Stick With the Real Issues With Trump: a Satire
I am going to take a satirical approach to the issues with Trump that the TV news shows waste a lot of time on, rather than covering the more serious and scary issues. Their approach is entertainment versus content.
Let’s start with Trump’s golf frequency. Please Donald, play as much golf as you want. I would much rather have you take your aggressions out on golf balls than on poorer people struggling to hold on to their health care, international leaders of our treaty compacts such as NATO, the loyal Democratic opposition, your own Republican congressmen, foreign leaders, etc., etc., etc. The only thing we should ask is that he tell us his daily golf scores, so we could have some clue to figure out how he feels about things.
Since Trump does not yet live with his family during the week, it is important for Trump to get together with them in Mar-a-Lago in Florida. It reminds him how important it is to keep families together, which hopefully will lead to his softening his harsh stand on breaking up families in deportations. They also have to give him more humane ideas than his ideologues in Washington. He also stays away from those squabbling Congressmen.
Let’s let up on Trump’s tax return. That was important during the election, when we knew nothing of Trump’s Russian contacts, or his conflicts of interest. Just watching CNN, we are now up to a dozen Trump associates and fellow campaigners. We now have the actual suspects and contents, not just some account number. For his conflicts of interest, we now know that Trump is using the Presidential exception, the dodge of having his sons manage his business while they see him all the time, his connection still to the Post Office Trump Tower in D.C., and his inclusion of Ivanka and Jared with security clearances on some of the most sensitive positions. Wondering if oil oligarchs or Wall Street bankers would have undue influence in his administration is now over, since they or their puppets are cabinet members or embedded as administrators.
Update: The talks on the @taxmarch in Washington DC, shown on C-SPAN, were marvelous in highlighting the important issues that we face with the Trump Administration. They also showed the many ways that Trump’s taxes and financial interests are important to know, especially since the Congress will be considering his tax laws redo.
It is possible that without Trump’s tax returns, American and British intelligence services, international bank monitors, the Press, and whistleblowers have worked overtime to reveal more about the Trump camp’s involvements with Russia, and worldwide.
Since Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner is in charge of more portfolios than any person in history, we should also demand to see his tax returns as well.
We know that Trump stuck contract workers by not paying them after they had done the work. We know that Trump University was a scam, and that he settled that suit for $25 million. We know that he never sued the women who had filed sexual assault charges against him, although he said he was going to.
Finally, while Mrs. Obama led a healthy diet program, and George W. Bush had Arnold Schwarzenegger as exercise leader, Trump swears by Whoppers, the richest chocolate cakes, and frogs legs. Clearly, Trump needs public coverage of his golf exercise to show that exercise is important. It also shows that if you are going to eat poorly, you have to exercise it off.
