Donald Trump is irresponsibly destroying America as we knew it but why is he jealous about John and Jackie Kennedy?

One would like to think that RFKjr, (Rober F. Kennedy Jr.) would raise objections about this cruelty towards his family's heritage.  Although RFKjr is an  one of the incompetents in Trump's circus cabinet, he is still a Kennedy, and should express pride in his uncle's legacy, as a former and martyred president.

Trump’s (cruel and insane❗) War on John and Jackie Kennedy.

(IMO Trump is jealous about their lingering 90 percent positive popularity, even today.)

From ripping up the lovely White House Rose Garden to redoing Air Force One and the Kennedy Center, it’s Mar-a-Lago gilt versus Camelot taste. By Margaret Carlson published in the Washington Monthly.

John Kennedy and Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy

Obviously, Donald Trump never promised us a Rose Garden. 

Nor did he warn us that in his first 100 days, he would rip up the storied Jacqueline Kennedy Garden outside the White House’s West Wing and pave much of it for dancing, making it a glorified patio like the Mar-a-Lago one where he holds court. Nor did he divulge his intentions to force himself on the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. He muted his obsession with painting over the robin's egg blue color scheme on Air Force One that the Kennedys had given the presidential plane, and that no commander-in-chief since has considered removing, what with its echoes of blue skies and Tiffany’s boxes.

The through line of Trump’s dark to-do list is blotting out the Camelot aesthetic of John and Jackie Kennedy, erasing the halcyon Jacqueline Kennedy years, when the then 31-year-old First Lady remade the White House long after it was due for a lift following the Depression and World War II. After such bleak days, First Ladies Bess Truman and Mamie Eisenhower concentrated on the country’s recovery. It took the young presidential spouse (née Bouvier) and mother of two to use her brief, shining moment to return the Executive Mansion to its former glory. She did it and won over the country.

The 47th president wants a White House with all the subtlety of a Russian oligarch’s yacht and a Qatari Sheikh’s palace. Gold tchotchkes abound, including two golden cherubs imported from Mar-a-Lago. Trump’s aesthetics may prove to be as unpopular as his tariff-happy taxation of everything from coffee to Camrys. There’s a gulf (of America) between the public's impression of Trump’s first term and Kennedy's. According to Gallup in 2023, 90 percent of those polled held a favorable impression of JFK. A scant 46 percent felt the same way towards the first Floridian president.

That’s a lot of ground to make up, and Trump’s left no myth untouched. Erasing Jackie’s magic touch—ordering a coat of robin's egg blue on Air Force One–was high on his to-do list ever since his first term. He told CBS he wanted a paint job that “looks more like America” and “isn’t a Jackie Kennedy color.” Trump came up with a Democratic blue so dark it looks black, and a Republican red so bright it dominates. For their part, Democrats wanted no paint job at all, and neither did the Air Force generals who would be paying for it. He yearned for his long-awaited Boeing to arrive.

Then there is Qatar❗Last Sunday, the Qataris came dangling a fully tricked-out luxury 747, the likes of which no president has seen, including the well-to-do Kennedys with their dump of a Boeing 707. The deal had two parts: The plane would first go to the Department of Defense and then to Trump’s presidential library when he finishes his second (or third?) term. Eric and Don Jr. could then squabble over it when they weren’t collecting billions on their own digital currency and the myriad other businesses they’d hustled across the globe when Dad was in the Oval.

There should be a law, and there is. The Constitution strictly prohibits foreign gifts. But that’s never stopped Trump before who said he’d be “stupid” not to accept the Qatari plane, and so would the U.S. Treasury. “The maintenance we spend on those old planes, you wouldn’t even believe it.” That’s the Donald, always thinking of others, but not with his brain, if he believes a Middle Eastern sultan is spending $400 million for nothing in return.

The attached strings are hanging from every overhead bin. If this were Trump’s twist on the Harrison Ford movie, Air Force One, the president would be midair when the call came in advising him that the aircraft was under Qatari control with a course set for a NATO member with an extradition treaty if he didn’t do exactly as told. Trump actually walked onstage at the 2016 Republican convention to “The Parachutes,” part of the 1997 film’s soundtrack. Life doesn’t imitate art. It cuts and pastes it.

But, alas, Trump may not be getting a shiny new plane under the Christmas tree, after all, just a stocking with three pencils and two dolls. 😜A little due diligence and it turns out the Qataris were trying to dump this plane for years, lowering the price but finding no takers until they found a mark in the author of The Art of the Deal. The 747-8 was illiquid, and its decor appealed to a very small audience of other Qataris and the Donald. Even Middle Eastern oligarchs find millions of dollars in repairs, maintenance, and storage painful. This is why they were happy to unload it and insisted all gifts are final. There would be no returning the plane at the end of Trump’s second term (or third!). It would go to his presidential library and then, perhaps, to the Trump kids to squabble over who would keep it operable. Who’s the “stupid” one now❓

It was audacity, not fortune, when the 47th president pulled off a hostile takeover of the Kennedy Center this winter. Trump mowed down half its board, replacing them with MAGA loyalists, and its head, Deborah Rutter, with Richard Grenell, the director not of plays but of national intelligence, in his first term. 

Trump booted the Kennedy Center’s chair, the noted philanthropist and private equity mogul David Rubinstein, and installed himself. Almost immediately, Lin-Manuel Miranda canceled Hamilton's scheduled performance. To that, Trump huffed, so what, he didn’t like the first Treasury Secretary anyway, even if he was the founder of the New York Post, in 1801.

Maybe “My Shot” and “You’ll Be Back” isn’t the vibe of a septuagenarian whose taste runs to Cats, with its three full-blown renditions of his beloved “Memories.” 

Fortunately, another favorite, Les Misérables, was on the calendar before the hostilities. But in the time it takes to get a drink at intermission, ten members of the Les Miz cast went rogue. Hamilton, he could let pass, but fewer voices belting out “Do You Hear the Voices Sing?” Never! In a statement, Trump lamented the partisan politics; he just wants his Kennedy Center to be “a place where people of all political stripes sit next to each other and never ask who someone voted for.” Except at board meetings.

Trump has taken over a nationally beloved citadel he never set foot in during his first term, after several of the artists being honored criticized him. Chairing his first board meeting, he proposed that as a “king of ratings,” he should start emceeing the Honors because “every network will start bidding on it, going crazy.” Maybe, but CBS’s broadcast already wins the ratings as it is. Since his second coming, the Washington Post cites a 50 percent drop in ticket sales.

Never mind that. On opening night next month, June 11, Trump will debut as chair of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, which could be the Donald J. Trump Center by then. A box seat costs only $2 million, not that much if you consider it includes a VIP reception.

Occasionally, Trump has to go home to eat, pray, sleep, and love—three of those anyway, maybe only two—in a house that Jackie restored to its historically correct state and incidentally invades Trump’s workspace. She traced the Resolute Desk, a gift from Queen Victoria made from wood salvaged from one of Her Majesty’s ships, to a storage room in the basement, refinished it, and installed it in the Oval Office, where Trump signs Executive Orders of dubious legality. Jackie’s prime time tour of the White House, broadcast on two networks and syndicated to 50 countries, was watched by 56 million people.

As every president does, Trump gets to add some personal touches to his surroundings: choose which of the Founding Fathers' wigged heads will hang in the Oval Office, the design of the carpet, the material of the drapes, and the placement of family photos. 

But Trumps' gone wild, encrusting anything that doesn’t move with gold lamé, on the fireplace mantel, the ceiling, the Rococo mirrors, gold frames around the portraits (he bumped Obama’s to make room for his), and gold eagles nesting on side tables. There were so many yellow objets behind the president as he called President Voldomyr Zelensky a big loser, it wasn’t farfetched to assume one of them was a trophy Trump collected for being a big winner.

The Oval Office weighed down with metal, Trump moved out of doors to finish Melania’s stripmining of the Rose Garden, which the Kennedys had installed. The main objective was upgrading its slow-draining irrigation system, but Jackie’s crabapple trees somehow disappeared to an undisclosed location in the process. Michael Beschloss, the historian, called Melania’s landscaping an “evisceration” that erased “decades of American history.” He suspected one reason was to clear a better camera angle for her speech at the Republican convention held there due to COVID in 2020.

She fired back that he’d misjudged her landscaping: “His misleading information is dishonorable & he should never be trusted as a professional historian."

Starting any day now, Trump will finish the job unless a curator stops him, ripping out the manicured space to pave it over for a terrace (so womens’ Jimmy Choo stilettos won’t sink in the soft ground), adjoining a ballroom he intends to build (like Mar a Lago’s) so that after dinner he can curl his fingers into a ball and fist dance the night away to “YMCA,” once a gay anthem and now a MAGA hymn.

Melania isn't around enough to help Trump’s crusade, only 14 days in the last four months, and her jacket back in the first term was a warning that “she really doesn’t care.” The former model is reclusive, largely emerging to collect hundreds of thousands of dollars for speaking and showing up. She’ll get a cut of the $40 million documentary about her life produced by Bruce Ratner and streamed by Jeff Bezos’s Amazon. Inside the White House, she was not keen on her official duties. 

While Jackie formalized Christmas at the White House with a “Nutcracker” theme her first year and a “Children’s Tree” her second, complete with tours, in 2018, Melania featured 40 blood red trees flanking each side of a hall, spooking the children. A viral meme of white Handmaid’s Tale hats atop the trees spooked the parents, and no tours. About the criticism she should have expected, and may have welcomed, she told her long-time friend and a manager of the 2017, inaugural, who by then was taping her, “What the f**k do I care about Christmas decorations?”

The worst thing Trump could do to the Kennedy legacy was give an outlet to a member of the troubled second generation beset by drugs, alcohol, divorces, and suicides. Over a thousand new cases of measles this month, and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr is still saying from his position of authority, “There are problems with the vaccines.” At Congressional hearings last week, the 71-year-old wouldn’t give a straight answer to a repeated question about whether he’d vaccinate his own children. After a few more grillings like this, he won’t have the credibility to reduce the additives in Cocoa Puffs.

Kennedy isn’t the worst Trump appointee, but the worst Kennedy ever appointed to a post of such urgency. When the opponent of Vax Americana goes dancing on what was once his aunt’s Rose Garden, and watches Kennedy Center board member Lee Greenwood crooning “Proud to Be an American” at the arts center named for his slain uncle, we will have achieved full Trump. The saving grace is that Jackie, who would be 96 this summer, didn’t live to see it.

Margaret Carlson is a Washington Monthly contributing writer.

Vermont protesters against JD Vance came out in the cold at multiple site demonstrations

Congratulations to the brave Vermonters who gave JD Vance a "you are not welcome here" reception during his family's ski trip.

Echo report published in the Vermont Digger (vtdigger) by Greta Solsaa.

In the wake of Vice President JD Vance’s ski trip to Sugarbush resort this weekend, the Mad River Valley was transformed into a hotbed of protests against the administration of President Donald Trump.

In the largest planned demonstration Saturday morning, Vermonters and visitors stood along a stretch of Main Street by the Mad River Green in Waitsfield toting protest signs and flags that expressed concerns ranging from the state of democracy to climate change to LGBTQ+ rights.

A stream of vehicles sporting similar signage drove by honking and waving, joining in on the morning rally. Protest organizers estimated the turnout in Waitsfield ranged between 1,000 and 3,000 people.

Along with other Indivisible groups around Vermont, Geri Peterson from 50501, a national decentralized protest movement, joined the coalition of organizers to ensure the safety of everyone, given the large expected turnout.

Katayoun Lam, another 50501 organizer, said the Trump administration’s policies regarding LGBTQ+ rights and immigration motivated her to get involved with the Waitsfield protest.

‘Nobody’s supposed to be above the law’: Tisa Rennau, a protest organizer from North Fayston with the group Indivisible Mad River Valley, said many Vermonters were outraged to learn Vance was coming to the region to recreate and vacation after the Trump’s administration’s widespread federal funding cuts and worker layoffs in recent weeks.

Rennau added that Trump and Vance’s clash in the Oval Office with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday morning undermined America’s position on the international stage and motivated more people to show up that day.

Ginny Sassaman, a protest organizer from the Indivisible Calais group, said many Vermonters are fearful under the Trump and Vance administration’s policies and she feels “democracy is in peril.” However, Sassaman said protesting is a central form of resisting, along with voting and legal actions.

“People are angry, especially after what occurred in the White House yesterday between Trump, Vance and President Zelenskyy, where we absolutely humiliated our Ukranian ally,” Rennau said. “We are no longer the leader of the free world. What has happened❓ This is not the America we expect to be.”

Many protesters donning the blue and yellow colors of the Ukrainian flag lined the streets, and Rennau held a flower bouquet of the same color scheme herself. 

Among the Waitsfield protesters was former Lt. Gov. David Zuckerman, who carried a handmade sign that read “efficiency, sure, but not carnage, hate and lies.” Zuckerman said the current administration’s stated goal of efficiency has negatively affected farmers’ loan programs and people’s health care and food access.

“I think you have many folks who feel despair in Vermont right now, including myself,” Zuckerman said. “They’re not following the rules, and nobody’s supposed to be above the law.”

In the neighboring town of Warren, a coinciding protest Saturday morning drew a smaller crowd at the Pitcher Inn, where Vance had originally planned to stay until he canceled those plans.

Meanwhile on the ski mountain:  A handful of protesters also perched by a lift where Vance was rumored to be skiing. Montpelier resident Dan Vidali said he decided to demonstrate at Sugarbush resort because it is important to protest “where the people in power are.”

Senate Republicans! GOP Hear Ye! Hear Ye! Trump's incompetent cabinet nominees are not qualified

Reject unqualified nominees  echo opinion letter to The Columbian a newspaper published in Vancouver, Washington, by Mark Bickley, in Ridgefield, Washington. 

Trump is incompetent and he is dragging down the Republican "Grand Old Party" just because he can.

To the Editor:  Most Americans capable of critical thinking realize that no president can be fully knowledgeable and competent in every domestic and foreign arena. We ought to be at least as interested in Cabinet picks as we are the president. 

Thus far, we all ought to be very concerned. Donald Trump has again shown us that he primarily values television personalities and those who avow loyalty, fealty and subservience to him.

I am a 72-year-old male with strong conservative bona fides; born and raised in Idaho, graduate of a Christian college and a career spent in the pharmaceutical industry. I have spent my life confident in our American democracy. That has all changed in recent years as we have seen virtually every norm shattered by arguably the most ignorant, amoral, corruptible, narcissistic and authoritarian-leaning person to ever occupy the Oval Office.

Several of Trump’s Cabinet picks are among the least qualified and possibly dangerous our republic has ever faced. Here’s hoping our Senate will not approve Pete Hegseth, Kash Patel, Tulsi Gabbard and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Having said this, I doubt that the Republican-controlled Senate can now find anything resembling integrity, character, judgment and backbone. Good luck, America!

Expect a major stock market correction early in the Trumpzi administration because thie idiot has zero economic policy and the cost of "groceries" (a word he just learned, spelled with 9 letters and three syllables) 💰will not be going down.

A Free Press- we must have it: echo opinion by Vaughn Davis Bornet

Vaughn Davis Bornet: "Bring back dignity to my White House. Is that too much to ask?"

The amateur in the White House Oval Office has to go – and soon. By Vaughn Davis Bornet: This 101-Year-Old Historian’s Plea published in the History News Network (Thank you!)

Vaughn Davis Bornet’s Ph.D. is from Stanford University (1951), the B.A. and M.A. (1939, 1940) are from Emory University, the year 1941 was at University of Georgia. Author of over a dozen books and scores of articles and essays, he has been writing articles frequently in recent years on the internet’s History News Network. He holds “Distinguished” awards from American Heart Association and Freedoms Foundation. He taught at University of Miami, 1946-48, and Southern Oregon College, 1963-80. He was a staff member at The RAND Corporation in the 1960s. A Commander in the Naval Reserves, his active duty was 1941 to 1946. His 2016 books Lovers in Wartime, 1944 to 1945 and another, Happy Travel Diaries, 1925 to 1933 (both Amazon) are recent. His latest is Seeking New Knowledge: A Research Historian’s Rewarding Career (Bornet Books). He lives, apparently only semi-retired, in Ashland, Oregon.

By now, many of you are familiar with the (brilliant) outcries of Ashland, Oregon’s elderly scholar. Living on (now past 101), he can’t help noticing what’s happening to the Executive Branch of the government of the United States. He’s not happy! Nothing at Emory, Georgia, or Stanford, apparently, prepared him for today’s spectacle of government by guesswork. So here he is again, this time close to fulminating….

So it has come to this: Our free press is subject to ridicule; actually, it is undergoing threat. Presidential antagonism is approaching entirely too close to action.

Not too long ago, political opposition to “the press” was quietly endured as “well meaning, but wrong.” Now, the expression “lock her up” has spread from a candidate’s lips to an office-holder’s lips. It has become a slogan. Worse, Donald J. Trump’s favorite outcry “Fake News” is no longer exotic; it is commonplace, or close enough. It is regarded in some places as a normal way to refer to America’s daily news headlines.

Political rallies have long occupied partisans as election day approached. Now, it does seem, instead of governing, the White House occupant campaigns around the calendar—instead of concentrating on Congress or the passing scene.

At one time, high office holders in D. C. took an assigned position and went to work for “the duration.” Now, many top officials simply quit in mid-stream, and proceed to walk out. Maybe they are told to go, and “hurry up about it.” (Goodness knows what kind of instructions our Attorney General, Jeff Sessions, has gotten from his “boss.”)

In this administration, reputations fade, so much so that individuals have to leave. It is “one jump ahead of the sheriff,” so to speak. Or, “Go while the going’s good.”

Let’s say there is an Event. Our president misrepresents it. We cannot trust our president to tell the truth about it. Well, the truth is something you are not going to hear from today’s occupant of Air Force One.

In life it has long been a truism that there are “the good guys” and there are the “bad guys.” In statecraft, however, it is no longer easy to tell our allies from our enemies. Once, we made permanent friends of nations far away and tied them to us with alliances. Today, you can’t tell any ally without checking first with the White House to make sure which nation is a friend and which an enemy. Indeed, they may well have switched overnight.

This is serious stuff. The ship of state has no helmsman, it seems; or maybe he just doesn’t think it important for us to know the difference between a true friend and a dangerous enemy.

All of these things that are happening to us from within our American government in 2018 are important. But the travails of the press are damaging to the point they simply cannot be laughed off, ridiculed, treated as “no more than a joke, really.” We have to enjoy a free press. That’s A FREE PRESS. We must have it.
There is indeed a field of endeavor called “journalism.” It has standards, and concepts, and principles. All are taught in college classrooms. Our present political leader ridicules any such idea and barges ahead—to the point where his expression “lock ‘em up” or whatever it is, sounds suspiciously like a proclamation of jail time back in Nazi or Fascist days.

What I want at this point is an end to high school games that masquerade in the guise of proper conduct for leaders. In government the stakes are much too high to “play around” with them. I must have a return to sense and sensibility to be happy at rest every day.

I really want, if the truth be known, the removal of Donald J. Trump from the presidential office. If I can’t have that, I want powerful individuals in named offices (Secretary of State, Secretary of the Treasury, etc.) who will keep that one man from running things until his term has limped to its end.

I feel, overall, as though my country has been borrowed away from me. Totally without my permission, mind you. And somebody owes me for time spent playing at the fair grounds.

Now and then I feel like washing my hands. I want to Do Something Dramatic. Maybe yell a little. Read another book with a title like Fury, or maybe Fire, or Unhinged—and coast for a few hours or a day or so until the revelations and the prose in the new book’s pages wears off. What I am saying, I guess, is that I don’t want to be alone in my antagonism against this amateur (that’s right: amateur) in the Oval Office.

How to end this, well, has it really become a diatribe? Promise me this madman with the simple habits and all that spare money will go away. Soonest. Bring in somebody who has read in-depth of the lifetime of Herbert Hoover’s dedication; the comprehensive love of Life of Theodore Roosevelt; Lincoln’s use of language to elevate national spirits; Jefferson’s ability to raise my comprehension of self-government by framing a document that’s good for me.

For Hell’s sake: I’m sick to death of mediocrity, of posturing, of pretense, of lies told with a straight face. What did I do to deserve THIS? The corridors outside the Oval Office need new inhabitants. Trump relatives are handsome and/or pretty, but I have to say they don’t fill me with confidence in their experience or abilities. And I believe the truth to be that they haven’t really earned those high and powerful positions by earlier hard work.

Bring in somebody as president who can shame Congress into doing what is right. Figure out some way this TV star can’t pick somebody else to fill a Supreme Court vacancy with all that is bound to entail. Most of all, please:

Bring dignity back to my White House. Don’t let this fellow salute one more time; it gives me the willies to think of a general or admiral kowtowing to this guy, even if he does, probably, get a kick out of the winks and nudges at home later on.

I want my country back. Is it too much to ask?

Isolated in the West Wing

Katy Bar the Door!   Prophesy in idiom.

(From a book of poems called King's Tragedy by D. G. Rossetti published in 1881. It tells of an attempt by one Catherine to save the life of Scotland's James I by throwing her arm across a doorway to bar his enemies.)

Hope Hicks resigns: The Trump administration officials who have left since he took office ~ Departure of communications chief Hope Hicks underscores Trump administration's unusually high rate of turnover.

In the White House, it's becoming increasingly obvious how the failed Donald Trump administration needs the equivalent of a Katy, but for a reason that's opposite from the idiom's meaning. 

What's needed is the proverbial and brave "Katy" to save Donald Trump from the damage he is doing to himself, while he's becoming increasingly isolated in the White House West Wing.

Surely, the Oval Office is getting lonelier as the requiem of the litany of departures is becoming more somber.  Hope Hick's is the fourth communications person to be let go. Trying to keep up with the style of incoming, as one after another leaves, must cause the surviving staffs to be sharing Xanax for their anxiety disorders.

Donald Trump can no longer talk to his son Jared Kushner because the family adviser has lost his top secret security clearance.  

There's only one reason for this downgrade to have happened and that's because of Kushner's business dealings with foreign countries.  

In other words, in Russian, it's what' called "kompromat" or blackmail. 

Here's who shut the door behind them:

Steve Bannon~ An architect of Trump’s presidential campaign, the former Breitbart (aka "barfcart) news head cast himself as the guardian of Mr Trump’s populist platform. While the White House cast Bannon’s August 2017 decision to leave the administration as amicable, the relationship between Trump and Bannon disintegrated upon publication of a book that quoted Bannon disparaging the President’s family. 

Reince Priebus ~ Trump's decision to make this former Republican National Committee chair his chief of staff was seen as building a bridge to a Republican establishment. But, Trump was said to chafe at Priebus, who resigned in July of 2017.

Michael Flynn ~ Trump’s initial National Security Adviser lasted less than a month.  Retired Lt. Gen. Flynn resigned after it emerged he had lied about his conversations with Russia’s ambassador to the US. In fact, Flynn later pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about discussions with then Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak.

Anthony Scaramucci ~ Blink and you might have missed Scaramucci’s brief tenure. He was fired by Chief of Staff John Kelly in July of 2018, days after he launched into a profanity-laced tirade blasting other administration members during a phone call with a reporter.

Sean Spicer ~ The Trump administration’s first Press Secretary resigned in July of 2017, about a week before the ouster of Priebus, after objecting to the appointment of Scaramucci.

Michael Dubke ~ Yet another former member of the Trump White House’s communications team, Dubke resigned from his post as communications director in May of 2017.

"Katy bar the door" to keep Donald Trump isolated from causing his own misbehavior.

And the list continues at this link reported in The Indpendent by Jeremy B. White.

Paying for Mexico's border wall and a pardon for Sheriff Joe

Donald Trump tragically can't save his failed leadership. Frankly, he just can't go any lower in his spiraling character regression than what he displayed during the horrible speech, given on August 22nd, in Phoenix Arizona.  Instead of taking an optimal opportunity to progress beyond racist rhetoric, Donald Trump just continued to pour gasoline on his incendiary cult supporters.  In Phoenix, Donald Trump was delusional during a daunting 77 minute ranting speech where he threatened to shut down the US government so he could fulfill his campaign promise (what kind of "deal" is that for our international relations with Mexico?); and he extended the hope of a pardon for Arizona's tyrannically racist "Sheriff Joe" (Joe Arpaio). Both comments were deliberately incendiary.

Obviously, in my mind, Donald Trump is building an anti-Resistance "resistance" among his cult supporters who he expects will fight like an organized army to protect his evil filled legacy.

Perhaps, Donald Trump is following one of these two personality trajectories- either King George III's descent into madness, or the tragic, albeit fictional, life of King Lear.

Often called the “Mad King,” Britain’s King George III suffered from several bouts of poor health during his 60-year reign. In the last decade of his life, he was considered so deranged that his son (the future King George IV) had to take over as prince regent. But just what caused the king’s symptoms--whether physical disease or mental illness--has long been unknown. Now, by programming a computer to “read” hundreds of his letters, researchers say they have found evidence that King George III was in fact suffering from a mental illness in his later years.
Although history has not been kind to President Richard Nixon, because of his mis-handling of "Watergate", when it came time for him to resign, he recognized the urgency of keeping America safe from divisive politics. Indeed, Nixon did what was right at the time. Richard Nixon resigned. But, moreover, he lived long enough to become a better person for it, or, at least, that's my opinion.

Donald Trump, on the other hand, appears to have passed the point of no return. He's crazy and won't let anybody tell him otherwise.

Republicans must remove Donald Trump from the Oval office, where he continues to abuse Americans. He spews hate filled rhetoric and "Tweet storms", sent out in the middle of the night, when nobody is around to detract him from demonstrating "craziness".  

Donald Trump acts like crazy King George III, who would've been a "Tweet Terror", if he'd been given the technology to do so.  

In the Shakespearean world, he is a mirror reflection of the deranged King Lear, who couldn't even be saved by his daughter Cordelia.  She is the youngest of (Shakespeare's) King Lear's three daughters, and his favorite. After her elderly father offers her the opportunity to profess her love to him, in return for one third of the land in his kingdom, she refuses and is banished for the majority of the play.  Meanwhile, King Lear descends into madness.

Regardless of what mentally ill trajectory Donald Trump happens to be on, it's obvious that he's becoming more obsessed with his self esteem, rather than focused on the nation's best interests. 

All the while, the Trump "agenda", whatever it is, will be stalled while the Congress will obviously be presented with the Special Investigator Robert Mueller's report on the Trump campaign's clandestine Russian connections.  

There is a positive correlation between Robert Mueller's investigation into the Trump-Russia connections and Donald Trump's "decompensating" and regressive behaviors.  The closer Mueller gets to finalizing his report, the crazier Trump gets.

Republicans must call for a psychiatric evaluation of Donald Trump because, frankly, he exhibits symptoms of being mentally ill, indicating multiple personality disorders, not the least of which is neurotic narcissism. 

Therefore, a psychiatrist must determine if Donald Trump is a danger to himself and to the world. This alternative must be presented to Donald Trump: either he agrees to a psychiatric evaluation, or face impeachment for incompetent leadership.  

My advice to Donald Trump (and to chief of staff General Kelly) is this: follow the leadership of President Richard Nixon and resign.  

Republicans must prevent Donald Trump from stigmatizing Republicans as "racists". In fact, only they have the ability to prevent Donald Trump from being another King George III, or a modern and tragic King Lear. 

Somebody in the White House must tell Donald Trump that he is in need of mental health care and treatment.  

America at war with evil ISIS and terrorim - President Obamam to speak to nation

President Obama will address the nation about San Bernadino attack and ISIS

President Obama will speak to the nation from the Oval Office on Sunday December 6, 2015 at 8 PM about the San Bernadino attack and our nation's defense against terrorism. 

Hopefully, the US Congress will be tuned in and support our nation to defeat ISIS. In other words, the Congress must vote to declare war and they must pay for it.

WASHINGTON, Dec 5 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will address the nation on Sunday evening to give an update on the investigation into the San Bernardino shooting that killed 14 and to discuss terrorism, the White House said on Saturday.

The president will talk about the "broader threat of terrorism, including the nature of the threat, how it has evolved, and how we will defeat it," the White House said in a statement.

This will be the third televised Oval Office address of Obama's presidency, and his first in more than five years. The White House's Office of the Press Secretary released the following statement: On Sunday, December 6th at 8:00PM EST, President Obama will address the nation from the Oval Office about the steps our government is taking to fulfill his highest priority: keeping the American people safe. The President will provide an update on the ongoing investigation into the tragic attack in San Bernardino. The President will also discuss the broader threat of terrorism, including the nature of the threat, how it has evolved, and how we will defeat it. He will reiterate his firm conviction that ISIL will be destroyed and that the United States must draw upon our values – our unwavering commitment to justice, equality and freedom – to prevail over terrorist groups that use violence to advance a destructive ideology.