I just hope he lives long enough to see the video and pictures of all the disgraceful things he’s done be reversed- the Kennedy Center reopened, the ballroom & arch be bulldozed, the Rose Garden replanted and the Oval Office be returned to it’s former, spartan glory.
No sense of irony or hypocrisy or empathy, all emotions, when lacking, leave a person unaccountable and feeling all powerful! That describes our current "leader" and many of those who follow him.
Does anybody think that if Obama hadn’t humiliated Dumpy at the correspondent’s dinner that he never would have run for President? Why did Obama feel the need to do it at that point? Because of the birther nonsense? Why was Trump even at that dinner? Seriously asking.
Indeed but one of his evils will be hard to tackle when we get to the super glued fake gold gilding off of the Oval's walls, fireplaces, columns and I hope to god he didn't do it to the Resolute Desk.....
It won't matter to him at all. As Adam points out here, DT has no understanding and no 'taste'. It's unfortunate that Obama mocked him - and that Clinton did also in her 'basket of deplorables'. That snobby arrogance of elitism is what has destroyed the Democratic party and moved it far from understanding and compassion for the working class's needs. Dems like Mamdani and Bernie are the kernels of a revived Dem Party that could truly Make America Great Again a la FDR's programs and vision.
After the continual verbal bashing trump gave to both Hillary and President Obama I feel that this was not snobbish elitism but a much deserved comeuppance, Hillary and Obama have more class and grace in their little fingers than trump could ever dream of but even the most cultured and well mannered get fed up with constant beat downs and false accusations…
Yes. I loudly groaned in horror when i heard that from Hillary. She really shot herself in the foot. And then when the email issue came out (ridiculously mild compared to all that DT has done) her candidacy was over. And Obama’s mocking was a big contributor to DT’s eventual election. Sadly.
Ha! Yeah, but maybe only a sample, because it'll be pretty ugly. I've read from many near-death experiencers that in the Live Review you re-experience the moments when you hurt someone else, only you experience those events from the perspectives of everyone involved. So he'll get to feel what the millions of people he's hurt felt as a result of his meanness and bullying. What a concept! :-)
We’ve had bad presidents before. We’ve had a smattering of crooks and cowards, too. But we’ve never before had such a tiny, pissy little raging brat for a chief executive.
He’ll never escape his cheapness. He’ll never be separated from his grift. A sexual deviant who will always be remembered — if at all — for his greed, his raging penis envy, and that flaccid little button mushroom Stormy told us all about.
Clueless is the word that comes to mind. Trump is clueless while he thinks he's the big man on campus. He looks like a fool to many including Xi and Putin. They've got his number and play him like a fiddle. Every time he denigrates Joe Biden with that stupid picture of the autopen or anyone else, he is denigrating this country which is wholly unacceptable.
Lastly, my pet beef with the idiot in chief today is that my taxpayer dollars are supporting his BS black and white ads that aired this weekend during several NFL games. Those ads are not PSA ads as the White House claims. They are the doings of an insecure man who is losing more and more of his base and thus control. They are creepy and sound like something that would have been said in the lead up to WWII in Europe. Enough!!!!!!!. Vote for change in November and make him totally ineffective to do more damage to this country.
Even a Blue tsunami won't make him totally ineffective in November, though it will show the rest of the world that we the people see him as the harmful buffoon he is. Unfortunately he and his cronies will continue to ignore Congress and the rules of law until he is out of office. Unless SCOTUS steps up and begins to actually practice Constitutional Law as is their responsibility. That said, Congress will finally start giving them all the fight of their lives and the shame they so deserve.
Looks like a fool? Indeed! I keep remembering images from the international gathering a few years ago, when Putin and MBS met with a smirking and confident high-five, and we later see djt shoving his way through other international leaders to connect with his "trusty authoritarian buddies." What a pitiful sight! Leader of the world? Hmmm, maybe not.
I love this post, Mr. Kinzinger! It was absolutely spot on! I abhor that man in the White House, and I know I do not stand alone in that feeling. He has destroyed a once great nation and made us the laughingstock of the world! He has no clue that what he does and says embarrasses the majority of Americans! Yes, without a doubt, he will go down in history as the very worst president we have ever had. The new Congress must do everything they can to stop the chaos and prevent him from continuing to make huge mistakes that have cost all of us around the world! I know that it will be decades before our allies will ever trust us again. The only way I know to gain back that trust is to put level-headed candidates into office that will work to fix all of the ways this man has broken the Constitution and laws of our country. We need to continue to put candidates in that have integrity, honor, empathy and compassion and will work to help the American people rather than hurt them. Thank you for a great read today!
Don't count on it, Adam, he will never get the joke because the joke is him and he isn't capable of allowing that into his mind. It would require even the smallest iota of humility of which he is completely devoid. Great article!
A concisely put and insightful analysis of what has driven Trump’s presidency. But of course our country elected him twice. Collectively, we humiliated ourselves.
The very small saving grace I see, while looking at the literal carnage he is going to leave behind, is the vision of how much worse it might have been if he had had even a modicum of competence.
Unfortunately, I don't think he's capable of "getting it." His truth comes form a perverse perspective dictated by an ego that will never allow his mind to believe anything other than
Narcissism blinds narcissists to reality. They cannot fathom being so sinful or blind to their sinning. What's just as bad are those who support such narcissists. Too many smart people I know supporting the current POTUS and they are in willful denial of what's going on during this term. They're not blind to his sins, they're party to them.
We need to survive to January 2029 .... he's going to do his damndest we won't... but if we manage to get a blue tsunami and make it to January 2027 we just might keep our democracy battered as it will be so all hands on deck will be needed
Thank you for clearly stating our national disgrace out loud. What's incredible to me is that his followers share the same lack of self-awareness as Trump.
I just hope he lives long enough to see the video and pictures of all the disgraceful things he’s done be reversed- the Kennedy Center reopened, the ballroom & arch be bulldozed, the Rose Garden replanted and the Oval Office be returned to it’s former, spartan glory.
I want to see Doral burned to the ground, Trump tower in NY bulldozed, Mara Lago crushed! I want every single building, hotel, etc gone!
I want his kids in jail and bankrupt!
Adam, Trump has no sense of humor! He just doesn’t get it! He never will. That’s who he is.
He will defend his right to do whatever he wants no matter who it hurts or destroys.
His level or hate and revenge knows no bounds.
His malignant narcissism will always make him a victim of everything else.
He’s a baby boomer who grew up with great wealth.
He’s never had to work a day in his life like other people.
He’s never had to worry about food, clothing, housing, etc. yet he still thinks he’s a victim.
And still he rants and has tantrums like a baby!
What his followers see in him I’ll never know!
No sense of irony or hypocrisy or empathy, all emotions, when lacking, leave a person unaccountable and feeling all powerful! That describes our current "leader" and many of those who follow him.
Does anybody think that if Obama hadn’t humiliated Dumpy at the correspondent’s dinner that he never would have run for President? Why did Obama feel the need to do it at that point? Because of the birther nonsense? Why was Trump even at that dinner? Seriously asking.
Did Obama lie? He described Trump perfectly.
Trump was there because he thought he belonged.
He has always wanted to be the most important man in the room.
He is more of a racist than anyone thinks. That’s why he went after ‘birther’ issues.
He couldn’t handle that a black man could be intelligent and powerful. He still wants to destroy that idea . He just can’t handle the truth.
Indeed but one of his evils will be hard to tackle when we get to the super glued fake gold gilding off of the Oval's walls, fireplaces, columns and I hope to god he didn't do it to the Resolute Desk.....
but it will be worth all the sweat it will take to remove his tainted legacy..
I would be a willing volunteer for that job!
me, too, nancy!
I would definitely love to volunteer for this!
The building maintenance people for the White House are craftsmen of the highest caliber. That is the least of my worries
It won't matter to him at all. As Adam points out here, DT has no understanding and no 'taste'. It's unfortunate that Obama mocked him - and that Clinton did also in her 'basket of deplorables'. That snobby arrogance of elitism is what has destroyed the Democratic party and moved it far from understanding and compassion for the working class's needs. Dems like Mamdani and Bernie are the kernels of a revived Dem Party that could truly Make America Great Again a la FDR's programs and vision.
After the continual verbal bashing trump gave to both Hillary and President Obama I feel that this was not snobbish elitism but a much deserved comeuppance, Hillary and Obama have more class and grace in their little fingers than trump could ever dream of but even the most cultured and well mannered get fed up with constant beat downs and false accusations…
Yes. I loudly groaned in horror when i heard that from Hillary. She really shot herself in the foot. And then when the email issue came out (ridiculously mild compared to all that DT has done) her candidacy was over. And Obama’s mocking was a big contributor to DT’s eventual election. Sadly.
Too bad she was correct! Trump supporters are way worse than she described. Especially the ones in Congress!
Agreed, but hope he lives ONLY long enough to see it all torn down. He is a laughing-stock, but unlike the entire world he just doesn't know it.
well, he is stupid, so that doesn't help.
OMG!! My thoughts exactly!!!! And anything else he has torn down, overlayed, marred, and destroyed or put his ugly name on.
Yes!
Even if he doesn't live long to see it, after he dies he will see it in his Life Review, which will be its own kind of hell.
I would love to be a fly on the wall in that review. Can you even imagine. LOL
Ha! Yeah, but maybe only a sample, because it'll be pretty ugly. I've read from many near-death experiencers that in the Live Review you re-experience the moments when you hurt someone else, only you experience those events from the perspectives of everyone involved. So he'll get to feel what the millions of people he's hurt felt as a result of his meanness and bullying. What a concept! :-)
The ugliest ever I suspect.
Stephen Millers' will be a close second.
You know now that I think about it, it might be a tie.
Amen, Jim!!!
Three cheers for Adam ALWAYS telling it straight!
We’ve had bad presidents before. We’ve had a smattering of crooks and cowards, too. But we’ve never before had such a tiny, pissy little raging brat for a chief executive.
He’ll never escape his cheapness. He’ll never be separated from his grift. A sexual deviant who will always be remembered — if at all — for his greed, his raging penis envy, and that flaccid little button mushroom Stormy told us all about.
"...tiny, pissy little raging brat" might be the most accurate description of him I've heard so far. Love it!
I *love* your writing here! It's almost a poem.
And thanks for reminding us of Stormy. What a great gal, with a whip-smart sense of humor.
Clueless is the word that comes to mind. Trump is clueless while he thinks he's the big man on campus. He looks like a fool to many including Xi and Putin. They've got his number and play him like a fiddle. Every time he denigrates Joe Biden with that stupid picture of the autopen or anyone else, he is denigrating this country which is wholly unacceptable.
Lastly, my pet beef with the idiot in chief today is that my taxpayer dollars are supporting his BS black and white ads that aired this weekend during several NFL games. Those ads are not PSA ads as the White House claims. They are the doings of an insecure man who is losing more and more of his base and thus control. They are creepy and sound like something that would have been said in the lead up to WWII in Europe. Enough!!!!!!!. Vote for change in November and make him totally ineffective to do more damage to this country.
Even a Blue tsunami won't make him totally ineffective in November, though it will show the rest of the world that we the people see him as the harmful buffoon he is. Unfortunately he and his cronies will continue to ignore Congress and the rules of law until he is out of office. Unless SCOTUS steps up and begins to actually practice Constitutional Law as is their responsibility. That said, Congress will finally start giving them all the fight of their lives and the shame they so deserve.
Praying that our votes will count but please, VOTE!!!!!!
Looks like a fool? Indeed! I keep remembering images from the international gathering a few years ago, when Putin and MBS met with a smirking and confident high-five, and we later see djt shoving his way through other international leaders to connect with his "trusty authoritarian buddies." What a pitiful sight! Leader of the world? Hmmm, maybe not.
ENOUGH is absolutely right!! Thank you!
Donald Trump never has and never will understand much of anything at all.
correct..he doesn't realize that he can't play with the big boys and that most of them are laughing at him.
I had never seen the ‘Trump White House’ image from the Obama WHCD - thanks for sharing that…
I love this post, Mr. Kinzinger! It was absolutely spot on! I abhor that man in the White House, and I know I do not stand alone in that feeling. He has destroyed a once great nation and made us the laughingstock of the world! He has no clue that what he does and says embarrasses the majority of Americans! Yes, without a doubt, he will go down in history as the very worst president we have ever had. The new Congress must do everything they can to stop the chaos and prevent him from continuing to make huge mistakes that have cost all of us around the world! I know that it will be decades before our allies will ever trust us again. The only way I know to gain back that trust is to put level-headed candidates into office that will work to fix all of the ways this man has broken the Constitution and laws of our country. We need to continue to put candidates in that have integrity, honor, empathy and compassion and will work to help the American people rather than hurt them. Thank you for a great read today!
Don't count on it, Adam, he will never get the joke because the joke is him and he isn't capable of allowing that into his mind. It would require even the smallest iota of humility of which he is completely devoid. Great article!
I agree. Getting that he is the joke would break him mentally.
A concisely put and insightful analysis of what has driven Trump’s presidency. But of course our country elected him twice. Collectively, we humiliated ourselves.
The very small saving grace I see, while looking at the literal carnage he is going to leave behind, is the vision of how much worse it might have been if he had had even a modicum of competence.
I'm thinking that the Obama jokes prompted him to run, just to show him wrong.
Unfortunately, I don't think he's capable of "getting it." His truth comes form a perverse perspective dictated by an ego that will never allow his mind to believe anything other than
he is the "Anointed One."
Exactly.
Amen, Adam. Amen.
Narcissism blinds narcissists to reality. They cannot fathom being so sinful or blind to their sinning. What's just as bad are those who support such narcissists. Too many smart people I know supporting the current POTUS and they are in willful denial of what's going on during this term. They're not blind to his sins, they're party to them.
We need to survive to January 2029 .... he's going to do his damndest we won't... but if we manage to get a blue tsunami and make it to January 2027 we just might keep our democracy battered as it will be so all hands on deck will be needed
Agree 💯, Adam. I/We must keep his spawned stench from carrying on with his gilded torch fumes!
Wonder if Natalie will show him this? I sure hope so. Well said.
I doubt that she'll show him this or even read it herself -- it's beyond the attention span of either of them.
Thank you for clearly stating our national disgrace out loud. What's incredible to me is that his followers share the same lack of self-awareness as Trump.