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Mary trump’s book
teaches us something about families that she probably never intended.
Dysfunctional families are as common as air. But they take on a whole
intensified evil when there’s big money involved.
“Too Much and Never
Enough” describes trump family values through the eyes of a grandniece and
niece of Fred and donald, two men you would never have heard of if it weren’t
for money.
Ms. trump is a
psychologist and former worker in her uncle donald’s fiction factory. So
she’s pretty well qualified to tell us what life was like. And it wasn’t
all that different from your all-American screwed up family’s. The book’s
back cover blurb says the president of the United States hasn’t changed since
he was a little kid. A liar, a showboat unable to read social cues, learn
or admit he’s wrong about anything.
But, she says, he was
great at self-promotion and hype. And if that were a virtue, trump would be a
saint.
Meantime, his tantrums
of “terrible two” carry into the chronological age of the man with the nuclear
codes, the duty to nominate justices of the Supreme Court, and to roll back
social progress older than he is.
The book is full of cute
little anecdotes. Like how donald and his sister went to the movies as his
older brother was rushed to the hospital where he died of an alcohol fueled
heart attack.
The primary villain here
seems not to be the president, but his father, Fred, a money grasping outer
borough twit who pompously ruled with an iron fist in an iron glove.
So, is Mary trump a
disgruntled and disinherited relative with a Ph.D. and a need for attention
that matches her crazy uncle’s in the White House? You can make a case
for that. But you’ll never get a conviction.
NOTES FROM ALL OVER:
(WASHINGTON) -- The
Secretary of Defense has established new standards for displaying flags on US
bases. They exclude the confederate stars-&-bars without mentioning
it by name.
(ALBANY, NY) -- Governor
Andrew Cuomo has ruled that bars cannot serve adult beverages to anyone who
doesn’t buy food and who wasn’t seated. Smart barkeeps across New York
are selling patrons small bags of potato chips for a buck. The state’s legal
people say that allows people through a loophole in the law.
(HARRISBURG PA) --
Pennsylvania’s new restrictions are more specific. You have to buy an
actual meal in order to drink.
Today’s Quote:
“He’s a gnat… push him
away or swat him.” -- US Senator Tammy Duckworth (D- IL) On Tucker Carlson, the
Fox News talker who called her a coward. Duckworth lost both her legs in
combat in the middle east.
I’m Wes Richards. My
opinions are my own but you’re welcome to them. ®
Any Questions?
© WJR 2020
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