There Was a Time When Getting Access To Hitler Was Good For Your Career

     One strange thing these days, post-campaign, post-election, is how news media personalities, government officials, and celebrities, sometimes speak of Donald Trump like he's a normal person.
     Comedian Dave Chappelle, hosting Saturday Night Live (an NBC show) on November 12, said during his monologue that he'll give Trump a chance.  President Obama and election loser Clinton both urged Americans to keep an open mind about the next president.  As Trump has meetings in Trump Tower with a variety of office seekers, one of those summoned is Mitt Romney, past election loser and, last March, deliverer of a speech called by CNN, "a blistering broadside."  A broadside consists of a ship firing all of its guns simultaneously.  Romney, like Captain Blood, really let Trump have it:
     "Donald Trump is a phony, a fraud.  His promises are as worthless as a degree from Trump University.  He's playing members of the American public for suckers.  He gets a free ride to the White House, and all we get is a lousy hat."
     That is, if you buy the hat ($9.99 at Walmart, the corporation on whose board of directors Hillary Clinton sat from 1986 to 1992, including a period when Walmart fought labor unions representing its employees--in other words, she doesn't give a shit about workers' rights).
     Romney will meet Trump tomorrow in Bedminster, New Jersey, where Trump has a golf course.  The President-elect will conduct meetings, share thoughts on grabbing pussy, and brag about how a monument to his ego, Trump Tower, sitting as it does in the middle of Manhattan, has become the locus of a security problem in America's largest city.  Since Trump lives there, streets and traffic must be affected.  Mitt Romney must think Trump is a great guy, now, to sit down with him after a round of golf.
     Today on MSNBC, Kate Snow was interviewing a man from the Southern Poverty Law Center, an organization that tracks hate groups in America.  They've found that in the last year, religious- and racist-inspired hate crimes have increased by seven percent.  Snow made reference to Trump's glib admonition for people to "stop it."  "Was that enough?" Snow asked.  The man was polite enough not to say, "Are you insane?"  Instead, he said, "It's not enough.  He needs to get on this issue forcefully, but unfortunately, as we've seen with his presidential cabinet picks--"
     Snow interrupted him, as if something serious were happening somewhere: "I'm sorry, we have to go live to Trump Tower."  Cut to a panning shot of large black vehicles on a New York street zooming away, apparently, from the Tower.  The caption read, "Donald Trump Heads to N.J. Golf Course."
     Snow came back, saying "we're out of time," apologized to her thoughtful guest, who was about to say, "It's unfortunate that Trump has picked Steve Bannon, a hate-mongering racist, as his chief advisor.  This sends a mixed signal about the President-elect's true views on the rise of race and religion-inspired hate speech and violence, which the president-elect himself contributed to throughout his campaign."
     I assume that's what he was about to say, before we had to see Trump's motorcade heading to the golf course, and Trump's meeting with Romney so that the President-elect can lower his scrotum into the Mormon former presidential candidate's mouth.
     The same network, MSNBC, which still criticizes Trump, nevertheless commits the same egregious fault that helped get the fucker elected: they give him expansive unjustified airtime.  They even break away from interviews with important and thoughtful guests for the sake of showing big black cars heading to a rich man's pleasure spot across the river.  This disgusting activity on the network's part reveals what they've been at all along: sensationalism.  Even if some working for MSNBC don't like Trump, they like the ratings, the spectacle, the utter lunacy of the fact of this joke of a human being with no morals becoming president.
     Lesley Stahl, veteran journalist on CBS's 60 Minutes, sat down for an interview in the Tower with Trump, his wife, the adult children arrayed behind them.  The chairs and love seat, covered in gold framing, resembled props from a set for a movie about Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette.  The CBS crew were required to wear booties over their shoes, so as not to track in street smudge.  This one detail, pointed out in a story on Inside Edition, reveals what the Trump presidency will be like.  A tacky, horrible man with no empathy for the needs of common women and men, removed from reality, putting booties over it to protect his surroundings characterized by bad taste.  What's more, a man who continuously lies and fabricates, has no idea what's really going on in the world, or in his own city.  The traffic rerouted around "White House North," the inconveniences caused, remind me of Chris Christie's indifference to people using the paralyzed bridge.  Trump can get through the obstacles his ego has caused, why should he care about what this does to others?  He's going to the Oval Office, sent there largely by poor and middle class people who believed his pitch while ignoring his inconsistencies, not ever thinking his scatterbrained thought process might someday fuck over his supporters.
     Barack Obama said he's "cautiously optimistic" about the upcoming Trump presidency.  If he's serious about this statement, our current president is truly fucked in the head.  Hillary Clinton emerged from hiding a few days ago and gave a speech somewhere, revealing that for a few days she just wanted to "curl up with a good book and never go out again."  It's a pity she didn't put that into practice sometime in 2014.  When she said, "curl up with a good book," I thought, Can't you at least not use clichés when talking about the worst failure of your life?  Maybe you never did have any depth of intellect, and maybe that's why you lost, you corporate big banks-loving piece of crap.
     Presidential transition team spokesman Sean Spicer, talking about Romney's invitation to the presence, said, "I think what that meeting suggests...is the president-elect wants the best and brightest people to put this country forward: people who supported him, people who didn't support him."
     Hey Donald, I'll meet with you!  I sure as fuck, and never will, support you.  But I'll tell you my ideas, just as I'd tell my ideas to Obama.  I won't wear booties, though, unless you also wear them, but at least I won't grab your wife by the pussy.
     Spicer, like Hillary Clinton, also speaks cliché.  "Best and brightest" is from the David Halberstam book about Kennedy's cabinet, the one that evolved into the motherfuckers who gave us the Vietnam War.
     One of my many friends, family, and acquaintances, dismayed by the Trump win was despairing about it over the phone with me the day after the election.  I told her, finally, "No asshole politician is greater than the U.S. Constitution."
     I believe that.  Maybe I'm naive, but that's my hope.

                                                                                Vic Neptune