Trump, Spewing Trash

OF ALL THE RIDICULOUS, reprehensible, laughable things our president has said and done, among the most reprehensible is his constant vilification of the news media. Trump has also repeatedly and incessantly criticized the court system, the intelligence gathering community, and law enforcement and investigative agencies like the FBI. This does good for American society, and much harm, by encouraging doubt and mistrust for America's most important institutions. The strategy is remindful of a petty dictator, trying to seize power. Despite the constant clamor to the contrary being prevaricated by America's right wing, the American news media tends to report the truth, fairly accurately, and for a liar like Trump to be reported accurately in the media is to him the worst possible situation. The mainstream America news media is corporate, with a corporate point view, which is basically conservative. Pathological liars do not like to have their most outrageous, blatant lies refuted, which is what the American news media tends to do, tends to hold elected officials accountable, much to its credit. Trump's hatred laced lies are becoming more outrageous, and o more frequent, raising questions about his mental state. When his absurd suggestion that the United States purchase Greenland from Denmark was called "absurd" by the Danish prime minister, who happens to be a woman, Trump called her"nasty" and canceled a trip to Denmark for good measure. The president has called dozens of women "nasty", ranging from Hilary Clinton to Elizabeth Warren, among many others. He never calls men nasty. You can scarcely conceive of the ludicrous irony of Trump, perhaps the nastiest person on the planet, feigning offense because a strong intelligent woman called one of his absurd ideas "absurd" A few days ago he told the howling mob at one of his bizarre campaign rallies that unless you want your 401K to vanish, you must vote for him, whether you love him or hate him. The rhetoric is getting worse, more vicious, more dishonest, more delusional and nasty. The big bully Trump tuns out to be a delicate, easily offended snowflake, not some tough guy, after all. The overweening question of exactly how his supporters can not only put up with all this, but can either completely ignore it, or accept, or, most frighteningly of all, approve of it and admire it, remains largely unanswered, although it appears to be a combination of moral compromise and denial. How can anybody possible respect, or pretend to respect, somebody who acts like Donald Trump?