Anchor Struck

I can’t resist saying this: despite his bulbous ass, there is no bottom to Trump. I would not fat shame any other human, but Aging Orange richly deserves this. His mammoth harangue to Congress, which he could have used to start healing an ailing nation, was just warmed-over grievances with some cheap emotional stunts like giving an honorary Secret Service badge to a kid who beat brain cancer. Small matter that Trump has tried to cut funding to cancer research.

My biggest takeaway from his speech, however, was how incredibly petty he is. Perfectly petty. Turns out that the elephant is an apt symbol for the GOP. They actually do have good memories. Donny John proved that by airing out one perceived injustice after another, then vowing revenge of Biblical proportions.

The massive cuts that he and Elon Musk are so joyfully executing are starting to create some backlash. Yesterday in Santa Rosa CA, where Jude and I used to live, veterans demonstrated against VA cuts outside a VA clinic. Trump and Musk want to eliminate 80,000 of the 400,000 jobs in the agency. Given the years it took me to qualify for disability for my PTSD, it galls me to think that such a massive move would slow down that snail’s pace even more. Without Jude’s determination, I would have stopped trying.

And Trump keeps laying it on. Today he said that if Canada responds to his lumber tariffs in kind, all the U.S. would need to do is harvest the national parks. I hope that Americans realize that all his horseshit is mostly a smokescreen for the massive tax cuts he wants to give his friends. Indeed, they very well might see through this ruse. His approval rating has already dipped below his disapproval rating.

CNN’s chief data analyst Harry Enten says Trump’s overall net approval and on the economy are “historically awful . . . weak, weak, weak going into a 1st address to Congress. He has the 2nd worst overall approval (+1) on record. Beating only himself (2017). His net approval on the economy (-4) is the worst.”