Category Archives: Donald Trump

Lame Duck or Wounded Animal?

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LinkedIn on Monday, December 22, 2025

Media are increasingly describing President Trump as a “lame duck” – so named after the bird that can no longer fly.  Constitutionally unable to run for a third term – or win re-election if he did – it doesn’t surprise anyone that Trump is thinking about his legacy.  Replacing the historic East Wing of The White House with the “Trump Ballroom.”  Renaming the Kennedy Center.  What’s next?  “Trump…” instead of “Dulles International” or “Reagan National Airport”?  Pretending to be only musing about putting his head on Mt. Rushmore or maybe a new coin of the realm.

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High School Civics

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LinkedIn on Tuesday, December 9, 2025

I’m not a lawyer.  Nor am a Constitutional historian.  And I’m lightyears away from being a Supreme Court Justice.  What I have, at best, is an understanding of how our government is supposed to work that I was taught in high school – a long, long time ago, figuratively speaking, in a galaxy (Annapolis Senior High) far, far away.

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Out of Control

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LinkedIn on Sunday, December 7, 2025

Sometimes it’s the little things that are the most telling.

As you may have already heard, President Trump has “ruled” – and I mean that literally – that Martin Luther King, Jr. Day and Juneteenth will no longer be fee-free days at our national parks.  In their place, he has added Flag Day (June 14) to the list which just happens to be his birthday.

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Absent Even Rudimentary Degrees of Kindness

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LinkedIn on Thursday, November 6, 2025

Never one to forego an opportunity to be nasty, here, below in italics, is what President Trump had to say today when Nancy Pelosi announced her retirement.

“I’m glad she’s retiring,” Trump said as he took reporter questions in the Oval Office during a news conference on reducing the cost of weight loss drugs for Americans. “I think she did the country a great service by retiring,” Trump continued. “I think she was a tremendous liability for the country. I thought she was an evil woman who did a poor job, who cost the country a lot in damages and in reputation.”

What an awful person – referring to the President, of course. He’s been diagnosed as having malignant narcissism. Is this what we’re seeing? Does he need to make other people small to make himself larger by comparison?

-Les

Dangerously Insufficiently Intelligent To Be President

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LinkedIn on Thursday, October 30, 2025

President Trump – whose intellect is handicapped by malignant narcissism – lacks the intelligence to understand many of the basic, most critical principles and behavior of our economy, political system, science and technology, culture and international relationships.  Making matters worse, he surrounds himself with advisors who are unable or unwilling to explain the truth that he needs to know and who support his belief that he is the smartest person in the room which he is not.

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Explaining the Election of Donald J. Trump

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LinkedIn on Monday, October 27, 2025

Hardly a day has gone by since Donald Trump was first elected when I haven’t heard some pundit explaining why.  How is it possible that a majority of American voters have elected an ethically challenged person suffering, according to experts, from “malignant narcissism” – hence his proclivity for authoritarianism and complete disregard for law and order – a person as dumb as he is nuts, President?

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Good news.  President Trump has no idea what he’s doing.

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LinkedIn on Saturday, October 11, 2025

Trump has raised tariffs on Chinese goods, again, by 100%.  He’s doubling the cost of imports from China – already higher by virtue of earlier tariffs – because he feels the need to punish the Chinese, to prove he’s more powerful than their leader.  Why he’s upset isn’t important and doesn’t have to make any sense.  Suffice it to say that our President a petulant creature with the emotional maturity of four year old.  …A four year old who is Commander-in-Chief of our military with the keys to our nuclear arsenal.

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Good deal for Hamas, so far.

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LinkedIn on Thursday, October 9, 2025

For the record, I want the Gaza war to be over as soon as possible.  After the October 7 attack, Israel had every right to go to war against Hamas, but not the people of Gaza, the vast majority of which are innocents.  Israel has killed over 67,000 Palestinians in its effort to eliminate a relative handful of terrorists.  And we’re the ones who have provided most of the weapons and bombs used to accomplish this slaughter – leveling the place and trashing the Gazan economy in the process.

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“Boom!”

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LinkedIn on Tuesday, October 7, 2025

Other than as an act of performance politics – because Trump and his gang of meanies believe that their supporters like it when they blow things up – why does the President keep destroying Venezuelan cartel drug boats instead of following them to port and tracking where the drugs, if there are any, go?  And then eventually shutting down their entire network?

Where are the videos of our Navy picking up debris from these explosions?  Maybe there isn’t anything left worth the effort.

-Les

Voters Remorse

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LinkedIn on Monday, February 24, 2025

So, Trump is now saying that the Musk email demanding government employees tell him what they did last week – or they’ll be assumed to have resigned – is only voluntary.  I believe “Just kidding,” were President Trump’s exact words.

Okay, now that it’s the end of the free trial of Donald Trump’s presidency, on behalf of all Americans – as well as other members of NATO, people of Ukraine, et al – I would like to unsubscribe and give Kamala Harris a chance.

“What?  There is no free trial?!  …Hmm.  Bummer.”

-Les Cohen