In 1972, when it became known that Thomas Eagleton had been treated for Depression, George McGovern felt forced to drop him as a running mate.  Today, three dozen mental health professionals, folks with fist-hand information, and his niece, a Clinical Psychologist, agree the man sitting in the Oval Office, Donald J. Trump, suffers from Malignant Narcissistic Personality Disorder (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, DSM5).

The Brief Life of A Buck, a Dummy’s tale of a dollar:

New York Federal Reserve Bank creates and loans one dollar to Citibank which it in turn loans to Ford Motor Company.  Ford includes the buck in line worker Jerry Scudnick’s paycheck.  Jerry’s wife, Ann, passes the buck to Safeway for Enfamil.  Safeway moves it on to California Produce Co-op for tomatoes. The Co-op pays it to migrant picker Juan Garcia who wires the dollar to Juanita, his mother in Mexico City.  Juanita pays pharmacist Roberto a dollar in pesos for heart medicine.  Roberto passes the buck to Eli Lily Pharmaceuticals who include it in Connecticut Research Chemist Mike Young’s salary.  Mike hands it off to Wells Fargo in his $1225 mortgage payment.  Part of a loan payment ,Wells Fargo passes our dollar to the San Francisco Federal Reserve.  Depending on the economy, The Fed may loan it back out or erase it from the books.

For me, three snap-shots leap from the photo album publicizing President Donald Trump’s Narcissism: Descending, as from Heaven, on a Golden escalator, posing like a cardboard cutout holding a Bible in front of a church and, most recently, posturing like Mussolini on a White House portico, swiping off the detested mask to reveal grim determination in place of the trademarked grin, directing a Presidential photo op for Red Cap Minions.  All to maintain the image of a man who, today, feels his back to the wall.

What began as “The greatest infomercial in political history” and led to the Oval Office, may prove Donald Trump‘s greatest curse.  Citizen Trump may well have continued skating around ethics, morals and the law, to a posh retirement at his Private Golf Club.  Presidency drew increased exposure and focus to a lifetime of blurred shenanigans and felonies.  As polls show diminishing hope for a second term, a potentially out-of-office Donald Trump faces litigation and indictments which could lead to financial collapse, even prison.

The tragedy of our forty-fifth President lies behind the photo ops and charade, the bluster, bullying and name-calling.  In the most inaccessible recesses of Donald Trump’s heart a sad little boy yearns and schemes for Love he never knew and has no notion of how to get or give.     

If President Trump may lean on the United States Department of Justice to dig up dirt on his opponent, Citizen Biden may request likewise. The individual most devastated by the findings of parallel, impartial, in-depth investigations lies beyond question.

They show the finger to Dr. Fauci and fall with the Autumn leaves.

Abe Lincoln founded the Republican Party and freed the slaves.  A Racist President who refuses to condemn White Supremacists and Neo-Nazis is not a Republican.