The presidency of the United States.
A profession that has taken the phrase, “You can be anything you want when you grow up.”, a little too far.
One of the constitutionally mandated acts as president is to give the State of the Union address, which is the economic report card that coincides with a budget message to rectify any weaknesses seen, as well as the president’s legislative aspirations that will require congressional cooperation if this is to become a reality.
President Trump gave his first State of the Union speech last Tuesday. Among the highlights were: his revisitation of his “accomplishments” which can be summerized all on a Post-it note on the refrigerator. In sum total, according to CNN, the speech was 80/20: 80% was playing the greatest hits album, 20% was his focus on immigration, particularly getting his wall built. It included this rather obvious slight at “Dreamers.”
Yeah. Americans are dreamers. In fact, 65 million of them dreamed about not seeing the Cheeto mascot making this speech! The only way Americans are under attack and unsafe is if your phone is fully charged, and if a rogue Twitter employee fails to “delete your account.” Those 11 minutes were the only time during this presidency has been a dream, rather than a nightmare.
As usual, Trump dedicated a long stretch of the speech to Obama, in a rather unflattering way. He wants to strip the Obama-era individual mandate for all Americans to have health insurance. DACA will be gone if Trump has his way. Of course, aside from the wall, he has failed to deliver any plans for what he wants to accomplish. He just wants to tear down any Obama-era policy that has had success. It’s like he was given the keys to a “red” Lamborgini, even though HE WANTED THE BLUE ONE!
Of course, the one issue he failed to tackle head-on was the allegations that Russia meddled in the 2016 elections. In fact, during the speech, he failed to even mention the word Russia except for one quote:
I will admit: he is right about Russia and China being terrorists. You bet that both are terrorists in his mind: China is his personal financial terrorist for his owing to them more than the GDP of “shithole” countries in Africa, and Russia is his mental terrorist because of the Pee Tape.
I guess “you can be whatever you want to be when you grow up” can be true, provided you’re in debt and have embarrassing videos you don’t want out there.