Trump’s Ghastly Blame Game (Washington National Airport Crash)

 

 

TRUMP’S GHASTLY BLAME GAME

After watching a despicable rambler slinging countless lies and heaping unsubstantiated blame onto all of his political opponents while dead bodies are still being pulled out of the Potomac River, I cannot come up with the proper sentiment to express the ghastly horror of what we all just saw and heard from such a little man so consumed by pettiness and brimming with revenge. What crass stupidity. What inhumanity. What deliberate cruelty.

Am I surprised? No. Am I shocked? No. This is precisely what was expected, and there’s going to be lots more of it yet to endure.

Here, I’ll quote from someone else who says it best:

 

“The scion of a multigenerational criminal enterprise, the parameters of which we are only now beginning to comprehend. A vessel for all the worst elements of the American condition. And a cheap, soulless bully besides.
We never have had such a cheap counterfeit of a president as currently occupies the office. We never have had a president so completely deserving of scorn and yet so small in the office that it almost seems a waste of time and energy to summon up the requisite contempt.

Watch how a republic dies in the empty eyes of an empty man who feels nothing but his own imaginary greatness, and who cannot find in himself the decency simply to shut up even when it is in his best interest to do so. Presidents don’t have to be heroes to be good presidents. They just have to realize that their humanity is our common humanity, and that their political commonwealth is our political commonwealth, too.

Watch him behind the seal of the President of the United States. Isn’t he a funny man? Isn’t what happened to that lady hilarious? Watch the assembled morons cheer. This is the only story now.”

— Charles Pierce