Trump's one-day dictatorship now day after day
By Sid Schwab / Herald Columnist
Two months in, Donald Trump is not acting like a dictator. He’s become one.
He’s assumed every trait he’s admired in the world’s worst: capricious, insulting, boastful, striking at enemies perceived and real, threatening, suppressing art (tinyurl.com/bestart4u), banning words, hiding history, bullying, raving like a lunatic (AP: tinyurl.com/rave2DOJ). Fulfilling dreams born of a life of failures masquerading, he knows, as success. Hurting the weak, to feel strong. Punishing people and places that show concern for racial and religious minorities, unwinding protections for Americans of different sexual orientation, gutting departments that serve people about whom he couldn’t care less, including his enstupened MAGAs; people and things he considers useful only as ways to flash see-me power (tinyurl.com/look2him).
NOAA and the National Weather Service? Cancer research? Promising more plants burning “clean” coal (which doesn’t exist) to stick it to “lunatic” environmentalists. Is it all retribution for when, as a shady businessman and social pretender in NYC, his peers ridiculed him? (U.S.News: tinyurl.com/nolikeDJT) For which he made up by sexual predation?
But why such an ugly start to this column? Maybe because I’ve just returned from NYC, where my brother, intubated in an ICU and unresponsive, faces uncertain recovery. While there, news didn’t stop. Each day, already emotionally taut, brought a new outrage from Trump and his coven of unqualified but willingly subservient people. Plans to undo climate-related and pollution-preventing regulations, hurting everyone but his grateful bankrollers, who slather him with flattery. Attorney General Pam Bondi promising, enthusiastically, to weaponize her department for Trump (NBC News: tinyurl.com/DOJ4DON).
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