So What’s
Gonna Happen with Fatso?
Notice how obese the President
looked in formalwear at the Queen’s dinner.
Without an unbuttoned overcoat to hide his ever-expanding tummy, he is
fast approaching the dimensions of our twenty-seventh president, William
Howard Taft, who presently holds the distinction of having been our “fattest”
chief executive. (Taft's fatness did not extent to his brain, however. He later went on to become Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, something which never, ever, would happen to Trump.)
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Our idiot-President’s latest
move, making travel to Cuba more difficult for Americans, is just another step
to ensure that Cuba becomes more and more dependent upon China and Russia than
they already are. Their government may
be communist (even more so than are China‘s or Russia’s) but their people are
our friends, many with relatives in this country, and are the key to our ultimately
having an ally, despite their Marxist economics, rather than a supposed menace only ninety miles from our
shores. I’ve been there and I know that
for a fact.
And putting tariffs on imports
from Mexico, which will be paid by American consumers because tariffs force
importers to raise prices on what Americans purchase, is also stupid. Using economic tools such as tariffs as
leverage in trying to achieve political goals is bad policy, but fully
understandable when an idiot like Trump is the one who does it. (I question whether he ever set foot in
Fordham University or the University of Pennsylvania where faculty and most
students know better.)
Initially, Trump “makes nice”
with people in trying to get his way.
Failing that, he attacks and insults them and if that doesn’t work, he
sues them. Such tactics may work fine in
the world of real estate developers and investors who just use temporary
ownership of property as a quick way of making money, but they don’t work in
government. All this is evident to anyone
with at least half a brain, which excludes many Republicans in both Houses of
Congress. Their hunger for the votes of
the unmovable Trump supporters amounts to a self-performed partial lobotomy.
What’s gonna happen? As I read the actual Mueller Report in depth,
the eternal optimist in me suggests that the testimony of witnesses which Trump
and the Administration are preventing from appearing before Congressional
committees, and the documents which they refuse to release, will all ultimately
be available through Court orders which cannot be defied, or through
impeachment hearings where they can no longer be sheltered. They will be damning, as is the Mueller Report, to the President despite the lies he and his acolytes tell.
At that point, Trump’s paper-thin façade
will crumble before the public eye and the Senate Republicans, his only escape
from impeachment, will turn against him. He will then resign and move to Moscow
and open a chain of fast-food restaurants, to be called “McDonalds,” at
which his Attorney-General, who is good at cleaning up, will be employed as a
busboy. (McDonalds will sue him in the
Russian courts but lose.)
Of course, my eternal optimism
does not always triumph, so don’t bet on this actually happening. The unpredictable and often gullible American
public may not think the way I do. In
which case, democracy will be dead in this country, having committed suicide
and failed miserably as a political system.
Jack Lippman
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