Sure, Friday the 13th is a terrifying time. The more superstitious among us barely want to leave the house, and all day long most people may be looking for confirmation-bias to suggest the day is unlucky: “Damn, I specifically said no mustard on this sandwich, and look–mustard! I knew this day was cursed.”
But it’s really next Friday I’m fearful of, and something tells me January 20th may go down in the history books as the day America’s Worst President was sworn in. Now it’s true that historians are loathe to say anything in contemporary history is that bad, and when asked to make a list of the Worst Presidents of all time, you’ll more likely find James Buchanan or Andrew Johnson over more recent fuck-ups like Richard Nixon (the only President forced to resign) or George W. Bush (the only President to almost lose an American city to water with Hurrican Katrina destroying New Orleans, and the only American President to create a war in another hemisphere rather than just join a preexisting one).
So it’s doubtful they would ever talk about Trump as “the worst” anything until at least fifty years has gone by, but there’s plenty of reasons to assume Trump’s tenure as POTUS will be rocky at best and impeachable at worst…
–He is most likely an unwitting Russian agent or at the very least a puppet of Vladimir Putin.
–Since winning the Presidency, he has routinely blown off intelligence meetings to focus on important things like meetings with Kanye West or Anna Wintour and whether or not “The Apprentice” has big ratings.
–Just since the election, he has been in Twitter feuds with Meryl Streep, the cast of Hamilton, the makers of Star Wars, and even his “Apprentice” replacement Ah-nuld.
–His cabinet is almost universally corrupt or incompetent. Countless examples can be given like appointing Rick Perry as Secretary of Energy, a department he notoriously couldn’t even name when listing government departments he wanted to get rid of.
–The murky web of Trump’s business dealings and conflicts only grows worse each day with various eye-brow raising dealings between his kids (like foreign diplomats being pressured to stay at Trump Hotel).
–Russia definitely hacked the election in his favor and may very well have a blackmail file on Trump, hopelessly compromising his Presidential objectivity.
So besides having a violatile personality, a temper uniquely unfit to hold government office, no indication that he even cares about the business of being president over his personal fortune and businesses, and the fact that he may be blackmailed to do Russia’s bidding, it looks like Trump will do a fine job as President. [Yep, it’s next Friday that’s the day you should really board up the house and avoid any black cats or broken mirrors.]
I am terrified for Jan. 20th.
Your article was right on target about this being scary.
There are so many RED flags.