There are many renowned pieces of rhetoric delivered by American presidents. Certainly Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg address, and his first Inaugural speech, admonishing us to hew towards the better angels of our nature, are two memorable examples. Franklin Roosevelt’s “a day that will live in infamy” remarks are legendary. And for your information, the news clip that we all grew up hearing was not the entire address. Go to a site called American Rhetoric and read or listen to Roosevelt’s entire remarks before Congress the day after Pearl Harbor. You will be mesmerized as that audience was. Then, in more recent history, we have John Fitzgerald Kennedy’s “we will go to the moon by the end of the decade” speech. That was in 1962, a visionary boast and one that America achieved during her wonder years. And now, in the year 2025, we have this:
Trump won the election so he could be President during the World Cup and Olympics in the United States.
“I said man — I won’t be President and they’re gonna forget.. nobody’s gonna mention it. Then they rigged the election. Then I said I’ll run again and shove it up their ass”🤣 pic.twitter.com/fRnCB3h3DW
— ALX 🇺🇸 (@alx) May 20, 2025
This is during a meeting of the Kennedy Center Board. You remember the Kennedy Center. It was a venerated institution which extolled the arts, once upon a time, and now it’s a beer joint presided over by a vulgarian. Vanity Fair called Trump “a short-fingered vulgarian” back in the day and they nailed it. He has only proven their words right every day of his life since that epitaph was written.
“We got the Olympics and then we got through Gianni, he’s the boss, he’s a friend of mine, we got the World Cup,” he said. “I got them both and I said, ‘Man, I won’t be president. I got the Olympics and the World Cup and I won’t be president and they’re gonna forget that I got them, nobody’s gonna mention it.’”
Trump continued, “And then they rigged the election, and then I said, ‘You know what I’ll do? I’ll run again and I’ll shove it up their ass.’”
As the board members laughed and applauded, Trump went on, “And that’s what I did, and all of a sudden, and then I realized, I said, ‘You know what? I got the Olympics, I got the World Cup.’”
“So if they would’ve left us alone, and wouldn’t have cheated on the election, and wouldn’t have rigged it, I would’ve been retired right now,” he concluded. “I would’ve been happily doing something else, and instead they have me for four more years, can you believe that?”
The phantasmagorical delusions and ravings of a madman. And yes, unfortunately, we do have him in office for an interminable four years. May we prevail in 2026 and stonewall the living hell out of him his last two years. Democracy depends upon it and in all truth? That’s the only thing that will save Trump from his own worst excesses.
Yeah? He’s there until the American people wake up…IF we ever do. Just a technicality…he’s like the rest of us mortals…he isn’t guaranteed tomorrow. Four years? I doubt he’ll make it. When the viper’s head dies, the poisonous serpent dies. That’s our out. Expecting the rich, or the rich white politicians to save us doesn’t match the evidence.
The LOVE of money is the root of ALL evil. The Bible
Funny how a collection of religious documents over 1500 years and a multitude of unknown authors nailed it so long ago.
We assume cholesteral will do its job at some point. And if he is doing uppers and downers, as has been conventiional wisdom all these years, I can’t see that being a good thing as somebody pushes 80.
We’ll have to see. So far it already feels like four years and it’s been four months. That’s the horror of this to me.
he would have been in prison or marolago with an ankle bracelet or something like that.
even if we somehow took the Senate with the house and actually have a sussesful impeachment, shady would commute or/& pardon him.
The way I see it, is that as lazy and out of control as he is, there isn’t a lot that he’s getting done anyhow. If we manage to stonewall his worst excesses, with the House and Senate in Democratic control, then his ability to do damage will be truncated. It’s the best case scenario. We can’t make 2028 come any faster, unless somebody’s got a time machine.
I find it amazing that Drumpf is so proud of getting the Olympics and the World Cup to the US while he’s in office. I mean, he’s attacked so many of the countries that participate in both of those athletic events and he has literally turned the US into a country in which *other* countries have warned their citizens (including their athletes) about visiting.
Do you think that the athletes participating in either of those games will feel SAFE about competing? Under NORMAL conditions (when we’ve had SANE leaders in this country), even athletes from countries that typically faced politically-motivated restrictions (e.g., Cuba, Iran) were generally allowed to enter the US (albeit under some sensible levels of monitoring by domestic intelligence agencies) although those countries also limited their citizens’ ability to participate, basically weighing the propaganda aspect of whether letting their athletes win gold or silver (especially against an American athlete or team) outweighed the risk of defection (normally the “win” won the argument). But now? When we’ve got an administration willing to deport ITS OWN CITIZENS (not to mention deporting non-citizens who had been *promised* safety by the US government) for no legitimate reason other than blanket claims of “criminal activity” (which, you’d think, would result in said people being housed in AMERICAN jails while they await the AMERICAN judicial system for their crimes committed on American soil).
I wouldn’t find it the least bit far-fetched that Drumpf would order non-American medalists be deported just before the medal ceremony and demand their medals be stripped from them. In fact, given Drumpf’s promotion of *his* “involvement” in getting both games, I half-expect both events to more closely resemble the 1936 Olympics games than anything resembling a normal Olympics or World Cup (with large posters of Drumpf emblazoned all over the stadiums and probably on all the walls of all the dorms in the Olympic Village–though that will guarantee none of the Olympians will be engaging in any “unauthorized although we know they’re doing it” hanky-panky).
All true. Add in the risk of flying. Disasters await.