I was wondering why Juneteenth had slipped through his racist radar.
In a June 13 post on his laughably misnamed Truth Social platform, the man who spends almost as much time playing golf as he does mismanaging the country has decided that the United States has “too many” holidays.
He claims that the golf course is where he “does his best thinking.” I guess it should be a revelation that he thinks at all, but where Trump is concerned, lazy is a euphemism.
Juneteenth, commemorating the end of the scourge of slavery in America, was declared a national holiday in 2021 by President Joe Biden, who called it "one of the proudest moments of my presidency."
With his uncanny ability to intuit the wants and desires of the working class, Mr. Trump declared, "The workers don't want it either! Soon we'll end up having a holiday for every once working day of the year. It must change if we are going to, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!" (Doesn’t anyone check these loony posts before they get sent?)
Right. If there’s anything working folks hate, it’s a day off.
Following along in that same vein of thinly-veiled bigotry, it must have been a big disappointment to the current administration when the man who shot and killed Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband and wounded two others on June 14 wasn’t one of those despicable immigrants that they are so determined to make America great by getting rid of.
It must have been especially annoying to Mr. Trump after the big parade fizzled.
What made matters worse was the fact that the guy was white! That doesn’t fit in with their determination to degrade and deport anyone who isn’t. Think of the hate-mongering mileage they could have gotten if the guy had a funny name or if he was…well, not white.
It would have been a Stephen Miller fever dream! Mr. Miller is an integral part of the far right flotsam that washes up in Trump’s wake.
You may recall that he recently was the subject of a startlingly accurate social media post by journalist Terry Moran. Mr. Miller, he posted, is “richly endowed with the capacity for hatred. You can see this just by looking at him because you can see that his hatreds are his spiritual nourishment. He eats his hate." And, just for the record, his boss is also a “world-class hater.”
So, what’s the problem here?
Well, JD Vance thought it was “an absolutely vile smear” and White House press secretary Karoline Leavett made it clear that inquiries had been made as to what ABC planned to do about it. A threat by any other name…
(Just as an aside, did you ever wonder why these women in the Trump administration have these names that sound like the line-up in a Playboy Club: Karoline, Tulsi, Kristi? If it is supposed to make them more alluring, it doesn’t work.)
You don’t hear a word of outrage from any of these people from the vantage point of their high horses about Eric Trump—he’s the dimmer of the two bright lights—calling people in Los Angeles “mongoloids” for protesting his old man’s thuggish immigration tactics.
Perhaps living in fear of being subjected to the same kind of vengeful retribution that CBS is currently experiencing, ABC decided to cut their ties with Mr. Moran. The network stated that it holds its employees to the “highest standards,” a difficult feat for a company that seems to be anchored in Jell-O.
Mr. Moran, to his great credit, defended his quote as “fair and accurate.” And I am switching to a network that isn’t quaking in fear over the prospect of the big bad Trump blowing their house down.
And, speaking of dim lights, Sen. Mike Lee, whose seat in Congress is arguably more vacant when he is sitting in it, has brought down some heavy criticism on his shiny head from both sides of the aisle lately.
In a desperate attempt to deflect the far right, Trump-loving history of Rep. Horstman’s killer, Lee made a valiant attempt at wit (always a bad move for an essentially witless politician) by posting, among other things: “Nightmare on Waltz Street." He was referring to Minnesota’s Democratic governor Tim Walz (whose name he couldn’t even spell right).
Pretty funny, huh?
Lee, head of the Senate Energy and Natural Resource Committee (God help us), also was promoting the sale of millions of acres of public land under the guise of making housing more affordable for people Republicans could care less about. The scheme was actually another attempt to generate money to offset the big beautiful bill’s primary intention to cut taxes for the benefit of wealthy Americans, who traditionally provide the grease to keep the old GOP mill wheels turning.
It was such an obvious land/money grab that even many conservatives opposed it.
One last note: On June 18, six members of our so-called Supreme Court decreed that the state of Tennessee has the right to enact laws that deny gender-affirming care for minors. In layman’s terms, that is denying medical care for kids.
I don’t know a lot about the complex subject of switching gender identity and part of me is grateful that it is one I never had to deal with in my family. I do know this though. These intensely personal issues that many American families have to confront and deal with today are no place for pandering politicians, religious busybodies, or aloof judges to stick their sanctimonious noses in.
Ask yourself if you really want someone like Clarence Thomas or Mike Johnson determining what is best for someone you care about.