At 1:20 p.m. this afternoon, the White House press pool entered the Oval Office, where the President of the United States was already seated behind the Resolute Desk. As the cameras zoomed in, he fiddled with his fingers and stared past the people standing in front of him with a blank look on his face. Seconds later, he looked toward someone off camera and asked, “You all set?” Almost instantly, he went into performance mode, launching into prepared remarks about how amazing the economy is before abruptly changing course. “Uh, I guess the purpose of this more than anything else is we’re going to be changing the name of Lake Ontario, effective immediately, to Lake America.”
The President of the United States of America assembled the press, brought cameras into the Oval Office, and held an official presidential event so he could announce that he was changing the name of a lake.
Trump is hopeless, of course. While it's good to continue chronicling his decline, it is excellent to focus on the enablers around him. They are not insane—they have no excuses.
Definitely, but as much as they care about us…they know what we know…WE NEED to fight to get our America back from those AmeriKKKans.
We NEED to VOTE and be prepared for them to not accept the results…AGAIN.
VOTING and PREPARATION!
This Mainer is pissed off…we rely heavily on Canada and our economy has suffered greatly under this trump,Nazi, fascist, sociopathic regime twice over. To top that off, we have Susan “concerned” Collins traitor to Maine and our country, clutching her pearls.
Great question. We still need to VOTE no matter what.
They are already doing everything in their powers to stop, impede, probably rig votes and we NEED to be prepared for ANYTHING and EVERYTHING. Jan.6, 2021 was the practice run. We know there will NOT be a peaceful transfer of power.
Jeffries meeting with Kushner when he should be uniting the Democratic Party tells us WE NEED to VOTE…because our lives depend on it.
We all know why the orange buffoon signed the executive order renaming Lake Ontario to Lake America. It's because Mark Carney is proposing to match Trump's tariffs dollar for dollar. Just like the overgrown baby he is he's throwing his toys out of the pram.
On another matter: just what does RFK really think of Trump's plan to demolish the Kennedy Centre if he doesn't get his own way to reinstate his name on the building? The Centre was named in honour of his uncle JFK and is a slap in the face to his family. I am old enough to remember JFK's famous saying: Ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country. Trump's own MO is one of greed and accumulating more and more money.
I haven't seen where RFK Jr (still a junior in his 60s), has been asked that question, but I know that there are riffs in his relationship with the WH. After the midterms, when the Republicans are loading the docket with potential presidential nominees, the SHIT IS GOING TO FLY!!
When sanity returns (and it will), there should be Nuremberg-type trials held where each of these sycophants - Stephen Miller and the rest of them, are held accountable for their traitorous actions.
During Trump‘s first term, he had people who had enough integrity to serve as guard rails. During this second term, there are no guard rails left. I don’t know how we can get that back.
I think it is at the end of the seventh paragraph where you wrote:
“There is no mechanism inside Trump that tells him when he has gone too far.”
That mechanism is often referred to as a soul. 47 has no soul, nor do his enablers, henchmen, brother (and sister) low lifes. The USA is being dismantled, in every form of the term, by a soul-less gang who are represented in all three areas of government, legislative, judicial, and executive.
Thank you, once again, for saying what needs to be said. Trump, for all his faults, and they are many, is a useful puppet for the men who stand behind him, seen and unseen. They allow him to do whatever he wants to do as long as it keeps the rest of us distracted and anxious. I keep asking why? Why destroy a nation that was never perfect but was functioning and strong? Why reduce the USA to a failing, weak, joke? I fear for us all.
Yes money and greed and power. But the cynic in me believes there is a more destructive motive also. When you add all the destruction of food inspection, invasion into national parks, kidnapping of neighbors, theft of snap and the destruction of education and research this is about a greater threat I fear for us all. We must be on the phones and in the streets and on the voting booths. We must not surrender!
The Enablers, his sidekicks are rank venal cowards sweeping up the cash leaking out of trumps pockets.
The whole rotten core should be ashamed and if they call themselves Christian’s I hope it’s not Dolly’s Christianity. May every one of them check their conscience over their prayers.
I'm not defending Trump here but I got the feeling under Biden and am now feeling it more strongly with Trump as president, but out of speculation, without any real evidence, I wonder if the current administration is meant to be a performative, ease into a public awareness that the President no longer does nearly as much as president's of the past and act almost purely as a spokesperson for their administration and not a Chief Executive Officer. It's like every event like this just looks like it was intentional.
I'm not downplaying any presidents of the past but I wonder if we are in a state where we are being coaxed into accepting the idea that non elected officials and lobbyists are strictly the ones pulling all the strings now and they're doing this preemptively to mitigate the consequences of a sudden public awareness of the phenomena.
I feel like geopolitically, we're playing a weird propagandic role like that at the behest of foreign partnerships who have a American assets/investments/good diplomatic relations.
That's conspiratorial though but maybe as a thought experiment, like a "disprove the notion" approach would certainly spike people's interest in exercising National Situational Awareness and strive to keep their own sense of our state of affairs.
A lot of people are locked in a speculative world right now where they just grapple with conspiracy theories all day because it's entertaining, but a sociological framework that instills a sense of interest and responsibility towards citizen analysis and I like reading your articles because they make me less interested in non pragmatic studies.
I hope people can develop an obsession with their government.
It's a relationship and it's really unhealthy right now, and it's hurting people mentally in ways that seem irreparable.
I'm a homeless wanderer really and every day I meet someone mentally ill on the streets rambling about the very same things I see all over the internet, like they feel chronically conflicted.
A positive propagandic approach here, could be simply motivating people to apply critical thinking and empiricism to the study of current government affairs.
Sorry for leaving the wall of text. It's kind of all over the place but I needed to get that down before I lost it and I hope you understand that your ability to speak out against issues so clearly and concisely is inspiring.
We all know that when the principal wage earner in a family ignores their responsibilities to pay the household bills on time and instead drinks, drugs, gambles, or because of mental insufficiency, the family structure falls apart that it falls to others to “pick up the pieces” and take over the rebuilding process.
Trump is not a substance abuser - but he acts like a “dry drunk” who exhibits all the signs of an active alcoholic; it seems his addiction - is one comprised of hurting people, ignoring laws, customs, mores, and norms. And he has an assortment of enablers in his inner circle who will eventually become his victims when everything crashes down.
DJT is like the child traveling who is certain the moon is following his car because he is in it…Now, as President of the United States of America, this man-child may well re-name the Moon, itself….
He is indeed a serious substance abuser with a decades long history. He didn't choose etoh as his drug of choice..he chose stimulants. Please read Noel Casler . He covers it all and worked on the Apprentice set for decades. He's been very forthcoming about it all and has never been sued.
And on and on and on while he focuses on his petty crap that only makes him more of an idiot. We need to get him and his spiderweb of enablers out of office.
Lunacy, finally subscribed from New Zealand to support this important voice calling out the madness. I really hope he gets thrown out at elections because him and his enablers seem to have no limits.
Your columns are always excellent, but today’s column was that plus outstanding. The behavior and actions of the individuals supporting and encouraging this president is disgusting, ethically and legally wrong.
Somehow that little dog with the pom poms can still make me smile after feeling the bile rise and the stomach tighten for the time it took to read your piece. It is as though that pup is a cheerleader for your words and she knows that in the end, love destroys hate. Twump is an idiot and we should treat him like one, and while we're at it: show him the door and hope he lives long enough to see his name erased from EVERYTHING except the history books where he will reign with all of his heros: Putin, Kim, Orban, Duarte, Erdogan, et al. They can all play pinochle in hell.
Trump is hopeless, of course. While it's good to continue chronicling his decline, it is excellent to focus on the enablers around him. They are not insane—they have no excuses.
I beg to differ. Stephen Miller is also insane.
That's President Miller, Gail!
The way things are going here in the United States, maybe we'd be better off is Canada made us her 11th province.
Definitely, but as much as they care about us…they know what we know…WE NEED to fight to get our America back from those AmeriKKKans.
We NEED to VOTE and be prepared for them to not accept the results…AGAIN.
VOTING and PREPARATION!
This Mainer is pissed off…we rely heavily on Canada and our economy has suffered greatly under this trump,Nazi, fascist, sociopathic regime twice over. To top that off, we have Susan “concerned” Collins traitor to Maine and our country, clutching her pearls.
WE NEED to VOTE Her OUT.
But ifvStarlink is in the picture what do votes mean?
Great question. We still need to VOTE no matter what.
They are already doing everything in their powers to stop, impede, probably rig votes and we NEED to be prepared for ANYTHING and EVERYTHING. Jan.6, 2021 was the practice run. We know there will NOT be a peaceful transfer of power.
Jeffries meeting with Kushner when he should be uniting the Democratic Party tells us WE NEED to VOTE…because our lives depend on it.
I highly recommend Lance Rosen….
https://lancefrosen.substack.com/p/they-are-planning-a-nationwide-j?r=71veyx&utm_medium=ios
Well, New England at least. Good idea. I'd hop on that train.
We all know why the orange buffoon signed the executive order renaming Lake Ontario to Lake America. It's because Mark Carney is proposing to match Trump's tariffs dollar for dollar. Just like the overgrown baby he is he's throwing his toys out of the pram.
On another matter: just what does RFK really think of Trump's plan to demolish the Kennedy Centre if he doesn't get his own way to reinstate his name on the building? The Centre was named in honour of his uncle JFK and is a slap in the face to his family. I am old enough to remember JFK's famous saying: Ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country. Trump's own MO is one of greed and accumulating more and more money.
I haven't seen where RFK Jr (still a junior in his 60s), has been asked that question, but I know that there are riffs in his relationship with the WH. After the midterms, when the Republicans are loading the docket with potential presidential nominees, the SHIT IS GOING TO FLY!!
When sanity returns (and it will), there should be Nuremberg-type trials held where each of these sycophants - Stephen Miller and the rest of them, are held accountable for their traitorous actions.
Nuremberg 2.0!
During Trump‘s first term, he had people who had enough integrity to serve as guard rails. During this second term, there are no guard rails left. I don’t know how we can get that back.
I think it is at the end of the seventh paragraph where you wrote:
“There is no mechanism inside Trump that tells him when he has gone too far.”
That mechanism is often referred to as a soul. 47 has no soul, nor do his enablers, henchmen, brother (and sister) low lifes. The USA is being dismantled, in every form of the term, by a soul-less gang who are represented in all three areas of government, legislative, judicial, and executive.
Thank you, once again, for saying what needs to be said. Trump, for all his faults, and they are many, is a useful puppet for the men who stand behind him, seen and unseen. They allow him to do whatever he wants to do as long as it keeps the rest of us distracted and anxious. I keep asking why? Why destroy a nation that was never perfect but was functioning and strong? Why reduce the USA to a failing, weak, joke? I fear for us all.
Money, my dear!
Yes money and greed and power. But the cynic in me believes there is a more destructive motive also. When you add all the destruction of food inspection, invasion into national parks, kidnapping of neighbors, theft of snap and the destruction of education and research this is about a greater threat I fear for us all. We must be on the phones and in the streets and on the voting booths. We must not surrender!
Exactly
Damn…. Now I have to buy yet another tee shirt…. To go along with my “Gulf of Mexico forever and always” shirt, and my “Fuck Trump” shirt
The Enablers, his sidekicks are rank venal cowards sweeping up the cash leaking out of trumps pockets.
The whole rotten core should be ashamed and if they call themselves Christian’s I hope it’s not Dolly’s Christianity. May every one of them check their conscience over their prayers.
They have no conscience and the only Christian they are …White KKKristian Nationalists.
I'm not defending Trump here but I got the feeling under Biden and am now feeling it more strongly with Trump as president, but out of speculation, without any real evidence, I wonder if the current administration is meant to be a performative, ease into a public awareness that the President no longer does nearly as much as president's of the past and act almost purely as a spokesperson for their administration and not a Chief Executive Officer. It's like every event like this just looks like it was intentional.
I'm not downplaying any presidents of the past but I wonder if we are in a state where we are being coaxed into accepting the idea that non elected officials and lobbyists are strictly the ones pulling all the strings now and they're doing this preemptively to mitigate the consequences of a sudden public awareness of the phenomena.
I feel like geopolitically, we're playing a weird propagandic role like that at the behest of foreign partnerships who have a American assets/investments/good diplomatic relations.
That's conspiratorial though but maybe as a thought experiment, like a "disprove the notion" approach would certainly spike people's interest in exercising National Situational Awareness and strive to keep their own sense of our state of affairs.
A lot of people are locked in a speculative world right now where they just grapple with conspiracy theories all day because it's entertaining, but a sociological framework that instills a sense of interest and responsibility towards citizen analysis and I like reading your articles because they make me less interested in non pragmatic studies.
I hope people can develop an obsession with their government.
It's a relationship and it's really unhealthy right now, and it's hurting people mentally in ways that seem irreparable.
I'm a homeless wanderer really and every day I meet someone mentally ill on the streets rambling about the very same things I see all over the internet, like they feel chronically conflicted.
A positive propagandic approach here, could be simply motivating people to apply critical thinking and empiricism to the study of current government affairs.
Sorry for leaving the wall of text. It's kind of all over the place but I needed to get that down before I lost it and I hope you understand that your ability to speak out against issues so clearly and concisely is inspiring.
We all know that when the principal wage earner in a family ignores their responsibilities to pay the household bills on time and instead drinks, drugs, gambles, or because of mental insufficiency, the family structure falls apart that it falls to others to “pick up the pieces” and take over the rebuilding process.
Trump is not a substance abuser - but he acts like a “dry drunk” who exhibits all the signs of an active alcoholic; it seems his addiction - is one comprised of hurting people, ignoring laws, customs, mores, and norms. And he has an assortment of enablers in his inner circle who will eventually become his victims when everything crashes down.
DJT is like the child traveling who is certain the moon is following his car because he is in it…Now, as President of the United States of America, this man-child may well re-name the Moon, itself….
He is indeed a serious substance abuser with a decades long history. He didn't choose etoh as his drug of choice..he chose stimulants. Please read Noel Casler . He covers it all and worked on the Apprentice set for decades. He's been very forthcoming about it all and has never been sued.
It is my understanding that he is an addict. Check out Noel Casler.
All while bodies are being counted in Nepal/China….
And while brown bodies are found hanging in Mississippi and other southern states and ignored.
And on and on and on while he focuses on his petty crap that only makes him more of an idiot. We need to get him and his spiderweb of enablers out of office.
Such a horrific tragedy. That video keeps looping through my mind.
Lunacy, finally subscribed from New Zealand to support this important voice calling out the madness. I really hope he gets thrown out at elections because him and his enablers seem to have no limits.
And now it's waiting what Google will do with the naming of Lake Ontario.....
Just saw that Google changed the name to Lake America for American users.
Your columns are always excellent, but today’s column was that plus outstanding. The behavior and actions of the individuals supporting and encouraging this president is disgusting, ethically and legally wrong.
Somehow that little dog with the pom poms can still make me smile after feeling the bile rise and the stomach tighten for the time it took to read your piece. It is as though that pup is a cheerleader for your words and she knows that in the end, love destroys hate. Twump is an idiot and we should treat him like one, and while we're at it: show him the door and hope he lives long enough to see his name erased from EVERYTHING except the history books where he will reign with all of his heros: Putin, Kim, Orban, Duarte, Erdogan, et al. They can all play pinochle in hell.