Let me say right off the bat, I do not wish Trump dead. Not yet, at least. It will be our Minority President’s destiny to become one of the most despised people in the country. No one can stop that. I want him to live a lot of years with full awareness, long enough to see it and feel it when it happens.
This diary is something I’ve been writing in my mind for several years, ever since John McCain’s funeral. The parade of loving testimonials the Senator received started me wondering about what they would say when The Pride of the Evangelicals takes that final down escalator ride. I came up with a lot of ideas but never wrote them down. It never seemed like the right time. Now, with the recent funeral of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the Fake President’s brush with the COVID virus, and the upcoming election coming all so close together, it seems like the right time.
Okay, that’s enough preamble. The situation is Donald Trump has died and everybody is putting their two cents in about what kind of man he was. Nobody would ever ask me, of course, but if they did, here is what I would say:
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At last it has happened. Trump is gone. On this historic day we can safely say that the majority of the nation, the majority of the world is now speaking with one voice, repeating the same phrase back and forth.
Thank God!
Donald Trump’s record as President was a record of mind-boggling failure. That’s not an exaggeration. No human brain is large enough to contain the list of all the things he did wrong. It would be like trying to memorize the Encyclopedia Britannica. It literally boggles the mind.
Trump has been a record-setting president, but in all the wrong ways – the most lies, the most whiny complaints, the most days spent playing golf, the most leading of cheers at rallies, the most tweets sent while sitting on the toilet, the most number of hateful comments and the least number of inspiring ones, the least amount of time spent working (although I think some historians may argue about that,) the most promises made and the most failures to keep those promises (I dare anyone to argue with that!)
Trump soiled the office of the presidency every single day he was in it. Every time you thought he had hit bottom, that he could not get any worse, he would prove that yes, he could most definitely get worse. He fouled everything he touched – the Justice Department, the State Department, the Department of the Interior, the national security establishment, the military establishment, the selection of judges, the FBI, the CDC, the EPA, the Consumer Protection Agency – everything. He was like some kind of alternate universe King Midas, only instead of gold he turned everything he laid his hands on into a reeking pile of animal dung.
He stained the good name of the United States all around the world, a stain which will last long after his death. Our enemies are laughing at us – Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, and more. The halls of government in all those nations are echoing with their laughter and will be for years to come, laughter at the weak U.S. President who swooned over Vladmir Putin like some teenager at a BTS concert, laughter at the babbling dotard who flew across the ocean three times in a row to shake hands with Kim Jong Un, pint-sized leader of a pint-sized country. They are laughing at the man who framed Little Rocket Man’s love letters to hang over his bed, and who pardoned the dictator for the murder of Otto Warmbier.
And our friends? Are friends are crying for us. They remember how the United States used to be the leader of the free world, how it used to Ronald Reagan’s “city on a hill,” a shining example for every other nation on earth. They see how Donald Trump has turned that shining city into a burning waste pile, something to be stayed away from, as far away as you possibly can. They look on what Trump did to the United States and they shake their heads sadly. “How the mighty have fallen” is the cry that echos around their halls of government and will continue to echo throughout the coming years.
To all of those who think I am being too hard on the colossal wreck that fancied himself King of Kings, to all those that think I am being unfair to the soulless husk that was once U.S. Citizen No. 1, that think I am being disrespectful to the worst President in U.S. history, to all of those I say, stop right now.
Jesus said “to whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required.” (Luke 12:48) The Presidency is the highest single office in the land. You are not supposed to go easy on the man who leads us, just the opposite. You are supposed to be harder on him than you would be on anybody else in the country. The President of the United States should be held to the highest standard.
We handed Trump our sacred Constitution to preserve and protect. He turned around and wiped his butt with it. It is not possible to be too hard on the person who did that.
Worst of all, he was all that and did all that, not to better the lives of his fellow citizens, nor in the service of any plan or goal. He proved beyond a doubt that he never had any plans or goals, that the lives of his fellow citizens meant nothing to him. All the pain and suffering he caused, all the damage he did to the country and the good people of the world, all that was for one reason and one reason only.
Trump wanted to be a big shot.
Donald Trump was an abomination to everything good and decent that America stands for. And now he’s gone.
May he burn in hell for all eternity.
