“There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.” — James Thurber

“Not A Polished Politician”

We hear this about Donald a lot. Stuff like: “He’s not a polished politician. He speaks from the heart. We can tell what he means, even when he says something completely different from what he said before, or when he fails to say that which he’s intending.”

I guess he had a popular TV show. I never watched it, but it went on for several seasons, and a lot of people must have tuned in to it. He was “a star,” as he said in the Access Hollywood tapes, which he felt provided him with privileges, so to speak, not available to others.

If Trump was a polished politician, would he:

• Praise our adversaries?
• Try to ban Muslims?
• Pardon Joe Arpaio?
• Blame children for the transgressions of their parents, i.e. DACA? State that DACA people have nothing to worry about, and will be treated “with heart” from the Trump Administration, because he has great love for the dreamers, and then rescind DACA?
• Call Indiana Judge Curiel “a Mexican”?
• Continue to promote a silly, expensive, unworkable wall?
• Falsely accuse former President Obama of wiretapping him in Trump Tower?
• Equate the KKK and the Nazi and the Alt Right with “good people”?
• Shabbily treat his underlings, like Sean Spicer, Jeff Sessions and others?
• Appoint people like Michael Flynn, Paul Manafort, Sebastian Gorka, Steve Bannon, and others of very dubious abilities and allegiances, to high government positions? Not to mention Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner and Don, Jr.?
• Fail to disclose financial records/tax returns?
• Fail to divest into blind trust business ties?
• Actively pursue conflict of interest activities?
• Allow his sons to manage his business interests, and then, describe such as a blind trust?
• Order an end to transgender military service, despite objection from top brass?
• Boast ridiculously about his own greatness – “I know more than the generals, I’ll win so much you’ll all get tired of winning, I’m the best president ever, with the possible exception of Abraham Lincoln?”
• Call the White house a dump?
• Spend an inordinate amount of time golfing after having dissed his predecessor for golfing too much?
• Have such ridiculous hair and makeup?
• Brag about accomplishments when such have been so sorely lacking?
• Demand two scoops of ice cream when guests only get one?

Donald is not a polished politician. Is that the best that can be said for him? Is that the only defense for this clown?