Do you know anyone (at all) — who would better off just pretending to be mute? — Well, consider the American president

© 2017 Peter Free

 

18 October 2017

 

 

Background — another "oops" moment

 

Gracefully dancing among the combat dead:

 

 

The family of a fallen U.S. Army soldier killed earlier this month in an ambush in Niger on Wednesday confirmed that President Donald Trump told the soldier’s widow that her husband “knew what he signed up for.”

 

“Yes the statement is true,” Cowanda Jones-Johnson, the mother of slain Sgt. La David Johnson, told The Associated Press on Wednesday.

 

© 2017 Cox Media Group, Family says Trump told fallen soldier's widow that husband 'knew what he signed up for', AJC.com (18 October 2017)

 

 

How do you screw up a condolence call to a military widow?

 

Given the utility of a previously composed script — as well as the President's ability to absolutely control his own schedule — leave that surprising feat to the (truly) inestimable Orange Pufferoo:

 

 

[President] Trump didn't mean to come off as a clueless oaf, but he can't help himself. His conduct in disaster areas betrays an inability to understand or feel the pain of other people.

 

Watching him blunder about, you get the idea Trump has never had to deal with problems that couldn't be solved by borrowing money, spending money or boasting and blustering.

 

His gilded life fed his egomania but gave him no insight into the strains and struggles that most people face each day — much less the devastation of losing a loved one in a military battle or a natural disaster.

 

In situations like these, Trump's graceless behavior is embarrassing. But it's perfectly in character.

 

© 2017 Steve Chapman, Trump's comment to soldier's widow shows his graceless incompetence, Chicago Tribune (18 October 2017)

 

 

The moral? — Roughly 40 percent of U.S. voters still support the President

 

Meaning that an astonishingly large group of us think that having an (arguably) anthropomorphized coprolite as Commander in Chief is morally, politically and societally defensible.

 

Fashionably leading with the American anus, so to speak.

 

We can conclude (can't we?) that we, like sadly deceased Sergeant La David Johnson, knew what we were getting into. President Trump says so. And that should be good enough, shouldn't it?