COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE BY ANDREW BUNCOMBE IN THE
INDEPENDENT
"Why Donald Trump
could never tolerate someone who was more like Donald Trump than he was"
Andrew Buncombe generates more than his share of rubbish,
causing me to regard him as a hack propagandist, but this piece sets a record.
It is so bad, it literally smells.
You cannot get further away from journalism or analysis than
Buncombe does in this literal parody attack piece.
Apart from making ridiculous claims about Trump, things he
cannot possibly know, the author has missed the real lessons of these events.
First, Trump's daughter, Ivanka, who recommended this nasty
piece of work for the job, has absolutely no judgment.
She has demonstrated her lack of judgment on several
occasions - her embarrassing performance at the G-20 and her reported advocacy
of Trump's cruise missile attack in Syria a while ago in response to a clearly
phony gas attack (and some might add her choice of a husband, the regrettable
and fumbling Jared) - but I think this one is decisive.
She helped get a monster into a position where he didn't
belong. And the monster quickly proved dangerous and embarrassing on a scale
I'm not sure we've experienced before in a high-level spokesperson.
Scaramucci made it clear to everyone he was totally unfit
for a job of political communications.
This brings us to a second important point. Trump is
surprisingly quite a coward.
Scaramucci should have been fired within the hour after his
obscene performance, but he wasn't.
The job of firing this foul-mouthed lunatic waited for the
appointment of Trump's new Chief of Staff.
It reminds me of Richard Nixon. Nixon is known for having
hated to fire people and always left the dirty work to others.
His quietly ruthless, personality-free, Nazi-like Chief of
Staff, Bob Haldeman, was given the job of difficult firings.
Of course, at the time, it was surprising thing to learn
about a man like Nixon who had a reputation for toughness and even
ruthlessness.
Well, here's Trump doing exactly the same cowardly stunt.
Some toughness. Some ruthlessness.
Cowardice, just as he showed earlier by virtually collapsing
to the idiotic assaults of the corrupt Democrats and the political interference
of the CIA about Russia.
I would never have believed Trump a coward and had hoped
before his election that here might be a man who indeed was tough enough to
deal with Washington's ugly, powerful entrenched establishment, perhaps ending
the hideous Neocon Wars in the Mideast started by the smiling Obama who quietly,
loyally served that same establishment.
