Trump, Ordering Illegality, Speaking Inanely

DONALD TRUMP'S HONEYMOON with the far right extremist MAGA movement may endure forever, but with the saner segment of American society, never existed. It lacks passion. It also lacks legality. Legal scholars are in nearly unamimous agreement that almost all of his executive orders are illegal, and the American Bar Association issued a statement making that clear. The prevaricating president seems intent to govern by decree, notwithstanding his cult-like hold on a Congress comprised of a slim but solid majority of sycophantic adoring MAGA puppets, who seem fearful of any retribution from their king for any sign of disloyalty on their part. Like the lap dogs that they are, the very thought of the master withholding approbation is...unthinkable. Might we expect the convicted felon to soon issue an executive order to remove two million people from Gaza, relocate them to Jordan and Egypt, and then to begin the process of clearing the rubble from Gaza, and rebuild it in the image of Trump Tower? The only fly in the ointment, other than the suggested project's lunacy and illegality, is that it is estimated that it will take twenty one years to clear away all the rubble left from Israel's recent excessive campaign of destruction. Trump might have to wait until he is nearly one hundred years old before he can ride down a golden escalator on the shore of the Mediterranean. "The Apprentice", a movie starring Sebastian Stan, begins by detailing Trump's attempt, as a twenty seven year old stripling seeking to assert his own financial power while still beholdn to his father, insisting that the mayor of New York give property tax breaks for the project. The mayor refuses, and the fledgling real estate developer threatens retribution in the form of lawsauits. Roy Cohn is in the room. Never admit mistakes, always be on the offensive, repeat large lies early and often. Trump learned much from Cohn, and has never changed. Now, the chief executive usurper says he'll have to "take a look" at the federal judges, many of them appointed by himself in his first administration, who had the audacity to put a temporary hold on his illegal executive orders, pending further litigation. The problem, a matter of mere inconvenience for Trump, is that when Congress passes legislation establishing a government agency, only Congress has the power to dismantle it. According to the American Bar Association, Trump, with his ominous hints of defiance of judicial authority, has already created a constitutionl crises. Can there by any doubt that he'll create more? Our consolation is the entertainment value that the renewed clown show has resumed, with a flurry of inane remarks and outright lies. After imposing a tariff on imported aluminun and steel, Trump assured us that the tariff applies to all countries, but does not apply to the United States. In other words, all alumimum and steel manufactured in the United States and "imported" into the United States shall not be subjected to tariffs. We breathe a collective sigh of relief. We're back to where we started, with George Washington capturing airports and windmills causing cancer. We further learn that lap dog in chief, Elon Musk, has already slashed billions of dollars in useless government expenditures from the federal budget, without providing specifics. There are no specifics. Every propsed, executively ordered budget cut harms many, and help nobody. Always willing to defer justice, Trump seems to be banking on a stacked, sycophantic Supreme Court to evntually uphold his power to usurp Congressional authority, and the current Congress seems quite willing to acquiesce to authoritarian tyranny. Ultimately, as legal scholars are telling us, our only recourse will be, as it has always been, citizen oversight, at the ballot box.