Trumpishly deluded on Twitter?

© 2016 Peter Free

 

28 November 2016

 

 

First impressions matter, don't you think?

 

Watching the United States collapse into unalloyed buffoonery may eventually prove to be amusing.

 

President-elect Trump, never one for facts, recently tweeted that:

 

 

In addition to winning the Electoral College in a landslide, I won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally.

 

© 2016 Andrew Restuccia, Trump's baseless assertions of voter fraud called 'stunning', Politico (27 November 2016)

 

 

The President-elect miraculously knows this because he is omniscient.

 

 

The moral? — Our new president is, it seems, doing his best to simulate mental unbalance in high office

 

Perhaps President-elect Trump's strategy aims to keep everyone guessing and therefore easier to manipulate — for whatever purposes the President-elect deems useful.

 

Whether Trump will do worse (in the United States' highest office) than his supposedly "non-idiot" predecessors remains to be seen.

 

Even having to pose this question says nothing optimistic about our culture, or the wildly contesting ignoramuses who substantially comprise it.

 

In short, the American ship of state is now commanded by an apparently Twitter-prone "delusional" — who is well accompanied by strident chicken babble emitting from many millions of demented and disagreeable American sheep.

 

This is going to be interesting. And probably even sadder than what went before.

 

Though I wish our new Commander in Chief well, I have my doubts that slinging wild untruths does anyone much good. Perhaps a more thoughtfully evaluated presidential strategy or style would be helpful.