Donald Trump, the incumbent who refused to acknowledge his loss in the 2020 Presidential race, has distorted reality to the point his political party (Red Team) appears to be insane. Americans of all stripes watched the horror of January 6th and have been disturbed by the events of and leading up to that sick day in U.S. history.
Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel said the select committee investigating the January 6 attack on the US Capitol is a "Democrat-led persecution of ordinary citizens who engaged in legitimate political discourse."
Recall Trump insulted the appearance of his followers before enjoying the carnage they caused. Like Caligula in the Roman Coliseum he cheered them on, taking three brutal hours to tell them how much he loved them and to go home. Only a soul sucker could have sat on their hands that long while people perished. Only a soulless organization could call that violence "legitimate political discourse."
Trump spun out of control this past week, saying his VP Mike Pence could have declared him the winner and pondering pardons for January 6th insurrectionists. Several Red Team members challenged this notion. Donald cranked up his junior-high insult machine, calling Senator Lindsey Graham a RINO (not a real Red Team member).
Former VP Mike Pence finally said what many in our country have long wanted to hear.
"President Trump is wrong…I had no right to overturn the election. The presidency belongs to the American people, and the American people alone. And frankly there is almost no idea more un-American than the notion that any one person could choose the American President."
Did Pence just call his former boss un-American? That garnered another Trump RINO retort, this one a twofer. Donald called Pence:
"an automatic conveyor belt for the Old Crow Mitch McConnell"
Trump ended his message with a curse.
“Our Country is going to hell!”
The Red Team is fully behind Trump, thus it will accede to his whims, whines, curses and tantrums.
For me to make sense of all the insanity I must use a new name for former President Donald Trump. It is Pormer Fresident Tonald Drump. whiner extraordinaire.
Tonald will be Tonald. The Red Team has gone full on Drump. They are completely intertwined.
Update 2-6-22: Chaos agent Steve Bannon joined his boss, Pormer Fresident Tonald Drump, in calling Pence names. Bannon called him a chilled weenie. That's pretty small.
Update 2-7-22: Drump believes whatever he says or wants is more important than following the law. His Texas diatribe may place Tonald in legal jeopardy.
Update 2-9-22: In their rush to fluff up Tonald Drump's ego the RNC failed to follow basic procedures in approving the resolution that termed January 6th as legitimate political discourse. So incompetence was used to promote arrogance. Do they actually listen to themselves?
Update 2-12-22: Drump's cavalier treatment of classified information and blatant disregard for preserving Presidential records is his latest log in his eye. Recall how he hounded Blue Team Hillary Clinton for not complying with the law? Drump aides say he did far worse.
There are now at least four ways in which Trump is reported to have tried to destroy documents while in the White House: Ripping them up, eating them, dropping them on the floor, and flushing down the toilet.
Drump Chief of Staff Mark Meadows defended Drump, citing his diligence in preserving records. Diligent is not a word I associate with Tonald Drump, the Dilettante President.
Update 2-13-22: Truculent Tonald showed disdain for the rules he used to bludgeon Hillary, calling for her to be locked up.
Update 2-27-22: Tonald showed admiration for Russian President Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine, calling Putin a genius. Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and other members of the Red Team did likewise. Drump's Attorney General Bill Barr called him unfit for office and the GOP needs to move on without him as a Presidential contender.
Update 3-1-22: Drump administration Generals John Kelly and H.R. McMaster disagreed with the former boss on Vladimir Putin. While Tonald showered Putin with praise Kelly called the Russian President a criminal. McMaster called him a mass killer. Drump's National Security Advisor John Bolton said "in almost every case, the (Russian) sanctions were imposed with Trump complaining about it and saying we were being too hard. The fact is that he barely knew where Ukraine was. He once asked John Kelly, his second chief of staff, if Finland were a part of Russia. It's just not accurate to say that Trump's behavior somehow deterred the Russians."
Update 3-5-22: Former Drump National Security Advisor John Bolton said Vladimir Putin was waiting for Trump to be re-elected and pull the U.S. out of NATO. Conservative columnist George Will said Drump “a suppurating wound on American life”and said Tonald “looks increasingly like a stray orange hair to be flicked off the nation’s sleeve.”
Update 3-17-22: The Red Team may be trying to dislodge the detritus blocking their throat. National Review columnist Charles C.W. Cooke isn't swallowing Drump's distorted visions. Cooke wrote:
The idea of selecting “extraordinary selfish” Trump to run in 2024 “should be absurd, risible, farcical, outré” and “the preserve of the demented fringe,” Cooke wrote.
The GOP is not short of candidates who haven’t lost an election and then “disgracefully lied about it for a year” or “inspired a riot in the service of that lie.”
Update 3-29-22: In a Nixonian move the former president omitted any phone calls made during a seven hour and thirty seven minute period when the Capital insurrection was raging. Official White House records show Drump made no calls from 11:17 am to 6:54 pm. News stories around that event show Drump making numerous phone calls to members of Congress seeking their support to delay certifying a Biden win.
Update 4-7-22: Tonald Drump said he regrets not joining the march to The Capital on January 6th. Red Team Maryland Governor Hogan said, “To say it’s legitimate political discourse to attack the seat of our capital, and smash windows and attack police officers, and threaten to hang the vice-president and threaten to overthrow the election, it’s insanity.” That's Tonald!
Update 4-22-22: Drump asked if the crowd at his rally if they'd rather be dumb or a dictator, as if these items are mutually exclusive. It was a perfect, perfect rally.
Update 5-16-22: Drump told rallygoers he would write a book about the election in which he lost. His title? The Crime of the Century. That would be serial perjury from a disgraced former President.
Update 5-25-22: Georgia voters gave Tonald reflux by rejecting his revenge candidates.
Update 5-29-22: Trump called the insurrection "a hoax" at a Wyoming rally. Seven people died as a result of Trump's right wing middle-aged wilding.
