Cannibalizing The Presidency

PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS REPEATEDLY used his bully pulpit to behave like a bully. He has repeatedly, gratuitously attacked three great pillars of American democracy: the judiciary, the news media, and the electoral system. His seminal assault on the on the judiciary occurred when he explicitly questioned whether a Hispanic magistrate would render justice in a case involving a president who seems hostile to minorities, but feared that he might not be treated fairly by "one of them". Trump kills two birds with one stone; bonus points for racism, for good measure. With regard to the electoral process, Donald Trump may be the oly elected politician in American history to win an election, then claim that the election was rigged. Go figure. To lend some semblance of credibility to his typically laughable allegations, Trump assembled an ad hoc commission to "investigate", which found nothing, did nothing, and quietly dispersed into the undrained swamp of Trump whence it came. But it is for the news media that the great prevaricator reserved his most vicious, least coherent diatribe. When Trump accuses the media of disseminating "fake news", he is merely being obnoxious and dishonest. he is also looking into the mirror, and seeing himself without recognizing it. The fake news comes from the darkness of his own soul, his lies are numerous and well documented, as he looks into the abyss of himself. he can't stop talking about himself, but thinks he is talking about other people. But when he accuses the news media of being "the enemy of the people", he is doing the same thing, but now he enters deadly dangerous territory. At this point, it becomes fair and proper to suggest that the president, elected under dubious circumstances at best (meaning that is is questionable whether he was elected without foreign assistance), might consider taking a long look into the mirror, into the dismal abyss of his dark soul, take aim, and fire.