Last week, there was an annoucement that Donald Trump would address the nation at 9 PM Eastern Time.
A president making a prime time speech is usually a big deal and my wife Andrea immediately went into panic mode.
"He's going to declare war on Venezuela!"
Well, maybe.
My theory was he was going to just do his usual angry delusional rant about how great he is and how everyone else who is not him sucks.
And I was right.
Trump commandeered the airwaves in the middle of the season finale of Survivor to yell at us for 20 caffeine fueled rage filled minutes.
When it was over, pundits on both the left and the right were perplexed.
What the hell was THAT about?
The immediate comparison nearly everyone arrived at was to the Grandpa Simpson "Old Man Yells At Cloud" meme.
I say "nearly" because some Republicans came out with glowing praise for Li'l Donnie's remarks.
Newt Gingrich and Lindsay Graham fell over themselves gushing with admiration for der Führer, citing his speech as something historic.
Geez!
Basically Li'l Donnie's speech could be summed up like this:
- EVERYTHING IS GREAT!💩
- ANYONE WHO SAYS EVERYTHING IS NOT GREAT IS LYING! 😖
- IF BY ANY CHANCE SOMETHING IS NOT GREAT, IT'S JOE BIDEN'S FAULT! 😡
- EVERYTHING IS GREAT! 💩
- I MADE IT GREAT! 😠
So what prompted Donald Trump to stake out time on prime time TV to yell at us about the same old stuff he's always yelling as us about?
I guess he wanted to remind everyone and particularly his MAGA base he is still in charge.
After his reprehensible and offensive remarks on the murder of Rob Reiner, Trump faced backlash from his own party. Several Republicans lined up to say Trump's comments on Reiner's murder were just plain wrong.
You know Trump was all I AM PRESIDENT and I MADE EVERYTHING GREAT and I CAN SAY WHATEVER I WANT!
So he set up time on network television prime time to do just that.
One might cite his disastorous poll numbers as an excuse to assuage his ego with a nationwide address but since der Führer doesn't believe those polls anyway, I'm not sure that's it.
He tells anyone who listens that he's getting the best poll mumbers in the history of numbers since the Mesopotamian's developed the concept of counting in 3400 BC.
(Yep, I did some research. Or a cursory scan of Wikipedia on the subject of "numbers".)
Reality has a different point of view from Donald Trump and other people bringing up reality's persistent difference of opinion with Trump keeps der Führer in a constant state of irked.
When Trump is not venting his penchant for rage, he's indulging in pettiness.
On I presume the taxpayer's dime, plaques were added to the portraits. Long, verbose plaques written in the style of Trump’s social media babbling.
- Click here for Amanda Marcotte's take on the Wednesday speech, the Walk of Fame and that goddam ballroom nobody wants.
- And click here for David Remnick's post on Trump's bullshit effort to add his name to the Kennedy Center.
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