It must be great to be a political cartoonist at this very moment in history. Every day, the Trump Administration and/or the GOP provides more material to be ridiculed and poked fun at.
The past week has brought us a grab bag of Trumpian incidents and Republican Party nightmares: the Obamacare repeal/replacement bill; Trump’s proposed budget; more loony “business-friendly” proposals; the Middle East trip; and, the various investigations into peculiar election/Trump Administration happenings.
The proposed “health care” bill being sheepishly forwarded by the GOP has been lampooned as mean-spirited.
Trump campaigned about “draining the swamp” in Washington D.C.
The Trump budget proposal has been universally panned as another GOP money grab for the 1 percent of Americans who already have everything they need.
In years past, Republican bean counters would rail against any type of budget proposal (Democratic, of course) that wasn’t balanced or would increase the Federal deficit. Now that the GOP controls both the Senate and the House of Representatives, plus the Presidency, those budget rules are, evidently, no longer germane to the discussion. Trump’s budget proposal would add trillions to the deficit and push the problem down the line to my great grandchildren. No one, not even Republicans, is defending the sketchy mathematics that Trump’s Budget Director is trying to sell.
Day by day, proposals are emanating from Washington D.C. to privatize the nation’s infrastructure, auction off our Strategic Oil Reserve, and liquidate Federal real estate assets.
President Trump’s efforts to short-circuit investigations into Kremlingate, the appointment of NSA Director Flynn, or the firing of FBI Director Comey have received close scrutiny.
It’s been a quiet week in terms of Presidential tweets, probably because the Prez has been traveling overseas, meeting diplomats, and working to apologize to the many dignitaries that he has personally insulted and offended during the past six months or so.
The Commander-in-Chief was, as usual, direct and to the point when he commented on the terrorist bombing of a concert in Manchester, England. For a guy who got all worked up when President Obama wouldn’t use the words “radical Islamic terrorist” to describe the perpetrators of such an attack, Trump simply let the offender(s) off the hook by calling them “losers”, thereby lumping terrorists into the same category as the Press, Hillary Clinton, and Arnold Schwartzeneggar.
We can probably expect more tweeting this coming week, as Mr. Trump will be anxious to let his fans know what he really thinks.
One wonders what Donald Trump was really thinking when he visited the Middle East. Especially after his wife Melania slapped his hand on the tarmac.
I’m sure he had a bit of Wall Envy in Jerusalem, although he’d never admit it.
More realistically, what was really on his mind…
There is now an Impeachment-o-Meter on a prominent website, similar to the Doomsday Clock, counting down the days of the Trump Presidency. One wonders how much longer it will be until his own party pulls the ripcord…
