By Brigitte L. Nacos
Nine month-worth of 24/7 nightmares unleashed by Donald Trump’s daily menu of outrageous tweets and ludicrous deeds are enough to realize that Trump is an emperor without clothes.
If you hoped this spoiled, narcissistic child-man would grow in the august Oval Office, you know now that there are no such miracles.
Every hour it becomes clearer that the President of the United States and supposed world leader is precisely what his own Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has called him—a moron who does not and does not want to understand our governmental system, its institutions, and domestic and foreign policy-making, and most of all the U.S. Constitution.
Today, October 12, 2017 is another “normal” day in the disturbing saga of Donald Trump’s presidency:
- He threatens to challenge NBC’s broadcast license because of the News Division’s credible reports that Trump demanded from the U.S. military a significant build-up in the nuclear arsenal.
- He announces the signing of yet another Executive Order to weaken Obamacare further by allowing insurances to sell cheap plans to the young and healthy.
- He threatens to end relief efforts in Puerto Rico where the majority of U.S. citizens still do not have electric power, lack drinking water and health services.
- The State Department announces that the United States withdraws from UNESCO, the United Nation’s agency for the sciences, culture, and communication, because of UNESCO's "anti-Israel bias."
- Congress wrestles with President Trump’s announcement that he will not certify the Nuclear Deal with Iran.
All those irrational threats and actions came before 12 noon today. Plenty of time to add to the insanity that has the last word in Washington with ripple effects around the country and the world.
And what does the Republican majority in both houses of the Congress do?
Besides Bob Corker, the courageous U.S. Senator of Tennessee, nobody puts the interests of the whole country first.
There is silence--even though the President has threatened repeatedly war against North Korea-- in the words of Corker --WWIII.
Republicans know that Trump is unfit to be president and that he is dangerous.
But they fear the wrath of the far-right base that is now being mobilized by Trump’s guru Steve Bannon. After Bannon promised in a TV interview a war against the Republican establishment candidates in next year’s primaries, they must be shaking even more in their boots for fear that they might lose their seats.
Rather risking a war in which millions would die. Even a nuclear inferno.
It can only get worth. In the Oval Office and on Capitol Hill.
There is the prospect that the current crew of Republicans will be replaced by misfits of the alt-right variety. And that seems to be welcomed by the Trump family. After all Jared Kushner sent Bannon a congratulatory note following the interview.
So much for the alleged “liberal” influence of Jared and Ivanka in the Oval Office!
As for Article 25 of the U.S. Constitution that spells out the role of the cabinet in the process of removing sick or unfit presidents from office, most in the cabinet work for their own interests and a number of them misuse tax payers’ money for expensive perks—among them flights in private jets.
Why worry about war or anything else?
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