Trump Deploys His 'Magical Powers'

Like Jack showing off his beans, the orange brat from Queens can finally stare Putin in the eyes as an equal.

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One of the first things Donald Trump asked Mike Esper and others in his first term was the limits of his presidential powers. Esper, the former Secretary of Defense under Trump, says that Trump wanted to know what he could do if someone refused to obey his orders. Trump was told that in theory, he could call up the National Guard and claim an insurrection was underway. From that moment forward, Trump, ever the cowardly bully, would ask his advisors, “Is it time I use my ‘magical powers?”

The fact that he could deploy the military to make others obey him as if he were a Putin-like dictator has always caused a stir in Trump’s Depends (poor Malania, or rather, haha, you get what you deserve). In Trump’s first term, Esper and others worked hard to prevent Trump from taking the country down the road he is now. The Fox News, clueless-as-hell abuser of women and alcohol, Pete Hegseth, rejoiced at the thought of ordering the California National Guard to deploy to quell what had been little more than a protest at a traffic stop. The guardrails are gone, and now there are no sane, moral, or patriotic people in the room with the dumbest and most vile president we have ever had.

Trump, like a nightmare version of Jack, has descended from the LA beanstalk. Having seen the view from the top, one that can be characterized by complete helplessness unless Americans exercise their 2nd Amendment rights, he plots the route for ensuring the planting of more magical beans in cities across the country. Go in hard and fast, harass countless numbers of local immigrants and others, stir up public outrage, and then call in the National Guard to “quell” the dissent.

I wrote yesterday that Trump, like the Nazis in 1933 Germany, has finally orchestrated his very own burning of the Reichstag. Some readers with odd interpretations of history doubted there was a comparison between Trump’s actions and those carried out by Hitler and the Nazis. As I wrote to one such doubter, it doesn’t matter if the guillotine is sharpened or dull; when the heavy metallic cutting device falls from such a height and lands on a waiting neck, the result will be the same: death. The only difference is that one death will be gorier than the other.

Trump may be a buffoonish clown compared to Hitler, but many of his goals are similar. One could even argue that Trump has a more direct path to dictatorship than Hitler had. Hitler still had President Hindenburg, a beloved and respected general who many feel could have sent Hitler off to political pasture at any moment had he so desired. Until August 1934, Hitler’s complete and total seizure of all power was slowed by the existence of the general. Trump was granted the powers of a king by the Supreme Court last year. Hitler needed an “Enabling Act” to be passed to give him many of the powers the U.S. Congress gives to Trump today. They enable him to do anything that enters his sad, dementia-starved brain.

We are in uncharted territory. It’s high time someone climbs that beanstalk and tears things up — or simply chops it down once and for all.