Being a fair minded chap I will man up and give credit where credit is due. Donald J. Trump has in all fairness achieved BEST status at a few things which will surely define his short reign as America’s first failed monarch.
He can claim the title of President of Death. Quite simply more Americans will have died before he is unceremoniously removed from office in January 2021 than in almost all of our wars combined. By handing off the Covid-19 response to Mike Pence and Jared Kushner he assured the the virus would become a raging success. But that’s not all: he systematically attempted to divide the United States, pit governors and states against each other and effectively kill off the United in the United States of America.
What else is he best at? More Americans voted to keep this failed wannabe king in office then at any time since we fought the Revolutionary War to free ourselves from a corrupt king. In accomplishing this feat he attempted to kill off truth, almost succeeding, by early in his reign naming the press “enemy of the people”. He killed off objective reality by spinning and elevating fairytales and obvious lies into an alternative reality. Along the way he backed neo-Nazis, the KKK, and QAnon while trashing democratic norms along with our shared cultural values; and half the country bought it.
He attacked our own institutions designed to keep America safe from adversaries who would attack America. He killed transparency in government and belief in the rule of law and ran the most secretive, corrupt and obstructive government in American history. He attacked the FBI, our Intelligence Services, the State Department, the EPA, CDC, and totally weakened the Department of Justice—the premiere institution designed to protect Americans from crime and corruption. If he hasn’t killed them off entirely it’s not for lack of trying.
At no other time in our history has our government been so successfully dismantled—ruined out of incompetence and spite then during Trump’s one term of death. With amazingly single minded focus he has tried to murder our government, our relationships around the world, our leadership in global affairs and our electoral process. He has attacked NATO, the World Health Organization and our relationship with Canada for crying out loud.
Further, he has attempted to kill off science. Kill off public education. Kill off immigration to the United States. (At this point I feel compelled to remind everyone to check the family tree and see if any immigrants are lurking somewhere in their past.) Thanks to Trump’s immigration policies we might have been able to keep Fred Trump out of the country and thereby save ourselves the past four years of trauma. This would mean no Melania Trump with her phony Einstein Visa or her parents, thanks to chain migration which he has also attempted to kill off.
He has almost successfully killed off the reputation of the United States Senate held by the Republican Party, now the Anti-democracy Party. He has killed off the antiquated notion of party platform and the art of compromise. Elevated laziness, incompetence and stupid as the new norms in Republican politics. In other words he has killed off the desire for honor, integrity and competence once expected of our elected officials.
And finally, congratulations to the Confederate state of Alabama for electing Tommy Tuberville, soon to become the dumbest elected official in the United States Senate and the newest poster boy of Republican politics. I rest my case.
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