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I was fully prepared to write a snide and scathing attack on Trumpenstein’s return to the White House. On his failure to do anything on “day one.” On his delay in pardoning the January 6 defendants. But I can’t do that. At least not yet. He shut me up. He produced an unprecedented flurry of executive orders, most of them very good.
Trump signed an order banning birth-right citizenship. This was eight years overdue, but better late than never. He signed one to reinstate members of the military who were discharged because they wouldn’t get vaccinated. With his warp speed vaccine, which he’s still bragging about, but still. And with back pay. He withdrew from the World Health Organization. Ordered all government DEI programs closed, and officially recognized the only two biological genders. Perhaps most importantly, he declared a national emergency at the southern border, and seemingly approved the use of U.S. troops to enforce it. Some of these were suggestions of mine, which I claimed Trump would act on, if he wasn’t an orange crisis actor. Maybe Trump does read my Substack. Regardless, these are commendable moves any way you look at it. Executive orders are no guarantee, but at least he signed a bunch of them.
Now, I am a bit concerned about the mass deportations. Which didn’t happen on “day one,” supposedly because of something going on in Chicago, where the deportations are supposed to start. In the last comment from Trump’s hard ass border czar Tom Homan, he was proclaiming that “mass deportations begin today.” That was January 21. I could find no updates on this. This appears to be more in line with what we saw in Trump’s first White House. “Mass deportations begin in two weeks.” Yes, “two more weeks” has become a meme to represent QAnon-style faith. Will we be saying “two more weeks” in perpetuity regarding the mass deportations? It’s perplexing, but all too familiar, to find no one questioning this anywhere online. Maybe Trump will shut me up again, and deport millions by the end of the month. Color me skeptical. But Trump has apparently already declassified the JFK files. So there’s that.
Trump’s inaugural address was fine, although not up to his first one, which in my view was the best since JFK’s. One odd aspect of the ceremony was the fact that Trump didn’t put his left hand on the Bible while taking the oath of office. What, did he watch my friend Bart Sibrel’s Astronauts Gone Wild video, where Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and the boys refused to swear on the Bible that they’d been to the moon? Seriously, that was very bizarre, and to my knowledge no one has asked Trump about this. Was this a sign that Trump doesn’t believe in God? Was he just trying to court more controversy, and get the likes of me to talk about it? Adding to the moment was First Lady Melania Trump, who was dressed in what resembled an art deco undertaker’s outfit, with a Clint Eastwood “Hang ‘em High” hat concealing most of her face. It was an unbecoming look for a woman who usually is elegant.
All the living ex-presidents were there, along with their wives. Except for Michelle Obama. Now, missing Trump’s inaugural might be passed off as attributable to her intense Trump Derangement Syndrome, but then why wasn’t she at Jimmy Carter’s funeral? Surely, she didn’t have anything against the man who was the face of Habitat for Humanity. Speculation is high that the Obamas’ marriage may be on the rocks. There is even a ridiculous rumor that Barack has been dating Jennifer Aniston. Maybe she doesn’t know about Larry Sinclair. Or the preposterous, over the top, scurrilous allegations about Big Mike. Started by Joan Rivers, right before she died suddenly during her ten billionth plastic surgery. Jennifer Aniston would scoff at such “conspiracy theories.” She’s from Hollywood. I wouldn’t get her upset by mentioning the woman who approved Obama’s birth certificate as legitimate being the only casualty in a plane crash. She could ask Trump- he knows all about that.
I don’t want to be a downer until I need to be, but there are some disturbing elements associated with the “Tech Bros” Trump now surrounds himself with. What is all this talk about promoting MRNA? A cancer vaccine? To stop a disease they created? Will they throw us some crumbs, finally give us a little “winning” to distract us from the real agenda? That’s what my friend John Brisson tossed out as a possibility months ago on our weekly “America Unplugged” show. Now Jon Rappaport is alleging that Trump ordered a “blackout” of external communications from HHS, FDA, NIH, and the CDC. HHS is where RFK, Jr. is supposed to be. If he miraculously gets approved that, is. It’s not like his nomination hearing is going to go as smoothly as “Little” Marco Rubio’s did. Where is RFK, Jr., anyway? I don’t remember seeing him at the inauguration. Maybe he was standing behind the giant Barron Trump.
Okay, I located RFK, Jr. in a photo. It was almost like playing “Where’s Waldo?” He was stuck in the second row of the “Tech Bros” section, right behind the Saul-like free speech convert Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos’ Latino fiancee. I think his gaze appears to be a bit lower than the fiancee’s cleavage, but she reportedly was receiving a lot of attention from the other “Tech Bros.” You have to figure that group has some former lonely nerds in it. Incels until they started making lots of money. Elon Musk has a penchant for goofy looks. And thrusting his arm out, almost like a Nazi. He acts way too exuberantly for the world’s richest man. But I guess that’s what you’d expect from someone who told some poor sap with the same number of followers on Twitter as me, to fuck himself in the face. And where was Vivek? Trump himself has lost weight, and his slightly altered hairstyle doesn’t look quite as fake.
I know what you’re saying; okay, Mr. I haven’t tucked my shirt in since 1979, what do you want the guy to do? You said he wouldn’t do anything on “day one,” and you’re still complaining. And I get it from the other side as well; stop throwing your lack of formal education in our face, bragging like you’re Jethro Bodine with a twelfth grade education, and pretending that Trump isn’t one of them. That comes with the territory when you’re a Trump Agnostic. I always treat Trump fairly. When he says something good, as he often does, I support him. When he does something good, which is rare, then I give him credit. I think I’ve done that in this Substack. If Trump lives up to his rhetoric, I’ll admit that I was wrong in coming up with the whole Trumpenstein Project thing. But if he governs like Trumpenstein again, then perhaps some of you will give me a little credit.
While Trump was rushing towards the Oval Office again, like the bull in a china shop he often resembles, outgoing President Joe Biden exited with class and dignity. Just kidding. It was about as undignified and classless as it gets. I thought that the rumors about him giving preemptive pardons to Deep State villains, in case Trump actually tried to prosecute some this time, were just racist hate concocted by the White Supremacists who really rule this land. But no, Biden actually did all that and more. He also pardoned his family members. Hunter isn’t the only criminal in that bunch. Among those pardoned were the honorable Dr. Anthony Fauci, who was the front man for the Greatest Psyop in the History of the World, and Liz Cheney and all the other members of the unconstitutional January 6 Committee, who tried in vain to get even the dumbed down American sheeple excited about their fake “insurrection.”
I’m not sure who Trump is going to prosecute, if he still intends to “drain the swamp.” He’s already said that Bill and Hillary are “good people.” The way he was carrying on with Barack Obama at Jimmy Carter’s funeral, you know he’s not about to look into his history. No, I think whatever else he actually does, Trump will not be prosecuting any member of the Deep State. And the built in excuse will be, “Hey, what could he do? That damn Biden pardoned them all!” That may be the excuse for none of his important executive orders being implemented as well. “Hey, it’s not Trump’s fault that an Obama appointed judge overruled his executive order!” Except that it could easily be a Trump appointed judge as well. But the excuse will be the same. The problem is Judicial Review, which only Thomas Jefferson and I seem to care about. Interestingly, some people have started telling me that I look like Jefferson. I think I’m more flattered than when they used to say I looked like Michael J. Fox.
By pardoning people who haven’t been charged with any crimes, the beloved Joe Biden advertised the fact that he thinks they might be guilty of something. The same people who are applauding Biden’s blanket pardons became apoplectic at the suggestion that Trump should have pardoned all the J6ers before he left office. “You can’t pardon someone who hasn’t been charged!” They screeched at the time. And yet now, four years later, their hero Biden has done just that. It’s a phony paradigm thing, you wouldn’t understand. Some pardons are apparently more equal than others. I’m sure Fauci won’t feel any remorse, as he collects the largest federal pension in history. It won’t stop Liz Cheney from pontificating from a position of moral authority. It’s amazing that she hasn’t been turned into a pillar of salt.
