Toddling Donny left the White House with his dishonorable tail between his legs

21 January 2021

Putting former President Trump into perspective

Donald Trump was too inept and too conceited to know how to deal with the Deep State that tried to do him in from Day One of his presidency.

It was this group that he could have poked in the eye at the end of his term and secured an admirable place in history, as well. He could have pardoned Julian Assange, Edward Snowden and, presumably, Chelsea Manning and Reality Winner.

He did not.

That's because Trump is, and always has been, a brazen coward.

When he could not bluster his way to respect — for instance by ad nauseum spouting that the 2020 election had been stolen from him — he "tantrumed" the ball into the ground and oozed himself off the field — while pardoning a bunch of mostly fellow scumbags, during his inglorious exit.

And then, one last swindle

To ensure that he is remembered as the parasitic grifter that he has also always been — Trump reportedly ordered six months of (very costly) Secret Service protection to 14 members of his extended family — this, in addition to the routinely granted coverage for himself, Melania and son Barron.

In short — crookedly "yellow" to his orange-dyed, blubbery core

Jack Hunter wrote that:

[A]fter four years of complaining about the U.S. intelligence community targeting him, spying on his campaign, concocting conspiracy theories about his alleged collaboration with Russia, and generally doing anything it could to undermine his administration, President Donald Trump had the opportunity to strike the greatest blow possible against the deep state.

This was his opportunity to be the ass-kicking, system-bucking hero he promised so many he would be.

For all his macho posturing and braggadocio, Trump backed down. Like a weakling. It was a final, sickening victory of permanent Washington over the man who had once promised to defeat it.

Bravery is doing the right thing in the face of adversity. Donald Trump just did what he was told. What a loser.

It is sociologically concerning that . . .

. . . Trump's spine-lacking putridity could command loyalty from so many Americans for so long.

This either speaks to ordinary Americans' desperation or their lack of judgment. Perhaps both.

Fortunately, in some (possibly awry) sense, the Proud Boys woke up to how they had been fooled:

As Trump departed the White House on Wednesday, the Proud Boys, once among his staunchest supporters, have also started leaving his side.

In dozens of conversations on social media sites like Gab and Telegram, members of the group have begun calling Trump a “shill” and “extraordinarily weak,” according to messages reviewed by The New York Times.

They have also urged supporters to stop attending rallies and protests held for Trump or the Republican Party.

What good, after all, is a noodly "rebellionist" (like weak-willed Donny) to anyone?

Even the Deep State appreciates villains with genuine substance. True badass-ness among our alleged opponents, takes some of the burden off the American nomenklatura's imaginatively constructed propagandizing.

The moral? — Donald Trump exits as he entered . . .

. . . a chickenshit conman with a genius for chaos creation.

A failed wannabe leader — who headed a visibly failing nation — while simultaneously serving as an example of much of what is morally repulsive and inhumanely reprehensible about the Great American Plutocracy.

Trump's failures of character and follow-through are the nation's own, in too many respects.

With Trump's ignominious exit — as well as the entering "windbaggy" (oh-happy-day) pomposity of the Biden Administration — illusion and metaphor are having a field day. For anyone who cares to look and evaluate.

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Toddling Donny left the White House with his dishonorable tail between his legs