The poor baby:
President Donald Trump said Tuesday he felt “ashamed” by “disgraceful” NFL-wide protests and accused participants of disrespecting military members who died or were injured defending the United States.
“I was ashamed of what was taking place,” Trump said during a joint press conference with the Spanish prime minister in the White House Rose Garden, referring to the numerous football players who knelt during the playing of the national anthem before NFL games.
Yep, we’re back to the NFL because it’s so much easier than facing up to yet another colossal failure on repealing Obamacare this week.
But let’s be serious about this “shame” thing for a moment. Mr. Trump has never felt ashamed about anything in his life. He’s ashamed for our military? Please. He wasn’t ashamed to bow out of military service on the one hand while denigrating the service of a former POW on the other. He wasn’t ashamed to equate Nazis marching in Charlottesville with the people protesting against them. He wasn’t ashamed to dispatch his son-in-law and biological (shudder) son to scheme with the Russians—a hostile nation currently aiming its nuclear weapons at our soldiers, by the way--to hack and tilt an election in his favor. He’s not ashamed of hiding the ball or throwing up a meaningless distraction every time the subject of Russia comes up.
And he’s not ashamed of harming ordinary Americans either. He wasn’t ashamed of running a campaign—and an Administration--predicated on taking away the vote from any American who isn’t white. He’s not ashamed of trying to take health care away from millions of people. He’s not ashamed of attempting to destroy the environment and sell off our public lands. No shame there at all.
There are countless examples, but one thing is crystal clear. He feels shame about nothing he’s ever done.
And his supporters like that, because it allows them to feel no shame about being fundamentally rotten, selfish, and generally ignorant people. Blaming everyone but themselves for their problems sustains them, somehow, through their daily lives. And there’s a lot of those people around.
We get it. You're really, really ashamed.
But there are a few things that we’re ashamed about as well, and in all fairness, you’ve opened the door to hearing about them.
You talk about disgracing the flag? There is no more disgrace to the American flag than your presence in the Oval Office. You could wipe your ass with the flag, shove it into your mouth, swallow it and defecate it out in small bits of cloth and you wouldn’t even approach the shame and embarrassment millions of people have to live through every day because of your presence.
You’ve never done an ounce of service to the public in your life, and you claim to feel shame about people in the military who put their lives and bodies on the line for this country? Where did you get this sense of patriotism from? Your parents? Don’t think so. There’s nothing that you have ever done that wasn’t a scam, a ripoff, or a criminal enterprise. I guess your father and Roy Cohn taught you that. But guess what? They were a disgrace too.
“Not at all,” Trump said. “I have plenty of time on my hands. All I do is work.”
No, I don’t actually think you’ve done any real work in your life. What you’ve done is use other people’s money to con people into thinking you’re a success, and then you’ve cut out and left others holding the bag. It’s called Bankruptcy. You may call that work, but I beg to differ.
Show me one thing you’ve ever done that wasn’t about your own self-interest. You can’t because there is none.
But I will tell you what’s embarrassing and shameful as all hell. Having to watch this country that I love so much disintegrate because of an incompetent idiot at the helm. And having to explain to my children why your hideous face is grinning out at us in Post Offices. That’s pretty bad as well. Especially since you’re not fit to lick the underside of your predecessor’s boots, or for that matter, your opponent in last year’s election. I’m ashamed because I see what’s happened to the country because of you, and I can see what’s yet to happen. I see your every action is intended to divide our people, make people despise their neighbors and yes I am deeply, deeply ashamed. And it really is a “disgrace.”
And I’m ashamed as hell of a President who instead of helping the people in a flood and hurricane ravaged island decides to blame them for their misfortunes. That makes me ashamed too. You’ve turned the country into something despised—or laughed at, or mocked-- by the rest of the world. And yes, that’s pretty shameful for the rest of us who have to live here.
Now that you’re approaching your piece de resistance, when you’re going to have to fire the Prosecutor who is about to send and most of your accursed family and sycophants into the purgatory of criminal indictments. That’s shameful enough in itself, but even more disgraceful is what you intend to do about it.
You’re going to do what you always do when things are looking tough. You’re going to hold one of your stupid rallies for your sickening base supporters and encourage them to threaten violence against anyone who votes to impeach and convict you. And they’re going to do it. They’ll probably terrorize enough Republicans in the House of Representatives not to vote for your impeachment. Or at least that’s the game plan, right? You’ll be talking loudly about the Second Amendment and daring the Constitutional operations of our government to get rid of you. And that will be your ultimate act of ignominy—relying on the violent rage and ignorance of your supporters to try to destroy the last fabric of our government designed to keep people like you out of power.
It’s what you were made for. And we know it’s coming.
So don’t try to con us with your protestations of feeling “ashamed” or “disgraced.”
Because you feel nothing. Nothing. About anyone, or anything.
And that is the real disgrace.