The Naked Guy at the Playground

The way we treat Donald Trump is grossly unfair, not because we're too harsh on him.  On the contrary, we seem to have a never ending tolerance to his unacceptable, racist and inappropriate buffoonery.  I never have seen anything like it, and I'm not just talking comparatively to the Democrats.  Never in the history of this country have we had a politician who's been given this level of leeway in regards to the comments which come out of his butt...I mean mouth.

In this article, I'm not going to address the disparaging comments he's made about women, Muslims, the handicapped, minorities and military war heroes, although they're all horrible.  Any one of them, individually, would've negated a Republican or Democrat from immediate contention for the White House in past elections.  Even this year, if anyone else but Trump mouthed anything 1/10th as disgusting as him, they would've been bounced from the race.  When Rubio tried to get into the gutter with him, he ended up out of contention quickly.

I want to highlight one thing he said Sunday; one, on a day of numerous outlandish statements from the Cheetos reject.  This wasn't even close to the most repugnant thing he barfed out today.  It had to do with the upcoming Presidential debates, debates Trump is desperately trying to find a way out of.  He can't go toe to toe with Hillary Clinton on policy issues without looking like either an idiot or a bully (probably both).  He's smart enough to know he can't win votes by being either, so he's starting to lay the groundwork for weaseling out of the debates.

On ABC's "This Week", Trump insisted the Democrats were trying to fix the Presidential debate schedule, placing two of the debates on at the same time as scheduled NFL games, just so Hillary wouldn't look bad.  He then went on to say the following:

"Well, I'll tell you what I don't like. It's against two NFL games. I got a letter from the NFL saying, 'This is ridiculous. Why are the debates against -- because the NFL doesn't want to go against the debates. Because the debates are going to be pretty massive, from what I understand, OK?"

Any other Presidential candidate would've been out of the election today with two of the doozies from this story alone.  First was Donald's lack of understanding how and when the debates are set up.  These debates are a product of the Commission on Presidential Debates, a non partisan group who set the dates for this year's debates in September of 2015.  His allegation the Democrats were trying to avoid him is a bold face lie, as is the implication they demanded the debates be on during the football games.  In reality, the NFL scheduled their games against the debates, not the other way around.

He then tells what should be his second political career ending lie.  The NFL never wrote him!  Trump completely fabricated the NFL letter.  The NFL actually came out today, informing everyone they hadn't sent him a letter in any capacity about the debates.  

These two bold face lies should be the end of Trump.  They won't even be talked about by tomorrow's news cycle.  They'll become like the alleged speech writer for Melania, Trump's wife, who liberally stole direct passages from Michelle Obama in her speech to the Republican Convention.  To my knowledge, there still seems to be a question on whether the speech writer actually exists.  No one's even talking about her anymore.  Heck, it's only 8 PM, tonight; he might have a few more 'career ending for anyone else but Trump' statements yet to make today.

Trump is a naked guy at a school playground.  We should all be aghast at the outlandishness of what he's doing, heaping scorn and ridicule upon him, shunning him from our existence, and running him out of the country for being such an abhorrent, gruesome, hideous, disgusting monster.  Instead we treat him like he's an eccentric neighbor who loves to be around kids at the playground, naked, because clothes make him feel uncomfortable.

When Trump loses in November, there are going to be a lot of people asking why they let the naked guy hang out at the playground for as long as they did.  My only guess is it's the same primordial internal base grunt we all have, eagerly watching as Britany Spears shaves her head and waves an umbrella at passers by, the one that makes us slow down to get a great big eyeful of the horrendous bloody car crash.  Part of us all loves a good train wreck, so even though we know better, we've all become Trump's enablers.

Shame on us.