Good Ol' Donnie - A Wild and Crazy Guy

It’s all been cleared up for me. The President of the United States is a different guy. He’s a breath of fresh air who’s just a little eccentric. He’s just wacky Donnie.  Don’t take him too seriously.  It’s just the way he is.  He's a harmless cross between the weird uncle who farts and tells ethnic jokes at the Thanksgiving table and an exaggerating salesman.

 

Just ask Paris Dennard. Paris Dennard is a CNN contributor who happens to be a Trump stooge.  I don’t think he’s an official Trump stooge like Conway and Spicer. He’s an unofficial stooge who defends Trump on CNN.  Which makes him a stooge - period.  He’s also a black man - supporting Trump.  Which makes me shake my head.

On a recent CNN broadcast, Don Lemon asked Dennard if he found Trump’s often bizarre tweets bothersome or if they affected his ability to lead.  Paris’ response was a firm “what me worry.” He characterized Trump tweets as more or less harmless as if we should just take them with a grain of salt.

Earlier on the same program journalist Salena Zito described her day of traveling along the Ohio River interviewing Trump supporters.  Seems that they’re also in a “what me worry” state of mind.  Seems the Trumpeteers have no problem at all with what Zito described as Trump’s “loose use of words.”  One woman’s opinion apparently summed up the feelings of the connoisseurs of fine snake oil; 

“Look he is not a politician, that’s how he talks. He talks like a salesman, there’s an expectation of hyperbole and it’s part of what we wanted. We wanted someone who was not only going to blow up the system but not talk like a perfectly measured politician - and that’s what they got.”

Webster describes hyperbole as: extravagant exaggeration.  We've all used hyperbole at one time or another.  You know, like the old, "I used to walk ten miles uphill in the snow to get to school." 

But when the President of the United States claims that he "had a massive landslide victory" or that global warming is a Chinese conspiracy...well...those are lies.  

And then there's Representative Devin Nunes, the Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee.  He thinks that Trump is just making a few rookie mistakes. When asked about Trump's recent tweet rant that accused President Obama of wire tapping the Trump Tower, Nunes brushed it off as inexperience.

"The President is a neophyte to politics. He's been doing this a little over a year and I think a lot of things that he says, sometimes you guys (the press) sometimes take literally.  Sometimes he doesn't have 27 lawyers and staff looking at what he does which is I think at times refreshing..."

Well there you go damn it.  Stop taking The President of the United States literally. There's just an itty bitty problem with Nunes and his laisez faire attitude towards executive canards and if we step back in time to October 22nd 1962 we can understand just what the difficulty is. It was on that day that President John F. Kennedy said to the nation and the world:

"Good evening, my fellow citizens;

This Government as promised has maintained the closest surveillance of the Soviet military buildup on the island of Cuba.  Within the past week unmistakable evidence has established the fact that a series of offensive missile sites is now in preparation on that imprisoned island.  The purpose of these bases can be none other than to provide a nuclear strike capability against the Western Hemisphere." 

Kennedy wasn't joking or using hyperbole and the whole world took the man literally because he didn't have a history of dealing in exaggeration and lies.  The world knew the gravity of a situation in which ensuing events could have led to World War III and nuclear holocaust.  

You see, the President doesn't get the benefit of a mulligan.  When a person takes the oath of office he is promising to be an honest, forthright and serious leader and not a patent bullshitter who cooks fantasies up in his paranoid little mind when he wakes up in the morning all pissed off.  

It's irritating that a moron thinks that a President as salesman is acceptable.  It's astonishing that a commentator on TV wants to accept Presidential paranoia with a shrug of the shoulders. It is, however dangerous and un-American for a Congressman to blow off executive lies and chastise the press for taking the President literally.

My elementary school grandchildren know that lying is wrong and it carries consequences.  So why is it that people, including a Congressman and the official Trump stooges make excuses for a 70 year old President who seems to be living in a delusional, separate reality?  There's apparently a tacit acceptance by these folks that the consequences that can run the gamut from ruined lives to the disintegration of our American system to outright war are not a big deal. 

Or what the hell, maybe it's just easier to go with the flow.  Maybe we should all take a big refreshing swig of snake oil and accept The President of the United States as good ol' Donnie - that wild and crazy guy. 

~ Posted by Paulie, San Francisco CA.