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Trump Struggles to Say the Word ‘Plague’ — Keeps Coming Out ‘Pledge,’ What Is Wrong With Him?

We know that Trump has a few “go-to” phrases that he dearly loves. “Sleepy Joe,” “Crooked Hillary,” “Chinese plague,” Trump the branding man will invent little phrases that operate as crutches. Instead of presenting an argument as to why people should vote for him over Biden, Trump lets the “brand” do the talking, especially when the brand is said with the right sneer. The man who sees a tweet as a policy paper must use each individual word to maximum effect.

He loves using the word “plague,” because it sounds so medieval and awful, then he likes to match it with China, the “Chinese plague,” sounds far better than the “Trump COVID shitshow,” far better TV, too. Yet today, Trump hit a snag stumbling over the word “plague,” hitting “pledge” instead. It is a perfectly normal thing that can happen to anyone, especially someone decompensating with … something, perhaps dementia, or someone who perhaps snuck an extra valium this morning. We don’t know. We know he can’t say “plague,” at least not without practice – he gets it later on.

Before the pledge and this is a very big factor, we have a problem that has about twenty-two different names, but I’ll just call it the plague. Before the plague struck, we have the lowest African-American unemployment, Hispanic American, and Asian American unemployment ever. We have the most jobs we ever had.”

He went on to mumble longer, citing stats and indices that aren’t relevant at all with respect to where the world is today, and are definitely irrelevant with respect to how we’re getting to where we need to be 2 years down the road. It is unlikely that Trump is educated enough or analytical enough to understand that even if we awoke tomorrow and COVID was gone, it wouldn’t necessarily mean that the economy would come back as it was before. Trump needs to spend less time talking about what “we” had (since he built it off Obama’s back) and more time talking about how to dig our way out of where we stand now, not then.

It would help things considerably if we believed we had a president who had the mental acuity to closely follow the advice put forth by the financial advisors to get things back up and running.

But he cannot even say “plague.”

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Peace, y’all
Jason
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Jason Miciak is a political writer, features writer, author, and attorney. He is originally from Canada but grew up in the Pacific Northwest. He now enjoys life as a single dad raising a ridiculously-loved young girl on the beaches of the Gulf Coast. He is very much the dreamy mystic, a day without learning is a day not lived. He is passionate about his flower pots and studies philosophical science, religion, and non-mathematical principles of theoretical physics. Dogs, pizza, and love are proof that God exists. "Above all else, love one another."

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