Not Evil Enough

In his efforts to obstruct justice, Donald Trump has intimidated and harassed key witnesses to his treasonous Russian connections. The problem is that he doesn't threaten to kill them, so he isn't having them silenced. He just pisses them off by firing them.

In Russia, many of these peope would run a big risk of getting killed, or even be killed. What Trump doesn't realize is that firing someone doesn't make the person disappear. That was the case on his pseudo reality show "The Apprentice", where Trump would say "You're fired!", and they were out of the show. In real life, however, a fired person can still be interviewed, and will have all the more reason to turn on Trump.

Apparently, Trump is too stupid to understand reality.

It's All True

Seeing how the Trump and his henchmen are spooked, and looking at all the serious  allegations against them, the logical conclusion is that it's all true. Trump stole the election with help from Russia, he has a long history of money laundering, and he has been obstructing justice since he took office to try to bury the Russia story. Furthermore, while it's posible that only Trump's family and a handful of his deplorable associates were actively complicit in the various crimes, it is now becoming obvious that large parts of the Republican party leadership are aware of the crimes but remain silent - in some cases trying to avtively cover them up or create distractions.

It's probably going to be a long time before every crime committed by this atrocious administration is exposed and prosecuted, but we are at least seeing the beginning of the end. Quite a lot of people are going to end up in prison over the bizarre freak show that is Donald Trump's presidency.

Opposites

It's striking how different the special counsel Robert Mueller is from Donald Trump. Mueller is intelligent, disciplined, honest, and extremely good at his job. Patient and relentless, he lets his actions speak and doesn't care for loose talk. Compare that to the president: stupid, fickle, crooked, inept, impatient, easily distracted, all talk and no action. People like Mueller need to get into politics. And people like Trump need to go to jail.

When?

When are the rats going to leave the sinking ship? Not a single Republican senator or representative has clearly and unequivocally disavowed Donald Trump. Now would seem a good time to put some distance between yourself and the toxic president whose time in office is rapidly coming to an end. Instead, the rats seem intent on going down with the ship. They don't have to. It's not as if they are the captain, or tied to the helm to ride out a storm. They're just rats, and they can leave any time. So why are they sticking by Trump instead of trying to save what's left of their careers?

Bully In A China Shop

Name calling is a bully tactic Trump uses, unsuccessfully, to disparage his opponents. The problem with his labels is that they don't stick, because his names are not particularly fitting, neither funny nor clever, and they mostly reflect back on himself very strongly. Like today, when he called the Senate minority leader "Cryin' Chuck Schumer".

This is a person with whom Trump is absolutely forced to negotiate to solve the shutdown debacle more permanently in a few weeks. Bullying him now is not a smart move. Plus, as usual, "Cryin' Donald Trump" is a more fitting label. After making a number of stupid moves that triggered a government shutdown this past weekend, Trump withdrew to his chambers to throw a tantrum and mope. Right now, the Democrats are definitely not the ones doing the crying.

The President needs to grow up, but he lacks the mental capacity to even know what that means.

Egg, Meet Face

"The egg you see on my face is not egg, it's not on my face, and you are not seeing it. And if I did have egg on my face, so what? There's no shame in that. Hey, look over there, what is that? Someone with egg on their face. What a moron!"

That is the entire defense of Donald Trump, regardless of the accusation. Deny, diminish, deflect. Sadly, it seems to work on the rather large percentage of US voters who are, well, idiots. Fortunately, they are not the majority.

Broke

Despite his claims of being a billionaire, Donald Trump is broke. His total debt is massive and probably exceeds the value of his assets by a wide margin, and he is strapped for cash. Hints can be taken from his small scale grifting to transfer money from Secret Service to his company by forcing them to pay for accommodation and golf car rental while he makes his weekly escape from work to play golf, but the most telling sign emerged from his evolving sex scandal involving the porn star Stormy Daniels. Trump didn't use his own money to buy her silence. Instead, he arranged for his campaign to pay her $130,000, which constitutes illegal use of campaign funds. That sounds like an unnecessary risk to take for a self-proclaimed billionaire. On top of that, his inept lawyer failed to disguise the transaction well enough in the books, so now it's clear that Michael Cohen arranged for $130,000 of the Trump campaign funds to be transferred to Stephanie Clifford, aka Stormy Daniels.

Trump's debts are causing him a world of pain, and the money trail is going to bring him down.

Poison In His Ear

Donald Trump is running out of advisors. In the wake of several key people resigning, and others falling out of grace with the fickle man-toddler president, it appears that Stephen Miller now has a considerable influence over Trump. Miller is a racist, a scary right-wing extremist and Nazi wannabe, and him running the show for an increasingly mentally vacant Trump is a scary prospect.

Stephen Miller is a monster who needs to be fired and prosecuted for his crimes, not be allowed to stand next to the president and whisper poison in his ear.

Tells And Tall Tales

For a person who has relied on telling lies for everything he has done, Donald Trump is surprisingly bad at it. He has a habit of going over the top and over-compensating, like when he recently denied being a racist. It would have been perfectly fine to simply say "No, I'm not a racist", but he had to add "I'm the least racist person you've ever interviewed". Being "the least racist" doesn't even make sense, but he feels compelled to brag about being the best at everything.

He also has plenty of verbal tells for when he is telling a lie. He interjects "believe me", "I can tell you", or "it's true", as if he knows the lie is too transparent to stick. A person telling the truth doesn't feel a need to reinforce his statements all the time.

To be even a mildly succesful habitual liar, you really need to be better at hiding and covering up your lies than what Trump is showing at the moment.

Small Man, Small Mind, Small World

Donald Trump is not a great man. He is not even a good man, let alone a good president. His small-mindedness is apparent from his actions, and when you look at what he considers important, it is obvious that his world is very small. The latest example is his reaction to the government shutdown: he threw a fit because it ruined his Mar-a-Lago party celebrating his one year anniversary as president.

The government is shutting down for lack of funding, and the president complains because it rains on his personal parade. This is truly bizarre.

Ebriocracy

Ebriocracy: government by drunks. That is the quality of leadership we can expect in the US right now. Incidentally, "POTUS" means "drunk" in Latin. Fitting, isn't it?

"Excellent Health"

Looking at the published results from Trump's physical, it becomes clear that it was cleaned up for presentation, because it exaggerated his height and decreased his weight to place his BMI just below "obese". He is still at the uppermost end of "overweight" on the scale, but to Trump, his only concern is avoiding the fat-shaming label "obese".

Looking at the results that were probably not altered, he has very high cholesterol, despite taking strong cholesterol-reducing medication, and his coronary calcium is at pathological levels and increasing. Add to this that he keeps a very unhealthy diet with large amounts of fast food and gets almost no exercise at all, and the conclusion is that Donald Trump has a serious heart condition and runs a significant risk of suffering a stroke or a heart attack.

"Excellent health". Yeah, right. They should have had someone with medical expertise clean up the test results before they tried to make that claim. But hey, look, they made it so that he is one pund shy of being called fat, and that's the important thing, right?

Chaos

The White House is burning, figuratively speaking, set ablaze by its crazy occupants, who are digging in and refusing to evacuate. Through the flames you can hear their dying words: "There is nothing to see here, all is well."

Chaos has engulfed the Trump administration. It was bad before, but this is a new level of bad. This has to end soon, or the chaos might set things in motion that can't be undone once sanity returns to the US.

Face Off

The worsening mental condition of Donald Trump is now making it difficult for him to maintain even a half decent facade and hide his most ugly opinions and personality traits from public view. Recently, he has been losing it and exposed his racism very clearly, and it feels like it's only a matter of time before he drops the N-word while obsessing about his predecessor.

Donald Trump's mask is finally coming off, and when he drops the mask, he is losing face as well. What's beneath the mask is neither agreeable nor useful. His face-off with justice is long overdue.

Forgery, Idiot Style

In a way, it's a good thing that the entire gang of criminals around Donald Trump are morons and laughably bad at what they do, no matter what they try their hands at. A letter was presented by the White House, supposedly from the military doctor who did the physical examination of Trump this past week. The letter stated, in an obvious lie, that Trump is in "excellent health". Just looking at the man will tell anyone that this is not the case. However, the doctor didn't lie. He just kept silent when the White House forged a fraudulent letter from him and signed it in his name.

How can we know the letter is a forgery? Well, a doctor would not spell his own name wrong. The letter is signed "Dr. Ronnie Jackson", but his first name is Ronny. Plus, he usually signs "Ronny Jackson, MD", not "Dr. Ronnie Jackson".

You could liken this to a third grader bringing a note to the teacher stating that he is to be relieved of gym class, but with the note written in pencil, in a child's hand, on crayon paper, and signed "My Dad".

This forgery is the work of an inept fool. Sadly, there are plenty to choose from in the White House.

Nightmares

Donald Trump and his gang of misfits are living a nightmare right now. All their crimes and all their lies are being exposed, and they have no way out.
For rhe rest of us, however, the nightmare we have lived for the past year might possibly come to an end soon.

Too Much To Hide

Not only does the Trump administration need to hide their treason to steal the election, as well as hide their appalling ineptitude at governing. In the wake of Michael Wolff's book "Fire And Fury", it is becoming clear that they have worked hard to hide Trump's rapid mental decline and pretend that everything is fine.

However, it seems like the pretending is now on its last legs. Donald Trump has botched too many public appearances, and millions of people are reaching the conclusion that Trump's brain is rapidly turning into mush.

Like, Really Smart

This morning, Donald Trump felt the need to ensure the world via Twitter that he is not crazy and not stupid. He did this by writing that he has always been "like, really smart". Really, Donald? You type something to counter a book that claims your entire staff considers you a moron, and that is what you came up with as a retort?

He then went into hyperbole, as is his habit, and proclaimed himself an outright "genius". A journalist asked him later in the day why he had felt the need to tweet about his intelligence. Trump aswered in a non sequitur way: "Because I went to the best colleges. I went to..." and then he fell silent mid-sentence as if he suddenly couldn't rember where he went to college. He tried to save face by instead saying something generic but exaggerated about his supposedly outstanding performance as a student, but the damage was done.

Donald Trump doesn't seem to recall where he went to college. He is going downhill faster than we imagined.

Stupidly Criminal Or Criminally Stupid?

The President is insane and senile, and the White House is in complete disarray, but a stunning amount of high profile Republican politicians are going to unbelievable lengths in trying to defend Trump, some to the point where they are actually incriminating themselves in the process. Either these people are so utterly ignorant and naive that they don't actually believe the evidence that is now surfacing against the traitor Trump and his gang of deplorables, or they are already deeply involved in the Russia scandal and are desperately trying to protect themselves.

So, a whole bunch of Republicans in the House, Senate and the White House are either stupidly criminal or criminally stupid. Who is what? It looks as if that will be revealed quite soon.

Dave, My Mind Is Going

The quote "my mind is going" is from the script of "2001 - A Space Odyssey", said by the AI named "HAL" when his circuits are being disconnected. Donald Trump should say the same, but he is already too far gone to notice his own decline. Anyone observing his behavior, though, can clearly see a man already far into the fog, losing himself to senility.

At today's press briefing, Trump appeared in a brief pre-recorded video message which was edited from several even shorter snippets, apparently to hide the fact that the president can't speak for a couple of minutes without hitches. Even so, he managed to come across as seriously senile. He didn't look at the camera, he had absolutely no mental presence in his delivery of the speech, and he appeared to have some problem with keeping his right eye open. The video showed a person in very bad shape.

This man is incapable of doing his job, or indeed any job. He needs to be fired.

These Are Not The Droids

Donald Trump seems to think he has Jedi powers and can play mind tricks to make people ignore the obvious even when it's staring them in the eye. Now that it has become clear that Steve Bannon has ratted out his former boss Donald Trump, Trump tries to claim that he hardly knows him. In a tweet, he says that Bannon, his former campaign manager and specially appointed senior adviser was "a staffer" who "has nothing to do with my Presidency", and concludes that Bannon lost his mind along with his job.

No, Mr. Trump. Most people are not stupid enough to believe that. They remember.

Too Many Secrets

Donald Trump's presidency is built on lies, deception and criminal activity, just like his family business. The difference is that he is now in a very public position where he is being closely watched, and the kind of deals a president is supposed to make are not of the kind where you can just declare bankruptcy and quit, fail to pay your bills and bully your contractors to suck it up by threatening to sue them, or use funds obtained by money laundering. (These are the methods commonly used by the Trump Organization when doing business.)

Public scrutiny is a situation completely alien to a man who only ever ran a family business with neither shareholders nor a board of directors to hold him accountable. To make things worse, his shenanigans to steal the election required lots of people. Too many for everyone to keep the many secrets. We recently learned that the Russia investigation was initiated after George Papadopoulos got drunk and bragged to random people about how they had rigged the election with Russian help. An Australian diplomat heard him and reported it to the FBI, and here we are, the ugly truth being dug up piece by piece and the big picture emerging while Donald Trump, his White House and more or less the entire Republican party are trying in an increasingly desperate manner to distract from the scandal. It's not working, and it's not a pretty sight.

Too many people. Too many secrets. Too many lies. And too many eyes and ears, watching and listening.