Remember when Donald Trump said he was pulling out of the G7 meeting agreement? Apparently neither does he, which is just how his wranglers want it. The have a long-standing habit of failing to follow through on nonsense Trump says, and unless someone reminds him later, there’s rarely any follow-through on Trump’s part.
That’s probably because those closest to him realize something most of us can only speculate about: The severity of his mental decline. A new book by former reality-show contestant and White House something Omarosa Manigault-Newman is getting quoted a lot for its passage about Trump “speaking gibberish.”
The Law of Trump is that everyone who touches him comes away diminished. Even the National Enquirer is trying to downplay its Trump connections, and it’s costing the shock sheet circulation. May I suggest more Sasquatch coverage as a solution?
Opposing him doesn’t help, either, especially if you’re a conservative. The Koch brothers spent 40 years and hundreds of millions of dollars building a supposedly intellectual framework for selling expanded profits for millionaires as a political philosophy, and where are they now? One brother is dying — I don’t care enough which one to look it up — and both are demonized by Trump’s cult of personality as apostates. Another real-life example of somebody’s karma backing over their dogma.
The result of all this chaos might ultimately be good for the rest of us. Consider that, by undermining the conservative-developed ACA, which went to great lengths to keep insurance companies profitable, Trump is making Medicare for all look like a more viable option every day.