You gotta give the man props! Most, if not all, people who are being investigated for a crime are smart enough to keep a low profile. Granted, being the leader of the free world makes it difficult. However, President Trump has turned audacity into an art form. While the logical move would be to make careful and calculated public appearances, hire the smartest, and most successful legal team money can buy, listen to legal advice from that team over any other, and to ensure any public statements are vetted by professionals, Trump’s M.O. is to take every opportunity to do exactly the opposite.
The man does know how to play the crowd. His slowly dwindling (contrary to what that news likes to report, they’re dwindling) crowds fawn over every disjointed and ill-fated utterance that spews out of his mouth. However the rest of the world is clearly onto him. People are learning that enabling a talking puppet to be President might not have been the best choice.
Trump has always been a liability to the Republican party. However, they’ve been willing to use him like a portable toilet, moving him from event to event, piling him full of the shit that up to until now had lied dormant at the bottom of the Party’s cesspool. You have ask yourself if letting this addle-minded moron represent you is the best idea when even the Party’s most loyal donor, Charles Koch, has bolted.
However, that hasn’t seemed to impact Republicans spirits yet. They even sent a letter to their members denouncing the Koch foundation. Evidently, they think they can make up the millions of dollars the Koch’s has given them over the decades with a group of poor, uneducated, misinformed, openly racist, Trump minions who think the earth is flat, Hillary is a pimp, and 9/11 was a hoax created by Obama.
While the press likes to say how high the percentage is of Trump’s support among Republicans, they fail to inform their audience of how Republicans are no longer identifying with Party affiliation and calling themselves Independents. It’s easy to say you have 90% popularity if all you’re doing is polling the 15 stock car fans drinking free beer and eating Cheetos in your living room. However, expand that to the neighbors staring at the rusting, oil encrusted, dilapidated rebel flag draped pick-up trucks on their parking and you get a significantly lower number.
I’m not saying that things will change in the next two years, in fact they might get a lot worse. But I’m heartened that people are coming to the realization that they need to bring to light the ever present evil that now occupies the White House. We have many examples throughout history where people failed to act when it was obvious that action was exactly what was needed. The last time this happened the world was almost destroyed by a failed painter. I’d sure hate to see it happen again from a failed real estate developer.