The Trump Follies

There is something irresistible about the truly bizarre. It is somehow compelling and difficult to turn away from, even as it becomes painful. During the last two days, President, you should excuse the expression, Trump gave two performance art shows. The first  began with a list of his imaginary accomplishments, which in reality consist of his demonstrating he can actually write his own name, followed by some imaginary and magical thinking and ending with him introducing his new personna, the American version of Robespierre, head of the committee on public safety. Sitting in the first row was Kellyanne, a sort of Mme. Defarge character knitting the names of those who would be placed in a trumbril and carted to the guillotine. He then answered questions having nothing to do with the last election by falsely stating his margins of victory and also stated his administration was running like a well oiled machine, much to the astonishment of those assembled. It was announced that there would be no new Saturday Night Live broadcast which I assumed  was because they could just run this press conference. Also sitting in the front row was Steve Bannon, AKA Rasputin to mix metaphors. Speculation is that he was a prime player in the decision not to allow Rex Tillotson the right to choose Elliot Abrams as his chief Deputy as Rex had wished. Rex has been showing dangerous signs of competence lately and has to be reigned in.

Then, yesterday Trump by way of groveling for affection kicked off his 2020 campaign. He again adopted his Robespierre role in which he is defending the people of United States against the forces of evil, also known as the free press. He again reassured those assembled that unless they hear it from him it ain't true. The crowd went wild and it was according to Trump the largest crowd ever to gather in an air plane hanger in Florida.

Many of us have been watching the devastation in California caused by torrential rains and flooding. Apparently this is not come to Trump's attention as he is said nothing about it. An unverified rumor from an undisclosed source who knows a guy said that when this situation was brought to Trumps attention his response was" California, I actuallywon California in the election notwithstanding what the fake news said. The fake news gave her several million more votes but there is no doubt that there were more illegal votes for her than that number, whatever it was." When asked whether he intended to take any presidential action to alleviate the problem he suggested an executive order be prepared for his signature preventing any more rain and flooding.