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A NATION IN CRISIS
Hydroxychloroquine Is The New Covfefe
Children blame others “to avoid disapproval and negative consequences.” At 74 years old, Donald Trump just refuses to admit that anything is wrong.
You gave me power in your own god’s name
I’m every person you need to be”
- “Cult of Personality”, Living Colour
In an extreme case of the cult of personality, the official state-issued biography of former North Korean dictator “Kim Jong-Il states that the Dear Leader does not answer to bowel movements like ordinary humans–in fact, he doesn’t defecate or urinate at all.” He is also said to have bowled “a perfect 300 in his first attempt at the sport”. Another story says that he shot a hole in one at least five times during his first golf outing.
As Americans, we laugh at the fact that any of these tall tales are believed, but a significant minority in our own country behave the same way, accepting Trump’s every word as gospel. We do know for a fact that Trump visits the restroom, but according to the brand he has cultivated, he is otherwise infallible. He is a self-declared expert on the subject of any conversation and knows more than anyone else about everything from Senator Cory Booker to drones. His fans blindly follow along, pretending that this is all normal. To question their own Dear Leader is to be unpatriotic.
Perhaps the strangest example of Trump’s adherence to the principle that “it is less harmful to retain a formulation, even if it should not entirely correspond to reality, than by improving it” by “correct[ing] the error” occurred in the early morning hours of May 31, 2017. Ignoring the fact that a president’s words can have life or death consequences, Trump sat with his phone angry tweeting: “Despite the constant negative press covfefe”.
