I have to admit I've held a secret admiration for Trump to do what no other president of the united states has ever done, or, even, if any ex-president contemplated what Trump does, some social convention or childhood lesson, prevented them. Possibly, Andrew Jackson thought about hanging scalps and ears he might have taken from Indians, hung them up in the oval office, but, since they didn't have press conferences then, no one ever chronicled it. There were probably other presidents who thought of some ingenuous revenge on real or imagined enemies. Certainly, a few of the roman emperors weren't above farce. Nero, for example.
Nevertheless, I'm getting to live in the age when a president of the free world, creates an environment that turns upside down into downside up. His newest comedy routine tells us just what he thinks of history and I'm inclined to say, "here, here" because if there's one thing Trump does well is he puts names to the problems all of us have wondered what the names are. The fact the names are wrong and are merely self aggrandizement for his never ending fantasy for acceptance. Still, don't you wonder who really did cause the war in Iraq, or the mortgage crisis, or the lack of universal health care, or any number of events in our history that are unmistakingly, the result of an unwritten ethos, carried out by a universal acceptance of standard chaos.
One reason why I am entertained by this because it satisfies my deep belief that Trump is showing us where he will end up, the very same trash heap of history, except with a laugh. Ihope that whoever is the first president after him who recognizes that this "museum" he has created in and on the white house needs to go into his library so future generations can enjoy a few of the laughs he created amongst the damage. Some of you may think this is too cynical but since irony is the mainstay of politics, every politician build his or her legacy on making the tragic seem reasonable. And once it seems reasonable, then everyone can accept the insanity of it all.
Its what we do with everything. Slavery, genocide, war are all acceptable within their time. They were argued, discussed, negotiated, and made over thousands of times through time, and guess what, we're still in an existential crisis, getting worse because civilization itself looks like one of those plaques in the white house reading, " Trump solved all of the wars, and climate change was proven to be a hoax, tariffs and the greatest tax cuts brought joy to everyone, US President Donald Trump loves you."
You have to appreciate that, keep laughing, to keep from crying.
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