12/26/19: The president is vacationing at Mar-a-Lago;
but his foul mood doesn’t dissipate, even after a night’s rest.
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A future Trump Presidential
Library will include the “Wall of Insults.”
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By 7:18 a.m., he’s
tweet-ranting again:
The
Radical Left, Do Nothing Democrats said they wanted to RUSH everything through
to the Senate because “President Trump is a threat to National Security” (they
are vicious, will say anything!), but now they don’t want to go fast anymore,
they want to go very slowly. Liars!
Otherwise, it’s a slow news
day (in America, at least).
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“Killer slime!”
A CHECK OF WORLD NEWS hints at
metastasizing troubles. We learn, for instance, that farm run-off from Poland
is polluting
wide swaths of the Baltic Sea. Pesticide run-off builds up to become a threat
to humans who consume fish. Fertilizer run-off “saves” humans by killing the fish.
If you like algae you’re in
luck. Algae thrives on fertilizer run-off. It blooms in the Baltic, as it does
off the mouth of the Mississippi, where a dead zone
the size of Massachusetts was predicted for 2019. That would be the largest
expanse ever recorded. Toxic algae blooms
turned much of Lake Erie a sick shade of green this past summer. A similar
problem has left beaches in France covered with “killer slime,” not exactly conducive
to the tourist industry, as any fool could see.
Well, not any fool, because
the President of the United States has been focused on issues like how many
times it takes to flush a toilet –
and let’s just say, kudos, because the man does not give up, not if it
takes ten tries.
Even fifteen!
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Lake Erie: How about a swim! |
Meanwhile, pesticides have
contributed to a steep decline in honeybee populations, including
a 40% decline last winter.
Pollution all across North
America has caused a dramatic decline in bird populations, too. The Audubon
Society notes
that “1 in 4 birds” in North America have been lost in the past fifty years.
This particular blogger, already age 70, won’t be around for another fifty. My
grandkids (and yours) might – and they may curse us all for failure to address
serious problems before too late.
Think government regulation is
the main issue when it comes to environmental protection? You have to be
ignoring the facts.
Or you may be too busy
flushing, like Donald J. Trump.
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BUT WAIT! I just stumbled
on an old story. Did you know that one expert has estimated that the
president’s IQ is 156!
Trump,
of course, has described himself as a “very stable genius” since taking office,
so, assuming he can get that toilet to flush, maybe he can save us in the end.
Certainly, one man agrees that Trump is a genius. That would be Trump. In 2013
he slapped at critics, saying, “Sorry losers and haters, but
my I.Q. is one of the highest – and you all know it! Please don’t
feel so stupid or insecure, it’s not your fault”
Certainly, he loves to refer to critics and foes of all kinds
as “low I.Q. people.” Jon Stewart managed to get under Trump’s orange skin
years ago. Trump lashed out, labeling him as an “obnoxious lightweight with a
lower I.Q.” Mika Brzezinski, a political commentator, was “low I.Q. Crazy.”
“Weak and totally conflicted people” like Rick Wilson “shouldn’t be allowed on
television unless given an I.Q. test. Dumb as a rock!” Trump
howled. Actor Robert DeNiro was “a very low I.Q. individual.” And in his best
worst moment, Trump tweet-quoted Kim Jong-un, the murderous dictator, who had
called former Vice President Joe Biden “a fool of low I.Q.”
Trump loved that.
Besides, the murderous dictator is his “friend.”
Trump is insensitive and crude, vulgar and uncouth. He is
often compelled to label opponents as “dumb.” The writer Tim O’Brien, a man
with three masters’ degrees from Columbia, he called a “dumb guy with no clue.”
Stewart was a “dumb clown.” George Will, an old-school conservative was “the
dumbest” political commentator of TV. Bill Maher was “the dumbest man on
television.”
For some reason one popular show irritated Citizen Trump to
no end. “Just tried watching Modern Family - written by a moron, really
boring,” he tweeted in 2013. “Writer has the mind of a very dumb and
backward child. Sorry Danny!”
Yeah. “Sorry.”
So heartfelt
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SOMEDAY there will need to be a Trump Presidential Library – located
at Mar-a-Lago, we suspect. It will not be complete unless a Wall of Insults is
one of the first displays visitors will see. Future Americans will stop and
marvel at all the abuse a petulant man-child once hurled…at other Americans he
was elected to serve. The wall will be covered with the furious offerings of a very
small person. Former C.I.A. Director John Brennan will be described, in
perpetuity, as “even dumber” than former F.B.I. Director James Comey. Don
Lemon, like Maher, will live on at the library as “the dumbest man on
television.” Perhaps this will cause quizzical looks. Future Americans will
wonder how both Lemon and Maher could be the dumbest man on TV.
They will move on. There will be an entire section crammed
with misogynistic comments. Another large section will highlight veiled racist
insults. This wall will immortalize the words of a man who knew how to hate.
Tourists who visit the Trump Presidential Library will marvel
at all the tactless offerings of a man who rose to the greatest office in a
great land. Justin Amash, who left the Republican Party in protest, will make
the wall, forever listed as “one of the dumbest” people in Congress. Mayor Bill
di Blasio will be there, “dumb and incompetent.” “General” Stanley McChrystal
(Trump puts “General” in quotations when he describes him) will be known for “a
big, dumb mouth.” Chris Cuomo, on CNN, will not be just dumb. He will be both
“Dumb and Sick.”
Even the president’s first choice for Secretary of State will
go down in history as dumb – which is another oddity, since the man with an
I.Q. of 156 wasn’t smart enough to see that to begin. “Rex Tillerson,” visitors
to the Trump Library will learn, “didn’t have the mental capacity needed. He
was dumb as a rock.”
That insult and hundreds of others will be forever chiseled
in stone on the Wall of Insults.
Like the Vietnam War Memorial, only without the redeeming
courage and sense of sacrifice.
Finally, the typical visitor will tire of reading and
wander off to see the other displays. A second tourist will take their place
and begin reading.
Former GOP Speaker of the House Paul Ryan will be chiseled into stone as,
“Weak, ineffective and stupid.” Paul Krugman, a Pulitzer-prize winning
economist, will get a mention: “He is obsessed with hatred,” the
Wall of Insults will show that the president once claimed, “just as others are
obsessed with how stupid he is.” Politicians Trump didn’t like, by
the dozens, will be included as “stupid.” Obama: a “stupid man.” Hillary: a
“stupid” woman. The British ambassador: “a very stupid
guy.”
And finally, even opinion polls Trump didn’t like, and
windmills, will be tagged as “stupid” in the end.
