At some point in the last few months I found myself typing the words trump news into Google, to learn about the latest outrageous event. At first I thought that I was the only one doing this. But I have come to realize, after talking with a number of friends and colleagues, that a lot of people are doing pretty much the same thing.
We all seem to have started doing this independently. Only afterward did we find out that the people around us have been doing it too.
It’s like standing on the shore and staring off into the distance at a ship that is slowly sinking down into the ocean. Sure, it’s a disturbing sight, but you really can’t look away.
Each time the next crazy thing happened, I’d think to myself that this would the limit. Things couldn’t possibly get nuttier. If a candidate for President of the United States has already declared that he wants to build a three thousand mile long wall and deport all our nation’s Muslim citizens, how could he ever top that?
But then he says that Brexit will be great for the UK economy, and then he says that Vladimir Putin is the best ally of the U.S, and then he decides not to endorse Paul Ryan in the GOP primary, and then he gets into a personal grudge match with parents of a slain US soldier, and then he doesn’t know that Russia invated Ukraine, and then, and then, and then…
He has now coyly suggested that gun toting NRA supporters should “take care of” Hillary Clinton . What could he possibly say to top that?
Part of me thinks there is no way he could say something even more disturbing or scary during this election cycle. But another part of me realizes that there really are no limits here.
I guess, for the next 88 days, I’m going to keep doing those Google searches.