So, Trump learned only ten minutes before the jump off that 150 people might be killed by American ordnance launched at Iran. (What did the fool think would be the results of the attacks he planned?) Then, deeply moved, he called off the attack. (Does anyone really believe that criminal gives a damn about 150 Iraquis?) But lest anyone think he’s going soft, he also added some more sanctions and threatened Iraq with “obliteration like you’ve never seen before.” Can’t our bully boy come up with something less trite? Yeah, eblitertion like youse nevah seen before!

Isn’t America finally embarrassed by this ninny? I guess not. We’ve become inured to marathon amorality. Witness the case of E. Jean Carroll. She is the 22nd woman to accuse Trump of sexual misbehavior and the country manages to blow it off! Trump’s morals or lack thereof do not matter to the pseudo-evangelicals who have decided that Trump must be some kind of righteous gentile, like Cyrus of Persia, who, one supposes must have raped lots of women in his time and even so got a good write-up in the Bible. Then there are all those people who voted for Trump and cannot bring themselves to admit what a monster they have created. Then, the rest of the country has not registered much shock over this latest allegation because, well, it is the 22nd, and, more than that, we know damn well that our Predator President will get away with it. 

Trump, Cyrus of PersiaWe won’t call Trump to account for one accusation of sexual misconduct. OK Will we call him to account for five accusations? No, these may be politically motivated. OK, how about ten accusations? Let’s give him the benefit of a doubt. What about fifteen accusations? Look, he is a rich and famous man and surely women just throw themselves at him, and don’t call him immoral — he has been married three times! Then will we not investigate after more than twenty accusations? No. As Kellianne would say, “Blah! Blah! Blah!”