While the bulk of the media's attention has been Laser-focused on Hillary Clinton's illness, Donald Trump's latest incendiary rant has gone largely unreported.
Last Friday night, at a rally in Pensacola, Florida, His Orangeness suggested that he'd be willing to launch World War III in response to what he considered to be unwarranted taunts from the crews of some Iranian vessels. Apparently, the US Navy has been reporting harassment from Iranian watercraft operated by that nation's Revolutionary Guard, a paramilitary group opposed to any dialogue with the US. Here's what The Donald said: "When they [the Iranians] circle our beautiful destroyers with their little boats, and they make gestures at our people that they shouldn't be allowed to make, they will be shot out of the water."
As a relatively rational human being, I keep asking myself, "Is this jamoke for real?" Maybe if I rub my eyes for a minute or two or five, it'll go away. No such luck! It's still there.
Giving The Donald an extremely generous benefit of doubt, all I can figure is this. He's acting out a juvenile fantasy,` recalling fondly his days as a li'l kiddo in the cushy confines of his family's mansion in Jamaica Estates, an uber- lavish enclave in the mostly workaday borough of Queens.
Young Master Donald has created a toy fleet of military watercraft in the troubled waters of one of his family's gilded bathtubs. There it is in all its glory: A big, beautiful, destroyer all decked out in its All-American livery, surrounded by hostile little Commie boats. (Circa 1950, the Soviets were our designated enemy.) Guess which vessels get shot out of the water!
There you have it, folks. The No-Longer-So-Young Master Donald is just a-hankerin' to reenact that juvenile fantasy, hearkening back to The Days When America Was Great!
Hey all! Let's not get complacent here, regardless of whatever the polls are projecting. Please don't sit this one out. Vote for Hillary, she'll get well.
