I have a feeling recent developments in the news aren’t going to make Donald Trump happy.
If there’s one thing people with massive egos don’t appreciate, it’s people laughing at them when they aren’t trying to be funny.
Trump’s toilet habits — particularly using commodes to flush documents — have become big news lately, and they have reminded people that while in office, the president was whining about how toilets didn’t flush the way they once did.
Little did we know that the reason it bothered him had nothing to do with his bodily excretions.
It’s pretty obvious that Trump has been trying to eliminate records that embarrass him, and he has displayed his usual level of ineptitude in doing so.
If there’s one thing people ought to have been figuring out by now it’s that the man is basically a moron.
Many people are concerned that he could run again in 2024 and find a way to “win” the election, but I think the chance of him even being his party’s nominee in 2 1/2 years is extremely slim. Not that there’s a real challenger in the Republican Party. I can’t see any of the people who would challenge him as being any more impressive, but I think Trump’s health won’t hold up long enough for him to be a factor.
As long as he remains in this picture, though, there really isn’t much hope for Republicans to be a legitimate, positive part of the political process. The Republican National Committee issued a statement the other day that the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol was simply “ordinary citizens engaged in legitimate political discourse.”
Of the 50 Republican members of the U.S. Senate, exactly seven of them said that wasn’t true and called it what it was — an insurrection.
It’s not like all of them are particularly good guys either. Minority leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, 2012 presidential nominee Mitt Romney of Utah, Ben Sasse of Nebraska, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Rick Scott of Florida, Susan Collins of Maine and John Cornyn of Texas make up the 14 percent of Republican senators who stood up — at least this time — for the truth.
Ted Cruz of Texas called the insurrectionists “terrorist” at one point, but he has since reversed himself to complete his obesiance to Trump. If there’s something Republicans actually stand for anymore other than opposition to abortion and lower taxes for the rich, I don’t know what it is.
And Trump?
Well, we know he wants to go back to the old style of flushing commodes.
And now we know why.