Our mentally ill president takes charge
Jimmy Kimmel opened his show before a full houseTuesday night with scenes from Hollywood. Tourists, kids in strollers, a Disney premiere, street vendors, etc. But if you’re Donald Trump, “our mentally ill president,” a man with access to the world’s most powerful intelligence apparatus, you get your news from watching Fox News run video of a couple of burning Waymo cars on an endless loop.
“Someone sets a fire in a garbage can and twelve camera crews go running toward it,” Kimmel explained.
Seriously, I saw a clip of a photographer lying in the street to get a closeup of a fire the size of a campfire someone set in the road. He’ll get a dramatic image of flames with a cityscape in the background. That fire was this big (above).
But like the childlike aliens in Galaxy Quest (1999), President Arrested Development is convinced (and/or wants his cult to be convinced) that the entire city is in flames. Fox News is happy to feed Trump’s delusions.
Trump needs an excuse to declare martial law. He’s already illegally dispatched Marines to Los Angeles to back up the National Guard no one wants and Gov. Gavin Newsom did not request.
Trump lied about talking to Newsom beforehand about the bad job he was doing as governor, “causing a lot of death and a lot of potential death.”
If there’s anything worse than a lot of death (no one has died), it’s a lot of potential death.
But that’s better than certain death.
Trump then reprised his lunacy about how he turned on the big valve in Northern California and sent water to L.A. during the fires caused by California not sweeping the forest floor of leaves. Trump lives in a world of fiction without the science but with a lot of gratuitous cruelty. The manly man can’t stand the sight of blood, but loves him some gratuitous cruelty.
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