Waiting For Trump To Speak

AS THE MUCH ANTICIPATED moment for Der Fuhrer, Herr Trump, to blather to the nation approached, his sycophants pretended to await in enraptured eager anticipation for words of patriotic inspiration, while in fact secretly, nervously hoping and praying that their iconic idiot wouldn't do anything to embarass them, or himself, or the Republican semi-fascist party of America. After all, he might pull a Joe Biden, and lapse into dementia ridden incoherence, or stammer and mutter purely bland cliches and patriotic,shining city on the hilltop tripe, Ronald Reagan style, or, heaven and disposables forbid, flll his diapers with shit and wretch at his own stench. In our era of Artificial Intelligence and organic idiocy, all possibilities remained on the table.I recall after a particularly senility inundated Ronald Reagen speech, my mother remarked that she was embarrassed for our president,The Gipper.I had that same sense of foreboding as the clock ticked towards Donnie's screeching, self serving screed. I just knew, and most Americans probably knew, that Don the Con would have little or nothing to say about the actual state of the nation, the various situations and conditions it is in, wars, inflation, and all. Nothing to say about our glorious future in which America's best days still lay ahead and not behind, but that he would only try to indulge in self glorification, about how he has already made America great again, and how he intends to go about his usual businees of making it greater still, barely more than one year into his second and final, lord willing, term in office. Would he have the decency and decorum to mention that during the recent past few days one influential Republican Senator had died, and another lay in a comotose state, near death, his political cereer over? You have to believe that if nothing else, he would have the decency to wish them a speedy and full recovery, aside from the evident fact that its much too late for that. As one might suspect, I know a lot of anti-Trump anti-MAGA Americans; they comprise most of my circle of friends. To a person they intend to boycott the speech, preferring some other banal television diversion. They insist that they can get more out of reruns of "The Kardashians" or "The Nature Channel" than from anything that our moronic head of state could possibly utter and offer. And, to a certain extent, I agree, I can see their point. My point is this: H.L. Mencken's admonition of a hundred years ago has come to pass. Under the currrent system, he asserted, the day will come when a complete idiot will be elevated to the American presidency. That day has come. H.L. Mencken, our modern American Nostradamus. Since he said this in the middle of the Harding or Coolidge administration, we must be careful about giving Mencken too much credit for his predictive prowess. It is much easier to forcast the political rise of an idiot when a political idiot has already risen. What I notice in all my perspicacity is that all of our modern presidential idiots arise from the conservative end of the political spectrum, from within the Republican party, the party of Lincoln, who by now has doubtless turned over in his grave more often than the Earth has rotated on its axis. Yet another reason for watching Trump's speeches is Machiavellian: know thy enemy. Donald Trump is, it is to be hoped, the last of a dying breed, conservative Republican morons who seek and rise to the presidency. With luck,Trump's speech will be the last ever given by an American moron in the White House, and we can all get back to the Kardashians. Tragically, you can't count on it.