Easter Sunday and Donald Trump

I have a few friends on Facebook who are constantly posting anti-Trump content…I mean like every single day. It’s like their entire world is consumed by the man. There are others who seem to think it is their mission in life to defend all things Trump. Sometimes I will block content from all of them for a month or so, but then 30 days later there they are, still at it. Some of it seems unhinged. Some of it is laugh out loud funny. I never enter in to the fray by making a comment, because I would rather endure a root canal without anesthesia than argue with anyone about politics in general and Donald Trump in particular. Even now I have huge misgivings about this blogpost. Do I even want to publish it, send it out into the world? Don’t I run the risk of pissing off half my readership? Probably. But every once in a while I encounter political behavior that staggers even my imagination. Donald Trump is not the first President to behave badly. He’s certainly not the first politician to say stupid things. It’s practically a qualification for higher office anymore to be a moron. But on Easter Sunday a shark was jumped.

It is common practice for Presidents to issue official proclamations on special days throughout the year like Christmas and Easter etc.. The White House issued the following statement from the President on Easter morning…

This was entirely right and proper, and his statement was practically perfect in tone and content.

But Trump being Trump, he just couldn’t let it go. There was no way that the guy was going to let anyone—even the risen Christ—upstage him. No, this statement wasn’t enough. He added a second…

Try as I might, I couldn’t think of any other President in my lifetime or indeed the history of this Republic who would release this sort of political diatribe…on Easter. This is the language of a middle school child. For reasons that escape me he chose the day of the resurrection of Jesus Christ to air his grievances, to call out his enemies, and to belittle his predecessor.

Ok…for the sake of argument, even if you agree with the assertions in this statement, even if you think that Joe Biden was indeed a moron, even if you think that the 2020 election was stolen and that judges who disagree with the President are weak and ineffective—what kind of person would think to use this sort of language, make this sort of political broadside on Easter Sunday Morning?? 

Maybe this is what politics will be from here on out. Maybe all future Presidents will take their cues from the current one—always attack, attack, attack. After all, losers don’t get copied. But if this is what we have become, something valuable has been lost. If we can’t even take one lousy day off from politics, we all have lost something that’s difficult to get back…dignity.