Say What? From Absurdity to Reality

TAR & FEATHER FILE - For as long as he’s been on the political stage, Donald Trump has consistently and persistently played fast and loose with truth, fact and logic.

From “they’re eating the pets” in Ohio to a hurricane which was “one of the wettest we’ve ever seen in terms of water,” the President blithely spews nonsense.

Sometimes, it’s just silly: “. . .you literally can’t see a Stealth B-2 bomber. . .”

Sometimes, it’s shockingly cruel: Trump revealed that a member of Congress was desperately ill (“cancer” and “a bad heart”), violating the man’s privacy and implicitly taking credit for curing a threat to life.

Sometimes, the absurdity is astonishing. More than 70 courts found zero evidence of voter fraud in Joe Biden’s election; the uber-conservative powerhouse Heritage Foundation found less than one percent of votes in a decade of elections were illegally cast. Yet, the President, blissfully ignorant of reality, still demands passage of a measure (SAVE America) which would impair voting rights for millions of citizens in the name of “democracy.”

In the wake of all that (and so much more), it should come as no surprise that we are now engaged in a violent war the rationale for which is pure fiction.

Not so long age, Trump unleashed an operation, Midnight Hammer, which he claims “obliterated” Iran’s nuclear weapon capability.

Mere months later, he launched Operation Epic Fury with a bellicose speech asserting that America had to “obliterate” Iran’s nuclear weapon capability yet again. Say What?

If the President wasn’t lying about the results of Midnight Hammer, it must be true that Iranian scientists fully restored an “obliterated” nuclear weapon factory in a matter of months.  

Spending American lives and treasure (we’re paying roughly a billion dollars a day to wage Epic Fury) deserves – no, demands – thorough analysis, careful planning and a concrete rationale.

Instead, we are waging war on the basis of ignorance, speculation and deranged nonsense.

All his other lies and logical twists and indefensible pronouncements pale before Trump’s dangerous disaster in Iran.

Riding a tarred and feathered Donald Trump out of office on a rail is the least he deserves.

(David M. Hamlin’s commentaries are available in the CitywatchLA archive. His other works can be found at www.dmhwrites.com.)