24 Hours in the Life of President Pennywise

      Trump's public appearances over the last two days is like watching Stephen King's Pemnywise slip into dementia in real time. He's just a pathetic clown at this point. Anyone with one firing neuron can see that. Trump famously called his microscopic attention span "weaving" but most normal people don't seamlessly "weave" from one subject to an unrelated subject and to do so for over an hour at a time. And the least the American people deserve is a leader who can stay on one subject for more than a few seconds before careening into something else like a drunk driver on a crowded road.

     But maybe we do deserve this asshole. After all, 77,000,000+ morons voted for him, thereby making his theft of the 2024 election more plausible. Donald Trump is the very delineation of the old phrase, "Be careful what you wish for because..."

     Let's start with the Small Business summit.

     Small Business Week is a barely-covered event but that nonetheless shows the government's support for the small businesses that are the backbone of the American economy. It started in 1963 during the Kennedy administration and it offers the most prominent small business leaders to meet with the president to talk about issues that mean the most the most to them such as tax incentives and so forth.

      Yesterday was the Small Business Summit. Trump showed up nearly an hour late. The story was that there was a shooting at the Capitol yesterday in which a gunman shot at Secret Service agents and was himself shot before being taken into custody. So Trump limbers into the East Room where 130 small business leaders were seated awaiting his pearls of wisdom. Instead, they got the usual grievance session.

     He told them he won in 2020. He bragged that he passed the MoCA, claiming it's an intelligence test when it's actually to test for dementia. He said he doubted anyone in te room would've passed it. He claimed we were winning the Iran war. He droned on for 67 minutes while hardly addressing America's small businesses (except for when he said tariffs were going to get higher, despite the Supreme Court saying he couldn't do that).

     Then Kelly Loeffler, failed Senator and a woman worth hundreds of millions of dollars and is, laughably, the head of the SBA, stood up and began verbally fellating Trump. Unfortunately for her, Trump probably didn't hear a word of what she said because Trump was swaying and falling asleep on his feet.

     The MSM, true to form, fell down on the job. The headlines prove it. PBS: "Trump participates in small business summit at White House." Washington Examiner: "Trump attends small business summit at White House." News Nation Now: "Trump touts economic agenda at White House small business summit." Deseret: "Trump honors Utah company, others at Small Business Summit."

     You get the idea. He didnlt do any of those things. He barely paid small business any lip service. And in none of these articles was there even the slightest mention of Trump weaving from one subject to another. In other words, more sane-washing.

 

     Then there was yesterday's debacle in the Oval Office.

     Seemingly as a thumb in the eye to everyone whose skin crawls at the sight of Trump getting within arm's reach of children, Trump surrounded himself with pre-teen kids during a ceremony highlighting the Presidential Physical Fitness Test, something also created during the Kennedy years.

      Donald Trump cogently and coherently talking about physical fitness would be like Jeffrey Epstein preaching the virtues of teen abstinence. While a girl yawned behind him, Trump vented his grievances, yet again, over losing the 2020 election, claiming he won, the unrest in the Congo, Iranian women getting shot in the head and transgender mutilization.

     In short, things you wouldn't, couldn't and shouldn't typically discuss with kids.

     Outside on the White House lawn, Trump joined the children at a makeshift putting green, grabbed a club and tried and failed, several times to sink a putt.

     Please, someone stop the world, make it stop spinning. I want to get off.