The Man Who Doesn't Give a Damn

 

by Pa Rock

Citizen Journalist

Republican political hacks have been falling on their swords all week as they try to defend some tone-deaf remarks that their Golden God, Donald John Trump, made to reporters on Tuesday.  Trump, who is unlikely to have ever been inside of a Walmart or a Dollar Store - or pumped his own gas - cut loose on a reporter who asked how much American's economic concerns were motivating his push for a peace deal with Iran.   The king of bluster, replied:

"Not even a little bit."

Trump went on to blather that his focus was on keeping Iran from having a nuclear weapon, something that had already been negotiated and agreed to between the Obama administration and Iran, and inspections were already being carried out, but when Trump came into office he tore up that agreement in his childish quest to erase the achievements of President Obama.  Now Trump has taken us into war and sabotaged the American economy in an effort to just get the United States back to the same military footing that it was on when he came into office the first time.  If he wins his concession, we will ONLY be back where we started - and every day it appears more and more doubtful that Trump and his administration can do even that.  

The price of gas at the pump has risen 50% since Trump and Netanyahu summarily took their two countries to war against Iran.   As transportation costs increase, so, too, does that cost of goods that must be transported to America's stores and markets.  We are all paying the price for this war, and we all know it.  Trump refers to the increase in prices as "short-term pain," but there seems to be no actual indications of when that pain will subside.

After finishing his pitch for an agreement to end Iran's quest to create nuclear weapons, Trump bounced back to the American economy:

"I don't think about Americans' financial situation.  I don't think about anybody.  I think about one thing.  We cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon.  That's all."

Well, he thinks about that and his billion dollar ballroom.

(Note:  Trump's dismissive attitude toward the economic hardships being endured by Americans because of his war and policies is reminiscent of Melania's famous jacket that was inscribed on the back with "I really don't care, do u?"  Obviously neither of them care very much, at least not about the little people, those of us who aren't in the Epstein class.)