X-Files, Twilight Zone At The White House
D. S. Mitchell
World Stage
I just watched Donald Trump and Angela Merkel at their joint press conference. Merkel is now the recognized leader of the West, according to the headlines. While Trump, is now the recognized leader of weirdo, conspiracy theorists, and bizarro “de-construction” of the U.S. government schemes. Trump has turned the United States into a global joke. He cannot control himself. The perennial gadfly took time to attack Obama. I saw it as an effort to elevate his phony charges of wire tapping by Obama to international levels. Trump accused UK counter intelligence of being the hands and feet of Obama’s alleged illegal tap.
Get More Sleep
Trump needs to get more sleep, and some psychiatric help. He needs to stop watching re-runs of X-Files and Twilight Zone all night long. If he got a decent nights sleep we might have less chaotic tweet nonsense at 6:00 am. This is life and he needs to focus on the real, not the imagined. A conspiracy theory is the explanation of an event, or situation that suggests other motives and perpetrators, without warrant or evidence. Generally, the event involves an illegal, or harmful act carried out by government, or other sinister men behind the curtain. This thinking, dovetails beautifully, with Trump’s “deep state” accusations.
Fertilizer
The ‘Deep State’ as I understand it, is a theory describing “secret” actions of government agencies, or military departments. These ‘deep state’ actors in some Oz like manipulation, control government policy. Conspiracy theories and similar bizarre imaginings are fertilized in Trump’s brain by Breitbart and Fox News. It should be no surprise that Trump’s belief that Obama is coordinating a “deep state” resistance to him came right off the front page of Breitbart.
Reporting
In a 3/16/2017 Washington Examiner story by Anna Giaritelli, conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer confided, “He (Trump) has an affinity for conspiracy theories. Remember, he also claimed Ted Cruz’s father was involved with Lee Harvey Oswald, in the JFK assassination. That’s pretty Twilight Zone stuff. These things make you question the credibility of the president on anything.” Krauthammer advised Trump to back off on the Obama wire tap story, “because nobody believes what you say.”
Dangerous Stories
What most of the world believes is that Trump is an unpredictable mad man. Everyone knows he has the nuclear code in his pocket. That knowledge keeps everyone agitated. He might just send an ICBM headed toward an ally, because he misheard, or misunderstood a story on Fox News. This is crazy stuff.
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