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The word “hypocrisy” has been getting a lot of use since the untimely death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg just weeks before the 2020 presidential election. Nearly a year before the 2016 election, of course, Senate Republicans refused to even consider President Obama’s nominee, Merrick Garland. Now — with voting already under way in some states — they will try to ram through Trump’s soon-to-be-named nominee.
I thought that President Trump might lay off the climate denial on his recent trip to California while fires across the West were still burning and bodies were still being recovered. I thought wrong.
It didn’t really come as much of a surprise that President Trump has said horrible things about people in the military. We already knew he doesn’t have much regard for military service, we just didn’t know how awful and cruel Trump can be.
Well, President Trump finally found a doctor who tells him what he wants to hear. (Besides this doctor, of course.) Dr. Scott Atlas is now reportedly the more Trump-y counterweight to Dr. Anthony Fauci.
President Trump is set to accept the presidential nomination of the Republican Party. Er, scratch that, there is no Republican Party, there is only the Trump Party now that there is no party platform. The only platform is the Republican “What-He-Said” Trump Platform.
For a guy who touted his ability to fix the “American carnage” during his inaugural address, President Trump is now selling himself as the only guy who can fix our current American carnage. With those Democrat-state antifa punks behind every bush, Trump says he’s going to fix up this country and make it tremendously great.
It doesn’t get much more Trumpish than signing worthless executive orders about unemployment benefits at your private golf club before cheering club members who pay you six-figure initiation fees. Yes, that happened just a few days ago at President Trump’s golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey.
Welcome to our next stop on the road to autocracy, the part where the autocrat-to-be tries to use the levers of bureaucracy to maintain his power.
President Trump has of course been railing against mail-in voting for months — nearly 70 times by the Washington Post’s count. Trump has been doing everything he can to vilify voting by mail and raising the specter of widespread voter fraud. Of course, voting by mail is no big deal and Trump is just trying to lay the groundwork for challenging the results if he doesn’t like them. (If he cried foul when he won in 2016, just wait to see what happens if he loses in 2020!)
President Trump and his cohorts are eager to throw everything they’ve got at the coronavirus pandemic short of actual science and logic. Just when you thought Trump was becoming slightly responsible and at last occasionally wearing a mask, he jumps on the latest hydroxychloroquine sales pitch.
Many pundits are saying that Tuesday’s debate was a “dumpster fire” of a debate or that it went off the rails. It wasn’t the debate that went bad, it’s Donald Trump who is a dumpster fire. No rejiggering of the debate by the Commission on Presidential Debates is going to fix this. It’s President Trump who is broken and off the rails, not the debate format.