Honoring just the Top Dog among a group of wealthy white guys would be a pretty meaningless thing—what with leaving out all the women and young people in the world today.”

Donald Trump can blather endlessly on television, brainwashing the public with lie after lie after lie—a majority of which become accepted by many as truth, but Swedish teen Greta Thunberg, 16, is slowly winning over the attention of the world by presenting the simple truths of global warming and climate change to major governing bodies (The United Nations, France, England, Spain, South America, etc.).

Time magazine last Wednesday announced Greta Thunberg as its “Person of the Year” for 2019 and U.S. Twitter-in-Chief Donald Trump (and liar extraordinaire) set an apparent new record. His @realDonaldTrump account had tweeted and retweeted 115 times by late Thursday night. Of course, much of Donald’s activity was was amped-up tweeting declaring his innocence as the U.S. House of Representatives judiciary committee pushed towards its historic approval of the articles of impeachment against him. By morning he had logged 123 times alone, breaking the single-day record he had posted several days earlier. His favorite words in referring to the impeachment proceedings were “fake””phony” and “hoax.” He notably accused the young climate activist of having anger problems and advised Thunberg to “chill.”

But of course, it’s self-obsession and a quest for adulation that drives about every move of Donald J. Trump—especially when it involves a 16-YEAR-OLD WOMAN and an award upon which he had his eye but for which he finished as a runner-up in the voting. Fake replicas of Trump on Time covers of the past may even be found in semi-private Trump locations.

So Donald, as usual, included insults via both tweet and live in public; and Greta just smiled. I guess you’ll never get it, Donald. Honoring just the Top Dog among a group of wealthy white guys would be a pretty meaningless thing—what with leaving out all the women and young people in the world today.

Here’s a fine account from The Washington Post. (I advise reading this as I’m still recovering the ability to both set and edit type.) The gist of this blog is here:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-mocks-16-year-old-greta-thunberg-a-day-after-she-is-named-times-person-of-the-year/2019/12/12/fc66f406-1cda-11ea-8d58-5ac3600967a1_story.html

An earlier item from The Los Angeles Times: https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2019-09-22/un-climate-summit-youth-activists-disappointed

Some more recent miscellany: https://www.yahoo.com/news/greta-thunberg-clapped-back-deutsche-103954861.html

Associated Press also noted that the latest Trump tweet storm included promotion of his privately-owned Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach (where monied tenants can catch the president’s private ear as he spends most of the winter’s non-golf weekends there).

Next time someone tells you that Donald is not influenced by personal wealth, bring up the real estate represented by Trump Towers, the two conjoined towers in Şişli, Istanbul, Turkey. One of the towers is an office tower, and the other a residential tower, consisting of over 200 residences. The complex also holds a shopping mall with some 80 shops and a multiplex cinema. Then give thought to Donald’s ready betrayal of the penniless Kurds of northeast Syria, formerly under a protective alliance with the U.S. and bloody enemy of the monied Istanbul crowd. (Greta, incidentally, recently turned down a $62,000 prize for her evaluation of Trump and others of allied ilk.)

And actually the other self-obsession of his life came to the fore even as Donald should have been jousting more with Democrats over his proposed impeachment. On Dec. 7 he assured the public that the Environmental Protection agency (unconcerned with disappearing polar icecaps, melting glaciers burning of coal by industry, etc.) will be taking a “long, hard look” at new energy-saving light bulbs that bring out the orange in his facial make-up . . . and reduced water usage that requires “10 or 15” flushes of a toilet, Check this out; it’s all over the Internet.

And here’s another good read if you have free time at the moment:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/paul-krugman-trump-china-trade-war-lost-030908116.html I’ll try to type out a full 750 words next time around,