This chickenshit president always comes to a point where he feels the need to shield himself from Americans
...hiding in the WH bunker in his first term; putting up barricades and fencing around the White House.
Now he's begging Americans to let him closet himself in a ritzy ballroom, like he already does in his Mar-a-lago hideout; living his days out in the presidency like a cosplay king with a contingency of courtiers, retinue, and sycophants in perpetual attendance to fill out his imperial fantasy.
For the times when Trump's forced to go out among the people, he's being fitted with 'new armor' to deflect anticipated attacks from the myriad sectors of the country that he, himself, has chosen to attack with often violent and vicious rhetoric and imagery; including against his Democratic party opponents and supporters.
The suggestion from the WH that journalists would hold their public functions which include the president in his fortified building invites comparisons to royal courts where, undoubtedly, Trump would appear each day on some elevated platform and entertain pleas and other supplication to his petty reign from the peasantry he allows to be graced with his imperial presence and attention.
More monarch than man-of-the-people.
Trump's demand following the mostly thwarted attempted assault made on an entrance to the venue where the ballroom is located, downstairs, is a contradictory one from a president and party which still insists that 'locks on doors' and 'arming teachers' is the best way to prevent the continuing gun violence and mass killing of our children in schools.
His ballroom has the look and feel of elitists prepping for an end-of-the-world event where they and their privileged friends and associates all have their own special invitation to a Mars flight on a dying planet; or a mega ocean liner to float a select, connected community to their own private harbor after the world is flooded; or a nuclear-proof bunker after a maniac president has unleashed hell-on-earth.
There's no escape plan for unconnected Americans, citizens, taxpayers who the president openly reviles and curses for our insistence he and his ilk respect and adhere to the same laws that the rest of us are expected to follow without presidential pardons, and directing of the DOJ to let perps dodge accountability because of how much they paid the president or his family members.
Trump is already in a bubble of his own making, full of yes-men and con-men looking to maintain their place on his political and social pyramid. In his addled and decrepit mind, he envisions a less challenging presidency where he's not only shielded from the public he openly despises; but one in which he can rule in a controlled space without the pestering distractions of dissenters, or reporters asking pesky questions about accountability for this or that.
Forget the democratic process, this man can't be compelled to make himself available to the people because, he's afraid of us.
More pointedly, Trump is already alienated from the American people, by choice, right from the start of his presidency as he declared our levers of participation in our government to be his own domain; when he declared war on entire communities; when he allowed and encourage his government agents to attack our citizens with impunity from prosecution; as he declared that his political opponents and the press are enemies of the state in which he practiced autocratic control behind dubious and assumed authority.
No modern American president has isolated themselves from the people as thoroughly and reflexively as Donald Trump; none have felt or experienced the need, much less the desire to lock themselves in their own insulated bubble. His insistence on layering and multiplying his defenses against us is the surest indication that this president is engaged in a war with the people of this nation.
Some might say he can't be blamed for fearing us, but what he's really hiding from is his anticipation of blowback for his repeated and continued assaults against innocent people just trying to survive and find a place in their country; both migrant and native.
That's the one thing he's probably right about.
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...for a late night rant. 