Same Old Weirdness

Why do journalists continue to feign “surprise” at Trump’s frantic bullshit—his flip-flopping, fantasizing and falsifying? Surely, by now, all of us (including his own “Faithful”) recognize that, c’mon, he doesn’t mean ANYTHING at ALL by ANY of it—that he may say something on Monday, contradict it on Tuesday, deny it on Wednesday, and forget it on Thursday. As Tim Walz says, it’s all just “weird.”

I’m amused to note, though, that many of the Faithful seem secretly (and hypocritically) relieved by this out-of-touch-ness. Since they consider themselves “good” people, they take self-forgiving comfort in knowing that their Great Leader himself is “fake” and therefore has no real-world intention of implementing (or indeed remembering) any of these dubious positions that even they, the Faithful, find embarrassing, aberrant or downright unethical.

 As for the rest of us, those who DO know a hawk from a handsaw, well, instead of pedantically “fact-checking” stuff that everyone not brain-dead knows is twaddle, shouldn’t we just dismiss the whole melodrama as a moronic rerun of a children’s show that no thinking adult would ever watch? Saturday morning fantasy. Certainly not worthy of prime-time “analysis.” It’s just so weird.