"Nothing to See Here, Folks!" President's Empty and Poorly Executed Speech


  DT's 9 PM speech on 1/8/2019 really conveyed nothing worthy of note, except that he relented a teeny-tiny bit on his demand for a wall, suggesting that he would settle for something like a steel-slatted fence instead. Big Deal! There was really nothing new expressed, just a reiteration of some of the shopworn fabricated facts and scare tactics about immigrants that he's been using since he declared his presidential candidacy.  Whoever wrote the speech for 45 slyly peppered the text with a few out-of-character words like "heart," "soul," "humanitarian,"...and what was that other one? Oh, yes! "Sacred." Of course, this was calculated to create the illusion that this man is capable of normal, instinctual altruistic feelings for others, including those more vulnerable than himself. But somehow I don't think anyone was fooled by it!

Toward the end of the performance, the speaker seemed to be building up an inner font of rage at being subject to the obvious constraints inhibiting his usual wish to "tell it like it is."  That stress and hostility expressed itself in pursing of lips and added angry emphasis placed upon certain words. While children are dying at the border, government employees are longing for a paycheck, and our nation's poor are starving and suffering as always, this was a waste of a great deal of time and money. Let's see if he runs off now to some big, hateful rally to recover his self-regard by re-connecting with his adoring"base" and letting off the pressure that resulted from having to spend nine minutes pretending to be a sane and competent person.