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1 Comment Posted on Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Iran, John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts

Time to Celebrate America’s 250th birthday—Sanity Returns to the Kennedy Center

A minor miracle occurred in the early morning on June 13th—Trump’s name was removed from the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts in Washington, D.C.   A judge ruled that the name change was illegal and therefore anything related to the venue had to expunge his name.

For once, Trump did not get his way.

Hundreds of people began gathering around to see this event including thousands via YouTube, applauding yellow-vested construction dudes as if they were members of Springsteen’s E-Street Band.  One worker even entertained the crowd pretending to fall off the rickety scaffolding that took longer to erect than an ADU.  The drip-drip process of removing 18 letters tortured the spectators.

Ever since he put his name on the memorial for the fallen president back in December, the complex has lost money. Consequently, Trump decided to use renovations as the reason for the closure, thereby avoiding the appearance of his name being associated with a financial failure.

Once the crew began removing the letters the entire work area was shielded behind curtains as if to conceal what was happening.  Why?  So that the man would not be embarrassed by the spectacle?  How apropos, the concealment of removing the letters symbolizing the concealment of how much damage this president has done in grifting for his family’s fortunes.

Underscoring the man’s enormous insecurities about himself, he forces those who work for him to proclaim their undying devotion to their king.

They all say it—Cabinet members, press secretaries, MAGA pundits—as if brainwashed like Stepford wives.  Eerily, the wording is exactly the same no matter who’s speaking. 

“President T is the greatest champion for [fill in the cause] of any president in American history.”  

But when journalists pose challenging questions to him, he avoids answering them, lashing out at reporters—”you’re stupid, you’re the worst person in the world.”

You’d think this person who embraces everything gold would follow the Golden Rule; however, he is the antithesis of it. 

Can you imagine the outrage if President Obama had done any of the things Trump has done?

  • Added his name above John F. Kennedy’s to the Kennedy Center.
  • Hung a giant poster of his likeness covering the Justice Department building.
  • Had his likeness on U.S. passports.
  • Plans to have his face on currency even though Congress in 1866 outlawed living people from appearing on money.
  • Charged taxpayers $1.8 billion to pay off rioters who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6.
  • Tore down the whole east wing of the white house, charging taxpayers $1 billion for a ballroom.
  • Invaded Iran without approval from Congress, then surrendered to most of their demands, leaving Iran the strongest it’s been since the 1979 revolution and America emasculated on the world stage. When J.D. Vance told reporters that the Iranians “promise” not to build nuclear weapons was jaw-dropping in its naivety.

A few days ago when Obama delivered his speech at the inauguration of his presidential museum, it served as a stark reminder that just a decade ago, we had a leader who embodied qualities that any parent would cherish in their own children.

No wonder few are in a celebratory mood to commemorate the semiquincentennial of the United States.   The removal of Trump’s name from the Kennedy Center is a beacon for so many Americans thirsting for the return of sanity, competency and decency to their country.

1 Comment Posted on Donald Trump, Iran, Norah O'Donnell, President Trump, Strait of Hormuz

Is There a Doctor in the [White] House?

“Leave the F—in’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell—JUST WATCH.”

“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again,” bombing Iran “back to the Stone Ages.”

In your wildest imagination would you ever think such vile statements would come from a U.S. President?

Whatever diminished mental capacity former President Joe Biden may have had, what we are living through now is much worse—an unstable man during a time of war. Even berating Biden as “sleepy” has come back to haunt him as myriad videos reveal the president as “sleeping” during meetings.

The Atlantic writer Tom Nichols summarizes the president’s state of mind this way:

“[We] should be very worried about a commander in chief who is trying to govern the country between social-media binges, who attacks religious leaders in narcissistic frenzy, and who imagines himself as a deity. If an elderly parent did such things, most people would be concerned. The president doing such things is far more alarming.”

His nastiest comments are posted in the middle of the night.  When does the faucet of his venomous social media megaphone get turned off?  Can’t he think of ways to use his time in a productive way?

When he made the decision to attack Iran, a move that his predecessors had refused to undertake due to the inherent risks, he didn’t do so based on facts but on feelings.  Most troubling is that not one person told him this was a bad idea.  Even his own vice president had reservations about the “excursion” yet ultimately supported his decision.

Whenever the war ends, it will leave Iran more powerful than before.  If he’s lucky, his negotiators may end up with a deal that resembles what the Obama administration had already accomplished in 2015.  That’s the agreement that he tore up.  In the decade since, Iran has been on a nuclear enrichment spending spree.  And now, the Strait of Hormuz will forever be a weapon Iran will use against its enemies.

His public appearances are also disturbing because he constantly dwells on his “greatest hits” which consumes his thoughts—windmills, Greenland and the ballroom—none of which impact Americans struggling with gas prices.

When asked on Fox News about how the citizens of Iran are doing when it comes to basic living necessaries such as food and water, he didn’t answer the question, choosing to comment on how beautiful the female reporter was who asked the question.  That’s where his mind is during wartime?

He sits at a cabinet meeting, with the secretary of state on one side and the secretary of “war” on the other, and they have a permanent bemused expression as their commander rambles on for several minutes about the quality of the pens he has when signing executive orders.

Just yesterday he sat down for an interview with “60 Minutes” correspondent Norah O’Donnell to discuss the shooter who attempted access to the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.  For a moment, the president seems unusually open to having an improved relationship with the press based on his reception.  Yet when O’Donnell asked him a question he didn’t like, his real self reappeared, lashing out at O’Donnell as “horrible” and a “disgrace”.   There’s the president 77 million people voted for, in all his glorious vulgarity.

If he doesn’t have dementia, then he has a personality disorder.  In either case, accountability needs to happen finally to this man.   Send a doctor, psychologist or anger management therapist to the White House because the leader of the free world is not well, and if he continues acting like a recalcitrant toddler, America will end up in the intensive care unit.