~ a column by Colleen O’Brien
“Please rise for the horribly and unfairly treated January 6 hostages,” an announcer said at the rally. Trump then saluted the jailbirds and the crowd stood, as “Justice for All,” a rendition of the National Anthem, played. The song sung by the J6 Prison Choir featured Trump reciting the Pledge of Allegiance.
Sanctimonious he was (such a phony actor); unctuous, angrifying – “hostages,” my foot; they’re felons.
This is just one example of outright lies from days without end of them. And now the liar is finally getting some comeuppance. Let’s hope it’s not too late; most of us were not doing enough ratting on him when it was happening; it was even suggested to me to back off some, let him alone. I did but kept returning to the fray, helpless before the indignity of his very presence in my White House.
Now, he is getting hit from all sides; it’s almost pathetic, the people who voted for him, voted against his impeachments, never said a word about his cruelties, his prevarications, his bombasts, his stupidities and unknowingness, his uncaring, his meanness, his dumbness.
It’s never too late to say the truth, but bullying the bully is only minorly satisfying. His “enemies” are now calling him Donald Poorleone; I’m partial to Trumplethinskin. Laugh, laugh. We are now him, labeling with intent to hurt, with surety of a laugh; in other words, knowingly with his endless tutoring of us over nearly a decade exactly how to be a mean person.
Call him what you want, be nice or not, he took our country down, and if he is elected again, we will be down for the count. Behind the blather and weird excitability during his presidency, he managed to disable nearly every agency in D.C., get rid of any restrictions, rules, regulations, laws that might hinder his corporate friends doing whatever they want to us and to the environment. These are unforgivable actions and will take years to righten . . . at a time when our first order of business needs to be climate change, not Trump change, chump change, the man will never change, so why be nice to him?
That he is BFF (Best Friends Forever) with foreign leaders such as Putin from Russia, Kim Jon Un from North Korea and Xi Jinping from China and invites a prime-minister-for-life from Hungary, this Victor Orban man, to visit him at Mar A Lago is frightening. Orban has secured himself in office since 2010 by getting rid of old laws so he can reward his friends and punish his opponents and keep himself as leader. Trump likes him because he is “Boss.”
Yay.
That the ex-president disses American soldiers who were killed in war or imprisoned by the enemy is not only disgraceful but terribly sad – think of their families. How any veteran can even think to vote for the callow hurtfulness of that is beyond me.
Does it scare you that he may be borrowing money this week from the Saudis or even ISIS, as far as we know, for his get-out-of-jail card, or “Don’t take my golden elevator” plea or “Hands off my Tower” social comment? He is desperate. And whining, as usual, all the way through his fear of going to jail.
Oh, dream on, Colleen.
See? Even as I feel sorry for the tightening of the screws on the guy who’s screwed so many, it’s still pleasing to pick on him and his decidedly narcissistic sociopathy. Until I recall that he and he alone got himself into it, then I can forgive myself. Surely, he’s been lying since Kindergarten.
And that he blames Biden for his trials is such a giant, silly, stupid prevarication I want to spit.
People believe him!
Enough, Colleen. Those of us who know the danger, know. Those of us who welcome it, well, this is, so far, a free country.
