Trump, Solving Problems

WITH EVIDENT PRIDE AND JOY, President Trump announced that with the rising stock market the 401Ks of American military personnel were appreciating quite well. This, despite the inconvenient fact that the American military does not offer 401Ks to service members. Oops. Faux pas. Not to worry. There is nothing at all unusual about this. Our president is an old pro at this game,in which he says something idiotic, then either denies having said it, or claims that somebody else did. The self absorbed addlepated chief executive routinely fabricates a seperate, alternative reality, for whatever demented reason, usually one in which he escapes laughable ignominy only to emerge as the heroic protagonist, in his own mind if nowhere else. It is not beyond the realm of possibility that he sincerely if mistakenly believes that he authored, sponsored, and skillfully maneuvered through Congress and signed into law a provision extending 401K benefits to all members of the military. Or that he knows he did no such thing, but likes to think he did, or prefers to pretend that he did. Sort of like one of his election fantasy things with which we are all so painfully familiar. Its anyone's guess, as always. Whatever the sordid case may be, five'll get you ten that his cult followers, no less delusional than he, duly impressed by his "achievement", imaginary or not, will tout it as undeniable proof that the Donald deserves a third term, all constitutional considerations aside, the founding document be damned. He may or may not be seriously mentally ill, but you can bet your bottom dollar that He is utterly corrupt, capable of anything, as is well known. He shines and stinks like dead mackerel by moonlight, as one founding father said of another. Our luminous president's precarious perspicacity is demonstrably not limited to merely imaginary pension programs. His expertise, we now learn, extends to geology. This reminds me of a friend of mine, who has a degree in marketing, who swore that cliamte change is a hoax, and said that he knows this becasue he is a geologist. I still haven't made that connection.I hope and assume I never shall. But, I digress...You'll recall Mr. Trump's optimistically assesing rising sea levels as nature's way of providing new opportunities for developing ocean front property. (as always, you can't make this stuff up). He now proposes that what with hundreds of active volcanoes distributed all over God's green Earth, it would be expedient to dump tons of cement straight down into their hollow cones, filling them with hardening concrete, plugging them up,thereby trapping all future lava while the molten mess has a chance to cool down, and reconsider doing damage to people and property. Don the Con's impressive resume' of problem solving includes his forthcoming cure for windmill cancer, Covid 19 treatments and cures which include drinking bleach and using ultraviolent radiation in a suppository,and his greatest prescription of all; simply letting the virus spread without medical resistance, culling the weak from the stong while the flu like symptoms run their course. If only all this were no more than a dystopian science fiction novel, and perhaps it should be, but it isn't. Bear in mind that we have nearly three more years of solutions by Trump. Einstein allegedly said that there are two things that are infinite, human stupidity and the universe, but that he wasn't sure about the universe. We know for certain that Friedrich Schiller said that against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain. True enough, and our silver lining is that this reality takes the heat off of us for our pathetic inability to do a damned thing about it ourselves.