The Little King
July 1, 2017
“The fake media is trying to silence us, but we will not let them.The fake media tried to stop us from going to the White House. But I’m president, and they’re not.”
Last night, at a celebration for veterans and the “faith community,” Trump came closer than he ever has to revealing both his creepy monarchical fantasy of what it means to be president — “L’état, c’est moi” — and the juvenile emotional life that rules his own behavior.
During the past couple of months, Hillary Clinton has come “out of the woods” to deliver several speeches and give three fascinating interviews in which she said what everyone who has paid any attention to post-election revelations should know: her loss in 2016 was not due to any one factor, but an over-determined pile-on that few candidates could have weathered — and that she almost did overcome, even so.