NightMar-A-Lago

From our political correspondent Dorothy "Lottie" Dawe:
 
I have been following and reporting on the first weeks of the Trump regime.  My thoughts on Week 1 are HERE, Week 2 is HERE, and Week 3 is HERE.  We’ve all just made it through Week 4, and Week 4 was nothing short of a clusterTrump consumed by a Trumpster fire within a horrific nightMar-a-Lago.
 
It started with Agent Smith from The Matrix commanding that the authority of the president would “not be questioned.”  Then in full view of the public armed with cell phone cameras and Facebook pages, Trump and his company of clowns discussed sensitive information related to national security – and though they were incredibly loosey-goosey with classified intelligence, no emails were sent over a private server. 

Pictured below:  A tweet from Speaker Ryan about Hillary Clinton's use of a private server.  Hmmm.  I haven't seen his tweet in response to Trump's recklessness.  I'm sure it's coming, no?

Of course, the whoppers during Week 4 kept growing and growing, spinning out of control to the point that Michael “Lock Her Up” Flynn had to enter the witness protection program since now it’s highly likely that he’ll be locked up (well, he should be locked up, but it’s highly unlikely that our new Confederate General, Jeff Sessions, will take action). 
 
Then came “the presser.”  O.M.G.  Trump's press conference was a disaster.  It only reinforced the reality that Trump is unfit, unstable, and unqualified to be the president.  

The press conference continued with lie after lie after lie after lie, and it reminded me of Emmett Lee Dickinson's poem "Lying is like their need" (below on the left).  Dickinson's poem was one of the inspirations for third cousin Emily to pen her poem "Longing is like the seed" (below on the right).

By Emmett Lee Dickinson:
 
Lying is like their Need
They wrestle it Around,
Believing if we intercede
That truth then can’t be found.
 
With Power, and their Claims –
They weave a trance that’s known
With Constancy to be achieved
So truth can’t see the Sun!

By Emily Dickinson:
 
Longing is like the Seed
That wrestles in the Ground,
Believing if it intercede
It shall at length be found.

The Hour, and the Clime --
Each Circumstance unknown,
What Constancy must be achieved
Before it see the Sun!

Pictured below left:  The way we were.  Pictured below right:  The way we are.

Oh, by the way, while all of the chaos of Week 4 was going on, the GOP passed a bill that made it possible for the mentally ill to purchase guns and weapons of war -- all, I'm sure, as part of their campaign to make America great again.