~by Colleen O’Brien
I just wish when Trump says to a reporter, “You’re the worst. You’re from Bloomberg/ABC/CNN/the Times, right? I don’t know why they even have you….” that the reporter would reply, “You’re the president who ‘won’ with the lowest number of votes ever, right? I don’t know why we even have you….” And walk away. I wish all the reporters would walk away from him.
I am tired of Trump getting away with nasty comments amid endless lies – “Fake news like you,” he says to diligent reporters. How dare he: the First Amendment says that there shall be no “abridging the freedom of speech or of the press.” The framers of our Bill of Rights never dreamed they should have added “Especially a President.”
Although I wonder why I even mention the Constitution: our president does not believe in it. As far as I can see, if he’s ever read it, he decided it didn’t pertain to him.
And then he says of himself, “We got three billion hits….” Nobody in our social media world has ever received 3 billion hits on anything.
The man’s ill manners and outrageous lies are enough to make us all nuts – or planning to move to another country, join a convent of silence, jump off a cliff.
He’s now asking the FCC to fire Seth Myers, another late-night comedian like Colbert and Kimmel whom he damned and ordered fired. Myers has been fingered by Trump for repeating a bit of Trump’s sputtering nonsense: “No one knows what a magnet is.” Or what “groceries” are, or the word “accountability.” Myers reminded us that Trump repeats that he is America’s greatest “cheerleader,” as in when he said in an interview, “We need to get some skilled workers from other countries.”
It was Myers talking about Trump’s suffering a decline of supporters that set Trump off on one more of his uncontrolled fits of ire: “…his show is a disaster. Myers has no talent.”
Myers is merely saying, via his comical profession, what Trump is saying. Trump is merely saying once again — unbeknownst to himself — that he himself is the most thin-skinned whiner on the planet.
Because we are a country that touts free speech and happens to have a “bigly” part of the population that appreciates irony, these are the kinds of things our presidents have lived with from Mark Twain in the 19th century to the early-days of the 20th century late night TV comedians like Jack Paar, Steve Allen, Jay Leno, Johnny Carson, Letterman to the present 21st century line-up of Colbert, Kimmel, Myers, Fallon, Trevor Noah, Samantha Bee, John Oliver….
The Trump is angrier by the day, unhinging more and more as he rages. That he’s unhinging me? Well, I confess that confessing it in print helps.
If the legacy Press doesn’t report it, we can rely on our comedians to fill us in — and make us laugh at the same time, something we sorely need to do at a time when our president is accepting bribes from everyone in the world from Qatar to Switzerland, so he’ll cut their tariffs. Some Americans believed what he was talking about when he said that tariffs would make us rich.
Tariffs are making only him rich. Richer.
I hope he goes down in dust because of his tariff legacy, as well as his terror of our learning anything about his part in the life of a historic pedophile who was his best friend.
