Trumpkins, where are you?

(Sung to the tune of “Frere Jacque, Frere Jacque”)

Where are Trumpkins?

Where are Trumpkins?

How are you today, sir?

How are you today, sir?

Run and hide.

Run and hide.

Where are those Trumpkins? They’ve been uncharacteristically quiet lately. If we hear anything at all, it’s never a defense of Trump, but an attack on the most recent former president, or the nominee of the other party in the last election. Nothing from them about Donald, or his many failures.

“I’m going to build a wall, and Mexico is going to pay for it.” Nope. “I’m going to repeal and replace Obamacare on Day One.” Not so much. “Drain the swamp”? You’ve gotta be kidding me. “We’re going to win so much you’ll get tired of winning.” Hmm.

Have you seen the photo from the Oval Office, with Trump, and Mike Pence, and Gen. Flynn, and Steve Bannon, and Rience Priebus, and Sean Spicer?  Pence is still around. The others have been bounced. Anthony Scaramucci is gone too, because he used crude language. I suppose he thought crude language was OK in the current administration. But the language, and the theme, of the Access Hollywood tapes, were not intended as templates for broader use, at least not by underlings.

Asked to cite his achievements, Trump mentions having successfully appointed Neal Gorsuch to the Supreme Court. I question that whole thing, given that Antonin Scalia died Feb. 13, 2016, and Trump wasn’t sworn in until almost a year later. The credit for the achievement, if you want to call it that (I don’t) goes to Sen. Mitch McConnell. It was Mitch who subverted the constitution by delaying the appointment for eleven months until his boy got elected. Mitch knew that Republicans couldn’t vote against (Obama nominee) Merrick Garland. They’d voted overwhelmingly for him in the past. So, he made sure it never came to a vote.

That might have earned him some loyalty points, one might think, but apparently not enough.

Trump wants to take credit for the bull market on Wall Street, but even the most cursory glance shows his predecessor inherited a DJIA under 7,000, and left with it at over 17,000. You remember Trump’s predecessor, don’t you, the African Muslim Communist masquerading as an American Christian moderate? The man who nominated the eminently qualified Garland to the Supreme Court shortly after Scalia’s death?

Trump said he wanted to wait until the facts are in before deriding the Ku Klux Klan and Nazis and the AltRight. Now he speaks out against that faction, but the response was only under pressure, and far too late. He seems to equate Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson, men who took up arms against the United States, men that fought to preserve slavery, to Washington and Jefferson. Many Republican senators have put country ahead of party recently, Sens. John McCain and Linsey Graham, Jeff Flake, Susan Collins, and Lisa Murkowski, and also Sen. Bob Corker from Tennessee and Sen. Scott from South Carolina.

Recently Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey wasn’t seeming to be on the Trump Train. Rep. Paul Ryan, as is his way, has been guardedly critical, while cautiously avoiding alienating some of those base voters that like to display swastikas and Confederate battle flags. Ryan is a slick, poll driven politician, waiting for the right time to stick the knife into The Donald. I have no doubt he’ll do it, and then express how difficult it was for him.

Trump lies without hesitation. It started, for President Trump, when he spoke of the huge crowds for his inauguration. We needn’t talk about candidate Trump. But even as President, we’re told we shouldn’t take his words literally. His standing among world leaders, at least most of them, has sunken to the lowest point of any President of the United States.

Trump is becoming increasingly isolated. He is losing support from his own party, and from the public at large, with shockingly low approval ratings.

SAD ! ! !

Let’s hear from the Trumpkins about why Trump isn’t as bad as he seems. Not why Hillary would have been worse (she wouldn’t have been). Since she got more votes from the American citizens, those who bothered to vote, makes it an interesting discussion, but let’s hear not about Hillary or Barack. Let’s hear about Donald. Tell us how lucky we are to have such a noble person, with such a keen mind, in office.

The guy is not right.

This much I can tell you. This much I can tell you.