The State Of His Union

There are a lot of reasons to disdain Donald Trump’s time as President of the United States but if I had to pick one thing, it’s Donald Trump’s own disdain for being President of the United States. As I noted on this blog back in 2017 and it stills holds true to today, Donald Trump is President only for the part of the United States that voted for him. If you’re a white gun toting evangelical, Trump will act like your President. 

If you’re not a white gun toting evangelical, Trump’s attitude is you don’t count.

This attitude was on display during Trump’s State of the Union on Tuesday. His remarks put him firmly on the side of his white gun toting evangelical base.

Take, for example, guns. There are citizens in the United States who are fiercely concerned about upholding the Second Amendment and not having their rights to bear arms being abridged. There are also citizens in the United States who are fiercely concerned about people having their lives abridged by nut cases with guns.

A President has the responsibility to speak to all citizens. Donald Trump, instead, picked a side.  If you’re a white gun toting evangelical, you were happy to hear of Trump’s pledge to defend the rights to have a gun.  Nothing about being protected from a gun.  

(This was enough to prompt an angry outburst from Fred Guttenberg whose daughter was killed in Parkland two years ago.  Guttenberg was escorted from the gallery by security.)

When Trump said “remember that America has always been a Christian nation”, the white gun toting evangelical base stood up and cheered.  If you’re an American citizen who is also Jewish or Muslim or Hindu or Atheist or whatever, well, fuck you. You don’t count.

If you’re a white gun toting evangelical, you were probably thrilled when Trump awarded Rush Limbaugh the presidential Medal of Freedom as if Limbaugh was some universally beloved national treasure that the whole nation is bummed out to find has lung cancer. If you’re an American citizen who is part of any demographic that has been the target of Limbaugh’s insults, attacks and vitriol, that’s OK. Trump wasn’t thinking of you when Melania draped the medal around Limbaugh’ neck.

Trump’s speech was the usual mishmash of lies and half-truths that stuff his standard stump speech from one of his circle jerk rallies. No wonder at the end of it, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi tore up her copy of the speech into little bits. But who cares? Neither Pelosi or her constituents are part of Trump’s United States.

For Donald Trump, President only for the part of the United States that voted for him, the state of HIS union is strong.
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Yep, the Senate voted to acquit Donald Trump on both articles of impeachment.

Wow.

What a shock.

I am surprised.

I am bowled over by that surprise.

I might just keel over dead from that surprise.

OK, is my sarcasm too subtle? 

As I've said all along....

"Ain't nothin' gonna happen."  

And nothing did.