Meet the New Boss

Despite welcome ridicule, the joke is on us.

Atlanta, GA

October 1, 2025

This week epitomizes the Trump presidency.

The president posted an AI video with Senator Schumer “admitting” Democrats are widely detested, and that their base of support is primarily illegal aliens they import. Behind him, with Mariachi music playing, Congressman Hakeem Jeffries stood under a superimposed sombrero and Mexican mustache.

As with most Trump taunts, the video was derided as juvenile and beneath the “dignity of the office”. That’s good, because we shouldn’t dignify what that office has become. And our Legislative “leaders” deserve to be mocked.

Manchurian Voters

But, as always, the reaction is overdone. This is probably intentional. To condemn what Trump did, the butts of the joke amplified the farce. Jeffries held a press conference and Schumer gave a Senate speech, to let us know how offended they were (and how outraged we should be).

Not that anyone with an IQ above room temperature (Celsius) believed the video was real. It was obviously fake, because everything “Schumer” said in it was true.

Yet since this country no longer has a sense of humor or an ability to ignore childish insults, the clip incited its intended hysteria. Depending on political persuasion, it provoked ire or pride. Rather than toss tomatoes at the performers, the audience once again took aim at each other. This is no doubt what the performers wanted.

Trump casts his lines to make waves, but without disturbing the current under the surface. I’ve always been amazed how eagerly the president’s detractors take his bait. But his supporters eat it just as eagerly.

Politically, he’s done this for a decade. Professionally, he’s done it forever. None of this is new. It’s who Donald Trump has always been. But his audience always responds as if it’s the first time they’ve seen the show.

Rather than roll their eyes and move along, his targets … like Manchurian voters… reflexively become elated or enraged.

Purpose served.

The plebs fight among themselves about mean tweets, goofy memes, and silly stunts, while the objects of their anger or affection work together to rip them off.

Interchangeable Ornaments

Like a good magician, Trump knows deception requires distraction. And few are better with evocative sleights of hand.

The fake video followed an Oval Office meeting with Schumer and Jeffries, in which the president placed “Trump 2028” hats on the desk.

Like everything Trump does, this was obviously more for the cameras (i.e., us) than for his congressional guests. As with most things in politics, if we saw something, we were meant to see it.

And, once again, it worked like a charm.

The gimmick had Trump’s supporters pointing, laughing, and pumping fists. And it irritated those he wanted to annoy. That’s their fault.

Like a kid who picks on his sibling because it provokes a reaction, Trump trolls his opponents because he knows they’ll whine. Talk about wasted tears.

Hinting at a third term doesn’t make Trump a “dictator”. But it proves anyone who thinks it does is an emotional hypochondriac with misplaced priorities. Debt, war, surveillance, and biomedical control are real outrages. Yet few of Trump’s critics ever moan about those, choosing instead to fret over sideshows.

The Constitution is mostly useless and almost always unenforced. But its administrative features are still abided.

Representation is apportioned based on population. Each state has two senators. Elections are held every other year. Presidents are inaugurated January 20. And they can only serve two terms.

Trump can’t do anything about that. Without a constitutional amendment, how do the hysterics expect the president to hold power?

Do they honestly think the military complex, administrative bureaucracy, and intelligence “community” would support Trump in a coup?

These agencies have spent ten years trying to obstruct, indict, oust, or kill him. Even if they’ve co-opted him (which seems evident), there’s no need for them to want him to stay.

Why would they? Presidents are interchangeable ornaments.

The illusion of “democracy” serves the purpose of those who really run things. It allows them to control and loot while convincing the flock it’s fleecing itself. Whichever shepherd the sheep select is mostly irrelevant, but it’s best if they think he’s not one of the wolves.

Promises Made, Promises Broken

If anything, that’s what Trump has proven. He came to office pledging to undo the waste, recklessness, and cultural insanity of recent years.

He promised to end the senseless slaughter in Gaza and the ridiculous war in the Ukraine. Instead, funding has continued. If anything, it’s increased, and the killing has intensified… with the U.S. military directly involved.

Both conflicts would immediately end if the U.S. government withheld all materiel and money from the Ukraine and Israel. Instead, the Trump Administration (while characteristically speaking from each side of its mouth) has maintained (or intensified) support for each regime.

Today, for the fourth time (!) in eight months, Benjamin Netanyahu visited the White House. It’s the first of the month, so maybe he decided to collect his rent in person.

A few days ago, the Prime Minister of Israel discussed the importance of Oracle (founded with funding from the CIA) buying TikTok’s US operations, and said “we need to talk to Elon” about X.

To the extent Israel retains any popular support in the U.S., it’s from older voters who are dying off. Netanyahu knows he’s lost the narrative, so wants to control platforms where his opponents can speak.

Earlier in the week, Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla was in the Oval Office. Like Netanyahu, he was there to be honored rather than arrested. As the president fawned in a press conference, “Albert [Bourla] has done a fantastic job with covid. He did a fantastic job with a lot of things. He’s a leader.”

With Trump’s assistance, this “leader” unleashed an experimental elixir, then worked with the government to coerce its universal consumption. Like Netanyahu, Bourla wanted to silence skeptics who dared dissent:

“There is a very small part of professionals who circulate, on purpose, misinformation so they will mislead those who have concerns. Those people are criminals.”

If those who justifiably doubted the efficacy of Pfizer’s “vaccines” are “criminals”, what does that make this guy?:

The people who pitched a fit about Jimmy Kimmel being “silenced” are suddenly indifferent about a foreign leader and a pharmaceutical CEO advocating that their critics be quieted.

They complain about Trump posting “insensitive” memes, but couldn’t care less that he fêtes such scoundrels in the White House. This is the same president who unconstitutionally imposed the largest tax increase in American history, signed a spending bill that balloons debt he promised to cut, and attacked Iran, Yemen, and Caribbean skiffs without declarations of war.

Last Laugh

Aside from some welcome pardons, abolishing USAID, and reducing illegal immigration (which are all great), most of what this administration has done could’ve occurred under its predecessor.

But even the USAID and immigration cuts are illusory or misleading. Most USAID chicanery was shifted to the State Department, where the shenanigans will be more difficult to detect. And while the immigration flow has slowed, the pipes are still in place and more are being built. As long as the UN exists, it’s just a matter of re-opening the valve.

And, despite popular perception and political showboating, illegals in the US aren’t being deported any faster than before. If anything (as usually happens when Americans are whipped into a panic), intruders will become excuses to crackdown on us, primarily thru digital and AI surveillance administered by government “partners” like Palantir.

I love that Trump openly ridicules his rivals. It’s great seeing pompous politicians taken down a peg. But public awareness needs to be brought up a notch. Amid the mockery inflation, spending, wars, and surveillance persist.

As our rulers publicly insult each other, they privately laugh at us.

JD