Lame Ducks Going Rogue

 AMERICAN PRESIDENTS typically, traditionally reserve their most controversial, craziest actions and words for their lame duckency at the end of their administrations, when they are going to inevitably leave soon, after their final campaign for office and term in office. This is a testament to human cowardice, deceit, and ethical shortcomings, normal human behavior, we must admit, par for the course.We save our worst behavior for times when we know or believe there will be no negative consequences for it, which, in a sense, makes sense. There will probably never be a president who does not act this way; all the previous ones have.Most outgoing presidents issue a flurry of controversial, unpopular executive orders and pardons for their criminal friends just before high noon on inauguration day. To tremble in fear at what insane behavior President trump might engage in as January 20 approaches is relevant and pertinent, for two reasons. less than two weeks after losing his election bid for reelection, his behavior had already been uniformly harmful and irrational. Also, since Trump's words and actions during his entire tenure in office was unpredictable, chaotic, irrational, and counter productive, we cannot say that we did not have fair warning. Ten days after losing th e election, when everyone in the world knew that the election results, Trump refused to accept defeat, claiming ever since election night that he was the true winner, and that the election had been stolen from him by massive fraud. This behavior is delusional, pathologically paranoid and narcissistic,  clear proof of the reality of Trump's mental illness, about which so much speculation has been given for years. Its an embarrassment to the United States, a stain on the legacy of the office of the presidency, as well as an even greater stain, one more of many, to add to Trump's presidential legacy. Congressional republicans, and millions of his supporters, by agreeing with Trump's irrational allegations, are doing harm to their own credibility as well. Already, within days of the election, Trump had begun firing high ranking officials in the Defense Department; making people wonder how many more will follow, how far Trump's angry and vindictive house cleaning will go. It could go far. Trump likes to wield power by firing people. Will he issue a barrage of insane executive orders, or fire everyone in the executive branch, or even start a conventional or nuclear war? As biden's inauguration day approached, we can only hope and pray that we will survive Donald Trump's final, insane days as president.