Our new president has an extraordinary ability to believe what he wants to believe, no matter the fact. He mocks a disabled reporter, we all see it with our own eyes, and yet he denies that he did so. He claims that his inauguration was the best attended in history, and then we look at the pictures, and see with our own eyes, not so. It is hard to know exactly how to interpret such effrontery, such a remarkable disregard of facts.
I fear that he is actually pulling the wool over his own eyes. He's certainly not pulling it over ours.
He is marooned in an absurd farcical world. He is drowning in duck soup.
Mrs. Teasdale: Your Excellency! I thought you'd left.
Cihicolini: Oh, no, I no leave.
Mrs. Teasdale: But I saw you with my own eyes!
Chicolini: Well, who you gonna believe? Me or your own eyes?
Unfortunately, what in fiction is farce becomes tragedy in real life. Nonsense, assimilated as truth in the mind of a person in power, cannot be anything but incendiary.
Not only does Trump lie, but it seems all the people working under him do also. His cabinet nominees have been deceptive in their responses to questions asked them, or they have neglected to submit completed forms. Indeed, some have lied on their forms that they have submitted. Al Franken today found that Jeff Sessions had lied when he said he was directly involved in 4 major civil rights cases in Alabama years ago. Betsy DeVos, the clueless billionaire, still has not submitted all requested information, and if only one more Republican Senator had some guts, would be denied her appointment as Secretary of Education. Right now as I write this, it is 50-50 if Sessions votes before he is sworn in as Attorney General, and, of course, Pence would be the tie breaker. So, I am hoping that some imp will fly into some Republican Senator's brain and enlighten him or her that Betsy DeVos is the very worst person to run the Dept of Education.
Posted by: MW | February 01, 2017 at 02:33 PM