Please explain to me how the leadership in US Senate realistically expects to cobble together 50 of their colleagues willing to say yes to the monstrosity they have constructed in secret and labeled Trump Care. 

Please explain to me how Donald Trump can triumphantly proclaim in a tweet the accuracy of a single outlier poll that had him at an embarrassingly mediocre 50% favorable and 50% unfavorable, and then turn around and either ignore or call fake any and all of the DOZENS of other independent surveys which in the aggregate show him actually recording an abysmal 37% favorable and a horrific 56% unfavorable.

Please explain to me why Wonder Woman works so well as a film while Superman versus Batman was unwatchable.

Please explain to me why people choose to go to horrific places like North Korea and then seem surprised when awful and terrible things happen to them while they are there.

Please explain to me President Trumps complete twitter silence after a deranged non-Muslim terrorist slammed into an innocent group of Muslim worshipers in London this past Sunday.

Please explain to me why anyone would think the answer to gun violence is to give more people, including both the mentally ill as well as unskilled members of Congress, unfettered access to more guns.

Please explain to me how an allegedly high priced and high powered attorney hired by Donald Trump could go on national television and, not once, but twice, confirm that President Trump is indeed the target of the Special Counsel investigating obstruction of justice involving Russian collusion in the 2016 election, and then turn around in the same interview and insist that the President is not, and has never has been, the target of just such an investigation.

Please explain to me how sending 4000 more US troops back into Afghanistan years after we pulled 10’s of thousands of troops out of the same country, is going to do anything to help us end the longest war in US history.

Please explain to me why anyone would want to be the new White House spokesman for President Trump.

Please explain to me how Ivanka Trump can allegedly claim to be ‘shocked’ by the ‘viciousness’ aimed at her father post his election in 2016, after her father during the campaign viciously parodied the physical impairment of a disabled reporter; and accused more than a dozen women of lying when they dared to confront him on his sexual advances toward them in the past.

Please explain to me how anyone can still think anything coming out of Trumps mouth is truthful after independent fact checkers have identified at least 623 false or misleading statements or claims Trump has made during his first 137 days in office.

Please explain to me, speaking of Ivanka Trump, how she can remain dead silent while the six experts from the HIV/AIDS Advisory Council allegedly working for and with the President resign on mass claiming her father cared not a whit about either the diseases themselves, or the millions of Americans who carry them.

Please explain to me how weakening the reforms enacted in 2008 to protect investors from excesses by Wall Street speculators and big banks helps anyone but Wall Street speculators and big banks.

Please explain to me why the vast majority of Trump current supporters seems blissfully unaware that ten years ago, after Donald Trump was forced to admit under oath that he had lied in the past at least 30 times to reporters about his business and personal dealings, but then nonetheless proceeded to lie under oath about his business relationships with organized crime.

Please explain to me how President Trump could have claimed to the courts with a straight face months ago that without an immediate implementation of his Muslim immigrant ban thousands of potential terrorists would flood into our country with the sole purpose of spreading terror and creating havoc in their wake.

Finally, please explain to me how at 68 I am able to name every player from the starting lineup of the terrible 1961 7th place Boston Red Sox team, but can’t remember to close a drawer or where I’ve left my reading glasses.

Author: 
Michael Goldman
Published Date: 
Sunday, June 25, 2017