One of them seems to be.
If Trump isn't on the Russian president's payroll, then Putin must have The Donald over a barrel on something big, some issue, that is too terrifying for Trump to even think about. Like kryptonite to Superman. Personally, I think it's the pee tape. The sex thing. Donald's alter ego. Putin has the tape. Trump knows he has it. It's probably horrendous, and logically, it's the only thing that would outright humiliate Trump into playing ball with the Russian. It's hanging over Trump's head like the Sword of Damocles ready to take him out in a flash.
In the middle of all this is Melania, and she knows about it too. The sex thing, she lives with it, Trump’s sex addiction or whatever it is. That would explain her stoic, even sour, disposition in her infrequent and unfortunate public appearances. Her Mexican border save-the-children PR fiasco was a ...fiasco. Just like the whole "First Lady", "First Family" thing is a fiasco and a national embarrassment.
Melania is trying to be loyal and supportive of her lecherous, imbecilic husband, but she's on the verge of losing it, losing her cool, and taking matters into her own hands. Much like the infamous Boris and Natasha Badenov. She will try to direct her bumbling fool of a husband toward some rational compliance with a greater power ...perhaps Mr. Big, ‘the fearless leader‘ ...Vladimir Putin. Melania is a lot smarter than The Donald.
Meanwhile, the Rocky & Bullwinkle ("Moose and Squirrel") Mueller team better get moving if they are going to save America from Boris and Natasha and the evil Mr. Big, Mr Putin.
I can’t believe I am talking this trash about the ‘President of the United States’. The fact that I'm being disrespectful, and maybe even wrong, doesn't escape me. Cartoon character Russian spies, Boris and Natasha ...Rocky and Bullwinkle, really?! I should apologize, but with Trump it seems okay to call him on his s**t. Where I grew up, In Brooklyn, NY, we loved, respected and feared our leaders ...the parish priest, the cop on the beat, our teachers, our parents, relatives and friends, the guy who ran the deli on the corner. We even had a respect for our enemies, and maybe this is where Trump is going.
Maybe Trump is going in a direction the national norm and the media doesn’t understand. Maybe he thinks he’s doing the right thing by ‘pandering‘ to the Russians, to Putin, keeping them ...‘closer’ than America’s ‘friends’. Maybe he doesn’t understand the disrespect he’s shown to America’s western allies. Maybe he’s just trying to change the paradigm that his voters hoped he would do, that we all hoped he would do, by overriding a lackadaisical, ineffective congress. A congress that continues to be lackadaisical an ineffective to a fault, and a world order set in its ways leaning on American benevolence.
There‘s your problem. It’s congress, not Trump. Maybe even the world paradigm order. Trump is just the bull in the China closet that we voted for. He’s doing exactly what his voters, ‘We the People‘, wanted him to do ..to switch things up. Drain the swamp. Put our house in order.
But this all doesn’t preclude that Donald Trump isn’t a world class as***ole. We knew this going in, his history, his MO, his modus operandi. We took a chance on him thinking that Hillary would give us the same old-same-old political fare ...ineffective, corrupt, lackadaisical. After Obama, Trump was the ‘Great White Hope‘ for America.
We didn’t count on him being stupid. Yeah, he might be just plain stupid. He doesn’t appear to have a sense of or respect for history. He doesn’t appear to have a grasp of policy, foreign or domestic. He shoots from the hip, speaks off he top of his head and acts impulsively. He’s grossly overweight and has weird, really weird, hair, and apparently is a sexual deviant. This all adds up to psychopath in the White House.
We should be afraid, really afraid.
After all the recent bluster and controversy about his meeting with Russian president Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, what does Trump do? ...he invites Putin to the White House for a follow-up. What’s up with that?!
Boris Badenov and Natasha couldn’t have done a better job for Mr. Big, Mr. Putin ...the ’fearless leader’. The Russian people are great, just like we Americans are great, but the Russian government, not unlike the U.S. government, is rife with it’s own paradigm of ruthless fraud, incompetence, arrogance and control of the proletariat.
Ronald Reagan may have been correct to brand Russia “the evil empire”. Former cold war era Secretary of the Communist Party, Nikita Khrushchev, said it plainly for Russia regarding the “west’ ...”We will bury you.” JFK told a crowd in Berlin in 1963, which was probably the most famous cold war anti-communist speech, “Ich bin ein Berliner” (I am a Berliner) ...funny thing about that, which proves that humor is the great equalizer, is that is translation many Germans thought that Kennedy said that he was a jelly donut, “berliner” being a popular pastry confection in Germany at the time.
Sometimes I think the media goes overboard in their grandiose speculation and accusations ...in their incessant pounding on the same nail over and over agin until you just can’t stand it anymore, but the truth of the matter is the ‘free press’ is the savior of America. They may be tedious in their presentations and arrogant in their demeanor, they make mistakes, they can be bias, irresponsible, but in the end they always get it right, and I appreciate and thank them for it.
I think the jury is in regarding Trump. If his only salvation is the endorsement of people like sycophant Anthony Scaramucci, he’s done. Over. Impeached. Gone.
Moose and Squirrel win agin.
John Kushma is a communication consultant and lives in Logan, Utah.
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