Why This Time Donald Trump's Pitiful Buffoonery Upset Me

      After having dropped my Twitter account several years ago when Elon Musk took over, I re-joined X last week because so many of our politicians make statements on X and I wanted to be able to stay in the loop.
        Though I hadn't signed up to be a follower of Donald Trump on X, the very first notification I received on my new X account was of the latest Trump post. I opened  my timeline and was hit with this:

       Of course it was just another round of Trumpian buffoonery played out on Trump's favorite internet song and dance stage, so I suppose I should have just blown off this nonsense the same way I and many of my fellow Americans blow off  so much of the nonsense conceived in his warped geriatric brain pan. 

        But those words Trump wrote on that X meme and the fantasy picture that he concocted of himself upset me. For a number of reasons.
      First and foremost, I'm upset because my daughter and my son-in-law, who happens to be a naturalized citizen of Mexican heritage, live and work in Chicago. They traverse the city every day on their bikes - they don't own a car - and I fear for their safety daily since  the President of the United States memed his fantasy of turning the city into a war zone. Donald Trump may get a kick out of the images he     AI-ed of Chicago exploding in flames beneath a formation of fighter helicopters, but for those of us whose dearly loved ones live in Chicago this is far from fun and games.
             And it upset me that the President of the United States would declare war on any American city, the welfare of whose citizens is his sworn responsibility, and use his power to threaten its citizens. 

     And how cruel is this:

       Trump obviously thinks it's witty to pilfer a quote  from the character of the demented Lieutenant Colonel Kilgore in the movie "Apocalypse Now," who loved the smell of napalm in the morning, not to mention terrorizing Vietnamese villagers by blasting "Ride of the Valkyries" from his helicopter squadron before spraying them with napalm.

    The question of the legality and morality of Trump's deportation agenda aside, his joke about loving the "smell" of deportations is a declaration that he takes  pleasure in deporting people, without a twinge of feeling for all the pain and suffering of the mothers, fathers, and children affected by his orders.  That Donald Trump finds it all so funny makes him as brain sick and power mad as the brain sick and power mad movie character he styles himself after.​

      And finally, it upsets me that in his X meme Donald Trump, who went to a private military academy boarding prep school but then got out of actual military service thanks to his wealthy family arranging a deferment, 

...disrespects those men and women who did serve their country. Men and women like my parents,

...my father-in-law,

...my husband, 

...my son-in-law,

...and me, in my time as a Department of the Army civilian who served the soldiers and their families on army posts in Germany.

    I'm reminded of the time during Donald Trump's first presidential campaign when  an elderly veteran wanted Trump to have his purple heart medal as a token of his admiration. Instead of thanking the veteran for his service and his gesture and returning the medal, as he should have done, Trump asked the man if the medal was real or a copy. Upon being assure by the veteran that it was real, Trump said, "I always wanted to get the Purple Heart. This was much easier. He then dropped the man's medal into his pocket.

      And now this foul old man has the gall to post himself as this product of his  imagination.

     How pitiful.