"I am old. I am a Vietnam era veteran. Thanks to Donald Trump, I have no sense of pride for the country I have always loved. My God, what is wrong with us?" - WaPo comment
"Bezos should sell the Post to someone who could call Trump out for being the morally depraved, deeply flawed and racist person he is, without fearing retribution." = WaPo comment
"Apologize?? This is a man who buried his ex wife on his golf course so it could be taxed as a cemetery. The man is beyond incorrigible." WaPO comment
"Tim Scott hopes the post is fake. No senator this is YOUR president, the low life you support."- WaPo comment
The current occupant of the People's House, fouling it from pillar to post, is a racist slimeball and pig. Can we all finally agree on that? As Permalink blogger Thomas Hartmann remarked after Trump's posting of a vile video depicting Michelle and Barack Obama as apes:
I’ve seen a lot of ugly moments in American politics. But every so often something happens that still takes your breath away, not because it’s surprising, but because it’s so painfully revealing.
To call this vile turd (as Robert Reich did) a "loathsome human being" is - imho- too tepid by far. No, he isn't even human but rather a fungal cockroach or bloated swine in the guise of a human. A two-legged roach (or swine) with a roach-reptile brain if you will.
There were, indeed, multiple opportunities before the 2024 election to send this maggot permanently packing. I largely blame a corrupt Supreme Court - laden with 6 conservo Catholic Trumpers - for giving this orange beast a pass. That was instead of disqualifying this traitor (who speaks wildly of hanging others like Sen. Mark Kelly) under Sec. 3 of the 14th amendment which disqualifies insurrectionists from office.
But oh no, the clueless SC reprobates argued the traitor was "not an officer" so could not be held to account. Compounding this judicial atrocity they then passed a ruling asserting he had "qualified immunity" by virtue of holding the office of the president.
As bad as these Supreme were in delivering their misbegotten 'get out of jail free' card, the legacy media (mainly top newspapers) have been just as bad in failing to hold this felon to account. As Peggy Noonan put it in her Weekend WSJ op-ed ('A Lament for the Washington Post', p. 13):
"I cannot understand the figure of Jeff Bezos. What is he about right now? I can't believe the fourth wealthiest person in the world (and in history) would dash his own historic reputation to curry favor with the Trump administration. For what? More contracts?....What matters is honor, the thing that lasts, what history says of you. How you helped your country."
But the pestilence holding the highest office in the land, a degraded fungal maggot, has seemingly compromised all who might hold him to account. Especially the press (4th estate), which appears more intimidated than anything else.
Indeed, in Saturday's Washington Post, one finds a totally flawed, misinforming op-ed (How the New Misery befell America) scribbled by one Nicholas Eberstadt, a nattering nabob from the American Enterprise Institute who babbles:
"Domestically, confidence in our political and civil institutions has undergone a serious and prolonged decline. Confidence in America internationally is eroding precipitously as well. Foreign governments and global markets are coming to regard the United States as an unreliable actor — even as an epicenter of international instability."
Seemingly oblivious to the reality staring most citizens in the face daily. In the words of one commenter:
“The reason for the decline is simple, it has a name, it is called Donald Trump. All of the other b s in this "opinion" is just that b s.”
Which elicits even deeper questions on why so many are swallowing Trump's excesses and B.S. by the truckload. Take, for example, the stated reaction of Sen. Tim Scott (the only Reep black Senator) after Trump's ape Truth Social post: "Praying it was fake because it's the most racist thing I've seen out of this White House." (WSJ, Saturday, 'Trump Deletes Post of Obamas', p. A6). Sen. Scott - instead of praying for the impossible- would have done better to recall Trump's love of white nationalists and Nazis in his first term. I.e. the lot gathered in Charlottesville in August, 2017 whom he described as "very fine people", i.e.
Sometimes facing reality is hard, Tim, but if we are ever to get our nation back you and your Reep cohort have to start. Find your cojones, that is. That means holding the Traitor -felon racist accountable.
Speaking of which we also need the ostensible religious to end their delusions about Trump. Such as Mark Burns (a SC pastor) who, according to the same WSJ piece: "spoke with Trump about the post, and 'The president made it clear to me this post was made by a staffer and not by him" and "He urged Trump to fire the staffer." Please. Are you not aware this Turd is also the author of over 34,000 LIES, as tallied over the last two years? Can you not dissolve the delusions enough to see this is entirely the felon racist's own product, i.e. authorizing an innominate tech 'gofer' to create it? Just like he ordered the same techie gofer to create the AI video of himself 'shit bombing' a No Kings protest last summer?
Sheesh! What the hell does it take to wake up the MAGA morons? Can't they see this guy is a degraded sociopath who isn't fit to clean porto-potties, far less occupy the presidency. Oh wait! They love this piece of orange fungal slop. He makes their day 'cause he "makes the libs cry". They relish his overt racism and the fact he's a state-of-the-art Nazi or Ku Kluxer just like them.
Why do you think the American Olympic team in their procession Friday was booed in Milan-Cortina? Because like it or not, the Europeans lump them into the 77 m deluded, deranged American voters who put this unfit roach back in power - to their detriment. (And yes, in the case of the booing, 'Peter has to pay for Paul').
But I have to hold the mainstream press itself mostly to blame for not going hard enough during the 2024 campaign to expose this unqualified traitor for who and what he was. Instead, trying to soft peddle his outbursts like they were simple minor deviations from the norm. This namby-pamby approach, including often teeing off on the more legitimate candidate, led to the traitor's ridiculous win in 7 swing states. Thereby enabling Trump's arrogance, cruelty and hostility toward anyone opposed to his white supremacy-hate campaign to run rampant and solidify his taking control of the U.S.
There was also the abject failure to call out the many Hitler comparisons, which many Holocaust survivors noticed. It would have been especially useful, if the mainstream media weren't so squeamish, to call attention to the Hitler- Trump psychiatric files, e.g.
Parsing The "Hitler - Trump Psychiatric Files"
The failure of will to do this, to strike while the iron was red hot, especially when over 200 mental health professionals expressed concern, will live for as long as this degenerate inflicts his tyranny on whatever number of years he has left. True, the voters had the chance to nip the threat in the bud. After all, they were warned over and over about the Project 2025 specter and how Trump vowed to employ it. But they allowed their fears of higher costs of eggs and housing to rob their common sense of its moral direction. Which ought to have led them to vote for Kamala Harris, instead of a convicted felon.
But again, the laxness of citizens and their gob smacking gullibility was enabled by the legacy media failures to call out major divergence from norms and laws when they appeared. In the words of Permalink blogger Christian Christensen:
"Ít was precisely the belief that Trump could be treated like any other politician, and MAGA like any other political movement, that led media in the U.S. (and abroad) to mainstream and sanitize what was very clearly not a normal politician nor a normal political movement.
No matter how many times Trump’s lies, corruption, or incompetence were exposed during his first term, he maintained his popularly among Republican politicians and core voters. There was the clear sense that the hammering not only didn’t hurt Trump, it made him stronger. The liquidity of MAGA seemed obvious, yet journalism and political opponents continued to hammer away as if he were a solid.”
So here we are at the cusp of an American dictatorship because too many lost sight of their 'north star' - the one on which this nation was founded and for which my ancestors fought in the Revolutionary War. The one for which the Founders never expected Americans to elect a degenerate demagogue, felon and traitor. Let us hope this nation survives to the mid-term elections when hopefully an actual check on this tyrant's power can manifest.
As Gideon Rachmann wrote in his column ('A Post-Trump Restoration Is Still Possible') in The Financial Times today:
"As Trump's behavior becomes more and more indefensible, at home and abroad, a backlash is under way. America's allies are finding their voices. But the backlash that will really matter has to take place in the U.S. itself. Here too there is finally some momentum as Americans took to the streets of Minneapolis to protest the violent tactics of ICE, which saw two citizens lose their lives. Many Republicans were also openly horrified about the racist meme that Trump posted about the Obamas. But none of this will matter much if the American people continue to vote for Trump and his acolytes."
And here is where 'the bear sits with the buckwheat'. For the world and nation to change and return to normality, there must be a cessation of voting for anything to do with Trump. That includes his pet pawn, JD Vance, in 2028. Americans must show the world - prove to the world - we are not the stupid rubes it thinks we all are.
See Also:
Trump refuses to apologize over video showing Obamas as apes - The Washington Post
Excerpt:
President Donald Trump declined to apologize for sharing a social media video that depicted Barack and
Michelle Obama as apes, saying he did not realize the image of the former
president and first lady was tacked on to the end of the clip.
In response to a question from The Washington Post about
whether he would heed the calls of some Republicans to apologize for posting
the video, which was widely condemned as racist and offensive, Trump said he
would not.
And:
Opinion | Trump’s Obama Derangement Syndrome - The New York Times
Excerpt:
It seems etymologically, metaphysically, geologically and
ethically impossible that President Trump could reach a new low. But he has.
Every Friday, when I’m planning my column, I find fresh
evidence that the president is unfit for his office. He taunts his foes in
crude, creepy ways and tries to tattoo his name on everything.
Late Thursday night, a vile clip appeared on Truth Social,
depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes in a jungle cartoon, to the Tokens’
“The Lion Sleeps Tonight.” It was at the end of a video filled with baseless
conspiracy theories about the 2020 election. The man who pushed the despicable
“birther” conspiracy is still at it, using a racist meme from a far-right
Pepe-the-frog-loving acolyte.
Like many of Trump’s actions, it was both shocking and
predictable.
As The Times reported,
Trump has a “history of making degrading remarks about people of color, women
and immigrants,” and the Obamas in particular, with “the White House, Labor
Department and Homeland Security Department all having promoted posts that echo
white supremacist messaging” in his current term.
Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, offered
a pathetic defense for our pathological president: “This is from an internet
meme video depicting President Trump as the king of the jungle and Democrats as
characters from ‘The Lion King.’ Please stop the fake outrage and report on
something today that actually matters to the American public.”
Well, Karoline, I think Americans do care that your boss is
a racist and off his rocker.
“His presidency is enclosed in a bubble wrap of darkness and hatred and resentment,” Rahm Emanuel, who served as Obama’s chief of staff, told me.
And:
by Jordan Liz | February 9, 2026 - 6:00am | permalink
On February 5, a video was posted on President Donald Trump’s Truth Social account depicting former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama as apes in a jungle. The racist depiction of Black people as primates dates back centuries. It is meant to represent them as ugly, savage, and unintelligent—as fundamentally incapable of building a human (white) civilization.
The post was deleted 12 hours later. The White House initially blamed an unnamed staffer for posting it. One White House adviser told reporters, “The president was not aware of that video, and was very let down by the staffer who put it out.” Apparently, they forgot that Trump himself had claimed that only he and White House Deputy Chief of Staff Dan Scavino have access to his social media account.
Later that day, Trump admitted that he knew about the video before its posting. He told reporters, “I looked at the beginning of [the video]. It was fine.” He then added, “Nobody knew that that was at the end. If they would have looked, they would have had the sense to take it down.” Neither the current president of the United States nor his staff is apparently capable of watching a 1-minute video before posting it.
And:
by Thom Hartmann | February 7, 2026 - 6:21am | permalink
I’ve been talking into microphones since I did the morning news on WITL in Lansing Michigan in the late 1960s, and I’ve seen a lot of ugly moments in American politics. But every so often something happens that still takes your breath away, not because it’s surprising, but because it’s so painfully revealing.
This latest racist stunt by Donald Trump — reposting a meme on his Nazi-infested social media site in which the Obamas’ faces are superimposed onto the bodies of primates in the jungle set to the 1961 song “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” by The Tokens — is one of those moments.
That a popular pro-Trump account on X created this video and it has lived on that platform without consequence is disgusting in and of itself. But Trump — as our president, speaking in our voice — made it infinitely worse last night by promoting it to millions around the world.
Promoting a video that depicts Barack and Michelle Obama as non-human primates isn’t a joke. It isn’t satire or an accident. It’s the oldest racist smear in the book, dressed up in a cheap meme and now blasted out by a man who once swore an oath to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States.
And:
by Robert Reich | February 7, 2026 - 6:37am | permalink
— from Robert Reich's Substack
I try to ignore Trump’s posts because every one of them is filled with his noxious bloviation.
But sometimes his posts are so revolting that I can’t just let them pass. The loathsome sociopath in the Oval Office has to be held accountable.
Late last night — which happened to be the fifth day of Black History Month — at exactly 11:44 pm, Trump posted a video that included a depiction of Barack and Michelle Obama as monkeys.
Now, we all know Trump is a loathsome human being. His insults have become an odious staple of his presidency. You may remember his AI-generated video of himself as a fighter pilot dumping excrement on No Kings Day protesters. Or his AI-generated video of Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries as mariachi performers.
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