Forget the first 100 days of Trump’s presidency – worry about what fresh hell he plans to unleash in the next 1361 with unchecked power and a head full of rage towards those who mock and adore him.
Much has already been said and written about Trump’s first 100 days in office, a period marked by constitution-shredding initiatives also aimed at cowing his enemies (i.e., anyone who doesn’t kiss his ass) into frightened submission lest they also be shipped to a torturous, Salvadoran gulag.
Instead, what we should be pondering and planning for are the next 1361 days (fuck me, that’s a lot!) he has left in his current administration.
Not that there’s any guarantee he’ll leave at the end of his second term. Trump and his loyal minions numbering the millions have already suggested he should run for a third term, which the constitution strictly forbids.
Pish Posh.
What are laws to them but annoyances standing in the way of their MAGA ambitions, which clearly outweigh the intentions of political geniuses like the Founding Fathers and Constitution author James Madison and nearly 250 years of legal precedent?
To Trump and his followers, only the will of the commander-in-chief matters – all else is unjust interference that deserves squashing under the heels of jackboots marching America toward some grand fascistic, fever-dream of global dominance.
Meanwhile, the rest of us living in the real world are keenly aware of the damage Trump has wrought in his first 100 days in office, including the collapse of the economy due to his nonsensical tariff war with the rest of the planet.
For decades Trump has insisted that “America is being ripped off” because we import more than we export, illustrating a failure of his to understand the basic tenets of economics.
[Seriously Question: why the fuck hasn’t his alma mater, the University of Pennsylvania, revoked his degree? They should be embarrassed they produced such a dullard.]
His enormous ego and pea-sized intellect can’t grasp the obvious failures of his thinking, so for the next 1361 days, he’s likely to dig his heels in deeper, tanking the global economy and ruining the lives of millions of Americans, supporters, and opponents alike.
Trump’s combative answers to ABC News’ questions about his policies illustrate his unwavering belief in both tariffs and his authority.
Not that Trump gives a single shit about the legions of MAGA-capped-wearing sycophants who buy his China-made merch without consideration for their children’s futures.
In fact, he hates them.
It’s that loathing of his adoring, “unwashed rubes” (his sentiment, not mine) that fuels his wants: the ruin of everyone who’s ever laughed at him, his tacky Trump Tower, atop which sits his gaudy-ass apartment appointed with flourishes that can only most charitably be described as “drug-dealer chic,” and his miserable failings, too many to list here.
So, how should we expect Trump’s psychotic insecurities to manifest over the next 1361 days?
I have a few guesses:
- He’ll continue to flout the ruling of the Supreme Court to return those illegally shipped to El Salvador, further eroding the bedrock of America’s judicial system to the point where there’s almost no law he will break.
- A global recession that will evaporate that 401(k) you’ve worked so hard to accumulate and send the planet into a downward economic spiral that will take years to overcome.
- A diplomatic break with NATO nations over his obsession with “acquiring” [i.e. stealing] Greenland that will result in America’s expulsion from the alliance America helped create after World War II.
- The militarization of parts of the U.S.-Canadian border, for some stupid reason, was never adequately explained, though it will cost billions of dollars because America’s northern neighbor continues to thumb their noses at Trump’s ludicrous and insulting insistence that Canada becomes the 51st state.
- Plans for a third term that most GOP lawmakers will support publicly or refuse to comment on because they long ago traded into what little integrity they had for fealty to Trump because they fear his wrath and the prospect of having to get a real job
There are others I could list here that are even more horrifying. However, I’m irrationally surmising that they won’t come true if I don’t express them publicly.
I hope I’m wrong on all of these, but I’m willing to bet my bottom dollar I’m not.
So buckle up, folks. The next 1361 days are going to be much worse.
