Donald Trump One Day and Then the Next

I'm going to be working for you. I'm not going to have time to go play golf.

Candidate Donald J. Trump in August 2016, comparing his work ethic with that of then President Barack Obama

Right.

This morning CNN reported The Big Orange Guy, a little over 13 months after he took office, has spent 100 days of his presidency at private golf clubs which he owns. That's nearly 25% of his current term.

Well, what should we have expected? After all, if we know anything about the current resident of the White House it is he will say something one day then do the opposite the very next without blinking an eye.

Not only that, he will ignore any and all proof of obvious lies and inconsistencies as long as he can. If he is finally cornered on any one subject he'll instantly move on to another by igniting a whole new media storm--and those poor fools at CNN, MSNBC, and others never fail to take the bait--leaving behind the previous craziness like so much flotsam in his wake               

Here is how it plays out. A little while ago he seemed all in on a bi-partisan immigration bill. Senators Dick Durbin, D-IL and Lindsey Graham, R-SC were so excited they rushed into a meeting with Mr. Trump to pitch their proposal for one. Their sit down with the chief executive was a mere 48 hours after Trump's overture to compromise. 

Silly them.

Once in the meeting the Senators ran into a buzz saw during which Trump went off and demanded to know why the United States should be expected to accept immigrants from, "shithole," (or shithouse, depending on your source) countries like Haiti and Africa. The fact Africa is a continent and not a country didn't seem to phase him. Durbin and Graham exited shocked and angry and the issue of immigration is still on the back burner of the stove known as Washington D.C.

The episode left a dismayed Graham wondering aloud about the identity of the guy he met with that day because, according to the Senator, it certainly wasn't the Don Trump he knew as a friend and yes,  played golf with.

Which leads us to the elephant in the room known as gun control. The other day Donald Trump rocked the conservative world by coming down on unrestricted gun sales harder than Obama ever did. He accused Senator John Cornyn, R-TX of being scared of the National Rifle Association. In addition he told another lawmaker her idea of linking Cornyn's weak tea bill with hers, which would essentially lessen a large part of what's left of gun control in this country, was untenable.

The President's anti gun rhetoric became so surreal he went on to propose taking away firearms owned by people suspected of mental illness until it can be determined by a court if they are stable enough to possess them.

That stunning moment led West Virginia's democratic Senator, Joe Manchin to philosophize that, much like the old adage, only Nixon could go to China, only Trump can take away the guns of crazy people without due process.

Ah, but the get together once again proved to be just one day in the life. The next morning El Donald was sitting down with NRA Executive Director, Wayne LaPierre. Afterward the President tweeted, they had a, "...good (Great) meeting..." LaPierre was also tweeting. His read, both the President and Vice-President, Mike Pence, "...don't want gun control."

Only minutes after LaPierre's tweet the United States Senate, knowing Brother Trump all too well, postponed any legislation concerning gun control until a later, unspecified, date. In other words despite the nationwide outrage, the collective horror, and all logic, congress is once again happily prepared to do nothing in the aftermath of yet another massacre of American school kids.

And why? Because, by now, they understand this President is certifiably amoral and once he stops cynically pandering to the American vox populi he'll drop his out of character pretense of giving a shit about the lives of American school children. When it happens just picture the massive sighs of relief on capitol hill--the members of both houses won't have to worry about a bunch of NRA financed wankers trying to unseat them.

Hey, it is what both he and they do.

Meanwhile, on Friday, Central Michigan University student, James Eric Davis Jr. killed his parents in his dorm room. The night before he'd been hospitalized by local police for acting erratically on campus and, "not making much sense." Reports are he used his father's gun, taken from the family car as the murder weapon.

Needless to say, the bar has opened once again.

sic vita est

3-3-18