October 12, 2018
The major problem Republicans and Democrats have in getting in the mud with Donald Trump is that they are tethered to reality and decency. Trump exploits this as a weakness, and too many of us give him a pass. He complains about the “angry Democratic mob” while his followers scream “lock her up.” He lies about possibly losing $110B in deals he did with Saudi Arabia if he criticizes the sheiks about a hit job on a journalist, who happens to be a US resident. The Obama administration did the deals, and he fails to mention his financial dealings with the Saudis. His rationale is that if we don’t sell the equipment to the Saudis, someone else will. When I was managing a brokerage office, I would tell my advisors that the worst reason in the world to sell an investment to a client was that, if they didn’t do it, someone else would. He publicly mocks a sexual assault victim. He allows Kanye West to drop F-bombs in the Oval Office. He lies about his “humble” beginnings. He conducts fund raisers while the Florida panhandle is being destroyed. He assails the Federal Reserve for a problem he created with his trillion dollar tax cut and subsequent debt. He wants to give Devin Nunez the Presidential Medal of Freedom. The revolving door in this administration kept spinning with the departure of the UN Ambassador. Amazingly, this is just what happened in the last week or so.
Therefore, how do you deal with someone who lives in a parallel universe? I don’t know, but you have to call him out. Something will happen to change the narrative. Maybe it will be an election. Maybe an outstanding candidate will come along. Maybe it will be the Mueller investigation. Maybe a national emergency will show that Trump has no clothes. And, when it is over, we will all be asking ourselves how did we let this happen?
The Spin Doctor 