Prez's national security address puts America anywhere but first

With his usual penchant for understatement, Donald J. Trump told us yesterday that we, the American people, were so very lucky he managed to back into the White House by the skin of his teeth and the grace of the Electoral College.

In a national security address, The Donald pointed out that before his arrival we had been led astray by hack politicians who had “lost sight of America’s destiny and lost belief in America’s greatness.

“But last year,” he announced with his signature fake humility, “all that began to change. The American people rejected the failures of the past. You rediscovered your voice and reclaimed ownership of this nation and its destiny.

“January 20th, 2017,” Trump sighed, “the day the American people became the rulers of their nation again.”

Actually, it was more like the day Donald Trump became El Presidente of the United States. And he wasn’t shy about letting us know it either.

“Now, I’m proud to report that the entire world has heard the news and has already seen the signs. And America is coming back strong.” Oh, they’ve certainly heard the news all right, and a good deal of the world seems to be wondering, to quote one of The Donald’s favorite phrases: “What the hell is going on?”

Trump dismissed both his Democrat and Republican predecessors as spineless pols who “surrendered our sovereignty to foreign bureaucrats in far away and distant capitals and over the profound objections of the American people, our politicians left our borders wide open.”

At the Republican convention last year, Trump bragged, “I and I alone know how to fix it.” Yesterday, his America First national security manifesto was a declaration of America Alone in a world made even smaller and more uncertain each day by the pull of the internet.

Ironically, before Trump delivered his address, a story broke about warnings of Russian hacking in the 2016 election that the FBI delivered to both the Trump and Clinton campaigns.

But that particular cyberthreat has never seemed to bother Trump much. In fact, he’s ignored it. For all of his talk about an invincible America under his reign, he avoids the spectacular calamity that has been his White House.

Trump’s disgraced former national security adviser, Michael Flynn, may be headed to jail, if The Donald doesn’t toss him a pardon. Still, you have to wonder just how much of crazy Mike “Lock Her Up!” Flynn was in El Presidente’s speech.

I’m guessing quite a lot.