Sunday Blog: The strange choice of the people Trump chooses to surround himself with
Commentary by Robert Escandon, Sumner Newscow — Whether you are a supporter of President Trump (or not) it has to be admitted that he is surrounded by “strangeness, often of his own making.
Robert Escandon
Take, as just one example, the choice of his personal physician Dr. Bornstein. There is a general perception that a physician is going to be a smartly dressed conservative (with a small c) person whose demeanor and bearing reflect the nature of his profession.
Like so many things associated with Donald Trump, his choice of personal physician seems out of line with any normal perception.
He looks like some over-weight , degenerate, left over from a 60’s Hippy convention. On a personal review site Dr Bornstein scored a massive one star out of a possible five stars. Now it has come to light, that our President dictated his own letter commenting on his official health status.
I had suspected this was the case due to all the ridiculous hyperbole which was a giveaway of Trump’s expressionistic style. Example: “The President has the best genes of any President before him.” I wonder how much Trump paid Bornstein for signing off on that and all the other medical BS in the statement?
Furthermore, we hear that Bornstein’s offices were raided very shortly after Trump took office. Trump’s personal bodyguard and several others walked into Bernstein’s offices and removed all documents relating to Trump’s medical condition and any medications he was taking. We previously knew of one medication was Propecia, a medicine for hair loss.
And then. Our president appoints quality people to his cabinet posts only to undermine and sometimes fire them. I’m wondering how long General Kelly will remain as Chief of Staff as such a position is an anathema to Trump who doesn’t like anyone to speak for him.
Now we have a sometimes incoherent Rudi Giuliani who has the same problems as his boss. Blurts out remarks without checking facts, digs holes for the President by contradicting previous statements, tries to walk the statements back and does it all with the same poor spoken English which is a Trump hallmark.
Sadly, Rudi Giuliani has seen better days and is past his intellectual prime. I wish it were possible to have a stenographer record a word-for-word conversation between Trump and Giuliani It would be hilarious. Both have a particular talent for leaving half-completed sentences hanging in mid air while suddenly moving onto a different theme.
And then there are lies — lots and lots of lies leading to a belief that our President is a compulsive liar. At best, “He is untethered to the truth” to quote Comey. Can you imagine having no idea if Monday’s statements were still valid on Wednesday?
Occasionally, you might just believe you have good handle on the President’s thoughts and directions only to be publicly savaged by your boss and then fired by Twitter?
The rest of the world just cannot figure how we elected such a strange person to be our leader.
