Trump Treading On Thin Ice

MORE THAN ONE HUNDRED PEOPLE have already completed the necessary paperwork to run for president in 2020, celebrities, comedians, gangsters, power hungry political neophytes - it takes all kinds. Just think, we're still nearly four years away from the New Hampshire primary. Bernie Sanders, who has not yet filed but quite well might, has already visited the state. Hillary is abiding, perhaps gathering steam. She'll only be seventy four in 2020, and we now know its just a number. All one hundred are arguably more qualified than the latest edition, as reflected in Trump's plummeting popularity. Even his hard core base is becoming shaky. Trump is the least popular president since Abraham Lincoln, and that's saying something. Even Herbert Hoover enjoyed a higher approval rating. The pathological lies, shady criminal background, self proclaimed sexual predatory behavior, and inarticulate blather may be catching up to the master of firing people, and its still early, very early. We are now, according to tradition, supposed to be in the honey moons phase of the new presidency; can you even imagine how bad its going to get? The thirty six thousand five hundred employees of the FBI are loyal to James Comey, and can be expected to dig deep to discover treasonous collusion between the Trump campaign, which was desperate at the time, and the dark and shady Russians. Trump's latest tweet is a threat to Comey, something to the effect that he had better watch out, watch what he says, because, well, people who anger the Donald ha known to experience unfortunate consequences. It begins to seem less likely that Trump will finish his first term than it was that the Cubs win the World Series. However, anything's possible.