Enjoying Good Fiction From the Wrong Source

DONALD J. TRUMP is not the world's greatest purveyor of fiction and denier of reality. But he's right up there with the very best. Certainly he competes for the "honor" with America's extreme right wing, including the conspiracy theorist crowd, and stands up well against Barnum, Bailey, Speilberg, Disney, and the3 best that fantasy and science fiction have to offer. The president's latest excursion into the realm of the unreal involves the recently passed tax reform bill for which Trump blithely claims all his wealthy friends, of which he is quick to point out he has many, are allegedly angry at him. he further claims that the new law will cost him bigly; in fact Trump stands to gain roughly one billion dollars in tax savings. If wealthy people are angry at him, it can only be because he surpasses them all in arrogance, a sense of personal superior and entitlement, and prima donna demeanor. Power, fame, and wealth corrupt, and of this ancient truth Trump is the primo example. Having been in office for nearly a year, trump now declares himself the most accomplished president in American history over the same period of time. Apparently his prep school education did not include an examination of the Roosevelt administration in the year 1933, or the Roosevelt administration in the year 1901, or, for that matter, any of the first years of any previous administration. the tax bill is his only accomplishment, if redistributing wealth to the wealthy can be called an accomplishment. Let us recall that there is no border wall, no removal from the treaty with Iran, and no repeal of Obamacare, which Trump himself promised and made his signature agenda. The nation and the world are indeed fortunate that trump hasn't done more in office, and that he has in fact done very little, other than hastening the destruction of the environment through inaction on climate change. His latest flight of fancy? That Hillary Clinton lied repeatedly to the FBI, without consequences, while his former national security advisor, Michael Flynn, lied, and paid the price. if the president were familiar with the fact of fact checking, he would know that there is not the slightest bit of evidence that Hillary Clinton ever lied to the FBU, and that the FBI has said so. More probably, he does no it, and pretends not to, which is an indication of a delusional mentality. Our only consolation is that we all enjoy good fiction. the tragedy is that we expect it to derive from good writers and movie makers, not from our national leadership.