By Butch Freedman
If you saw the trump interview with Meet The Press — the one where he waddled off in a huff — you saw a man besieged and tormented by his own twisted instincts. He was red in the face, foaming at the mouth, a cornered rat. He lobbed a few final silly insults at Kristin Welker (he truly is frightened of intelligent women, especially when they call him on his bullshit) and ran away, looking like what he is — a silly old man. All we can think, time after absurd time, is how did such a deeply flawed human being become president of the United States?
But the signs are there that his regime is imploding; that even his most ardent supporters are seeing the weakling behind the mask. His handlers can only prop him up so much. As he stumbles on his words and (always) on his facts, all they now do is turn their heads, and rue the day they joined forces with such incompetence. But the courts are stepping up. Take down that lame attempt to plaster your name on the once-revered Kennedy center, they declare. And a federal judge blocked the controversial $1.8 billion slush fund created by the (In)justice Department that would have paid rioters for attacking the capital.
A federal district court in Boston struck down the administration’s absurd $100,000 fee on new H-1B visas. The judge sided with 20 states, finding that the administration exceeded its executive authority and violated the Administrative Procedures Act.
Federal judges in jurisdictions like Colorado and New York extended orders blocking the administration from deporting individuals using the Alien Enemies Act.
While the Supreme Court is weighing the constitutionality of a racist directive restricting birthright citizenship for children of non-citizens, lower courts have successfully blocked the policy from taking effect pending the final decision.
The list goes on, as does the insane war in the Middle East, that serves no one’s interests, at the same time that it does severe damage to the U.S. and the world economy. It’s trump’s war and the world holds him responsible, as every day he presents us with another phony deadline or threat of more mayhem.
We’ve all had enough. Check out the clips of sleepy donny getting roundly booed at Madison Square Garden as he disrupts even that small piece of national joy. He’s not pulling off the scam any longer. And soon, I hope, the whole ugly construct will tumble down. Maybe it will be the mid-term elections, maybe his regime’s ever-increasing incompetence, or maybe his failing health and ever more obvious dementia. Sad that it has to come to this, that our democracy is so under attack that we can only talk of bringing it to bay, before that corrupt government wrecks us all. But that’s where we’re at. For now.
