Buzz Lightyear For President

That venerable news organisation, the BBC,
'is now being sued by Donald Trump',
for something he said where they reported
his words slightly differently to how he said them.

It is old news for Trump to find somebody new
to throw lawyers at in the pursuit of wealth.
He has done that for longer, and more often,
than statisticians have been prepared to count. 

Trump has always been a 'throw the stone then hide the hand'
sort of politician. What the BBC is being sued for is editing
'the stone' and 'the hand' in his words to make them appear
as if they were part of one continuous well thought out movement.

The law is not on Trump's side, but that is something
which he has often found advantage in, making the publicity
on the world stage to be worth more to him than the court's time.

The BBC is a media minnow compared with the American tech giants
who are courtesans in Trump's court, Amazon, YouTube, Instagram,
X, Google, Microsoft and Apple. The BBC will outlast being noticed
by Trump and his army of lawyers. The case is weak. Where American
television networks have paid Trump in lawsuits when sued in America,
the sums has been a payment to ensure their latest corporate mergers
are passed by the government, there is no such agenda with the BBC.

In the meanwhile watch the Whitehouse, to see an executive
where the overreach stretches towards infinity, and then beyond....

Norman Vincent Peale

was never my idea of a writer
and his ideas about spirituality
were implicitly pale and racist.

Not for him the grit of being black
and inch by inch taking back
your sense of agency
from a wealthy white culture
that boxed in non-whites
with laws where the poor
simply had to be stronger,
to endure the privations
that white folks heaped upon them.

Peale has now gone down further in my estimation
his were the sermons that young Donald used to hear
in the church that the Trump family attended every Sunday.

As an adult Donald now believes in golf more than in God.
His Sunday Service is on the course on his own,
with club and ball, his security at a distance from him.

There is where finds his respite from the burden
of his property empire with all it's debts
and from being the leader who has to be
his own press agent whilst president
because the press agent is the presidential staffer
who the press expect to see most
whilst the person that the people
should know most is their president. 

It is one of the 'what if's' of history
to ask what candidate Trump would have done
had he not won the presidential hole-in-one
of being elected the first time he stood?

Would his being made to wait to stand again
have improved him as a man and as a governor?
Would he have become more patient?
Nobody could begin the guess the answer.

Winning first time and serving one term
has done him no favours whatsoever.