Monday, November 4, 2024

The ABCs of Trump

 

Well, let’s have a little fun with the alphabet before what is certain to be a crazy election day tomorrow.

A: Autocrat (Trump demands personal loyalty and is totally uninterested in the institutions of democracy); Adulterer (he cheated on all three wives)

B: Bully (third-grade name-calling, threats of violence); Braggart (the great Dizzy Dean once said if it’s true, it ain’t bragging; Trump even bragged about his beautiful beach bod, which most people would probably mistake for a beached whale; he’s probably thinking of those Photoshopped trading cards he’s hawking to gullible groupies)

C: Corrupt (the man has never seen a law or rule he thinks applies to him); Chaotic (he doesn’t have policies; he has prejudices); Criminal (34 felony convictions with, hopefully, many more to come)

D: Demagogue (Trump exploits the fears and prejudices of his followers); Dementia (he’s showing signs of mental deterioration: can’t finish a sentence, stay on topic, or answer simple questions); Dangerous (take it from members of his first administration)

E: Ego (Trump has the largest but most fragile ego on earth); Evil (what else do you call a serial adulterer, a sexual predator, a fraud, a tax cheat, an insurrectionist, and a compulsive liar); Election Stealer (he attempted it but, thank goodness, didn’t succeed)

F: Fascist (so labeled by his longest-serving chief of staff, John Kelly, and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under Trump, Mark Milley); Fraud (found guilty in a court of law, more than once); Fake (he is a snake oil salesman)

G: Gullible (he believes crazy conspiracy theories and flattery from dictators); Greedy (bases his self-image on his supposed wealth; hawks kitschy, overpriced stuff made in China; diverts campaign donations to pay for his legal bills)

H: Humorless (he doesn’t smilehe smirks; have you ever seen him laugh?); Hateful (like all demagogues, Trump has to create enemies and focus his hatred on them)

I: Incompetent (his handling of the pandemic is exhibit A, but his whole presidency was a disaster); Incoherent (have you listened to him speak?)

J: Juvenile (his name-calling, his diet, his philandering, his self-centeredness, and his vindictiveness all indicate he never really grew up); Jailbound (or at least headed for house arrest)

K: Kinky (see Access Hollywood tape); Know-it-all (doesn’t listen to people who actually are experts); Kowtower (see Putin, Kim Jong Un, Erdogan, Jinping, etc.)

L: Liar (he simply can’t tell the truth about anything); Lecher (no explanation needed); Laughable (this man is so unqualified and unfit to be president, it would be funny if it weren’t so pathetic)

M: Moronic (not Moroni; see description by his first Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson); Megalomaniac (definition: suffering from delusional and infantile feelings of personal omnipotence and grandeur)

N: Negative (thinks America is a hellhole, can’t admit that Biden is presiding over the best economy in the world); Narcissist (what many observing psychiatrists have diagnosed; interested only in himself)

O: Obscene (his lack of inhibition is getting even worse); Obtuse (definition: insensitive, stupid, not clear or precise in thought or expression)

P: Pathetic (he would be pitiable if he were not so dangerous); Power-hungry (see Megalomaniac above); Petulant (like a little child)

Q: Queasy (the effect he has on half the country); Quid pro Quo (remember his demand of Ukrainian president Zelenskyy); Quisling (look it up)

R: Rapist (see E. Jean Carroll verdict); Reprobate (definition: one who is morally corrupt or depraved)

S: Sexual predator (26 women have accused Trump of rape, kissing, groping without consent; see Access Hollywood tape for his own confession/bragging about it); Superficial (he has no interest in the difficult work of devising good policy); Slothful (spent more time on the golf course than reading briefings)

T: Threat (what dozens of members of his previous administration consider him); Troubled (this man needs therapy)

U: Unqualified (see all of the above and below); Unfit (ditto); Ubiquitous (he can’t stand to not be the center of attention)

V: Venal (definition: capable of being bought); Vacuous (marked by a lack of intelligence)

W: Worst (as in the worst president in the history of America); Weird (yup, thanks Tim)

X: Xenophobe (Trump hates foreigners, at least those with brown or black skins); X-Rated (listen to any of his recent rallies)

Y: Yuck or Yech or Yuk (yeah, I’m really tired of this man); Yellow (see draft deferment for Private Bone Spurs)

Z: Zealot (definition: a fanatic partisan); Zombie (can’t this dude’s political career just die?)