Upfront I must make a disclaimer – personally I am slightly to the left of centre if such a thing as a linear left-right continuum adequately describes one’s worldview.  In the US political system, I get where the Republicans (not the Maggots and their ilk) are coming from and understand where the Democrats are trying to get to and don’t want to really take sides in a country I’m not part of.  So, this SMAC is not about politics, but just about one man – Trump. 

Why should you or I care about it?  Like it or not, America is the dominant force in the world and perhaps it should change to something more equitable.  But what we don’t need is chaos in geopolitics and that’s just what Trump represents because Trump is not worried about what’s good or right for mankind, but what’s good for Trump.  Unfortunately, it is also well known from his previous presidency that listening to briefings from his cabinet, particularly the all-important security briefings, are not his strong suit.  In fact, the only briefings he listens to are those broadcast by Fox News – his personal vanity mirror.

This is SMAC’s look at the man as the critical US presidential election approaches.   It’s time to be afraid, very afraid. 

The cartoon was inspired by a Trump interview with Sean Hannity where he opined that he was going to be a dictator – for one day.  He mansplained this in his unique Trump way – leaning forward off his chair with his legs akimbo to unlimber his balls and make space to swing his dick.  All the while he was doing his weird gesticulation thing that looks like he’s playing the air accordion at a redneck hoedown (and, yes, he does know a lot about going down on ho’s).

I can’t think of one person more deserving of the moniker of Odius Maximus than Donald Trump.  The wonderful thing about Google is that, not only can you find out how to treat your objectionable skin condition, but you can also get a list of synonyms for odious without having to tediously trawl through Roget’s Thesaurus as we did in the old days.  A few quick keystrokes yielded a list of 71 words, some which of were:

offensive, objectionable, vile, abhorrent, loathsome, nauseating, detestable, execrable, abominable, monstrous, appalling, reprehensible, deplorable, insufferable, intolerable, unacceptable, despicable, contemptible, unspeakable, awful, terrible, dreadful, obnoxious, unpleasant, disagreeable, nasty, distasteful, dislikeable, ghastly, horrible.

It is difficult for such a variety of obnoxiousnesses to be wrapped up in one person but Trump has proved that it’s possible.  As his cousin, Mary Trump, says, “He normalizes outrageous behaviour.”   His one standout characteristic, apart from his quasi-psychotic delusions about himself, is to lie even when he doesn’t have to lie.  It’s as if he is pathologically addicted to lying.  Yet with all his lies, falsehoods, word salad explanations, threats to democracy and insults which he sprays around like glitter in a sleazy Vegas strip joint, the MAGA crowd, the evangelicals and previously insulted Republicans are unwavering in their support of him.  To paraphrase Churchill, Trump is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an arsehole.

But back to his dictatorial tendencies.  After unexpectedly winning the 2016 Presidential election, he thought he could wing it just like his freewheeling campaign speeches.  He came into the presidential world like a baby ‘mewling and puking’ and unschooled in his awesome powers that make Lord Voldemort’s look like child’s play.  Distracted by his own genius – remember the chloroquine and UV moments – he only discovered the power of the executive order later on and what changes he could ring without having to try to push a bill through both Houses of Congress with bi-partisan horse trading like most other Presidents. 

For example, late in his presidency he belatedly gave effect to his “drain the swamp” mantra which resonated with his MAGA base by moving large sections of the Department of Agriculture and Department of Interior out of Washington to other places predominantly in the mid-west.  Overnight he destroyed these departments, which were irksome to him, as most of their employees resigned rather than uproot their families from where they had lived their whole lives. 

He intends to expand on this if given a second term which would be akin to Mao’s Cultural Revolution.  This time around, he has the Republican think tank, Project 2025, with a 900-page bucket list locked and loaded to do the thinking for him as to how he can rejig the whole delicately balanced political setup in America in what will, in effect, be a bloodless coup.  Expanding on his baby steps of 2019, Trump says he will move 100,000 Federal jobs out of Washington thereby filleting and deboning large swathes of the Federal bureaucracy necessary to hold him and his rich ilk in check.  He will also reclassify 50,000 Federal positions as political appointees which will enable him to fire them at will without any blowback.

So his being a dictator on Day One will just be for his enemies out of childish and spiteful vindictiveness.  For the rest, he will stick it to the nation and recreate America in his own tawdry image full of Trump yes-men.