Lincoln Was Assassinated, You Damn Fool
So, Trump holds a press interview to announce that deaths due to the virus have almost doubled from his last prediction. His estimate went from 50,000 to 90,000.
But his real concern? That he is being treated worse than Lincoln by the press.
Hy, did y’all notice how very small he looks in pictures of this event. Heck, the Fox reporter’s feet hit the ground. Trump looks like a little boy up against two giant press people who just might treat him even worse than they did Lincoln.
I cannot think of another president who would be presumptuous enough to hold an interview at the Lincoln Memorial. Not even Nixon.
But while we’re on the subject, can we all agree that the press treats him worse than they did Nixon? I can agree with that. Why doesn’t Trump say that, especially when he pardons Roger Stone?
Why the hell were they all seated on barstools? What was wrong with chairs? Maybe a lame attempt to add stature?
1At least he’s not perched in Lincoln’s lap, although that wouldn’t be of any particular surprise to us.
2I saw that picture with the caption:
3“Second worst thing Lincoln ever saw.”
Trump is a midget compared to Lincoln and he proved it by sitting in front of that statue.
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4The male reporter isn’t set up and back on that highchair … the female is! Trump is sat up and back and his feet resting on the rung of the chair!
5Yes, Lincoln was shot … send Trump to a stage play and see what happens! We could only hope!
Reverse Christ on a cross syndrome. While the end timer Dominionists lay all their sins on one dead guy on a cross, the Toddler-in-Thief is mounting the Lincoln Monument to scream “I am not responsible.”
6I have this vision of Lincoln standing up and pissing on DJT’s head. It’s what we all would like to do symbolically or not.
7The press treats him better than it treated almost any previous President, because no previous President was a serial rapist, a pathological liar, a war profiteer, overrode security protocols to bring his unqualified children into the highest councils of government, fired anyone in government who tries to responsibly do their job, shamelessly sought emoluments every day, disclosed critical intelligence to Russian representatives, was unable to comprehend the daily briefings, or sought to destroy the rule of law in general.
Daily, the established press re-renders Trump’s incoherent mishmash rants into nicely parsed ideas, and forces the chaos produced by his refusal even to attempt to do the job of President into a framework of policies and choices, as if he were in fact a President.
8Why is Trump seated so much closer to the statue of Lincoln than the reporters, and why is he sitting with his feet on the rung of the chair? Is he trying to look like a little boy? He looks like a grade-schooler called to the principal’s office. Are those unconscious tells, or s that the only way he thinks he can evade responsibility?
9I know millions have visited that sacred place and have their own memories. But I’ve stood on that floor close to where they were, reading the giant words engraved on both side walls. Giant words by a giant man.
10They knew what they were doing when they built that place. Feeling the enormity of the words with that magnificent likeness watching over you in your peripheral vision is humbling while still being comforting, knowing that one of our greatest leaders had the courage and resolve to say them for us a century and a half ago, before being killed for it.
And the acoustics are magical. You hear folks talking loudly without being intrusive, while simultaneously hearing voices murmured in reverence from a far corner.
Voices of folks of all ages, colors, religions, and you can’t help but get the feeling that they’re all just as in awe as you are, because how could they not be?
And to see that walking, talking cesspool try to legitimize his petulant bile by being in that place is beyond comprehension, knowing that the sheep who consume his every tiny misspelled vulgar tweet sincerely believe it holds the greatness that that amazing place radiates.
But that’s just me.
It is an odd odd place for an interview. No one looks comfortable. It only looks like he is sitting most of the way back because his rear end is so big. And if he sat forward like he does in the low gold colored chair in the White House, the chair would tip over. It still looks like he’s sitting on the toilet. I hope that Lincoln haunts him every night from his bedroom.
11Either he doesn’t know about the Jefferson Memorial, or he isn’t sure who Jefferson was.
Luckily.
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