Trump Redux
November 20, 2024, 8:53 am , by Richard Lutz
They say good things comes in threes (RICHARD LUTZ writes) …a trio, in effect. This is the third straight piece about the convicted criminal Donald Trump and may be the last for a while. I declare a Trump moratorium.
Until my editors demand that I do another. Which I will as the mortgage must be paid.
So, to kick off, let me show you how my local august organ of truth, The Ayrshire Post, has reported the White House win for the next prez who runs the Trump Turnberry golf resort which is named after the convicted criminal Donald Trump:
Boy, they don’t write stuff like that any more. And they won’t either when Mr Trump, the convicted criminal, starts jailing reporters for covering news stories.
Anyway, back to events, dear boy, events. Elon Musk and Robert Kennedy Jr are drafted into Trump’s inner circle; the latter as a health czar and the former as a very powerful man who owns space ships and wants to transport volunteers to live in Martian caverns.
I predict Kennedy will be booted out by Easter as he’s even bonkier than convicted felon Mr Trump. And, importantly, I predict that Musk will walk out by early summer. He’ll have had enough of dealing with a juvenile demagogue and he’ll take his ball and bat and zoom off to the interplanetary cave he so admires- basically, you can’t have two raging egomaniacs running the country.
Cabinet of horrors
That’ll leave a whole host of dubious characters to steer the White House. In the next cabinet will be the former boss of a pro-wrestling operation who’ll become Education Secretary tasked with overseeing the department’s demise; a lawyer who was part of Trump’s legal team in 2020 as it made false claims that the election had been stolen becoming attorney general; the tv guy with lots of enigmatic tattooes becoming boss of the military machine (which Trump wants to use domestically to rid the US of the enemy within). Of course, also, let’s not forget the first nominee for attorney general (RIP) who faces serious sex charges.
And then there’s the next Vice President, JD Vance, who’s a cheeseburger away from The Oval Office. He’ll become chief honcho when Mr Trump, a convicted criminal, Is gently led away with sensitive hands for a long care rest in a peaceful place.
That’s about right, isn’t it? It brings us straight back to the madhouse before the peaceful Capital Hill riot (engineered by Biden of course) when we really understood how the new American president operates: you just bumble out of bed, devour a couple of tacos, fire a whole department, talk rambling nonsense, rage against the night and then dig into a Big Mac washed down with a swig of vintage Pepsi.
That’s the world that 76 million voters wanted. That’s what we’ll get.
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David
Grim times indeed. World appears to be going to hell in a handcart.
RS
Good to see someone cheerful about it
Martin McCrindle
There’s a grim fascination with the appointment of a cast of evil figures worthy of a Marvel movie… can this be real? And at what point do we anticipate the re-emergence of a Dark knight to battle for justice? Be funny if it wasn’t.
Bella Houston
Can’t cope with it
Tony Fitzpatrick
Yep…. for mental health purposes I’m going for the moratorium on the ‘T’ word…
Ellen Vannin
His cabinet already has wood worm. Here’s hoping it collapses without breaking too many bottles.
Haji Remon
🤦🏼♂️
Lutz the Younger
The level of existential anxiety here (on the blue California coast) is palpable! What’s scarier perhaps are the 76 million who did vote for the orange menace, and the level of racism, misogyny and fear- based ignorance that represents.
Alan Holland
Golly, all 76 million of them?
Democracy has a lot to answer for it seems.
At least he got a clear majority of the popular vote. which is very rare.
Our Government (here in the UK) which as with you and yours I despise with a vengeance, was put into power by only 34% of votes cast.
I suppose one comfort is that this amounts to a smaller number of people for me to hold in contempt than the 76 million you fulminate against!😎 We should both be patient and wait for the pendulum to swing. It always does, we just happen to be losers this time.
Hey ho.
Robert Montfleur
I believe that there is a plan, planned by a T advisor, to put a group of incompetents & offensive in as heads of the government departments so that there will be mass resignations, thereby making government smaller. It is very hard to fire civil service employees, getting them to resign is easier, it is thought.
Alan Holland
It’s not hard to get rid of anyone in the USA. None of the employment protections which prevent the shedding of workers this side of the pond apply over there, as many of my friends have discovered. When congress refuses to ratify the budget for Government spending they just lay off millions of ‘non essential’ workers at a stroke.
Hard, but it explains in part why their economy is so resilient . Our provisions also inhibit many employees reaching their true potential because of the loss of accrued benefits and risks attendant on moving jobs. I’m not advocating, just say.
Don Prager
You’ve probably read this already…
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/20/trump-cabinet-picks-contempt-rage-vengeance
Andy
Hopefully, there are sufficient GOP non-nutcases elected who will rein-in the madness about to be uleashed in 2025.
My sympathy lies with Ukraine first, then the good old US of A.
Yurp and UK a close third.
Putin, Kim and Xi must be laughing their socks off.
Sue Johnson
Can’t realistically see that the Musk relationship will last much longer than 6 months- once he has all he needs from the government for his space initiatives…..
Kaye Donaldson
It’s hard to believe how America could have arrived in this place.
Although, having been founded on religious fundamentalism, it really shouldn’t surprise us.
Sheridan Blair
There is much chatter about the orange cream with which The Donald lathers himself. It is not orange that he craves, it is gold. He literally thinks he is The Golden Boy.
Leoj/ NYC
This business does not make me proud to be an American.
Mark Rosen
Interesting that Gaetz has quit already. Do you think it possible that Musk with all his money might establish a sort of Wagner Group. Not of soldiers but of bureaucrats in his new DOGE who set about trimming 2trillion off government expenditure by strong arming unwilling civil servants?
PHIL C
I hadn’t realised that “inappropriate” text books had been banned in Florida. It doesnt augur well for the future
Ayr Lad
Looks like your predictions regarding Mr Trump’s team has started earlier than planned
Allison Pierce
We will leave X because of Musk and Trump and have decamped for Blue Sky
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