The Apprentice President

Lights. Camera. Action. Cue the extras. Background smoke and noise.

This was the scene last night in DC when Donald Trump recreated his 2016 "Law and Order President" characterization in front of the whole world. Putin had to be really proud of his puppet at the sight. The rest of us stared, unbelieving, at the scene unfolding before us: Trump doing his best George Patton impersonation (or Mussolini, depending on your take) while teargassing, shooting rubber bullets at, and bullying a peaceful crowd of protesters with riot shields and horses in the background. Spouting platitudes and his version of how America should be run, with the help of the military might of this country (needed or not), he instilled not love and comfort, but fear and division. This hollow man can only be himself while threatening and demeaning others. Empathy, compassion, history, and faith escape this man.

Once his "opponents", those "thugs" were dispatched he proceeded to walk (forcefully, in his mind) to a church he's only been in once to hold up a Bible (a book he's never read) for a hastily staged photo-op to shore up his base. Deplorable.

"A man with with a long history of racial discrimination......should never run our government or command our military."  Hillary Clinton 2017

  

       

Is anybody listening now?

P.S. How about a remake on that coronavirus?