I actually agree that no longer making new pennies is a good idea. Surely we can afford to round to the nearest five cents if we are still pay cash, right?
But almost five months in, and that's just about where my agreement with the President ends. Dimwit Donnie 2.0 has been a greater disaster than we could ever have imagined...if the first one was bad but we could recover from him, this one means the end of our country unless he is vanquished soon.
I find it of interest the manner by which we are to think of his reign. Is he evil, or merely foolish? So many things I've seen so far are just plain dumb. Hey, let's call it the Gulf of America! I'm the new chief of the Kennedy Center! And hey, let's bulldoze the rose garden so I can have a series of statues of people I really don't know anything about beyond hearing their names back in 8th grade but it seems kinda sorta patriotic so why not?
Foolish behavior was the mark of Trump 1.0. But having gotten away from being held accountable for his past crimes and felonies has emboldened him, and a lot of the things that he is doing are just plain evil. Even something like the tariffs, which I though at first were just a sign of his stupidity as he raised and lowered them on a whim, are likely acts of evil. Knowing enough about how the stock and bond markets work, it's pretty clear that even little acts like placing a tariff can drastically altar a stock. Jerking them around, and giving your friends (though he likely has no friends, only supporters) a heads up that such things are happening, means that they get to profit off what he is doing. Some of the direct conflicts of interest, such as hiking up tariffs from Vietnam while his family forces a new resort into the country, are just criminal.
But one doesn't even have to look too closely before you see open corruption and wickedness. The billions he has made off of $Trumpcoin. The $40 million he gets for selling a documentary about his (estranged) wife to Amazon that nobody but their worshippers will watch. The way he has shipped off certain 'undesirables' without any due process to foreign prisons, even as the courts are demanding that they be returned. His gutting of federal aid programs as he seeks in his big and beautiful way to get massive tax cuts for billionaires. How he has sold pardons to his supporters and given over 1600 other criminals a get-out-of-jail-free card for their actions on January 6.
I could go on, but it gets depressing to keep recounting all the things this man has done. He's a fool, but he's an evil fool. Lord, forgive us. We have had enough of retribution. Deliver us from evil.
