Catastrophe

     President Trump and his wife have visited flood-stricken southeast Texas twice and Louisiana once.  Hurricane and then Tropical Storm Harvey was, to use Trump's tweeted word, "Historic."  He also used the word, "Wow!"
     In Corpus Christi, Texas, during the first visit, he spoke into a megaphone (a la George W. Bush on the ruins of the World Trade Center) to a crowd of cheering supporters, making "a show of compassion"--the trip's purpose--into a ragged rally.  I figure that the people who showed up to see him bray his message about the people of the Great State of Texas, their courage and altruism (traits found worldwide actually, whenever disasters occur, including in the aftermaths of U.S. airstrikes), were either taking a needed break from sorting through their possessions in their rain-damaged houses, or were among the Trump faithful who can't regard the man critically, even when he ignores the excesses of the KKK.
     The Corpus Christi crowd chanted "U-S-A!  U-S-A!"  This is the go-to slogan that seems to hearten Americans in their simple-minded moments, as when a crowd chanted the same thing outside the White House the night we found out that Obama had assassinated Osama bin Laden.
     Such enthusiasm directed at Trump greases his interior wheels.  He loved the crowd size.  I saw on weather charts this past week that some parts of Texas received forty-three inches of rain in a single twenty-four hour period.  Trump on his second visit, to Houston this time (this from the September 4, 2017 L.A. Times), remarked to journalists that, "We saw a lot of happiness.  It's been really nice.  It's been a wonderful thing.  As tough as this was, it's been a wonderful thing.  I think even for the country to watch it, for the world to watch.  It's been beautiful."
     There's more, which illuminates the sick fuck nature of the nation's forty-fifth President:
     "Asked what people had said to him, Trump replied, 'They're really happy with what's going on.  It's been something that's very well received [the hurricane? the emergency response? Melania's ass in those tight expensive pants?]."
     An actual human being in touch with reality, Devon Harris, a construction worker, remarked, "Is he going to help?  Can he help?  I lost my home.  My job is gone.  My tools are gone.  My car is gone.  My life is gone.  What is Trump going to do?"
     "Later, the Trumps put on plastic gloves and helped hand out lunch boxes--hot dogs, potato chips, applesauce."
     "The Trumps later stopped at...a large suburban church doubling as a relief center.  [Trump] handed out plastic buckets and cardboard boxes of supplies to motorists..."
     "[After the church visit], the Trumps loaded about a half dozen cars and trucks. 'Hey can you handle this?' Trump said to the first recipient...'There's a lot of stuff in here.  You're all set.'"
     "'It's good exercise,'"Trump said as the man drove off."
     I'd like to note here that this is the only time that Donald Trump has ever worked.
     Vice President Pence, before Trump went there the first time, "rolled up his sleeves" and cleared some branches, said all the right things, came across as a functioning and psychologically balanced person.  What wasn't mentioned in mainstream news media was how in 2005, after Hurricane Katrina, then Congressman Pence argued on the floor of the House for cutting Medicare and Social Security to pay for Katrina's devastation.  Pence visiting southeast Texas after Harvey may have seemed laudable but don't forget, he's a son of a bitch with a cold heart.  A Christian, too, but a bad one.
     When Devon Harris, quoted above, asked, "What is Trump going to do?" he asked that question, I suspect, because Trump's own words about the hurricane, the "Historic" rainfall, the recovery and rebuilding, are so vague, which is typical of the man's personality and his deficient use of the English language.
     Trump saw happiness in the shelter housing people driven there by absolute necessity.  He, a rich fuck who will never want for anything, except proper crowd sizes, bigger hands, and a time machine to go back in time to prevent Robert Mueller's birth, saw a roomful of desperate people being polite because the President of the United States and his glamorous wife were suddenly among them.
     The biggest rainfall in the history of the United States, the enormous damage it's caused to heavily populated zones and to the energy industry located there, alligators and wood debris covered with fire ants in the water, people getting electrocuted from current passing through water, thousands of pets separated from their owners, jobs and lives lost, homes destroyed, water becoming stagnant and not draining fast enough, all this and more leads our leader to proclaim it to be "a wonderful thing for the world to watch."
     Yes, Trump, maybe so, if you hate your own country.

                                                                               Vic Neptune