Thursday, May 8, 2025
Is Trump’s mental state declining or has he been this stupid all along? It’s a question that some or wrestling with. I’m not. It doesn’t matter. What is amazing is how he has managed to wreck all that we have as a country in such a short time. All without doing much legally. After one hundred days he and the Republican legislature have passed five pieces of legislation. He and the Republican Congress are working on “One Big Beautiful Bill.” That’s what they are calling it. If passed there will be huge cuts to Medicaid. The immediate effect will be to wipe out rural health care in this country. That’s Trump’s voters mostly. Ah well, screw ‘em. He doesn’t need them anymore.
And as to his comment that kids maybe will need only two dolls (increased later to 3, 4, or 5) I have to ask, “Couldn’t the billionaires like the DeVos family get along with one or two fewer yachts?” In 2017 it was reported they had ten yachts, two helicopters, and four airplanes with a net worth of $5.1 billion. As Education Secretary she was busy ravaging the public schools by funneling that money into charter and religious schools.
What if we went back to the good olde days? When Eisenhower was President and everyone had a choice of a good job. Sounds great. You in Betsy? Oh and the tax rate on the wealthy? 90%
Seems fair to me.
But enough. Let’s talk Trump and call it what you will: stupidity? failing mental capacity? lack of competence?
Some of the people he appointed to do various jobs are beginning to realize that maybe they need to know something about the job they were appointed to do.
Trump, God bless him, never did and never has. His idea of doing a job is to hold a press conference or rally and say a bunch of stuff and move on. If anyone says something like – The King Has No Clothes – well, they are fired, silenced, bullied and or insulted.
But now, simple questions seem to be difficult for him to answer. Words that are common in the modern English language he seems unfamiliar with, like “strollers” he calls, “the thing you carry babies around in.”
Or simple obvious visual pictures he doesn’t understand. The most glaring example was the picture of the tattoos on a person’s four fingers. This was touted as spelling out ‘M-S-1-3”. To make the point the characters : M S 1 3 were printed on the picture over each of the digits.
It’s right there!
MS13
In an interview Trump thought and repeatedly stated that the Helvetica characters were clearly shown on the person’s fingers. He had no idea, not a clue that it was photoshopped. In fact, I’d wager he doesn’t understand that concept.
Many times when questioned he responds, “I don’t know.” Even to the simplest and most obvious softball questions. Like, “Do you believe you have to uphold the Constitution?” Answer, “I don’t know.”
It’s either “I don’t know”, “Not my job,” or “It’s someone else’s fault.”
