch of 3 or 4 more major streaming channels in the next 6 months, and 2020 election campaign fodder. If Trump keeps Tweeting at his current rate, the vast number of available jokes will be too cheap to meter.
However, if Trump loses in November 2020 and is no longer protected as a sitting President guarded by a phalanx of Republicans? Oh to be an attorney. I see an opportunity for good works AND a gravy train of billable hours in their future.