It's Time Magazine's ugliest Person of the Year cover since it awarded Adolf Hitler that dubious honour.And Donald Trump is reported to be conflicted. On the one hand his massive all consuming ego is flattered, or inflated further. On the other hand he's furious that anybody should call him a "divider."And I
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Montreal Simon: The Day Donald Trump Fired One Of His Trolls
Donald Trump had an army of trolls working for him during the election, spreading fake stories, and flaming his opponents. So it was quite a shock to see him fire one of them.And no ordinary troll either. A member of his own transition team.Read more »
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Donald Trump’s Merry Gun Christmas
It's going to a bleak holiday season for millions of Americans who still can't quite believe that Donald Trump is their president.Just like we Canadians can't believe that's really Santa.But of course Trump supporters will be celebrating, and so will the National Rifle Association.Because they're hoping that he will be bringing
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Donald Trump and the Betrayal of the Working Class
I used to stare at those pictures of Donald Trump preaching to his white working class supporters, and wonder how that old con artist managed to fool so many of them.Make them believe that a billionaire who sits on a gold plated toilet seat was on THEIR side.And that he would bring back
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Donald Trump and the Cabinet from Hell
Some people believe that Donald Trump tweets compulsively just to confuse and distract his enemies.But I don't. I think he just can't help himself… Can't help sounding like a maniac, or a dictator.Still, it can't be denied that Trump has good reason to try to distract Americans from taking a good
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Donald Trump’s Latest Scary Twitter Meltdown
For a moment, a very brief moment, I thought that Kellyanne Conway might be able to teach Donald Trump how to pretend to be a president. Or at least behave like one.Especially now that they both know that many more Americans voted for Hillary Clinton than voted for the orange
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Donald Trump’s Monstrous Thanksgiving
WhoWhatWhyDonald Trump is spending the Thanksgiving holiday at his Mar-a-Lago castle, no doubt surrounded by his court of bigots and other deplorables.And he's urging his people to unite and support him so he can make America great again.But they would be crazy to do that, because they have nothing to
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Donald Trump’s Desperate Need To Be Loved
Donald Trump spent every day of his long campaign for the presidency demonizing Hillary Clinton and calling her a criminal.He vowed that one of his first acts if he was elected would be to appoint a special prosecutor to go after her and jail her.While his rabid supporters chanted "lock
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Donald Trump and the Kakistocracy
Like so many people all over the world, I sometimes can't decide what to call Donald Trump.Is he just a vulgar hustler who conned a nation into believing he was fit to be president? Or is he a deranged demagogue, or a budding fascist, or a would be dictator?Or all
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Horror of Trump and the Amazing Rise of the Resistance
I must say I really enjoyed what happened to Mike Pence, the sinister man from GLAD or MAGA, when went to the theatre the other night to take in a performance of the Broadway musical Hamilton.And got a stirring message from the cast, urging him to restrain his bigot instincts and respect the
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Donald Trump and the Strangelove Nightmare
For a moment yesterday I thought we were saved.When news leaked out that Donald Trump might make Mitt Romney his Secretary of State instead of the sleazy Rudy Giuliani. Or the mad bomber John Bolton. John Bolton, a top candidate to serve as President-elect Donald Trump’s secretary of state, is publicly calling
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Trumpland and the Need for Resistance
At a time when the whole world seems to be unravelling, or going mad, I'm not really interested in hearing from those trying to explain how we got to this nightmarish Trumpland.Because for me at least, the explanation couldn't be simpler or more obvious.And this little video sums it up well.Read more »
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Alex Jones and the Madness of Donald Trump
Alex Jones is a right-wing radio host, a fanatical Trump supporter, and one of America's most deranged conspiracy theorists.A man so crazy you have to see it to believe it…Read more »
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Donald Trump, Steve Bannon and the Rise of The Resistance
It's easy to understand why so many Americans are so depressed, or so angry, at the thought of a Donald Trump government.Having any one of those deplorables in the situation room, or anywhere near the nuclear button has to be a living nightmare.The idea of the sleazy Rudy Giuliani as
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Outrageous Case of the Judge In The Trump Hat
Imagine you're having a really bad post U.S. election nightmare, where you're being dragged before a judge for joining in an anti-Trump demo. And when you look up from your clanking leg irons, you see the judge is Rudy Giuliani and he's wearing a Donald Trump baseball cap. That would be a
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Day Fascism Finally Arrived in America
Well I have to admit that I never thought Americans would be so crazy to vote to bring down their own country.Or that so many were so dumb to believe any of Donald Trump's promises… But I guess they were, and now they've got what they wanted.Read more »
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Donald Trump and the Zombie Apocalypse
I spent most of yesterday trying to ignore the U.S. election for a day, by staying off the internet, reducing my exposure to CNN to three minutes at the most etc etc.So I might have a fighting chance of making it to next Tuesday, without going crazy.But sadly it just didn't
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Donald Trump and the Demonic Song of the Religious Right
Despite Donald Trump's abominable record of spiritual and fleshy corruption, the religious right in the U.S. still worships at his feet.And are willing to forgive him his trespasses, in return for his promise to appoint God's chosen people to the Supreme Court.So they can punish women for having an abortion, and launch an
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Existential Threat of the Monster Donald Trump
As you know ever since Donald Trump announced that he was running for president, I have portrayed him as a monster.And tried to make fun of his absurd delusion that he is fit to be the president of any country, let alone the United States.But with just four days to go
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Melania Trump’s Absurd and Self Defeating Speech
I never thought that Melania Trump would appear in public again, after she was caught in flagrante delicto plagiarizing Michelle Obama at the Republican convention.But Donald Trump is desperate to try to win back some of the hordes of Republican women who have fled his clutches, so he forced her to make another campaign
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