This embarrassing blight
Yesterday was all about Donald Trump’s criminal trial sentencing hearing, which perverse circumstances turned into a non-event. But if you’ll allow me, I want to spend today’s morning column going back to the day before. With everything that’s going on, the scene at President Jimmy Carter’s funeral almost got overlooked. But we really should talk about just what an embarrassing blight this clown Trump truly is.
Trump had no business showing up at all, given the vicious lies and personal attacks he’s spent so long spreading about President Carter. But Trump was nonetheless there, staring blankly like an idiot, seeming passively confused about why Vice President Kamala Harris didn’t feel like talking to him. Or perhaps Trump was busy wondering who she was and where he knew her from. It’s in moments like this that Trump truly comes across as having no idea who anyone is or what’s going on.
It was left to President Obama to begrudgingly entertain a lonely and confused Trump, after it was clear that no one else wanted to give Trump the time of day. President Bush walked by and playfully bumped President Obama in the stomach, as if to say “Sorry you got stuck sitting next to him.” Even among a group of U.S. leaders coming together to honor another U.S. leader, Donald Trump is still the guy everyone hates, the guy no one wants there, the guy no one wants to have to sit next to. Michelle Obama seemingly skipped the whole thing (“scheduling conflict”) just so she wouldn’t have to sit next to Trump, and who could blame her?
This is all just so embarrassing. This blob, this worthless blob, this disgustingly foul person, this sexual assaulter, this thirty-four time convicted felon, this psychopath who incited an insurrection against the United States, this traitor who stole classified nuclear secrets and did who knows what with them, this nasty foul blob, is somehow about to be President of the United States again. God damn anyone who voted for him this time – and I don’t say that lightly.
But we’ll keep fighting. We have to. There isn’t anything else but to fight. We’re not letting this worthless blob win in the end. We’ll fight him and we’ll stop him at every turn possible. We’ll make sure that he goes down in history as the villain that he’s always been. And we’ll make sure that his second go-round in office is even more of an embarrassing failure for him than the first.
