The punch line being that one entertainer
(remember “Bedtime for Bonzo”) would turn government into a whole crew of
entertainers. How ridiculous!
OF COURSE, IT would seem that the ludicrousness
of three decades ago is all-too much our modern-day reality. Things we never
would have thought credible are the norm of now.
That’s how I’m regarding this whole ongoing
situation regarding President Donald Trump and one-time staffer Omarosa
Manigault-Newman. The one who these days supposedly says tape recordings exist of Trump using
racial slurs, which causes The Donald to now openly refer to her as “that dog.”
The connection between the two goes back to the
days when Trump was host of reality television shows, and Manigault was one of
the contestants. From what I can tell, her character was the sort-of nasty
personality on the program – which I suppose fits some role in the overall
show.
I write “from what I can tell” because I have
to admit, I never actually watched the show. I never heard of Manigault in
those days, and even after I learned that the Trump presidency gave a job to
someone who had been a character on his show, I didn’t care enough to really
find out who she was.
MEANING I HAD to do some instant research on
Tuesday to try to figure out what the big deal was with this instance where
Manigault felt compelled to tell of secret tape recordings of Trump and also took
the non-disclosure documents she was asked to sign in order to get a job working
for Trump’s 2020 re-election campaign and provided copies of them to the Washington Post.
I went all this time without bothering to find
out who she was because I really didn’t care. I would have presumed that the
idea of anyone affiliated with the Trump presidency back in the days when he
played television show host would not have been considered a credible persona
to be working in the White House.
Shows you how little I know.
SUCH AS MANIGAULT, who may have been a government
staffer back in the days of Al Gore as Vice President (personnel people from
back then now say she was “the worst hire we ever made”). But her real
credentials are the fact she was on The Apprentice and The Ultimate Merger
television programs.
So is she really now as incompetent as Trump is
trying to make her out to be? She may be. He may be telling the truth, for
once!
But why should he have any reason to be
shocked? Who did he think he was hiring when he picked her for a spot in the White
House Office of Public Liaison (which basically means she was responsible for
presenting Trump’s image to the public)? He certainly had no reason to think
she had any real credentials for a public service job.
I’d take this whole controversy (yes, I think
it sleazy for someone to go about secretly tape-recording their boss to slip
him up) as further evidence of how grossly unqualified Trump is to be this
nation’s chief executive and how the 2020 election cycle can’t come soon enough
to give the electorate the chance to replace him.
ALTHOUGH THERE HAVE been so many more incidents
during this Age of Trump to show us how unfit he is to hold public office – and
how delusional that segment of our society is that still, to this day, thinks
his election in 2016 was a good thing for the country.
Meaning now that I have bothered to look into
this, I wish I could undo it. For I fear that bothering to learn who Manigault
is has managed to squeeze some more essential (or interesting) knowledge from
my memory.
And as for that old “Back to the Future” joke,
it doesn’t seem quite so funny anymore.
Because compared to all the level of nonsense
that has occurred in this Age of Trump, the idea of Jerry Lewis as Vice
President doesn’t seem anywhere near as absurd.
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