On Twitter, Tom Nichols serves up today's portion of Trump Zen.

[Miles Archer]

Tom Nichols
@RadioFreeTom

A friend sends me this pic, seen from a highway in the Heartland.

My first thought: How unhappy your life must be that you climbed onto a barn and painted the name of a New York billionaire who, to this moment, you still don't realize doesn't give a shit about you.

Link to tweet

[Cartoonist]

1. Looks like a banner

Cheaper than fixing the roof.

[2naSalit]

26. It is too!

There are couple of them around here. The letters are too neat.

[MyOwnPeace]

2. Nah!

That's just one of Don Jr's new hotels that he build with his Daddy's money!

[2naSalit]

27. You mean some

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sucker investor's money! Right?

[MyOwnPeace]

30. Yes, indeed!

A proud bearer of an MBA (Must Be an Asshole) from Trump University!

[LonePirate]

3. They think he cares because he talks like they do and he says in public what they say privately.

That is all that matters to them. He can treat the entire country horribly and be as corrupt and treasonous as possible; but so long as he remains the idiotic racist in chief, they will worship him.

[meadowlander]

4. That's going to age about as well as the rest of that barn.

[Baitball Blogger]

5. Did anybody else notice the roof has a sway back?

[GoCubsGo]

6. *Alleged "billionaire."

He's actually hundreds of millions of dollars in debt.

[Whiskeytide]

8. That was true when he was ...

... campaigning in 2015-16. I suspect he’s picked up a few hundred million since being elected. Still far short of a billion, but he’s likely no longer in deep financial debt.

[GoCubsGo]

9. Don't bet on that.

He may have picked up "a few hundred million", but he was A LOT deeper in debt than that. Some accounts say that he was at least a billion dollars in the hole.

[czarjak]

10. Vlad the Fixer can fix that if need be...

For a favor probably though.

[Scarsdale]

13. A reporter asked Mike Bloomberg

how he feels about "two billionaires running for the WH, against each other" He replied "Who is the OTHER one?" He knows exactly how much "the other one" is worth, and it is far from a billion.

[CaptYossarian]

18. Tom Steyer?

[Scarsdale]

21. Never thought of him.

Don't hear too much about him. I assumed it was the orange menace .

[CaptYossarian]

31. We're all assuming without those tax returns.

[Chellee]

17. You're assuming that the money he's stealing from taxpayers

is going to pay off his debts, because that's what a normal person would do. You get a windfall, you pay something off, so you don't have to worry about it in the future. But Trump's never paid his debts, not in full. I'm sure he still hasn't. Maybe he gave them a little to keep stringing them along, but I'm willing to bet hard earned cash (something Trump also doesn't have) he's still in deep doo doo. He's stashing this money somewhere.

[crickets]

7. I prefer "See Rock City"

I miss that little bit of the 1960s family vacation trip in a station wagon.

[Ligyron]

20. Oh Hell yes.

And the old Burma Shave one or one's with a strung out message on different signposts as you drive along. That one needs a: Trump. Is. A. fucking. Criminal. Impeach. Again. Now!

[LuvNewcastle]

22. And "See Ruby Falls."

The anticipation it stoked in children was something else. My parents took us to Rock City and Ruby Falls one time. Looking back on it now, there wasn't much to it, but my imagination was a lot stronger back then, so I enjoyed the sights. And I really loved how I could "see seven states" at the top of Lookout Mountain. Makes me want to go on a trip up there and take some kids with me so I can show them the mountains.

[crickets]

23. I'd forgotten about Ruby Falls!

We never went to either. I just loved the barns dotted up and down the interstate.

I did get to see Lookout Mountain while on a summer camp trip. That was a lot of fun, and the view was worth it.

[lunatica]

11. Yup. You never, ever see him mix or press the flesh with them.

He stays clear keeping a safe distance from his rabble.

[calimary]

12. That's why I don't like the term "Heartland."

I don’t feel much “heart” there, when that area relentlessly props up (and eagerly votes for) this shit.

[CaptYossarian]

19. They're called flyover states for a reason.

When you fly over them, you flush and hope the contents land on the burning cross.

[Skidmore]

14. These people don't care about money .

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/24/us/politics/trump-economic-anxiety.html

[DallasNE]

16. "Status" Is Code For Race

They feared losing out to people of color. We have known that for years. And having a black President that was very good at the job just heightened that feeling. Obama created tons of jobs so it made no sense for economic issues to be the primary driver. Manufacturing jobs, following the Great Recession, actually picked up some but have again reversed course. Besides, Trumps main themes were "drain the swamp" and "lock her up", both corruption related issues, for which there were none. It's all code any more. Top down was presented as bottom up false promises.

[DallasNE]

15. And Killed Your Trade Market With China,

Forcing you to take government handouts.

[bdamomma]

24. he will probably

be living in that barn, just wait and see what your Fuhrer has in store for you.

[Aristus]

25. Nice of that guy to mark his place so clearly.

It'll make it easier for the bombers to find him once the civil war they want so badly starts.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

28. May soon be repainted to say "HELP".....

when tRump's tax package and reductions in healthcare assistance finally come home to roost....

[blakstoneranger]

29. HE DOES HAVE A LOW OPINION OF THEM!!

From the books I've been reading about trump, books written by people who worked in his administration, plus the new "a stable genius", trump and steve bannon refer to his supporters as......."DEPLORABLES!" I guess as long as he "owns" the democrats, they don't care. You see these trump supporters really hate democrats. I mean real hate, the kind of hate that pushes them to kill or elect a dumbass as president.