Washington Post columnist George Will dusted off his Thesaurus to take his latest shots at President Donald Trump. The article is titled: “The shabbiest U.S. president ever is an inexpressibly sad specimen”. As usual with those who take a dump on President Trump, this isn’t really about him. This rant, as usual, is about those of us who voted for Donald Trump.

For as long as Will has access to his Thesaurus, he won’t run out of words to describe his profound contempt for the President. The very first paragraph is a perfect example:

Half or a quarter of the way through this interesting experiment with an incessantly splenetic presidency, much of the nation has become accustomed to daily mortifications. Or has lost its capacity for embarrassment, which is even worse.

To begin with, “interesting experiment” is so, so sarcastic. We got it George. And, then there is “incessantly splenetic Presidency”. I don’t think Trump is constantly angry. I don’t think Trump wastes the mental or emotional energy on anger. So, you are wrong, sir.

But, George Will gives the game away with the very next words. This isn’t about Trump. This is about the Trump voters. The “daily mortifications” have been foist upon this nation by us. The Trump voters. And, if we had been drug up properly by our parents, we would have the “capacity for embarrassment” required. See what I mean? Mr. Will is so high tone that he is embarrassed by us flyover hicks who didn’t go to Princeton University.

Next, George Will takes on Trump over the $1 trillion deficit. I am with him on this, but I don’t see this as the President’s fault. I see this as a product of the entrenched bureaucracy and a Congress indebted to donors. Add to these two the regency of the ruling class, as in they think it’s their money, and a fatal lack of education in economics and you have our current situation. Don’t even get me started on the Fed and Quantitative Easing. We are so screwed.

Will excoriates the Senate (world’s most overrated deliberative body) and wails about the cancelled Trans-Pacific Partnership. Of course, Will, like most of the world, is skeptical about the negotiations with Rocket Man. Then, George Will goes back to his main point, his hatred of Trump which translates to his hatred of you and me.

Dislike of him should be tempered by this consideration: He is an almost inexpressibly sad specimen. It must be misery to awaken to another day of being Donald Trump. He seems to have as many friends as his pluperfect self-centeredness allows, and as he has earned in an entirely transactional life. His historical ignorance deprives him of the satisfaction of working in a house where much magnificent history has been made. His childlike ignorance — preserved by a lifetime of single-minded self-promotion — concerning governance and economics guarantees that whenever he must interact with experienced and accomplished people, he is as bewildered as a kindergartener at a seminar on string theory.

No, George, you don’t get to pretend to feel sorry for Trump while simultaneously slamming him. The truth is I get what Will is saying. As a Trump voter, I get this from people on our side too. They, like Will, think that we are bamboozled by Trump’s self promotion. Such as this video from last September:

Trump doesn’t act with the decorum or diplomacy befitting the Office of the President of the United States. No, he does not. The President of the United States is not a ruler over subjects. This President is one of us. Unlike the well-pressed empty suits of the last three decades. I love the Bush family, but they never push back against the permanent ruling class or the Plutocrats. Trump doesn’t give a fat rat’s backside.

So Geroge Will, keep that Thesaurus open. You are going to need lots more big words to describe the vulgar wretch who is your President and the filthy Plebeians who elected him. Shabby he may be, but then we don’t care.

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