No pleasure
I take no pleasure from the fact that it was only a few days ago that I wrote about the total absence of dignity in the Oval Office, and now Trump has demeaned his office even further.
His comments on the tragic death of Rob Reiner and his wife Michelle, were not just crass and insensitive, they were the actions and words of a psychopath and a paranoid one at that.
I will not repeat them here, that would be to dignify the obscene ramblings of a self obsessed, pathetic and inadequate human being. One who thinks the violent deaths of people who hated him and his policies is a good thing and no more than they deserve and perhaps one of his supporters may have done him a good service by finishing off an “enemy”.
Comparing Trump’s vitriolic vomit with the comments from former Presidents just shows what a disgusting person he is.
There is some solace in the fact that even some of his supporters may think he went a bit too far this times, but really it just shows what they are willing to put up with and that he is not fit to walk the streets alone, let alone run the greatest country in the world.
As one commentator put it the real lesson is to lead your life in such a way that if you die Trump will celebrate and attack you.
Then you know you will have done the right thing.
From Jonty Bloom Media Ltd
Economics, trade and Brexit, not necessarily in that order but the dog always comes first.
Is the US "the greatest country in the world"? It elected Trump, it allows him to destroy the rule of law, it allows him to undermine democracy and human rights.
It's the Americans who like to call their own country the greatest and the "land of the free": we do not need to ape them.
Their self-proclaimed greatness and freedom are not the reality now, nor have they ever been, Trump or no Trump. I lived there for a few years and know the prevailing abject ignorance of the outside world, the self-centredness and cultural insensivity, etc. If a people know little about the world beyond their own borders, are they really qualified to call themselves "the greatest"?
We can admire American films, or many industrial products or sportsmen and women, the science and scientists, but all that exists in a profoundly unfree, money-obsessed, dog-eat-dog anti-social environment.
If we are to see a country as the greatest, we would probably want to live as people there do, learn from it, emulate it. Is that how we want to see the USA?
Thank you for this Jonty - I find it helpful when I feel rage against Trump to have someone articulate and summarise my feelings. I'm a few years younger than the mango Musssolini so hope that he goes well before me. I'm not at all well known but just hope those that do know me remember me as someone who tried his best to think first of his family friends and the wider community