Mark Morford: The venomous cancer of the Trump presidency
The venomous cancer of the Trump presidency
By Mark Morford on January 11, 2017 at 2:37 PM
The president-elect, trashing all media, talking about himself in the third person, bashing those who dare criticize him, happily fellating Russia. Now, who wants vodka?
Be it hereby known, stupefied American: Your reality no longer counts. Your dreams have been rendered pathetic. Your hopes for our collective evolution or reasonably humane progress regarding the wayward and wobbly experiment known as modern democracy are worth about as much as your kids’ ACA health care plan wrapped around the doomed DREAM Act and stuffed into the end of a defunded NASA climate satellite.
How do we know? Why, the president-elect just said so himself. Or rather, he mocked, grunted, ridiculed and leered it all to be so.
You had but to watch. Trump’s first press conference in six months, his first official words since winning the election and destroying all hope across the planet, confirmed everyone’s worst suspicions – not to mention making many, many people physically ill.
I wish I was exaggerating. Every one of Trump’s most repellant habits and puerile tics was on zoo-like display Wednesday morning, nine days before the pussy-grabbing reality TV conman takes over the most powerful job on the planet: Speaking of himself in the third person, bashing Hillary without prompt, mocking CNN (among others) as fake news (and calling BuzzFeed, who first published the now-infamous “golden shower” dossier, a “failing pile of garbage“), trashing all of professional journalism, using repetitive, stilted 5th-grade language, threatening to have reporters (like CNN’s John Acosta) forcibly removed for daring to ask questions he did not like, lying outright about his debts, his conflicts of interest, his influence on American industry, his taxes, hacking, Vladimir Putin, Russian hookers, the CIA, how “fantastic” and “beautiful” will be his inauguration no one wants to attend, much less celebrate.
One thing was eminently clear: The Orange Monster is a train wreck of epic proportions, the most terrifying thing to happen to the world in the history of modern world. As one reporter put in on Twitter, “We are watching a hostile takeover of the country, in real time.”
You see, democracy isn’t merely in peril. It is not merely being bluntly reformatted for a new administration, just another painful transition from one leadership style to another.
Democracy is, rather, being punched, gutted, groped and peed on by hired Russian prostitutes, with the full and leering endorsement of a neo-Nazi conman and his cabinet of billionaire cretins who care as much for the American dream as an encephalitic hyena cares about meditating.
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