Donald J. Trump, president of these United States, is a clownish figure, the everyman conjured up by predatory capitalism.
After hearing the name over the decades, the only sliver of value in this presidency is that the world gets to examine intimately the mind of a pathological liar, a petty little tyrant, a narcissistic child for whom appearance is much more important than substance.
What is astounding is that he has been able to fandango his way into making millions dealing with very shady people all over the world to finance his obscene extravagances, to invest in his stunning, swashbuckling, orange ego. He gets large sums of money sloshing around in business schemes, skims off a tolerable sum for himself and often gives partners and employees the shaft.
What is astounding here is that he got we the people to elect him president of a government that presides lustfully over all the affairs of the world.
Secretly the ruling class loves Donald. They keep him propped up and unassailable. What they get in return for their troubles is a thug who is ever ready to use his fists when others don’t do as they are told. The ruling class has a special fondness for lackeys who like to play the tough guy. It solidifies their control of all the world’s resources. It makes the rabble more jittery, more compliant.
Donald cares nothing about the 90 percent. His gilded little heart belongs to those who would make him Sun King. All the rest are losers.
Melania is Donald’s dark self with her shying away from the camera in her $50,000 coat and her vulnerable, enigmatic, million-dollar, runway smile.
Jared is Donald’s dark self sitting atop an inherited real estate enterprise that often feeds on the misery of the poor, on litigation and evictions. He is the son after Donald’s own heart — ruthless and contemptuous of the poor.
Ivanka is Donald’s glittering self. She never had a chance to dream her own dreams. She has become Donald’s dream for her, a “brand name’ sitting atop a multimillion dollar enterprise. So glamorous? So completely phony.
This is what we have become, America.
Ralph J. Dolan
Haydenville