Trump told reporters, “It’s a very interesting thing. I have the best numbers for any president in many years. And I would say that, if you read it, it’s pretty clear. I’m not allowed to run. It’s too bad.”
Of course, Trump’s reference to his polling numbers is a complete lie. From the article: Overall, the latest poll found Trump’s approval rating at its lowest level since he returned to office in January. Just 39 percent of people approve of the job he is doing, while 58 percent disapprove, resulting in a net approval rating of -19 points.
My prediction: If Trump is still in office at the time of the 2028 election, he will find some mechanism to stay in power, in a way similar to what Vladimir Putin has done in Russia. Putin can legally remain in power until at least 2036, after constitutional amendments were passed in 2020 that reset his previous term count, allowing him to run for two more six-year terms. He began his fifth term in 2024, which is scheduled to end in 2030, after which he can run again to potentially serve until 2036.
The mural here reminds us of what Tom Joad famously tells his mother at the end of in John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath, in response to her asking Tom where he’s going:
Wherever people are fighting for their rights, where kids are hungry and crying, and where folks are struggling to be free. Everywhere in the dark, wherever there is a fight so hungry people can eat or a cop beating up a guy.
What the late Frank Zappa said here about atheism is what I began predicting when I was in my teens, but I’m not so optimistic today.
In fact, there seems to be a trend towards the rejection of science, fear, brutality, and tribalism–each one a pillar of religion and the fanaticism that so often surrounds it.
As shown at left, “communism” and “socialism” have been used to scare American idiots for almost a century.
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