Concerns for Kanye after rally rant and troubling tweets
Throughout his time in the Oval Office, Trump has repeatedly proven that he does nothing without there being some benefit in it for himself.
It is why, ever since January when the virus reached America’s shores, rather than act for the good of the country and the world, he has chosen to politicise the pandemic.
First he denied its very existence. Then he explicitly disavowed all responsibility for the carnage it wrought. He then went on to blame others for his own disastrous failures, while referring to himself as a “wartime president”.
Worse still, he drove a movement that sees millions refuse to cover their faces in public, claiming it would be an infringement on their rights if they were forced to do so.
Ever since the outbreak began, the master of distraction and misdirection has done everything in his power to distract and misdirect.
That includes his abhorrent handling of the death of a black man, George Floyd, at the hands of white cops and, more recently, the occupation of US cities by his federal troops. This week Trump seized on the disorder in Portland to deflect attention from the pandemic, yet again, and to exploit the country’s deepening divisions which have served his political purposes so well.
But time is running out, and increasingly, many of those who helped him to the White House are turning on him. In 2016, Trump was an unknown quantity. The American public knew only of his TV persona – the hotshot businessman who appeared to have the Midas touch.
Four years on, they have had front-row seats to the real Trump.
Five months into the worst domestic crisis since the Second World War, and following his disastrous call to re-open states, the president understands his pandemic performance will be decisive in November’s election.
It is why he is desperate to restart his daily briefings. With campaign rallies now gone, it is the only way he can talk directly to the American public.
The briefings will afford Trump the return to television screens he craves, but the damage has already been done.
He has failed in his duty to help Americans during Covid and highlighted the dismal state of his leadership abilities.
Trump is a flailing demagogue who sees his grip on power slipping away. It is time for Americans undo the mistake they made in 2016 and end this failed presidency.
FEARS are deepening for Kanye West’s mental health after the rapper broke down in tears as he claimed he and his wife Kim considered aborting their first daughter.
The star reportedly left family and friends distressed as he launched his bid to become US President with his first campaign rally.
Sources close to West have claimed he “is in desperate need of professional help and is in the middle of a serious bipolar episode”.
At one point during his appearance in South Carolina on Sunday night, the rapper even brought up the possibility of Kim divorcing him.
He also lashed out at famed American abolitionist Harriet Tubman, claiming that she did not free slaves, but “just had the slaves go work for other white people”, sparking anger among the crowd.
West appeared to double down on his rant on Tuesday when he claimed on Twitter that his wife tried to get a doctor to lock him up over his chaotic campaign rally speech. He then slammed his mother-in-law Kris Jenner and suggested the meet-theparents horror movie Get Out was based on his own life.
West’s problems, played out increasingly in public, leave Kim Kardashian facing something she has so far been unfamiliar with.
Rather than cash in on this episode – as she has all other aspects of her life – if she is to save her husband from himself, the reality star needs to make her family’s private life just that... private.