Distractions
Juvenal, a Roman poet talked about giving the common people bread and circuses to keep them happy and entertained. It distracted them from the real world and the real suffering.
The Trump White House has been busy this week implementing the "bread and circuses" strategy. Last night, there was the embarrassment in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where they had to tear down a stage they had built for the overflow crowd they were anticipating, but who never showed up?
Also, there was the embarrassment at West Point, where Mr Trump almost crawled down a ramp, after he looked like the oldest guy in the nursing home attempting to drink a glass of water.
This was on top of the attack tweets, with all the name-calling, that he has been busy doing the whole week.
But, it was all a distraction to try to get people to think about and talk about something besides the revelations in John Bolton's book. John Bolton, the hawk of all conservative hawks finally broke the truth on Donald Trump. It painted a portrait of a dangerous and incompetent leader who was willing to sell out the country for his own personal benefit. It was a devastating expose. The White House had to do something to turn the attention elsewhere.
Mr Bolton called Donald Trump a threat to our national security. But, is that something that most people did not already know? We can anticipate that for the next five months, the Republicans will attempt to hide and obfuscate these revelations to get through the next election.
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