If Americans let Donald Trump regain the presidential paradise he lost when President Joe Biden roundly defeated him in 2020, they must all be a bunch of sadomasochists who do not know what is good for them.
If they tolerate him even as a presidential candidate in the 2024 presidential election, the message of John McCain, his fellow Republican Party politician, who requested that he should not be invited to his funeral, would have been lost on them.
Apart from its pantomime of absurdities, of a rambling, goofy and racially divisive government, the expired presidency of Trump was a horror accentuated by crass carelessness that resulted in the death of more than one million Americans to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Of the 98.1 million Americans afflicted by the COVID-19 pandemic, more than 1.09 million died. President Trump’s cavalier attitude to the pandemic may have been significantly responsible for the more than 634,522,052 incidents and 6,599,1000 deaths globally.
Trump consistently defied the scientific counsel of Dr Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and Chief Medical Advisor to the President. He continuously breached simple, non-pharmaceutical anti-COVID protocols of wearing nose masks, washing hands and maintaining social distancing.
Trump made it an article of faith, no, a fetish, of gathering large crowds of people together in the grounds of the White House without providing pre-cautionary anti-COVID protocols. It seemed as if he wanted to die and take others to Hades with himself.
As a sitting president, Trump irresponsibly drove round Walter Reed Medical Centre, where he had been admitted for COVID-19 infection, to acknowledge the cheers of equally irresponsible supporters who defied the pandemic that was raging throughout the world at that time.
Trump’s Health and Human Services Secretary, Alex Axar, regretted he couldn’t get Trump to take the COVID vaccine as a sitting president. The act would have motivated many Americans, a lot of who lost their lives to the pandemic, to take the vaccine.
Trump made a public show of pooh-poohing the vaccine, until (no one could really tell why he changed his mind and) he took the first shot, out of the sight of TV cameras, in January 2021 after he had lost his reelection bid. He got his second (booster) shot as an ex-President.
His wife, Melanie, a wise woman, took the vaccine as First Lady, maybe as a subtle way of telling Americans, who were looking up to their psychologically unstable President as an exemplar, not to follow a leader who is probably suicidal.
Funny, when Fox News TV host Sean Hannity asked ex-President Trump, “Do you encourage people to take (the vaccine)?”, he replied, “I encourage them to take it. I do.” Hannity should have asked him if he thought he might have been responsible for the death of millions due to his wanton negligence.
Under the auspices of the deceitful ‘making America great again’ mantra, Trump’s administration encouraged a legion of false nationalist, decidedly racial, neo-fascist groups, that included the QAnon, The Proud Boys, and Ku Klux Klan, with very extremist views.
These are probably the relics of the short-lived far-right Dixiecrats, or States’ Rights Democratic Party that broke away from America’s Democratic Party in 1948, to maintain states’ rights and racial segregation.
They revived the public use of the Confederate Flag now adopted by the Ku Klux Klan.
You may have also seen video footage of the assault on America’s Congress building on January 6, 2021; an attempt to violently prevent the ratification of President-elect Joe Biden’s election and hold the American state hostage to the whims of insurgents inspired by a foolish quest to extend the tenure of Trump who had lost the presidential election.
Interestingly, American rap musician, Kanye West, known nowadays simply as Ye, has invited Trump to be his running mate in the 2024 presidential election. But Trump already declared he was running for reelection by filing his intention at the Federal Election Commission.
Ye revealed that Trump didn’t think he would win, though. Well, not a few other observers in America and other parts of the world think that Ye is merely doing his best to grab the limelight and return the shine to his falling after-divorce star.
Ye, who is sensitive for being African-American, invited alt-right ideologue Milo Yiannapolous to assist with his presidential campaign. By the way, the alt-right is a right-wing movement that rejects mainstream American politics and uses social media to express opposition to the equality of race, religion and gender.
Ye got yanked off Twitter for dropping anti-Semitic content and using pornography and mind games tactics to bully and manipulate those who worked for him in the past. His behaviour caused some of his sponsors, like sportswear maker Adidas, to drop his endorsement like hot potatoes.
If characters like Ye are natives of the orbit of Trump, it’s a sorry company to belong to. And considering that the ancestors of Trump came from the land of the world’s most insecure racist and fascist, Adolf Hitler, ‘awarding’ him another term as America’s President will reverse the gains of the #BlackLivesMatter lobby.
It is apt that America’s Attorney General, Merrick Garland, has appointed Jack Smith as special prosecutor to conduct criminal investigations against Trump who took official records and documents from the White House to his Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida, and instigated a military-grade assault on the US Congress on January 6, 2021.
One can only hope that Smith will find enough grounds to nail Trump and thus set him off the trail of emerging as the presidential candidate of the Grand Old Party, otherwise known as the Republican Party.
Smith has worked as Assistant District Attorney in New York and as Chief Prosecutor for the Special Court of the International Criminal Court at The Hague, in The Netherlands. He worked on the court’s investigations and adjudications group for war crimes in Kosovo, which was once a part of strongman Joseph “Broz” Tito’s Yugoslavia.
As you can see, Smith is more than experienced to bite into Trump’s wilful and renegade intransigence against the American state, people and constitution. There’s is a fair chance that Trump will not escape the strong legal pincers of Smith and his team, veterans of America’s Department of Justice.
Evident that Trump cannot be trusted with the security of the citizens of America is in the allegation that a Russian oil oligarch, Andrey Muraviev, illegally funded donations to Trump’s presidential campaign, through a political action committee, in 2016.
There were affirmative claims that Muraview and his compatriots, Lev Parnas and Igor Furman, friends of Trump’s lawyer and former Mayor of New York City, Rudi Giuliani, used part of monies donated to Trump’s presidential campaign to obtain licenses for retail cannabis and marijuana businesses.
A former President, in the loop of (low-grade) hallucinatory drugs, round-tripping and money laundering, is probably not the best for reelection. Even if there is no outright proof of Trump’s overt relationship with international drug rings, it must be observed that there is usually no smoke without a fire.
If Trump is reelected President, it probably means that America’s democracy is wayward and kooky.
