More Trump Derangement Syndrome

Not one day goes by that I don’t learn about one more objectionable utterance or action on the part of our president. 

Admittedly, I suffer from Trump Derangement Syndrome. And while I can’t respond to everything that’s whirling around in my head, every now and then I’m compelled to speak out in the vain hope that someone will slap their head and say, Yeah, he’s right.

This time, I will point out the idiocy of his comment about oil tankers refusing to pass through the Strait of Hormuz. 

He said, “They need to show some guts.” It’s not quite that simple. First, those tankers cost hundreds of millions of dollars. Insurance companies, penny pinchers that they are, refuse to cover them, the captain and crew having guts notwithstanding.

Second, the oil itself is valuable cargo. It is of value to no one when it sloshes onto shorelines. Never mind the ecological nightmare an oil spill creates.

Back to the crew. These people have loved ones. Who in their right mind is willing to sacrifice their life for such an unworthy cause?

Speaking of families, I’ve no doubt that Donald Trump would not want his sons passing through the Straits on an oil tanker with a captain and crew who have “guts.” And he surely wouldn’t want to sacrifice any of his sons in the needless war he’s started. 

Excursion? Please! Show some guts? Can anyone recount an instance where he, sans a bodyguard or a nanny, showed some guts and stood mano a mano in an actual fight? I doubt it!

Gary Montgomery, Eureka