We’re dealing with a spoiled toddler. It’s time to box up Trump mess and heal country | Opinion
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I picked up a little light reading to celebrate the summer solstice. For a short piece, it’s stirring up a lot of controversy, so I searched online to see what the big deal is. A few minutes later I was learning details of the formal indictment of Naked Emperor Donald J. Trump and his former valet-promoted-to-right-hand-man, Waltine Nauta. Talk about a confederacy of dunces turning into a major summer blockbuster.
The 49-page, triple-spaced report (with pictures!) lists charges against Donald Trump, who illegally boxed up and removed papers he seems to consider his personal memorabilia from the White House. It’s all actually the property of the office from which he’d recently vacated, thanks to the voters.
On page 11, the former United States president is being sideways compared to Professor John Nash, portrayed in the movie “A Beautiful Mind” by actor Russell Crowe. Nash was considered a genius, a revered mathematician and multitasker able to solve all kinds of problems, until it was discovered that he took copious notes and stashed unread papers because he was diagnosed as schizophrenic and couldn’t distinguish between what is true reality and his perception of it.
In the indictment, two Trump employees discuss storage of the boxes that belong in the National Archives instead of a Florida resort bathroom, which is where they were stored. One simply refers to them as the beautiful mind paper boxes. This casual, cynical reference is both funny and awful.
It’s funny because we like when a fool is called out. The disgraced president took the boxes because he never bothered to learn the rules. He thinks he’s special, so he can do what he’s always done, which is whatever he wants to. He’d never had a government job, and he didn’t do the one he got very well. But he’s discovered that some government workers take their jobs quite seriously, and now he’s been caught.
It’s awful because he is also accused on page 21 of instructing his attorneys to lie and say he doesn’t have any documents. With every page, his inner plan is revealed: He will continue lying, and his cult following will continue believing him.
He seems to think we’ll go away if he ignores us, but he’s a toddler we can’t ignore.
Well, this toddler is running for president again. He’s stolen, lied and continues to use every media outlet to bully the populace, except for the sheep he’s counting on to follow his lead.
As is the intention of most pack rats, he probably had a big plan to go through his beautiful boxes, choose what he thinks he can sell on eBay, then call the Archives to send a truck for the rest. This is after hundreds of visitors to his resort, some possibly foreign nationals at work, could have leafed through the boxes while using the toilet.
When I force myself to listen to his supporters, they say something I think they believe, but I find difficult to process. When asked why they support a person accused of what is becoming very obviously a strong case of theft, obstruction, lying, delusion and other offenses, they repeat the same thing: “If they come after him, they’re coming after us, next.”
Really? Did these Trump supporters hold the office of president of the United States? Did they steal property after not being reelected? Did they incite a violent riot against their country and vice president? Were they indicted for lying and obstructing justice? Did they try to illegally influence the outcome of an election?
If they did, then sure: They should be indicted, too.
Trump will have his day in court, and hopefully face justice, but his believers will swallow lies and imagined assaults against their emperor, pretending he is wearing a fine set of clothes.
But no one’s coming after them. They’re too far gone.
