Seems like the only one
still standing by him is David Duke. They deserve each other.
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I hate to say this, but I’m starting to feel sorry for Donald
Trump. He’s only been in office for half a year, and already he’s running out
of Americans to attack.
Of course, he came into office already having notched his AK-47
Twitter rifle with hundreds of hits on the American citizenry — including
“nasty women,” Mexican Americans, and Muslim Americans.
Since then, he’s repeatedly used the presidential bully pulpit
for mass-bullying assaults on every reporter who refuses to be a Sean
Hannity-style suck-up to The Donald.
The trigger-happy tweeter-in-chief also relishes gunning down
his own political kin.
He called for
Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell to commit political hara-kiri for
failing to pass his abominable Trumpcare bill, which was meaner than mean.
And
he publicly shoots down his own top appointees, from Attorney General Jeff
Sessions to his short-lived mouthpiece Anthony Scaramucci.
Even White House chief Strategist Stephen Bannon has taken a hit
and been sent packing.
Then there was “The Great Donald Debacle” — his bumbling,
shameful response to the racist, anti-Semitic rampage in Charlottesville by a
menagerie of neo-Nazis, KKK thugs, and swastika-clad white supremacists.
Trump’s empathy with these far-right extremists was so appalling
that even his multimillionaire allies in Fortune 500 corporations gagged. Led
by Merck CEO Kenneth Frazier, Trump’s two big corporate advisory panels
abolished themselves in protest.
The petulant president, clueless as usual about political
symbolism, tweeted an angry potshot at Frazier — who happened to be one of only
two African Americans on Trump’s 47-member corporate committees.
But our foam-at-the-mouth president still has one loyal friend
by his side: Ku Klux Klan veteran David Duke. Perfect — they deserve each
other.
OtherWords columnist Jim
Hightower is a radio commentator, writer, and public speaker. He’s also the
editor of the populist newsletter, The Hightower Lowdown. Distributed
by OtherWords.org.