Trump, Talking State of the Union Trash

LEGEND HAS IT that during the days leading up to the State of the Union address, president Trump, his advisors, assistants, associates, and sycophants carefully inspected every phrase of the rough draft, assiduously eliminating from the text any trace of fact or good reasoning. They succeeded in this endeavor admirably, as evidenced by the President's campaign style propaganda spiel. The president succeeded in freeing himself to exude an uncontaminated assortment of pure prevarications. His remark that undocumented foreigners are a clear and present danger to the safety and security of each and every American citizen evinces images of undocumented laborers toiling at menial tasks at various Trump properties, with phony papers, a now well documented fact, without any direct harm coming to Trump or his properties. But enough of that. Had Trump not been elected, we (the United States) would now be at war with North Korea, in the president's opinion. His use of the word "opinion" sufficiently qualifies the comment to preclude the label "lie", just barely. He might have a point there, actually. Hillary Clinton was, at least in public life, quite the war monger. No American public figure, past or present, was or is more sensitive to criticism, more adversely reactive to public scrutiny, or more desperately opposed to being investigated than Donald J. Trump, a mafia con, or both. As if any American presidency can be executed secretly. Trump's claim that it is not possible to simultaneously enact beneficial legislation and conduct investigations of the president cannot be found in any known political science text(book), and arouses fear that this president has an even greater aversion for being investigated than for enacting beneficial legislation. At first glance, it seems that Trump is articulating some well known axion of economics and political science. Upon deeper reflection, you realize that he is in fact insidiously blackmailing America; stop the investigations now, or I will veto everything that comes across my desk. Very dark, barely veiled threat. One can only wonder why, and suspect the worst; massive soon to be disclosed corruption. The American economy, bleats the don, is experiencing an economic miracle, neglecting to mention that under his administration it has performed no better than under Obama. The only things which can derail it are war, politics, and endless partisan investigations. Now we know a fundamental economic truth: To investigate Trump's increasingly apparent many faceted forms of corruption and illegal activities puts the entire American economy at risk. You couldn't make this Orwellian stuff up, and most surrealistic of all is that millions of right wing evangelicals sat transfixed before their flat screens, soaking in the insanity like gospel. Donald J. Trump, magnanimous and conciliatory president of these United States, encourages all Americans to unite in creating a state of national unity, a state of being he indisputably intends to nurture, having brought us unity with a gesture and a word. A sixty second pronouncement of noble intent, effectively nullifying over seven hundred days of chaos, confusion, hatred, bigotry, and divisiveness from the born again conciliator. Three hundred and sixty four days a year of Trump engendered national division, all erased by a momentary comment given on a single day. He would be delightfully humorous, a veritable caricature of sane leadership, were he not in such evident earnest. The State of the Union address may have been the most twisted display of thought processing in words ever forced upon a republic long suffering from a lack of oratory well supported by intellectual content. Such an occasion demands nothing less than a jewel of wisdom from the penultimate American political commentator, Mark Twain, who informed us of what we, all by ourselves, sense: that diapers and politicians should be changed frequently, and for the very same reason.