We were never as concerned with George W. Bush as President of the United States. Everyone seemed to understand that ‘W’ is as dumb as a Texas hitching post, but we were probably wrong to assume there were some checks and balances on him. People thought they had more reason to fear Vice President Dick Cheney. He was the one who shot an acquaintance while they were out hunting quail.
But President Elect Donald Trump is more dangerous than either. His foolish shooting from the lip on Twitter is cause for great concern.
Talking to a Trump supporter recently we heard the tired and trite answer that there would be smart people around him to advise him. Our only comeback was that we hoped these grown-ups were not the same smart people who were supposed to keep George “W” from going to war with Saddam Hussein in Iraq.
The list of President Elect Trump’s proposed cabinet appointments—the millionaires and military rejects—is not giving us much confidence. Since Trump seems to have no specific agenda, he is inviting losers with their own agendas to join him in the White House playpen.
And when Trump ridicules the opinion of the U.S. military and the Central Intelligence Agency by tweeting that North Korea’s missiles cannot reach North America, he is obviously in need of some adult supervision. And any psychologist would tell him it is unwise to challenge the claims of someone with North Korean Leader Kim Jong-un’s obvious personality disorders.
And yet we hear that Trump’s current press secretary was interviewed and informed the news media that as President, Trump will continue to keep his followers informed on Twitter. It means that Trump will be the first President of the United States who cannot keep a coherent thought that is any longer than 140 characters.
And the challenge to computer hackers everywhere will be to hack into Trump’s Twitter account and send spurious twits. Can you imagine the panic at the White House when nobody has a list of the news media to inform them that it is not Mr. Trump threatening to nuke Mexico City?
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