2016: “I alone can fix it.”
2017: “The American carnage stops right here and stops right now.”
If there was ever a President to inherit the mantle of Truman’s “The Buck Stops Here,” it’s Trump.
That is, if his words actually meant anything; if bluster equaled action; if lies were met with consequences.
The answers to the conditional “if” clauses are clear from Trump’s current barrage of attacks on Democratic members of Congress.
He infamously trash talked the “Gang of Four,” telling them “Why don’t they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came”. . . . those places being various American cities, the very cities that Trump alone could fix and where American carnage was supposed to stop in 2017.
He’s at it again with Elijah Cummings, this time targeting Baltimore, a city that is part of the United States, an apparently foreign country where Trump is president but can’t fix anything.
It looks like Truman’s plaque needs to be reworded to suit a new president: “The Buck Stops Somewhere Else” — usually in the vicinity of a brown person pointing out that the Emperor has no clothes.
The naked truth always brings out the worst in demagogues.
Make America Think Again 