Morford: 100 days in the hole: Trump's vulgar America, so far
100 days in the hole: Trump’s vulgar America, so far
By Mark Morford on April 28, 2017 at 12:41 PM
Nothing behind the eyes. no humanity, warmth, kindness, thoughtfulness. Just black. Just bleak.
Did you survive? It would appear you have survived. Albeit, barely. Albeit sour, sickened, every day for 100 straight waking up merely to endure that first horrorstruck clench of the heart, that moment when you – and really, the entire world – snap out of your calm, liminal dreamhaze and suddenly remember, with a plaintive groan, who the president is, and just how lost, cruel and hopeless everything appears to be. And then, you resist. (http://prospect.org/article/anti-trump-movement-recover-resist-reform-0)
It’s only been 100 days, but that’s a lifetime in Trump years. If disillusion is your measure, Trump is a runaway success. If moral heartache is the yardstick, we are miles high, and screaming doom. If this had all been a reality TV-show contest to see how quickly a single human could disembowel the national spirit, poison international goodwill and bring a pox upon all our houses, Trump has indeed proven to be the biggest loser. Right now, there is, across the media spectrum, analysis, commentary, a number of outlets sort of half-heartedly attempting to take the “100 days” benchmark semi-seriously. As in, “Trump promised these 30 things in the first 100 days. How did he do?” and the like, as though he were an actual, functioning politician with actual, functioning ideas designed to improve the well-being of the nation.
He has nothing of the sort. He is just an ogre, the hell-mouth incarnate, a shockingly incompetent, weak-kneed, kindness-abhorring con man incapable of a single complex thought, a charlatan merely using the most powerful office in the land to rape the U.S. Treasury and launder mountains of cash through his own businesses. But wait, our president does “tell more untruths than any president in American history,” says Texas A&M political scientist George Edwards, editor of the scholarly journal Presidential Studies Quarterly. Does that count as an accomplishment? Everything feels broken, nothing feels healthy. Only 100 days in, and every major government agency remains brutally understaffed, and will remain so. Democracy is crying out for opioids, and getting more addicted by the day.
Another day in Trumpland
Obama is gone and with him, every iota of respect the United States once enjoyed on the national stage. No one trusts us, no one can truly rely on us for help, no one, save the world’s most brutish dictators and murderers, admires our president. There is no discernible foreign policy. We are less secure than ever. The first lady? Nonexistent. A bizarrely detached, sadly complicit (via total inaction and lack of speaking out) non-entity padding around the Trump’s New York penthouse in diamond-crusted heels that cost taxpayers millions per month to protect. Translation: you will not be seeing Melania anytime soon riding along with James Corden, discussing the value of girls’ education and joyfully belting out Missy Elliot.
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http://blog.sfgate.com/morford/2017/04/28/100-days-in-the-hole-trumps-vulgar-america-so-far/