Benjamin Harrison, who presided over the installation of
electricity in the White House but then never flipped a switch because he was
morbidly afraid of being electrocuted.
Rutherford B. Hayes, widely known as “His Fraudulency”
because the election was stolen from Sam Tilden. Hayes was America’s first
ayatollah: He banned drinking, smoking, dancing and card playing from the White
House.
Another president who didn’t win the popular vote was George
W. Bush, but in the interests of national reconciliation — and also because he
is looking much better right now — I will not savage him here. (But I must note
that he left office with the lowest-ever final approval rating of any
president, and that even includes Richard Nixon, who actually needed a pardon
to avoid going to jail.)
That is some good company to be in.
This is going to be difficult since I've taken to calling him Donald Tweet, the king of the twits.
Lose the nicknames. It has been tempting for people like me
to attempt to diminish the president-elect by giving him amusing titles, such
as Cheeto Benito, Mein Trumpf, T-Rump and The Angry Creamsicle.
He points out that it's possible Trump will turn out to be an acceptable president despite his campaign blather.
Perhaps the incoming president of the United States is a
great big liar, a conscienceless opportunist and an unprincipled, amoral,
convictionless fraud. We can only pray!
I'm pretty sure he's a liar, opportunist and a fraud. So, there's definitely hope for us.
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