Remember the Actor’s Studio questions at the end, where the host asked, “What job would you absolutely not want to do?” I’m thinking now that if that question were put to me the answer would be, “Speaker of the House under Trump.” Because it’s a job which is rendered impossible to do as it should be done, with truth and integrity. Trump creates landmines every single day of his tenure and then Mike Johnson is supposed to come up from behind and defuse them. It can’t be done, so Johnson lies through his teeth and does a DARVO (Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender.) So does Vance. So do they all.
Q: “Do you believe it's appropriate to use American cities as training for the U.S. military calling those people in the American cities as the enemy within?”
Johnson: “I'm not going to comment on your characterization of what the President said”
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— Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) October 2, 2025
“Cherry picked from a long speech.” That’s hilarious. Dude, Trump said it or he didn’t and in this case he said it. The political rhetoric in this country has devolved to banana republic levels because Trump’s comments are indefensible. I feel sorry for parents raising young children right now. These kids are listening to drivel from our leaders that older generations were never exposed to when we were young. It simply did not happen in previous decades.
But in the ten years that Trump has been in politics our children have learned that it’s perfectly okay to openly insult and mock people who disagree with you. Civility and maturity are absent from leadership in this day and age.
Woe betide any kid who acts like Trump in the real world. They will find themselves suspended from school, fired from jobs, and socially ostracized. The tragedy of what Trump is teaching the young is that his lessons don’t work in the real world. Trump’s behavior only works for him because he’s got a political party of enablers forgiving and sanewashing his worst excesses.
Mike Johnson did tell the truth to Madeleine Dean in their now-famous encounter a few days ago in the hallways of Congress, when Dean implored Johnson to do something, after Trump’s horrific address to the assembled generals. He said, “I don’t control him.” No, he doesn’t. Neither does Susie Wiles, his chief of staff, or anybody else. That’s the problem.
Somebody needs to get Trump under control and it’s not happening. Which raises the salient question: How far out of control will Trump get? Where are we headed? Great Depression II? Martial law? Mushroom clouds? How nutty is this going to get before all is said and done?
Given the fact of his Grindr profile and his behavior associated with it, it’s hardly surprising to see his mendacity and hypocrisy continue into his official life.