Committing the President

     I don't watch the news like it's a program, an episodic narrative filling a time slot.  I focus in on bits of it, watching a few minutes or less of CNN, MSNBC, Fox News Channel, news broadcasts on CBS, NBC, ABC.  These sources provide glimpses into mentalities managing "the straight dope," or, in too many instances to count, of propaganda in line with the prevailing American narrative that we're number one, we can do no real lasting harm to other peoples of the world, and in any case, when we do something bad, it's "a mistake."
     These days, but in fact for a long time, the slogan "America first!" dominates the attitudes of the political establishment and some of its left and right wing news media helpers.  Talk of the Trump administration's sloppiness, its chaotic operations, the fact that his first national security adviser has already been fired and is under FBI investigation, doesn't focus on the endless war, but accepts it as a done deal that must continue because "bad guys" are out to get us, when actually the nation's defense and security priorities, as well as the incompetence and immorality of its leadership, cause a slow implosion, America retreating into its own asshole as it practices the idea of being dominant in an increasingly decentralizing world.
     Trump, walking by himself in the dark, but lit up by newsmen's follow-the-leader lighting apparatuses, crossed the White House lawn a short while ago, having spent a "long weekend" in Florida at his palace and golf resort (as he does every weekend) and also talking his shit at a campaign rally.  He resembled a Dickens character, and not one of the nice ones; slumped forward a bit, face sagged into his usual grump-look.  This man, I thought, not for the first eerie time, is president of the United States.  He got away with a con, and perhaps conned himself.  Would he not rather be preparing a news network, along with Steve Bannon, a project Trump had been developing on the side in case he didn't beat Hillary Clinton?  Does he want the headaches of a job a billion times more complex than anything he's ever done?
     At the weekend rally (is this a campaign event for 2020?) he warned us about "what happened last night in Sweden."  Referencing a Fox News story about Syrian refugees in Sweden, as he later clarified using his home masturbation machine--his Twitter account--he revealed to anyone who wants to think deductively about it that he relies on Fox News more than he does on Presidential Daily Briefings, i.e., morning intelligence summaries for the man running the country.  Swedish officials found his statement baffling.  Foreign governments and leaders are faced with a new phenomenon: an American president who's also a dumbass.  George W. Bush, not all that smart either, at least followed protocols as best he could.  He could fake being president most of the time whereas Trump, whose image is all important to him, tries to seem presidential but looks like the manager of an insurance office with a bad hairdo and ill-fitting clothes.
     The Russian government, according to MSNBC, is compiling a dossier on Trump's psychological makeup.  For a bunch of rubles I'd be willing to save them some trouble: Trump's father was distant towards him as the boy grew up.  He had no decent fatherly role model (a condition he shares with Hitler, incidentally).  Being unappreciated by his dad, Trump developed an emotional need to put his stamp on the world.  His name adorning so many buildings and businesses resulted from this.  He identifies mostly with himself, making him lacking in compassion, always thinking of his own greedy needs first.  Over the years, developing into a wheeler dealer, he learned that convincing people to part with their money is easy, given the right hook.  This con artist element to his character goes hand in hand with contempt for those conned, thus, his supporters are lowly pigs to him; senators, congressmen and -women who supported him or spoke against him during his presidential run, are to be humiliated for their lack of belief in him in the latter case, rewarded for loyalty in the former.
     Trump loves gold furnishings, he has the wretched taste of an Arab sheikh who's never heard of French Impressionism.  He claims he's far richer than he is; Forbes magazine estimates his hoard at around four billion dollars--Trump claims closer to ten.  He may not even be a billionaire, one reason he's refused to release his taxes.  This deals with his sense of status.  Handing the presidency to such a status-monger was a fucking crazy thing for the electoral college to do.
     He's insecure, obsessed with surfaces, he loves celebrity and Hollywood and the news media, in spite of his excoriations against these things.  He himself is a celebrity, he's acted in films, he's a reality TV star.  These experiences helped him hone his skills at playing a role.  When he became vehement in 2011 about Obama's birth certificate, he wasn't speaking from conviction.  He didn't believe, like his followers, that Obama was born anywhere outside Hawaii.  He used this lie to stir up a growing base of racists and shallow thinkers who would help him in the 2016 presidential race.
     If something or someone picks at him, he has to react.  He never learned calmness, his personality is one of proneness to agitation.  Vladimir Putin's easy-going and quiet dealings with Trump so far have worked for Putin, but if the Russian leader were to speak out against Trump, our new president might shit himself, a diarrhea of tweeting.
     Trump is not the kind of person who realizes, "I don't know what the fuck I'm doing."  As president, he really doesn't know what the fuck he's doing, but all problems in his administration ("running like a fine-tuned machine," he said) are caused by others, i.e. the news media, "the enemy of the American people."
     He is, in a way, right.  This nation's news media do not focus much on real issues.  Heard any stories about the Flint water crisis on CNN lately?  Does MSNBC cover the North Dakota Standing Rock Reservation pipeline story, with protesters there enduring big government intrusions, police violence, and corporate greed?  Trump, though, with his tie always hanging down over his cock like a codpiece, makes for a "good" and reliable daily series of stories, some of them, like the Sweden gaffe, providing hours of fun for corporate journalists who seem to have forgotten that the war on terror, fifteen years and going, is a fucking disease that's helping the human race die.

                                                                               Vic Neptune