Friday, February 28, 2025

The President of the United States Is A Sociopath

Trump announced to his cabinet (the Musk cabinet meeting), that he had a deal with Ukraine to trade mineral rights for military equipment. I knew from the news that Zelensky had not agreed to any such thing. Then again, I don’t live in Trump’s sociopathic bubble.

So when Zelensky showed up and declined the sale (what guarantee would there be that Trump wouldn’t decide Ukraine had not complied? Zelensky is not a fucking idiot. This is why nations don’t work this way.), Trump was personally insulted and insisted over and over again that Zelensky had never said “Thank you.” Trump meant, to Trump.

Zelensky has been a brilliant diplomat and an outstanding head of state. Trump is the antithesis of Zelensky in every way.

After the debacle, Trump had someone write and post this:

Trump is furious with Zelensky for defying him to his face.  Trump is not embarassed. He's incapable of shame.  He's angry that he's not getting his way, like a petulant child.

I remember an old Star Trek episode where Kirk is not himself (don't ask).  The moment of realization comes when Scott, McCoy, and Spock meet to discuss his aberrant behavios.  McCoy says he's seen Kirk afraid, angry, confused....but never stark raving mad.  That's the turning point of the plot, when they realize not what's wrong with Kirk, but that he's unfit to captain the Enterprise.

This is that moment for the country.
Yeah, little Marco, that's not gonna work.

As almost a bonus, JD Vance has finally surpassed Spiro Agnew as the worst, most offensive VP in American history. Trump, however,  is in a class by himself, so far beneath even the worst of US Presidents you need an elevator to reach the bottom he's on.

Let's just cut to the chase," Moulton told CNN. "The president of the United States is a coward who is Vladimir Putin's puppet. The vice president of the United States is a pogue and a coward who is Donald Trump's puppet. And, so, what we just witnessed was a meeting in the Oval Office between two cowardly puppets and a hero. And whether you voted for these puppets or not, just as an American, as a fellow American, it's just embarrassing that the only hero in the Oval Office, the only decent human being, for that matter, is the Ukrainian. I mean, this administration is going to go down as an embarrassment to American history."

CNN's Boris Sanchez asked, "Congressman, I wonder if you think that President Zelenskyy could have handled it differently the way that some of his European counterparts and Emmanuel Macron and Keir Starmer did, and perhaps been more deferential to Trump and Vance?"

"Deferential to what?" Moulton exploded. "Deferential to a president who allowed a deal in his first term to crumble because Putin just violated it. Deferential to to a vice president who didn't even bother to visit Ukraine? I hardly know anyone in in Congress who has any view on national security, who hasn't been to Ukraine during this war. Deferential to a draft dodger, who's our commander in chief? Zelenskyy doesn't deserve to be deferential to anyone in that Oval Office. In fact, I kind of wish he'd put them in their place a little bit stronger. I mean, this is just truly, truly embarrassing. And the vast majority, the vast, vast majority of my republican colleagues in congress completely agree with me. They know the truth here. They're just too scared to say it themselves."
I did not see Zelensky being confrontational. I saw him refusing to kowtow to Trump’s attack dog (Vance) and insist on receiving the same respect as a head of state that Trump demanded, even though Trump was the one getting red-faced and irrationally making the same foolish demands over and over.

Watch the video and tell me I’m wrong.
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