I saw a few clips of the meeting today in the Oval Office with the El Salvadorean president. The highlight, or extremely low light, was when he joked that he couldn't return the man mistakenly sent to his death camp, "How would I do it, smuggle him in?" was the gist of his response.
And of course, he was smiling as he said this, as if the illegal imprisonment of a man was some kind of laughing matter. Not to be outdone, Trump sat right beside him with that disgusting smirk that he displays when he thinks he has outsmarted everyone.
Contrast that sad performance with his tongue lashing of the Ukrainian president about a month ago when Trump was appalled that Zelensky would dare to try to educate him about the history of Russia-Ukraine relations, about how Putin has violated every ceasefire agreement, and about who started the war in the first place.
But, as is all so clear, Trump only has one yardstick for his affections and respect. If you kiss his ass. Zelensky refused, while Bukele has learned from Putin that if you praise Trump, you can get anything you want.
It would be laughable, if it wasn't so horrific.
Think about it. Bukele thumbed his nose at America and the Supreme Court of the United States, but Trump and his Nazi cow of an attorney general sat there, nodding that they were impotent to force this Central American wanna be dictator to return a prisoner America is paying him to house. That's right, the self proclaimed master negotiator can't figure out a way to broker the return of someone costing the American taxpayers money to stay in El Salvador!
I guess that whole waste, fraud and abuse only applies to programs that the billionaire co-president doesn't like.
Trump is a joke that is no longer funny. He is a danger to America, a threat to our rule of law, and, frankly, a threat to the world's economy with his "tariff is the most beautiful word in the dictionary" nonsense.
As I have said many times, I will never understand how any everyday, working class American thinks that this president cares about them, and doesn't see that everything he does is for the super rich class which is destroying democracy with their use of the historically horrendous Citizens United decision, or, in some cases, merely to stroke his own ego.
If it is still possible for him to get a boner, he must get one every time he changes course on tariffs and causes world wide markets to plunge and soar, knowing he did it! At least Melania is spared.
The truly sad part is that all the enablers, from Mitch McConnell who stole a Supreme Court seat from Obama for his party and ideology, damn the country, to Mike Johnson who pretends to be a constitutional lawyer only when it aligns with Trump's sordid vision, to all the MAGA voters who have been duped by a reality TV star into thinking he is some kind of expert businessman, will suffer in the end, as we all will, just like poor Mike Pence who defended him tooth and nail for four years only to be thrown under the bus when he wouldn't violate the Constitution for him to remain in power.
Even sadder, when their lives are in turmoil, they may still worship at his feet, being too far gone to climb out of that rabbit hole and admit their mistake. Or to admit that Trump, while not the cancer that is eating away at our collective soul, illustrates that very cancer with his every royal decree (executive order).
What is even more amazing, is that there will be Fox opinion hosts, as well as the even further right people on NewsMax, etc, who will actually defend the belief that the great almighty United States of America, can't get a prisoner sent by mistake to a far smaller, far less powerful and influential country to be returned. Not even by the Art of the Deal author!
And so the decline continues.
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