The Nightmare of Trump's America

"Alternative" Facts?

 
"President" followed by "Trump" seems like an oxymoron to me. No one is more the antithesis of Presidential, so I will refer to him as T.

Everything he does seems Orwellian. His dark vision of America in carnage, people jobless, beset by gangs, murderers and rapists who invaded our formerly safe, wonderful and wealthy home is a trope that his supporters lap up and believe. He talks in doublespeak, as does Fox News.
In his essay "Politics and the English Language", George Orwell said,

In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defence of the indefensible … Thus political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging and sheer cloudy vagueness … the great enemy of clear language is insincerity. Where there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms

T has gaslighted his way into the most powerful position in the world... which matches his narcissistic view of himself as the great savior. As he said, "Only I can fix this."

Gaslighting is a form of manipulation that seeks to sow seeds of doubt in a targeted individual or members of a group, hoping to make targets question their own memory, perception, and sanity. Using persistent denial, misdirection, contradiction, and lying, it attempts to destabilize the target and delegitimize the target's belief.

T said he would release his taxes as soon as the audit is done. Another lie! Perhaps a judge can order the release of his taxes, but before that happens T and the Republican congress will appoint conservative judges to hundreds of court vacancies that they refused to fill throughout President Obama's tenure.

  A Fox for Every Henhouse

His cabinet picks at best have little to no experience or training for the departments they are going to lead. At worst they have promised to dismantle the very agencies they will now lead (to ruin?), as in Rick Perry wanting to eliminate the Department of Energy. Or take Betsy DeVoss who has never attended public schools, did not send her children to public schools, and is an activist for privatizing schools, now is in the most powerful position to supposedly protect our system of free public education?
As Michael Moore tweeted,
If you're still trying to convince yourself that a 21st century coup is not underway, please, please snap out of it.