Under international laws of war I'm owed a Beverly Hills psychiatrist's one-hour fee for sitting through a viewing of nearly all of Trump's torturous "Save America" rally in Waukesha, Wisconsin Friday. My painfully earned compensation is spelled out in Geneva's 1949 Convention IV, Protocol III, Article 3: a guarantee of citizens' humane treatment in non-international conflicts.
The acute motivation for my claiming due recompense is that the twice-impeached former president opened his one-hour and 20-minute screed/reelection stump by denouncing what's occurring on the Senate floor today, which I have running on my android C-Span in the background. "The radical Democrats now intend to impose the biggest tax hike in American history, the exact opposite of what I did," Trump emphasized.
The agony of listening to this tripe was indescribable, interrupted only on occasion by Trump's overt admission of arrested cerebral development: For example, somewhere in his speech he said it took him "years and years" to learn how to pronounce Reince Priebus's name. In another vein — that of his tedious name-calling, amusing only in Trump's self-definition of adolescent "cognition" — there was this, at 00.06.47: "Joe Manchin has totally sold out West Virginia. What he's done to that state is disgraceful. And I told the old broken crow, Mitch McConnell, that this was going to happen."
Perhaps this is on me, however —the torture, I mean. I behaved recklessly; I walked right in to his speech just as some Americans travel to Iran or Russia, which is really dumb. I will advise that you watch the final couple minutes of Trump's bombast, beginning at 01.06.15. It is absolutely, exactingly perfect demagoguery, outdoing even his heretofore darkest, inaugural "American Carnage" address.
Evidently, his four years in office did nothing to "Save America," the title of his Friday harangue.