President Camacho

I dunno if I'm going to be able to stand four years of Trump.  The first press conference his administration holds was to sling propaganda and lies about the number of attendees at his inauguration.  The press secretary insisted that it was the most attended event in the history of the world - this despite demonstrable evidence to the contrary.  There are pictures...although, according to Trump, they've been photoshopped.

Trump also took a quick trip to Langley to speak at the CIA.  The president packed the hall with his supporters who cheered and applauded his speech to create the illusion that CIA professionals were in his corner.  It is textbook manipulation by a dangerous demagogue - very Orwellian.

We're in for a helluva ride, folks.  Trump's approval ratings are in the mi-30's.  This is an unsustainable level where one catastrophe leaves the new president isolated and under siege.  Lincoln once said that you can fool some of the people all the time and all of the people some of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.

Let's hope he was right.