Trump had quite a week

Fresh off his spectacular breakup with Elon Musk leaving the right wing demoralized and fractured by the split, Trump has had quite the week, and not the one he had envisioned. Trump hoped to present the country and world with a display of his misuse, abuse and diminution of America’s military forces, beginning with his divisive and political campaign speech to a West Point audience ideologically sorted to serve as props, and culminating in a festive celebration of the Great Ruler’s birthday, with goosestepping soldiers and rumbling tanks and throngs of adoring supporters, and maybe even a chance to beat up some protestors. Instead the parade was a limp, soggy, sparsely attended affair. Newsmax reports just 10,000 people at Trump’s birthday party, meanwhile massive crowds turned up everywhere across these United States to peacefully protest. Millions. Everywhere but D.C., that is. The organizers of the ”No Kings” protests strategically avoided the District, as, in true dictator fashion, Trump had threatened protests would be met with “very heavy force.” Earlier this week, the Trump administration sent the Marines to Los Angeles; tackled and handcuffed the senior Senator from California; and greenlit a war in the Middle East, earning a disapproval rating approaching 60% and an approval rating in the mid-30s. The grand finale for this week’s episode of the Trump presidency was to have been a media triumph for the reality-show president. It flopped. Sadly, the estimated $45 million spent could have fed and housed a lot of hungry homeless veterans.

George Bartlett

Jacksonville