CASH IN THE APPLE
By Cash Michaels
WE’RE
PAYING THE PRICE - If you were among the
five million in North Carolina last November who voted for Donald Trump over
Hillary Clinton for president, congratulations. I hope you’re happy, because
you’ve officially elected a nut-job to preside over all of us for the net
three-and-a-half years ( though many suggest that at the rate he’s going, Trump
won’t last that long).
Let’s face
it, Donald Trump’s behavior has always been one taco short of a combination
plate, but within the past two weeks, the word “bizarre” comes to mind when
thinking about the way the 45th president of the United States has
been acting.
By now
everyone knows about, and have shaken their heads off over Trump’s crude and
sexist tweets about MSNBC personality Mika Brezinski, and the apparently false
allegation that she had a facelift that was “bleeding” when she and boyfriend
Joe Scarborough (also her MSNBC cohost on “Morning Joe”) visited Trump a few
months ago at his Mar-a-lago retreat in Palm Beach.
And of
course, in followup tweets, the president called her “dumb as a rock” and other
stuff that’s beneath the dignity of the high office that he was inexplicably
elected to.
Then, last
Sunday, the man seemingly loses it completely, tweeting out a 2007 video of him
fake clobbering World Wrestling Entertainment Pres. Vince McMahon outside of a
ring, but superimposing the CNN insignia over McMahon’s face, making it look
like he is actually beating up a major cable news organization.
It was no
surprise when folks began accusing Trump of trying to incite violence against
the press. And now CNN, and other news organizations, are very concerned about
the safety of their personnel.
And should
be.
MSNBC’s
Rachel Maddow said last week that what Trump is actually doing is trying to
distract his critics from the fact that things really aren’t getting done by
his White House. Republican repeal and replace of Obamacare has virtually
collapsed. Though the US Supreme Court has partially upheld his travel ban
against several Muslim nations, it’s not the clear and “total” legal victory he
boasts it is.
Tremendous
heat is being brought to bare over the federal investigation into possible
Trump campaign collusion with the Russians
in last year’s presidential campaign. And diehard Trump-lovers are
looking stupider and stupider for supporting a failed lunatic who has clearly
lost his mind to the point that no one trusts the fact that he has his finger
on the nuclear button.
So yes, we
are ALL paying a very big price, indeed. A wise man once said elections do have
consequences. The idea is that you know what those consequences are in advance,
and then try your best to turn out your folks at the polls on Election Day so
that those consequences never come to past.
Now I’ll
admit, even I thought that ole Trump would calm down somewhat after taking the
oath of office. Sure I expected him to do a lot of things I just won’t like,
but I did not expect that he would lose his marbles in the process.
Nor did
you, quite frankly.
So now the
only ones who could put Trump out of business are his fellow Republicans in
Congress…that is if the Robert Mueller investigation doesn’t do it first.
Bottomline
is our nation’s leader and the most powerful man on the planet is running amok,
and teaching us important lessons in the process.
I hope
we’re paying close attention. And I certainly hope that we all survive this
perilous episode in American history, and collectively vow to make sure that it
never happens again.
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