An Endearing Bit of Trump

YOU GOTTA GIVE credit where credit is due, and I do, or at least try to. We tend to issue blanket condemnations of everything our adversaries do. I know I do. But also I try something different,I try to find diamonds in the dung heap, so to speak. I look for endearing traits or even momentary acts by those I hold in the lowest regard, like, say, Prsident Trump. And when he invited the newly elected mayor elect to the White House, then treated him with warmth, humor, and civility upon his arrival and during the entire visit, I was pleased. For me to be pleased with anythig Trump does is so miraculous that I wanted to hold on to the moment for a minute, as we say. The new mayor is a very pleasant, engaging, intelligent man, warm and friendly. That seemed to influence Turp, to soothe his savage spirit, so to speak, and to actually present himself as a fully functioning human being, rather thn the usual incoherently babbling lie and insult spewing ogre, if you know what I mean, and, frankly, you do. Oneof those brazen but good looing female reporters asked the mayor elect if he truly, in his heart of hearts, considers our president to be a fascist. Not necessarily a protocol savvy question, but, hey, you have to admit, a somewhat relevant one, and not unfair. And just like we'll never know what Christ would have said to Pilate, nor shall we ever know how the mayor to be would have responded. Fortunately, we can make a pretty well educated guess as to what it would have been from the mayor elect, if not Christ. But Trump saved the awkward situation, by slapping his new buddy on the arm, and, like a true teammate, telling him, "Just say 'yes'. It'll be esier that way." Without a doubt, oeof the best situational improv ad lib one liners I have ever heard in my life. Worthy of George Carlin,Jack Benny, any of the great ones. It cracked me utterly up when I heard it live, and I still laugh when I think about it. I probably always will. Good one, Mr.Trump, and I mean that. My question is: where has that Donald Trump been all these years and decades?Where the warmth, the charm, the self deprecating sense of humor? I heard our president say that, I warmed up to him,if only for a brief moment. I'd pay to hear Trump say or do something equally warm and endearing on a daily basis. Something truly human. Trump is not, in my estimation, a paricularly good public speaker. True, he knows how to rev up a crowd, as long as the crowd is so uniformaly made up of people who adore him almost like a Christian adores Jesus. The people in front of whom Trump spews his rambling gibberish come pre prepared to rev themselves up to a fever pitch. His rambling, dissembling incoherent semi sentences andphrases his admirers loverlook, not caring so much what he is fumbling over, trying and failing to say, but rather empathizing with his anger, hatred, and self imposed sense of victimhood. Trump's MAGA movement is suffused with a pervasive sense of victimhood, a feeling of being threatened, traditional white Christian America under attack from within and without, assaulted by a steady storm of liberal DEI domestically, and encroaching multi cultural competition from without. This makes the MAGA movement mean, nasty, and aggressive, and dangerous. The best response might be to treat it like a tornado; avoid it until it runs out of energy. Meanwhile, any further sign of true humanity from Trump I'll regard as a rare gift, and keep looking for diamonds among the dung.