“Obama should resign in disgrace!”
Candidate Trump’s tweet popped (probably with more exclamation points) onto computer and then television screens within hours of the Pulse Nightclub shooting in Orlando, a message so witless, so senselessly inflammatory, so logically vapid and emotionally vacant that it’s difficult to believe no one is demanding he now live up to his own standard.
Which is it, Mr. President? Were you absolutely wrong to ever throw such an infantile, churlish, needlessly vindictive, off-base online tantrum? Does your colossal hypocrisy tower so high over your perception of reality that you think you never sent it, or that it isn’t hypocritical for you to demand the resignation of a President who enjoyed wide-spread respect (and actually deserved it) and clearly bore zero responsibility for the tragedy when all you can do after an all-too-similar event is spout sophomoric half-hearted drivel about an “idea” that is obviously detrimental and unfeasible?
Come on, mainstream media, you have some catching up to do! There’s an undeniable, monumental catch-22 for the babbling buffoon-in-chief screaming at you in full throat. Yes, 45’s hypocrisy is practically legendary already, but this is just too much to overlook, even given how obvious it is.
On the other hand, the daily parade of sub-adolescent bilge from this White House is so crowded, so rapid-fire, so insipid as to be not beyond but beneath belief. And true, an argument also should be made in the name of keeping the national discussion on as high, thoughtful and constructive a level as possible.
The befuddlement at the top also is obvious as the flip-flopper-in-chief attempts to placate his NRA pals while pretending to support change. It has to be difficult to have an army of sycophants who double as high-priced benefactors.
The ugly irony for 45 is that he will be the one to leave in disgrace, sooner or later, whether by resignation or removal by Congress. He exhibits such faint cognitive ability above grade-school level that he likely would never see the irony or his towering hypocrisy. He may not even recall the simple addages that most of us learned early and live by as adults. Glass houses, throwing stones and all that.
Glass towers, Mr. Trump.