Trump keeps saying the quiet part out loud. Why don't we believe him? |
So President Donald Trump has again floated the idea of canceling the 2026 midterm elections, telling Reuters on Jan. 14 that “when you think of it, we shouldn’t even have an election."
The broad response to that dictator-ish comment from a president with a known affinity for dictators was, and I’m paraphrasing: “Aw, shucks, Trump’s just being Trump, that’s not possible and there’s no way he’s crazy enough to try that!”
My response to those responses is: “Are you all new here?”
America is where it’s at right now – with a city under siege by the federal government, with NATO allies worrying we’re about to invade Greenland, with everything around us getting the name “Trump” attached to it – because people doubted Trump would actually do something insane, illegal, indecent or unpopular.
You could stack the “Nah, he’d never do anything like that” responses from the past year alone, one on top of the other, and have a sturdy ladder to the stratosphere.
On Jan. 16, Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut was asked about Trump’s ongoing threats to take over Greenland either by payment or military force.
“There’s a lot of eye-rolling in the United States Senate on both sides of the aisle about this bizarre threat to invade Greenland,” Blumenthal said, adding, “There's just no way that I can see it happening if the president is the least bit rational.”
My dude, have you been inhabiting a secluded........