The ignorance and irony underlying Donald Trump‘s Halloween Great Gatsby soirée is stunning!

Had Donald read F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel he’d have known Jay Gatsby was a fraud.

At an oval office event, November 6, President Donald Trump’s narcissism was exposed in stark detail.

When a White House guest fainted, staff and others scrambled to help.  After a downward glance, Donald’s attention averted.  Standing behind his desk, the President’s expression reflected total mental and emotional detachment.

Paste on a Cheshire-Cat grin and it might have been a cardboard cutout for a campaign event, a novelty MAGA minions could cozy against for selfies.

Feeling  and expressed concern, any other American President, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, would have taken appropriate action.

President Donald Trump has denied SNAP benefits to the least fortunate Americans.  How can anyone with a sense of compassion do this?

How can the President of the wealthiest nation on earth deny food to its most deprived individuals and families.

Rank, right-wing madness!

Gun rights advocates argue, “Guns don’t kill people, people kill people.” 

Americans are 26 times more likely to be killed with a gun than citizens of any other First World country.

On an average day, over 300 Americans are shot, a third of these are killed.

What would these numbers be if Americans did not have guns?

Donald Trump boasts of ending wars no one else has heard of while threatening to attack Venezuela.  In Ukraine, Gaza, and Somalia the bloodshed, death, and destruction continue unabated!

ABC’s Terry Moran, May 1, 2025, asked President Trump, “What does (the Declaration of Independence) mean to you?”  Donald responded, “It’s exactly what it is.  It is a declaration of unity and love and respect, and it means a lot, and is something very special to our country.”

The Daily Show’s Desi Lydik pointed out that, on hearing this, Moran’s fascial expression reflected the concern of “a teacher about to call the school psychologist. 
. . .
But of course, he would have made that face.  Trump said that the Declaration of Independence meant unity.  Unity is the opposite of independence.  How did Trump find the one time that unity and love is the wrong answer?  What makes this even more sad is the Declaration of Independence is basically the colonies filing for divorce.  It’s the one thing that Trump should absolutely recognize.”

Curiously, this seventy-nine-year-old, whose words and acts derive from sixth-grade thinking, is ignorant of sixth-grade American History: Continental Congress, Declaration of Independence, Minute Men, Paul Revere, Lexington and Concord, George Washington, Revolutionary War, Constitution. 

The Declaration of Independence is The United States of America’s birth certificate!  

Seeming to conflate the Nov. 11, 1918 World War I armistice, the 1919-1920 Spanish Influence pandemic, and a quarter-century hence, the end of World War II, on Aug. 10, 2020 the “stable genius,” Donald J. Trump, said, “The closest thing is in 1917, they say, the great pandemic  .  .  .  probably ended the Second World War, all the soldiers were sick.”

Ancient wisdom so astonishingly prescient in the era of Trump.

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A leader is best

When people barely know that he exists,

Not so good when people obey and acclaim him,

Worse when they despise him.

‘Fail to honor people, they failed to honor you;’

But for a good leader, who talks little,

When his work is done, his aim fulfilled,

They will all say, ‘we did this ourselves.’

   A leader is best  The Way of Life According to Lao Tsu

  Translated by Witter Bynner

Donald Trump assured us, July 31, that his ballroom,
“won’t interfere with the current building.  .  .  .  It will be near it but not touching it.  It pays total respect to the existing building, which I’m the biggest fan of.  It’s my favorite place.  I love it.” On October 20, his demolitions crew set to work demolishing the East Wing of We-the-People’s White House.

Following the October 18 “No King” rally, King Trump reposted an AI of himself flying over, shitting on Americans.

Now, he schemes to shake-down taxpayers for $230 million.

Donald J. Trump is a cancer on the body of American Democracy.

I hope it’s not terminal.

“It’s all wrong.  By right we shouldn’t even be here.  But we are.  It’s like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo.  The ones that really mattered.  Full of darkness and danger they were…But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow.  Even darkness must pass.”

Samwise “Sam” Gamgee
The Two Towers
J.R.R. Tolkien