When it comes to planes, Agent Orange has been prone to crash-and-burn. Lest we forget, his vaunted Shuttle went belly up. On 7/4/19, he raved about how, in the 1770s or early 1800s, our army “manned the amparts. It ranned the ramparts. It took over the airports.”
Two key points. One, for a teetotaler, he sounded otherwise. Two, as any third grader should know, in those days airports had yet to be invented. (D’oh! Don’t look now, but this is the same old, same old bellicose bully who’s smeared more than a few Never Trumpers as “Low IQ.” Go figure.)
One of his sheep (the GOP’s chief deputy House whip) now claims (for no stated reason) that Trump did a great job as Chief. So much so, Dulles Airport needs to be renamed “Donald J. Trump International.”
Ouch. Speaking truth to undead sedition, US Rep Gerry Connolly (D-VA) points out “Trump is facing 91 [empirically sound] felony charges. If his party wants to name something after him, I’d suggest… a federal prison.” (Perhaps a single cell thereof might be even more fitting.)
Let’s recall some facts about Dulles, Trump, and 9/11. The plane that wound up torching part of our Pentagon took off from (you guessed it) Dulles. That day, Trump decried not so much the deaths and the damages wrought by the attacks as the shuttering of the stock exchange. In a radio interview, he had the egoistic, un-American gall to gloat (falsely) that the razing of the Twin Towers had made one of his own buildings “the tallest…. in downtown Manhattan.”
Wowee. And he’s supposed to be Presidential timber? To his supporters (plainly including most Big News ops), let me suggest a batch of questions that starts with: have you no sense of decency? Or of shame? Or of perfidy in sky-high places?
Perhaps 20 miles from Dulles sits a university. It’s named for one of the prime movers behind our Bill of Rights. All too aptly, George Mason feared that misdeeds at the top might prove easy for fake patriots and diehard toadies to shrug off. Trouble was, he warned, highly placed power grabbers stand to do the most damage- and therefore, as a matter of national survival, need to be watched closely and reined in tightly.
Five words: was he right, or what?