It Ain't Trump, Babe

We’ve got less than 5 weeks to go until Donald J. Trump becomes the 45^th president of the United States and we all need to get used to a fact we’ll confront over and over for the next four years. When things go wrong, Donald Trump will not be responsible for anything.

His excuses are already being written, pundits and apologists are being prepped to offer “he didn’t do it, and if he did, he shouldn’t be held accountable” explanations, the guilty parties are already being lined up to take the blame for whatever mistakes are made, the closets are already being stuffed with videos, movies and social media content exonerating the president, Trump-friendly writers in the U.S. and Russia are already preparing drafts of stories justifying why whatever goes wrong is not Donald Trump’s fault. Don’t expect Trump to own up to ANYTHING, unless, by accident, something goes right. Then he will jump to the head of the parade and tell us all how only HE could have done it.

President Harry Truman was famous for the sign on his desk that read “The Buck Stops Here”. All the finger-pointing, hand-wringing, and assignment of guilt ended at Harry’s desk. He accepted responsibility because he believed the buck did stop with him. But president Trump is going to rip off the '60s rock band The Turtles because his motto is going to be “It Ain’t Me, Babe”.

Donald Trump will not be to blame for the missed signals from not attending security briefings, the coming conflict with China, the loss of NATO power to Russia, for even more damaging cyber-security breaches by foreign powers, about an economy that goes into a tailspin, about further damage to our water and air due to fracking, oil spills, gas explosions and ecological disasters from relaxing or removing environmental regulations, for the continued loss of jobs to automation and U.S. companies looking for cheaper labor outside our borders, for his wealthy buddies raking in even more cash at the expense of the very people that got Trump elected, at the continued erosion of American prestige around the world, at the worsening of relations between races, at the increased hostility of Islamic countries, at the exponential spread of hoaxes and fake news, and the massive increase in sexual assault from variations of pussy-grabbing incidents.

Americans used to joke about Ronald Reagan being a Teflon president because he made innumerable inaccurate statements yet the stigma of doing so did not stick to him. He was never held accountable for his missteps, fibs, and callous comments. But Reagan pales to amateur status compared to Trump. Donald Trump made numerous bigoted comments, threatening remarks, and malicious proclamations as a candidate. At some point, those will be acted on, but Trump will not hold himself accountable for inflaming the situation. Whatever happens will be someone else’s fault, not his. Bank on it.

President Trump will never own up to making a poor or disastrous decision. He will never be responsible for the divisiveness he created while campaigning. Any new story will be automatically dismissed because it’s from the “dishonest press,” And Trump’s supporters will never believe he is guilty of doing anything unconstitutional, unethical or corrupt no matter what it is. Even if it is proven that Trump was the cause or the instigator of something that harms our nation…he will simply tweet “It ain’t me, Babe”...and he will be cheered by his base for squarely confronting his accusers and for his “honesty”.

To the American Electorate: "KISS MY ASS!"

Trump’s denial of responsibility will be what one would expect only from a corrupt third world dictatorship. But when you campaign and tell voters you are the best or the greatest at everything, you leave no room to admit you might be wrong.
Time to send in the clowns....Oh, don't bother, he's here.

Jon Stewart discovered his real name is Fuckface Von Clownstick