Donald Trump, the orange-haired toddler king, gave another lie-filled press conference today. In a matter of minutes. Trump told numerous lies, uttered threats, and reminded the American people that he is the stupidest man ever to sit in the Oval Office.
The toddler king mentioned his big military parade scheduled for Saturday, warning protesters that they would be met with state-sanctioned violence if they dared to protest his big, beautiful parade. Of course, Americans have a constitutional right to protest peacefully. Evidently, Trump has never read the U.S. Constitution. Either that, or he doesn’t think the Constitution applies to him; that, as president, he can do whatever he wants to do and no one can stop him.
Trump also took several swipes at California Governor Gavin Newsom. In particular, Trump, posing as a forestry management expert, decided to opine on the fires that plague California:
I’ve been meeting with heads of other countries, and they are forest countries. They call themselves Forest Austria and others, and they say we’re a forest nation. We live in a forest, and they don’t have forest fires, and in one case, he said, you know our trees are much more flammable than California, but we don’t have forest fires because we clean the floor. We sweep the floor of leaves of dead debris of trees that fall because after 18 months the tree is like real, it’s like tinderwood, and it goes up, it virtually exposed, Well, we don’t take the trees out. California is a disaster. What they’ve done in California, they don’t do anything, and if you did, you wouldn’t, you almost would not have forest fires, and you could say, you, in theory, you shouldn’t have any forest fires. And we spend billions and billions of dollars a year because uh, people don’t clean the forests, and we’re going to clean the forest, we’re going to start cleaning them.
Trump has been talking about this nonsense for years. Here’s a man who has never mowed or raked a lawn and has no understanding of biology or forestry, yet he thinks he is in a position to give “expert” advice on how to end forest fires.
Let me conclude this post with a personal story, one that would educate the toddler king IF he knew how to read. Yes, I know he can read, but he doesn’t do much of it, and it is clear, at least to me, that Trump lacks basic comprehension skills. Either that, or he has dementia.
Years ago, I pastored an Evangelical church in southeast Ohio. The church had a tuition-free school for church children. Back then, before I had much environmental awareness, we had a burn barrel we used for burning trash. One day, several of the boys were burning trash. The barrel was full, but they decided to pile some trash on top, light it, and then walk away. Well, some of the burning trash fell out of the barrel, setting the neighbor’s field on fire. Frantically, the boys came running, telling me the field was on fire. By the time I got out there, the neighbor was standing near the burning fire. When I suggested calling the fire department, she replied, “Let it burn.” And so we let it burn. Hours later, the fire petered out, leaving what appeared to be scorched land. However, the next spring, the field was filled with new trees, bushes, grasses, and flowers. The fire cleared away all the undergrowth, allowing for new plants to sprout and grow. Thirty years later, the field is filled with large trees and bushes, all because some foolish schoolboys set it on fire.
Fallen tree leaves and needles are an important part of our ecosystem. They provide nutrients, along with food and shelter for all sorts of animals. Occasionally, due to lightning strikes or human error, these leaves and needles catch on fire. These fires are actually good for forests, as anyone with a fifth-grade science education knows. It’s evident, that President Trump is NOT a good candidate for the game show, “So, You Think You Are Smarter Than a Fifth Grader.”
For more on Trump’s press conference, please watch the following video:
Bruce Gerencser, 68, lives in rural Northwest Ohio with his wife of 47 years. He and his wife have six grown children and sixteen grandchildren. Bruce pastored Evangelical churches for twenty-five years in Ohio, Texas, and Michigan. Bruce left the ministry in 2005, and in 2008 he left Christianity. Bruce is now a humanist and an atheist.
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No, Trump has never read the Constitution, and even if he had, he doesn’t believe it applies to him … he sees himself as a “Supreme Leader” who needs follow no dictates, no norms, no rules. During his first term, advisors and aids attempted to educate him, but he quickly got bored and started playing on his computer, so eventually they gave up. So today, we essentially have Dennis the Menace running the country. I did enjoy your story about the boys accidentally setting the field afire!
I have lots of stories, the benefit of a long life. I could write a whole book about my experiences with the Christian school children. Polly and I were privileged to be around them 7 hours a day, 5 days a week. Lots of crazy, funny, not-so-funny, awful things happened. The fire 🔥 scared the shit out of me, but it turned out okay.
Trump as Dennis, the Menace is an apt picture of the toddler king. Well, maybe with a bit of Sid from Toy Story thrown in.
I, too, love your story about the boys.
“ What they’ve done in California, they don’t do anything, and if you did, you wouldn’t, you almost would not have forest fires, and you could say, you, in theory, you shouldn’t have any forest fires. ”
The Fake Tan Fūhrer can make Casey Stengel seem like Sir Kenneth Clarke.
What you have said about fire in forests is accurate. Several species of pine trees need fire to open their pine cones so they can reproduce. All you have to do is watch some NOVA episodes to find out how important undergrowth is to the ecosystem. Trump will not consult biologists about this in fact he has probably fired them.