Post-Traumatic Trump Stress Disorder: PTTSD for A Man’s World, 2016

I can’t keep up with this guy.

Every time I get ready to post an op-ed about Donald Trump, he says something else so outrageously objectionable that it renders my current editorial obsolete. I have to include — or at least, consider — his new diatribe. So I would do a rewrite. But by the time I would get the final draft ready, he would launch a new diatribe that I couldn’t ignore. That’s why I never got around to posting all the stuff I wrote about him: I just couldn’t keep up with his uncensored rants.

But at least I did recognize that The Donald was an enemy of the Constitution. That’s more than I can say for a lot of other pundits.

Remember last year when everyone was snickering about Donald Trump’s hair and his aspiration to become our next President? If you go back and review the editorial pages and the other periodicals of that time, you’ll notice a big lack of interest about his lofty plans. No serious news analyses about him, no real PR about his run for the Presidency, either.

Even more astonishing: very little criticism of the man, on all levels.

That’s probably because he had no real experience working in the government sector. He was a guy who never held any public office at all — not even as city dog catcher. Here was somebody with no record of public service or history of concern for the commonweal. And yet, he wanted to be President of The United States? Really? Was this some kind of joke?

If it was, I sure wasn’t laughing. Last January when I went to the doctor, I ‘fessed up to my big worry. “Have you been under any unusual stress, or have you been experiencing more stress than usual?” I was asked.

“Umm, yeah,” I admitted. “I’m getting more and more worried that Donald Trump is going to be elected President.”

Of course the nurse laughed. Such a thing would never happen. If you wanted to hire a computer analyst, you wouldn’t hire someone who had never used a computer before, would you? If you needed a nanny or full-time baby sitter, you wouldn’t dream of giving the job to someone who’d never had any experience with babies…would you? Of course not! Even if you wanted a guy to paint your house, you’d want to interview someone with a little experience.

And yet, Republicans nominated a man with zero experience and no real background to run for the highest office in the land. Intelligent, real intelligent.

And now, there’s a controversial tape from a forgotten Access Hollywood episode that “reveals” The Donald in all his uncensored glory. He’s talking trash with entertainment reporter Billy Bush (also a relative to both Presidents Bush), and it’s not pretty.

It’s ugly because he’s saying what he’s been saying all his narcissistic life. Essentially, he’s boasting that he can take any woman he wants and do with her whatever he wants — sexually — because he’s “a star.”

His lingo might have been too graphic and too crude and too distasteful for the Religious Right, along with most other Americans. What he said, however, was still the same unadulterated macho crap he’s been saying all his life. Maybe a lot of other guys might think the same way he does. But they at least have the sense not to actually say it out loud to a broadcast journalist on assignment for Access Hollywood. Say what you want about Donald Trump, but no one has ever accused him of having any sense.

So why the big surprise, GOP Guardians of Womanhood? You knew this guy was a five-star lout who was morally objectionable for all when you gave him a seat at the table. So why, exactly, did you ever let him near the dining room?

Admit it. You Republicans let a reprehensible demagogue participate in your party’s debates, then you nominated him to run for the Presidency — JUST BECAUSE YOU THOUGHT HE HAD MONEY. AND JUST BECAUSE SO MANY IN THE GOP BRAINTRUST THOUGHT HE COULD ACTUALLY WIN!

And now after this Access Hollywood footage went public, you Republicans are saying you’re not going to “support him” when you know very well you’re going to vote for him — just because he’s a Republican.

It’s over. It’s official. The Republicans have won the 2016 Hypocrisy Award. Now you must answer a bigger question: WHY IS IT THAT NO MATTER HOW GOOD A WOMAN CAN BE, SHE’S NEVER GOOD ENOUGH TO BE PRESIDENT, BUT ANY MAN IS ALWAYS GOOD ENOUGH FOR THE JOB, NO MATTER HOW BAD HE IS?

I would say wake me when it’s over, but I’m not getting much sleep these days. Blame it on PTTSD.