Trumpty Dumpty Dumps on Us All

Humpty Trumpty by Barbara Kelley

Apart from watching our country's comedians (when they are permitted to air), about the only solace I have in these dark authoritarian days is attending peaceful protests like the huge No Kings Marches that happened on Saturday all over the nation. The camaraderie, the clever signs, and the knowledge that the resistance is alive, bolstered my spirits for another day of living in the USA. 

But nothing quite prepared me for the uber-infantile, incredibly nasty and undemocratic AI video that Trumpty Dumpty posted on his social media after an estimated seven million Americans marched in protest of his administration's autocratic actions. 

In the video, he sports a crown and flies a plane named King Trump that dumps massive shit bombs on protesters, including young left-wing influencer Harry Sisson (just after giving Charlie Kirk the Medal of Freedom). As the Turkish proverb goes, "When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn't become a king. The palace becomes a circus." 

It was bad enough that the day before the rallies, Trump freed from prison and released from paying restitution the convicted fraudster George Santos, perhaps pandering to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who has surprisingly become a critic of the Trump administration and is ready to vote to release the Epstein files. 

Next, J.D. Vance, who "served" (in the press relations department) in Iraq as a Marine, oversaw a strange show of military force near San Diego, California on the morning of the marches that caused the busy Interstate 5 corridor to be closed for several hours. 

Meanwhile, our government remains shut down and speaker Johnson, who dubbed the rallies "hate America" marches, refuses to swear in elected Rep. Adelita Grijalva, since she would be the swing vote to release the Epstein files. And we're continuing to blow up Venezualian ships and killing suspected narcotraffickers onboard with no due process, while gifting not $20 billion but $40 billion to autocratic Argentina (as Colin Jost joked on SNL's Weekend Update, "Because if history is any guide, a lot of Trump officials will end up fleeing to Argentina." This during the week that a group chat of young Republicans revealed racist and pro-Hitler sentiments.)

And for those fooled into thinking Trump would legalize or reschedule cannabis, as he promised during his campaign (while attacking Kamala Harris for her prosecutorial record on marijuana), he's done nothing, while appointing officials who either oppose legalization or continue to just say they're looking at it. Strangely, on the same weekend he posted (and deleted) an AI video about "magic beds," he also posted a pro-CBD video, possibly due to connections with Howard Kessler of the Commonwealth Project and his chief of staff Suzie Wiles's daughter. Caroline, who is reportedly dating a hemp businessman. 

Humpty Dumpty of nursery rhyme fame was reportedly the nickname for a huge cannon, or an overweight sniper, that was stationed on the walls of Colchester by Royalists during the 1642 English Civil War. But Parliamentary forces damaged the walls beneath Humpty Dumpty, leading to its great fall, after which "all the king's horses and all the king's men" could not put Humpty together again. 

Cartoonists dubbed our would-be King "Trumpty Dumpty" or Humpty Trumpty over his failed Mexican border wall, and commentators like Melissa Murray wonder how we will ever put together Trump's "Humpty Dumpty" America. Now that he has virtually dumped on US citizens while literally doing it all over the place, it's time to topple our Trumpty Dumpty once and for all.