Here we go again: a media kiss for Trump
Donald John Trump has announced his candidacy to seek the Republican nomination for president of the United States of America in 2024. Standing in the front row for the announcement were Dick Morris, Mike Lindell and Madison Cawthorn. Like all public spectacles at which Trump appears, it was venal and incoherent, while also being dangerous, ominous and exhausting. It guarantees that Trump will be part of the present for at least two more years, extending his insipid reign to nine years of grotesquerie since he descended an escalator into his first campaign spewing racist calumnies in 2015.
He was the worst president of the United States in American history. Period. He was the most corrupt, selfish, stupid, incompetent, arrogant and indecent leader the nation has ever had. His disordered personality is pathological, narcissistic and sociopathic.
His mismanagement of the Covid pandemic cost one million Americans their lives and brutalized their families. He stoked division, racism and ignited a cold civil war that grew fiercer during Covid. He stripped the Oval Office of wisdom, decency, empathy and honesty. He lied to the American people thousands of times, while he bullied, smeared, humiliated, mocked and lied about every person who stood opposed to him. He is a predator and deviant who lurked around the dressing rooms of teenage girls, made sexually suggestive remarks about his teenage daughter, and stands accused of rape, and dozens of instances of assault. He coddled dictators and undermined the alliances that maintain peace, security and prosperity for the American people. He turned the border into a battleground between fantasy and lies, while ignoring the fentanyl crisis that is killing over 100,000 Americans a year. His service was grotesque, his conduct abhorrent, and his performance miserable.
He surrounded himself with layers of fellow grifters and extremists from the religious hustlers to the fascist hustlers to the media hustlers: