Promises Kept/Promises Broken

The first six months of Trump's second term has been a steady decline toward complete autocracy and perhaps toward bankruptcy. (He has lots of experience with the latter.)

Heart-pounding patriotic music. Jets flying in formation. An abundance of American flags, in almost every shot. Jingoism at its finest. If you had just dropped in from Planet Kolob and didn’t know better, you’d think that Donald Trump was a universally beloved and revered leader.

In case you haven’t guessed, I’m describing the video released by the Trump White House (at Trump’s command, no doubt) touting their “accomplishments” in the first six months of Trump’s second term. It’s a collection of substance-free propaganda that would have made Soviet-era Pravda’s editors blush.

“Thanks to this bill,” the narrator trumpets, “Trump can resign tomorrow.” He’s referring to Trump’s big buxom blond broad of a budget bill — now enacted into law — the law that siphons money away from the working poor and puts it directly into the pockets of Trump’s billion…