Monkeying around.

 

A shockingly racist trope (to some) depicting former President Barack Obama and his wife as apes was posted by the current president from his personal Truth Social account, has caused even some of his most loyal supporters to condemn it. Even Tim Scott excused himself from his house duties to write that of all the racist things he has seen from the White House, this was the most racist. (Tim, we would love to hear the second most racist thing you have seen, since you clearly did not condemn them for that.) Those of us who know Trump as the virulent racist that he is, are not surprised at the thoughts going through his head about the Obamas at almost twelve o-clock in the middle of the night. What's surprising is that he would actually post it for all the world to see.  This, to me, is a clear sign that he is suffering from some form of dementia.  

The current president of the United States posting racist memes from the White House about a former president is a horrible look for us as Americans. (And please spare us the lie that it was posted by some "staffer". Unless Trump sleeps with his "staffer" at night, that is not a plausible excuse.) People are mocking us on the world stage, and the usual suspects here in America who support his racist and xenophobic policies, are shocked that he would post something like this so publicly, what many of them say in private.

This is the aspect of all of this that I find amusing: The pearl clutching and shock from legacy media folks and other so called "main stream" Americans.  Where has everyone been for the past fifteen years? Mr. Trump is exactly who most of us thought he was. He kicked off his run for the presidency with a racist lie about Barrack Obama, and he still won.  This should tell us all we need to know about half of the people in this country. Nothing that he says or does matter.  This upset them because he revealed himself in such a public way, and he soiled (both literally and figuratively) the dignity of the office which he holds.    

But, as I have said and written about after every other horrible and horrific thing that this man does: this too shall pass. In  a few weeks days things will all be back to normal, and we will all play pretend that we didn't see that horrific post and picture of the Obamas. Some house Negro (I see you Van Jones) will be on television telling us how presidential he looked after a speech that he read from a teleprompter, and we all will close our eyes to the madness and try to act like any of this is normal.  

Trump, of course, has refused to apologize, which is not surprising, as that would take a modicum of class and dignity. None of which Mr. Trump has. The scary thing is that Mr. Trump has never paid a political price for his racism.  And why should he? A large segment of the voting population agrees with him, and when they are alone in the voting booth they are free to let their true instincts take over. Unlike Mr. Trump, though, there is no tweet in the middle of the night for millions of people to see.

 I have some advice for my white American friends: It might be time to send Grandpa to the attic, before he embarrasses you even more.