Donald Trump posted this image from his social media platform on the White House website, proving what we’ve been saying all along. He literally wants to be the first king of America, an authoritarian dictator who destroys American democracy: NAJ screen shot

EDITOR’S NOTE – This will be my last political editorial column for awhile, as it appears I may be doing some reporting for Alabama Public Radio and maybe even NPR soon.

The Big Picture –
By Glynn Wilson –

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Well, I hope you are happy now, the half of America that voted for this dickhead for president of the former United States. Don’t worry, the other half. It won’t last long.

He changed the name of the Gulf of Mexico. Watch out for what’s next: Changing the name of the country itself: Trumpland. This must not stand.

If Trump really wants to be Caesar, he may face a similar fate at the hands of the Senate before this is all over. (In case you’ve not read history, or watched the freaking movie, Caesar was repeatedly stabbed in the back by his own Senators). They are not standing up to him yet, at least not the Republicans, but give them time when their own fates are on the line.

At the Conservative Political Action Conference this week, a group calling itself the “Third Term Project” erected a sign depicting Trump as Caesar, where Elon Musk was seen waving a chain saw.

As we predicted for years, he now thinks of himself as the first king of America, a slap in the face to George Washington and every president since, even George W. Bush, who also seemed to want to be a monarch like his namesake King George III.

Trump held a Bible upside down with his fingers crossed behind his back and told his people he was ordained by god to be our first authoritarian dictator. But it was not God who anointed him. It was the uneducated, ignorant masses the founding fathers feared, which is why they created a Republic with checks and balances, not a direct democracy. Trump is trying to cancel all checks and balances. Those minions were so manipulated by this devil antichrist’s propaganda that they screwed themselves right into a living hell.

NAJ graphic by Glynn Wilson

Talk about voting against your own best interest. That’s what “the people” have been doing for decades, as I have been writing about for 10 years, back when I saw rank and file union members go against their own economic interests.

Why Do Working Class People Vote Against Their Economic Interests?

Even many of them may realize it soon as their Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, jobs and unemployment benefits disappear, as mine did last week as a bona fide member of Trump’s “enemies list.” Keep pushing MoFo. Your end will come soon, and it won’t be pretty.

Letter to the Freedom of the Press Foundation: Elon Musk Hack of Social Security Must Be Stopped!

Trump also allowed Musk to start screwing around with the Department of Defense, as he fired the senior military officer on the Joints Chief of Staff “as part of an extraordinary Friday night purge at the Pentagon that injected politics into the selection of the nation’s top military leaders.”

Trump Fires Joint Chiefs Chairman Amid Flurry of Dismissals at Pentagon

You just lost the military, dickhead, and the police and the church will not be far behind. Even Putin knew better than to screw around with the military industrial complex. They love the war in Ukraine. Why would they want to see it end, as Trump declares he will do?

This Caesar draws inspiration not from Washington, Jefferson, Adams, Hamilton and Franklin, but from Caligula, who famously told his grandmother: “Remember, I can do whatever I want to whomever I want.”

Petulant child he is, although Elon Musk’s kid gave it back to him this week while picking his nose and planting his boogers on the Resolute desk. “You are not the president. You need to go away.”

You don’t have to believe me. It’s all captured in YouTube videos. Even Fox News showed the footage of the X kid picking his nose.

Dickhead Trump draws more inspiration unapologetically from Napoleon, although I doubt he knows where it comes from. It’s just lines being fed to him by Steve Bannon, even as he wages his own private war with Elon Musk, who seems to be the one wielding all the dictatorial power these days.

“He who saves his country does not violate any law,” Trump posted, daring his appointed justices at the Supreme Court to grant him even more immunity from prosecution for his criminal behavior. But what happens when rather than saving the country, he destroys it? That ought to violate a law or two, although where is the lawyer with the cajones to bring the cases?

And The New York Times went even further, accusing Trump of daring to try to become the King of the World.

“His narcissism knows no bounds,” the Times deputy editorial page editor declared in an email blast on Saturday, not that anyone reads the paper anymore. It’s the paywall stupid.

“He grasped for godlike power to pronounce congestion pricing ‘dead’ in Manhattan,” the Times opines. “Calling himself ‘king’ denigrates every American who has fought and died for democracy, but Trump sees those heroes as ‘losers’ anyway. Of course, he doesn’t have a king’s power, but his efforts to remake America pay no heed to the rule of law.”

Perhaps the biggest stupid news from this week included Trump’s meddling in Russia’s war against Ukraine.

“But make no mistake about his pro-Putin posture,” the Times wrote. “Trump accused Ukraine of launching the war and called its president, Volodymyr Zelensky, a dictator — both lies — while squeezing Kyiv for an earth minerals deal and a cease-fire in the war with Russia.”

“He doesn’t care about good and evil, as he showed Friday when he said he was ‘tired’ of hearing about Putin’s war crimes. Trump cares about strength and leverage.”

“He has no cards,” he said of Zelensky. “Trump sees the world as his casino, and all that matters is your cards.”

Like the mob boss he thinks he is. We don’t think the actual Mob is laughing. He’s losing their support too, and their union leadership.

“His megalomania has mushroomed,” according to Maureen Dowd, Washington’s queen of intellectual snark.

Susan Glasser of The New Yorker wrote of the “Putinization of America,” and even The Wall Street Journal had strong reporting about the implications for NATO.

As for Subking Musk and his “youthful goon squad” of hackers, as the Times nicknamed them (I added hacker, because it is the appropriate term), they “are running amok across federal agencies, with more layoffs hitting disaster relief programs, the Interior Department and the I.R.S.”

“Americans want competence from their government, not chaos,” the Times says in a bit of wishful thinking at this juncture. “Musk may enjoy breaking things, but the laws of political gravity suggest Republicans will pay the price.”

Let’s hope so. But don’t hold your breath for an overnight stampede from Republicans in Washington against the king-dictator. They have mostly just kissed the golden ring and the fat ass so far.

Politico hinted of Republicans beginning to panic over the DOGE firing spree even as they cheer it in public, a story backed up by the poor Washington Post, which of course no one reads anymore thanks to owner Jeff Bezos spiking the editorial endorsing Kamala Harris for president. I will not provide the links. I unsubscribed myself.

Below the Radar, according to the Times, there’s the Trump administration’s intervention on behalf of Andrew Tate, the online “influencer” who is facing sexual misconduct charges in Britain and is being investigated in Romania for human trafficking and money laundering.

So much for the “fake news” conspiracies of Qanon.

Q Takes the Capitol, a New American Journal graphic by artist Walter Simon, depicts this golden calf of the Shaman of Qanon in his bison horn headdress, flying a flag with the slogan, “Quo unus nostrum it, eo universi imus.” The saying is inspired by the coming of age at sea saga “White Squall” using a lame slogan from the Albatross ship’s bell, “Where we go one, we go all.”

“Trump’s moral relativism goes into overdrive when it comes to defending male predators,” the Times points out.

As for Kennedy turn coat Robert F. Jr. (the F being for Fuck You), the Senate confirmed health and human services secretary says “nothing” is off limits in his new plans to scrutinize childhood vaccine schedules, psychiatric medications and other public health issues. He is excommunicated from the Kennedy family now for life.

“Every senator who voted to confirm Kennedy while harboring private doubts about him is now officially on the hook for the future of children’s health,” the Times writes.

Let’s just hope cable news and social media platforms get onboard with this stampede, and soon, ortherwise most of the American people will not find out about what’s going on. Many remain in the Trump Kool-aid dark, otherwise known as Plato’s Cave.

One dissenting hero did emerge this week, Janet Mills, the governor of Maine, who stood up to Trump at a White House meeting after he called her out for resisting his executive order barring transgender athletes from women’s sports.

She said she was complying with state and federal law.

“We are the federal law,” Trump said.

Her response?

“See you in court.”

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