By Philip Yeung
Each year, US journalists are honored at the annual White House Correspondents Dinner, a fun affair with the president in attendance. But last year, there was no Trump and no comedians. This year, there was Trump, but again, no fun, but plenty of drama, as he and his wife were escorted out early after sounds of gunfire rang out.
The shooter had been shot dead, giving Trump a gigantic distraction from his unpopular war in Iran.
Trump and the Correspondents' Dinner are incompatible. The event calls for the president to make self-deprecating jokes and honor outstanding journalists. Trump can do neither.
He is famous for insulting journalists and is constitutionally incapable of self-mockery. Nor can he coexist peacefully with the press, having sued news agencies for unfavorable reportage and brought ABC to its knees with a $15 million out of court settlement.
It is not in Trump's character to joke around with reporters. He calls them "the enemy of the people". Maybe he has a point, now that there was an apparent attempt on his life at the Correspondents Dinner.
People are naturally curious: Is the dead suspect a member of the press? And what about his accomplice who is under arrest?
Somehow, Trump tries to turn a near-tragedy into self-flattery and political advantage, claiming that only great presidents, such as Lincoln got assassinated or had attempts made on their lives. Many people will no doubt wish that Trump keeps on being great.
Never in the hundred-plus-year tradition of the White House Correspondents Dinner has there been bloodshed or violence until now. With Trump nothing can be ruled out, as everything he touches turns to dust. Last year, he disinvited a female comedian for making anti-Trump remarks. To him, only a kowtowing press is good enough.
What a sorry state the United States is in! In this country, you can't even enjoy a decent dinner in peace! And jokes can be deadly.
With war raging, prices skyrocketing, an energy crisis simmering, violence erupting in the streets, and ICE officers terrorizing locals, America is in turmoil, and so is the world, roiled by round after round of spiteful tariffs.
Trump is not just an agent of chaos. He is chaos himself.
How can such an unhinged individual become the president of the US twice, and still enjoy the support of one-third of its voters? What does that tell you? That madness is a disease in America. Trump is only its symptom. And sadly, there is no cure for endemic madness.
Its system of checks and balances has failed, with over 80% of US congress members in the pocket of the Israeli lobby. They have voted five times not to rein in Trump's war-making powers. So, the war drags on, and human lives be damned.
Trump is joined at the hip with murderous Netanyahu. What a tag team of bullies who are numb to the tragic loss of lives.
We stagger from crisis to crisis, uncertainty to uncertainty, as long as the "Stable Genius" stays in the White House.
His Secretary of War, Hegseth, is himself a dangerously flawed individual, totally unfit for the job, who, in the middle of a war, keeps firing generals left and right, first the chief of the army and now the navy.
He and Trump share the same character deficiencies—both tainted by sexual assaults and serial misconduct, and both let their mouths do the thinking.
This question now hangs over us: can the world survive intact until November, because the 25th Amendment won't save us as his cowering cabinet is too intimidated to remove a mentally incapacitated leader on a rampage.
Trump's ugliness has exposed America's systemic failure. Morality is dead. Religion is hopeless. The body politic is broken, and the US has been turned into a client state of Israel and an Israeli ATM machine. It is well on its way to moral and financial bankruptcy, with no bailout in sight.
Finally, the world has a living Shakespearean character in Trump. In the Bard's plays, "Chaos" often functions as a character representing the total breakdown of natural, social, and moral order. With mad Trump succumbing to his all-consuming ambition, Christians, Muslims, Buddhists and voodoo priests, must all pray hard for Divine Intervention.
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