Just as I don’t watch his rally’s, I have no intention of watching Trump fumble around on a CNN stage tonight and continue to lie to the American people.
At this point, his malignant narcissism is so acute, he has no grip on reality. Do you remember the movie Inside/Out from Pixar? If you haven’t seen it, I *highly* recommend doing so because it’s one of the most sophisticated dramas I have ever seen. And, it’s delightful! In it, they deal with the inner working of human emotions and memories. Memories are represented in animate form by different color balls and stored in various parts of the brain. In this scene below, you can see how the brain needs to make room for new memories by getting rid of old memories. You can see the character/emotion Joy (voiced by the wonderful Amy Poehler) is holding and protecting several “core” memories of the adolescent girl who is her charge. This is a short clip, but you’ll get the point…
I began to wonder a few years ago if Donald Trump is purposefully and willfully ignoring his memories or if he truly doesn’t have them anymore. I have no idea which is more accurate, but I’m not sure it matters. He is fundamentally incapable of telling the truth. He’s newsworthy only because he was the President of the United States and as Liz Cheney says, represents a clear and present danger to the future of our country. I, too, wish he’d go away, but here we are.
I am not upset that CNN is having a town hall with him. News organizations are designed to get our leaders on the record. I have no doubt, after yesterday’s jury verdict finding that indeed, the former President is in fact, a sexual predator, that subject will come up. But honestly, do you expect him to now admit he knows E Jean Carroll? Or admit to it? It’s all just lies.
So go ahead CNN. Broadcast the former Liar-in-Chief. And for the love of all that is good in this world, have a panel assembled to call him out on these lies afterwards. But you are not going to rope me into watching. And I hope you all don’t, either.