He’s slowing down. He can’t keep up with anything, even something as simple as sleep. He’s 80. Is he really, truly realizing that what he thought was reality is not his reality? He doesn’t walk well anymore. He looks old and feeble. But he’s the president, and everyone must still bow to him, no matter what he looks like. With respect for Raw Story:
President Donald Trump seems to be shrinking himself down, according to a conservative columnist, and his seeming capitulation could diminish him even further. The president signed an agreement to get out of his war in Iran. “Deferring gratification can be virtuous, but now is the time for an autopsy of Donald Trump’s presidency,” Will wrote. “The nation has experienced more than a few failing presidencies, but this flailing presidency is as uniquely unsightly as it is terminal. Trump’s plummet will intensify what is causing it, his self-absorption and self-indulgence.”and just days after turning 80, and fellow octogenarian George Will published a column for the Washington Post outlining how all of Trump’s flaws contributed to his disastrous military debacle.
Okay, the Iran War debacle was not all Trump’s fault. We need to remember that Hegseth and Israel were also in on it. No, not a Trump fan, but fair is fair. Now, the impetus to go to it that fast is hard to determine. It could have been any one of the three. The problem was having no plan, no thinking, just “Oh, boy, we can throw bombs!” But what were we going to do after that? And who in the hell forgot about the Strait of Hormuz? Yes, preaching to the choir, but damn that was dumb!
Will didn’t necessarily oppose war with Iran, but he said the operation “became a casualty of presidential frivolousness” and described the terms of Trump’s memorandum of understanding to end the conflict as a bribe to Iran and a betrayal of Israel. “If Trump believes that Israel, which was excluded from negotiation of the MOU, and which exists to ‘never again’ depend on others for its security, will allow limits on its measures against Hezbollah, his credulousness is unlimited,” Will wrote. “Trump, who said he would make Americans ‘tired of winning,’ must, by law, submit a final Iran agreement for congressional review.”
Oh, my, that’s going to be trouble…unless Trump just doesn’t do it. He doesn’t like any laws except his own, so that’s going to be tricky. He probably can’t make Hegseth do it. He certainly can’t make Israel do it. No, it’s up to him, and his mind is going. Pretty much all of America didn’t want us to be in this war in the first place. He’s not going to find much support from the people of America. Perhaps some of the die-hard MAGAts, but otherwise no. And remember all that was going on with ICE/CBP at the same time! Trump has not endeared himself to the country, especially after the things he said.
“To him, however, the law is a cobweb; to his many congressional poodles, it is an invitation to evasion,” he added. “Perhaps, though, they have reached the limits of their canine loyalty.” Will faulted the president for obsessing over his 2020 election loss, which he said had “produced a congressional train wreck” and undermined national security in an effort to change election laws, but he pointed to signs that Trump’s grip on GOP lawmakers might be loosening. “The neutering of Trump might continue with the Senate not confirming Todd Blanche as attorney general,” he wrote.
Things are going to get interesting with Congress, particularly the Senate, of course. Wouldn’t it be lovely to have the GOP finally stand up and push back? Trump is a millstone around their necks. How big is it, and are they willing to drown? Are they not tired of the BS yet? Are they still refusing to see his decline? So many questions with no answers. Who knows?
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