Being, Like, Smart, Like Trump Says He Is

IT IS MUCH EASIER to retract or deny having spoken the spoken word than the printed word. On the one hand, Steve Bannon's book "Fire and Fury" will be highly successful, and will make him good money. On the other hand, his back stabbing of Trump has already cost him an even greater amount of money, in the form of support from wealthy conservative donors. So, he's trying to 'walk it back" as the currently popular phrase goes, or "crawfish it" as one of my hillbilly friends put it. (Evidently, crawfish walk backwards). But the mere fact that his slanderous words against Trump will be in print, ubiquitously, makes it impossible, beyond a certain point, for retraction or clarification. Bannon and Wolff did indeed accuse Trump's son of traitorous, treasonous activity in meeting with Russian operatives. No, he was not talking about Paul Manafort, he was talking about Trump junior. and, according, the book does indeed cite testimony from White House personnel asserting that Trump is unprepared and incompetent, petty, and emotional, and spends much of his time seething and watching cable news. Trump's reaction was typically juvenile and hilarious, calling Bannon....what..."sloppy Steve?"...Ah, the junior highness of it all! The presidential twitter tweets never lose their infantile appeal. The president said...I am, like, very smart. I am a stable genius. The addition of the word "like" where it has no place being typically Trumpian secondary school. Richard Wolff says that his book will bring trump down. If it does, he may be credited for putting a miserable president and a miserable nation out of their misery.