Sure, the SOTU address was a mess, but what else is new
By Sid Schwab / Herald Columnist A minute in, when Donald Trump flat-out lied about the economy he inherited and Republicans gave him a standing ovation, I turned off the SOTU. Everything to follow was predictable and sad (NBC News: tinyurl.com/mostlylies). I returned to making a list of recent events. So many topics, too many to ignore or do justice. So here’s a compendium, in shorthand:
As if we need more evidence of Trump’s unending desire for fawning adulation, or that, with AG Pam Bondi’s slavish obeisance, he’s turned the Department of inJustice into a vengeance vehicle, there’s that Soviet-style, North Korea-emulating visage hanging from DOJ headquarters (HuffPost: tinyurl.com/hisface4u). Pre-Trump, Americans found such submissive, cultish idolatry abhorrent.
• The Supreme Court’s rejection of most of Trump’s unconstitutional wielding of tariffs like a child wields a toy light-saber ought to have been 9-0. Three so-called originalists dissented, ignoring clear, parchmentalized language. Justice Brett Kavanaugh, by acclamation the least intelligent of the nonet, based his dissent on adverse consequences of returning the ill-gotten money. Which is like arguing criminals shouldn’t be punished if it would make their families sad.
• Classic Trump: after the verdict, he’s relentlessly attacked “the f***ing courts” (his words), calling the justices, including two of his appointees, traitors. What he should have said, is “the f***ing Constitution.” Because that’s how he sees it (New Republic: tinyurl.com/2badwords4u).
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