A mockery of America’s values and ideals

Trump’s apologists have raced to defend their dime-store Mussolini and living desecration of the American presidency by saying his Oval Office outburst, loss of control and moral implosion were not what we all saw.

Once again, they have demanded that we accept their make-believe and lies. A demand has been imposed on reason that demands a submission and surrender.

Donald Trump has held four fingers in the air, and demanded that the American people, the American media and the president of Ukraine proclaim that there are only three.

Next, Donald Trump demanded submission to lie after lie, delusion after delusion.

The whole world got a peak behind the curtain, and saw what happens when the door is closed. They saw the most brittle man in the world, who is surrounded by the most competitive sycophants in the world.

Donald Trump demanded fealty in front of his assembled press corps, which included an employee of Russian state TV, and the obnoxious imbecile who is the boyfriend of antisemitic conspiracy loon Marjorie Taylor Greene.

Over and over again, he spewed a putrid diarrhea of lies out of his mouth. He filled the air of the Oval Office with them, and made a mockery of America’s values and ideals with each depraved sentence.

Everything — as always — was about Donald.

“The war wouldn’t have started if I was President!,” he cried out, no doubt prepared to argue that war only exists at all because it existed before Trump, which is the beginning of existence. Right?

Trump sneered at the wartime leader of a nation of more than 37 million people that is being invaded by North Korean troops, and hit with ballistic missiles. He told President Zelenskyy that the cause of the war was his fault.

Donald Trump told the Ukrainian president that fighting back against the invading Russians is what prevents peace.

The sick and twisted American president told the Ukrainian president that he was an impediment to peace because he held too much hatred for the Russian dictator. Putin is someone who killed and kidnapped Ukrainian children. He sent an army of rapists and thieves to pillage and murder innocent civilians, while attacking their cities with ballistic missiles, and demanding the extinction of their history, language, culture, traditions and nation.

Crazy King Donald ranted and raved about making a deal. Even though there is no deal, that is all he cares about. His deal is a compulsion.

It is his proverbial blue binky. The mythical and mystical deal exists only inside his malignant narcissism and within the false flatteries of the weaklings who surround and abet him.

The deal. What a joke, indeed.

What Donald Trump showed in his disgrace is that he is the same blustering ass today as he was when holding forth about the Central Park Five and smearing them.

Yesterday, Donald Trump tried to produce a reality show in the real world around life and death matters. It blew up in his face. It exposed him as a fool and a weakling, while affirming the greatness of President Zelenskyy, who did not yield to a Russian tyrant, or bend to America’s poisonous clown. He did not submit to absurdities and insanity while missiles rained down on his country.

Donald Trump is playing the part of John Gotti, holding court at the Ravenite Social Club.

The scumbags are different and the location has moved, but the shakedowns, threats and thuggery are the same.

Trump is a gangster and a clown, surrounded by a posse of tools, fools, freaks and schemers who have it all figured out.

All we have to do is remember that Trump is a genius, and we have to be nice to him.

Trump told Zelenskyy that he wasn’t nice. The only thing that matters now in Trump’s Washington is being nice to Trump because Trump is the only thing in Washington that matters.

I thought I read somewhere something about government of the people by the people for the people.

I’m certain I have.

I thought I read about a president named John Kennedy, who said these words in his inaugural address. The world believed them because they knew that the American people believed them:

The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life. And yet the same revolutionary beliefs for which our forebears fought are still at issue around the globe--the belief that the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God.

We dare not forget today that we are the heirs of that first revolution. Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans--born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage--and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today at home and around the world.

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

This much we pledge--and more.

To those old allies whose cultural and spiritual origins we share, we pledge the loyalty of faithful friends. United there is little we cannot do in a host of cooperative ventures. Divided there is little we can do--for we dare not meet a powerful challenge at odds and split asunder.

To those new states whom we welcome to the ranks of the free, we pledge our word that one form of colonial control shall not have passed away merely to be replaced by a far more iron tyranny. We shall not always expect to find them supporting our view. But we shall always hope to find them strongly supporting their own freedom--and to remember that, in the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside.

I thought I read about a president named Ronald Reagan, who said this in his “Tear Down This Wall” speech:

Perhaps this gets to the root of the matter, to the most fundamental distinction of all between East and West. The totalitarian world produces backwardness because it does such violence to the spirit, thwarting the human impulse to create, to enjoy, to worship. The totalitarian world finds even symbols of love and of worship an affront. Years ago, before the East Germans began rebuilding their churches, they erected a secular structure: the television tower at Alexander Platz. Virtually ever since, the authorities have been working to correct what they view as the tower's one major flaw, treating the glass sphere at the top with paints and chemicals of every kind. Yet even today when the Sun strikes that sphere--that sphere that towers over all Berlin--the light makes the sign of the cross. There in Berlin, like the city itself, symbols of love, symbols of worship, cannot be suppressed.

And I thought I read about a President named Franklin Roosevelt, who saved the world, and when the fire began told this to the American people in a 1940 press conference:

Suppose my neighbor's home catches fire, and I have a length of garden hose four or five hundred feet away. If he can take my garden hose and connect it up with his hydrant, I may help him to put out his fire...I don't say to him before that operation, "Neighbor, my garden hose cost me $15; you have to pay me $15 for it."... I don't want $15--I want my garden hose back after the fire is over.

In a 2017 Fox News interview, Trump said this about Vladimir Putin:

I do respect him. I respect a lot of people but that doesn’t mean I’m going to get along with him.

He also said this in that same interview, when it was pointed out that “Putin is a killer:”

There are a lot of killers. We’ve got a lot of killers. What, you think our country is so innocent?

I definitely remember when John McCain said this in reaction to what Trump said:

There is no moral equivalence between that butcher and thug and KGB colonel and the United States of America — the country that Ronald Reagan used to call a shining city on a hill.

Here’s the question: who is right?

Trump or McCain?

Are we an empire of taking, or a Republic of justice and mercy?

Are we a powerful nation because of our values, or because of our weapons?

Are we a mighty nation because of our beliefs, or our minerals, gold, bitcoin and billionaires?

Are we a great nation because of Trump?

Did Trump create America?

Does America really need saving? Is this what the rescue looks like?

It is time to wake up and oppose this insanity, my friends.

Trust me when I tell you that there is no escape from any of this. People either rise up now, or it is going to be a very long lineup to get in line.

What occurred in the Oval Office yesterday is the most shameful conduct the world has ever witnessed from an American president. It must be stopped by the collective revulsion of the American people who know right from wrong, and something about freedom.

Or, is it true that we aren’t those people anymore?

I don’t believe that.

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