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Thread #174576 Message #4236964
Posted By: Backwoodsman
17-Mar-26 - 09:45 AM
Thread Name: Convicted felon US Prez 47/Don't Say His Name
Subject: RE: Convicted felon US Prez 47/Don't Say His Name
Michael Jochum on his FB page yesterday - absolutely right on the button! The empty, filthy, spineless husk of a human being that Amerika chose to elect as its President…
“A Question of Character
There were a thousand reasons Americans should have left Donald Trump at the ballot box. A thousand flashing red warnings about the character of the man. But for me, the moment that forever defined him came years ago when he stood on a stage and mocked a disabled reporter. That grotesque performance of cruelty should have ended his political career instantly. Any society with a functioning moral compass would have recoiled in disgust and shown him the door. Instead, millions of Americans shrugged, laughed, or rationalized it away like it was just another episode in the Trump reality show. That moment told me something chilling about the country I’ve lived in for sixty-seven years: cruelty, when delivered with swagger and amplified by power, can be forgiven by people who should know better.
So when Donald Trump now mocks Gavin Newsom for having dyslexia, no one paying attention should be surprised. Outraged, yes. Surprised, absolutely not. This is the same man who has spent his entire public life ridiculing anyone he believes is beneath him. Dyslexia, something that affects nearly one in five Americans and has nothing to do with intelligence, becomes another cheap insult for a man whose entire political identity revolves around humiliation. Trump calling dyslexia a “mental problem” or a “cognitive deficiency” doesn’t diminish Gavin Newsom in the slightest. What it does is confirm, yet again, that the man sitting in the Oval Office possesses the emotional maturity of a schoolyard bully and the moral depth of a puddle in a parking lot.
The hypocrisy is staggering. This is a man who routinely mangles basic facts, confuses names, invents imaginary accomplishments, contradicts himself mid-sentence, and recently referred to Gavin Newsom as the President of the United States. A pathological liar whose speeches read like a neurological stress test somehow believes he is qualified to lecture anyone about cognitive ability. If it weren’t so corrosive to the dignity of the presidency, it would be dark comedy.
But for me this isn’t abstract politics, it’s personal. I live with the reality of a body that has endured nine spinal surgeries and the daily negotiations that come with pain, nerve damage, and the long aftershocks of physical trauma. Millions of Americans live with disabilities, learning differences, chronic pain, or bodies that don’t cooperate the way the world expects them to. They build lives anyway. They raise families, show up to work, create art, serve their communities, and fight through obstacles with resilience most people will never understand. Trump mocks that reality because he has never had to develop empathy. A man born into wealth, insulated by privilege, and protected by an army of sycophants has spent his life confusing cruelty with strength and arrogance with intelligence.
What Trump is doing with these attacks isn’t just political rhetoric, it’s ableism dressed up as leadership. It is the same grotesque instinct that led him to mock Serge Kovaleski, the disabled reporter from The New York Times, contorting his body and voice in front of a cheering crowd. It is the same instinct that leads him to weaponize slurs and insults whenever someone refuses to kneel before his ego. For Trump, human dignity is expendable if humiliating someone buys him a few seconds of applause.
And let me be clear about something: my hatred of Donald Trump has nothing to do with party affiliation. I am not motivated by left or right, liberal or conservative. My hatred is rooted in something far simpler, basic human decency. When the President of the United States repeatedly mocks the disabled, ridicules the vulnerable, and turns cruelty into a political strategy, it is not just offensive. It is morally repugnant.
Trump thrives on humiliation because humiliation is the only language he understands. He divides because division feeds his ego. He belittles people because he is terrified of anyone who might expose the emptiness behind the bluster. Strip away the gold plating, the rallies, and the social media theatrics, and what remains is a small, vindictive man who has spent his entire life punching down.
Some Americans may find that entertaining. I find it disgusting.
Because when a president mocks people with disabilities, he isn’t just insulting one person. He’s insulting millions of Americans who fight through challenges every single day with courage and dignity he will never possess.
My contempt for Donald Trump is not political. It is personal. When he sneers at people he considers inferior, he sneers at people like me, and at millions of others who live with bodies or minds that don’t fit his warped definition of strength.
And I will never stop calling him out for it.
—Michael Jochum Not Just a Drummer: Reflections on Art, Politics, Dogs, and the Human Condition”