The Obscene American President
It’s just sad when a human obscenity is elected to the highest seat of power in the world.
How is a many-times, serial bankrupt even permitted to run for POTUS? He couldn’t even get any more bank loans from legitimate banks, not until a host of Putin-authorized Russian oligarchs backed Deutsche Bank to extend him a line of credit — and that was really a function of a money-laundering operation disguised as a bail-out. As reported in ‘The New Republic’ in 2017:
…there is much we already know about the president’s debt to Russia. A review of the public record reveals a clear and disturbing pattern: Trump owes much of his business success, and by extension his presidency, to a flow of highly suspicious money from Russia. Over the past three decades, at least 13 people with known or alleged links to Russian mobsters or oligarchs have owned, lived in, and even run criminal activities out of Trump Tower and other Trump properties. Many used his apartments and casinos to launder untold millions in dirty money. Some ran a worldwide high-stakes gambling ring out of Trump Tower — in a unit directly below one owned by Trump. Others provided Trump with lucrative branding deals that required no investment on his part. Taken together, the flow of money from Russia provided Trump with a crucial infusion of financing that helped rescue his empire from ruin, burnish his image, and launch his career in television and politics. “They saved his bacon,” says Kenneth McCallion, a former assistant U.S. attorney in the Reagan administration who investigated ties between organized crime and Trump’s developments in the 1980s.
It not for the thoroughly obscene ‘The Apprentice’ so-called ‘reality show,’ the world might have been spared the debacle of a seamy, cheap, criminally implicated failed businessman being elevated to the supreme position of presiding over global economic, military, and ideological influence and power. As reported in GQ Magazine in July, 2019:
If it weren’t for his reality TV show, The Apprentice, there’s a strong chance that Donald Trump wouldn’t be president today. It made the real estate tycoon a household name and helped him sell himself as a savvy businessman, despite his history of bankruptcy and debt. And some of the behind-the-scenes stories offer a window into Trump’s thinking about race. As The New York Timesdetailed in a story on Saturday, Trump once pitched an idea for the show’s fourth season with teams of all-white (specifically, all blonds) and all-black contestants competing against each other.
How can bankrupts be president when there’s an entire host of jobs, positions of trust, teaching positions, positions of even rudimentary business responsibility, they can’t even get? They are so obviously vectors of coercion, illicit influence, corruption and graft. So obviously!
And now we’re here.
America needs to look to the drafting of a Constitutional Amendment to regulate — even in an utterly basic way, like a bank vets credit applicants and universities vet job applicants — exactly who is permitted to run for the highest office. Obviously.
