Burning Down the House

Suzanne Cloud
5 min readOct 5, 2020
Photo Courtesy of KSAT.com

He sees you as “disgusting” and he was glad COVID-19 infected our country because now he has an excuse for not shaking hands with you. His good friend talk show host Howard Stern has said that Trump actually “despises” you. Trump insists you adore him inside and side-by-side at rallies with no masks, no distancing, screaming your approval of his abuse of others. You put your lives on the line for this liar, allowing yourselves to be changed into human disease vectors to infect others as well as yourself. The Tulsa Rally caused a huge surge in coronavirus cases in Oklahoma, and Herman Cain, a Trump supporter, died of the virus after attending that rally. Recently, at an Omaha, Nebraska rally, Trump flew off into the blue yonder leaving thousands of supporters freezing in subzero temperatures for hours. The buses his advance team was supposed to coordinate to get folks home from the windy airport never arrived. Oh well, what the hell.

Your “chosen one,” your “voice sent from God,” came down with COVID-19, leaving his entire White House, his campaign people, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and later his conservative celebrants on the south lawn back slapping in honor of another right-winger pushed onto SCOTUS. Trump doesn’t give a shit about his family (Melania and Baron both got the coronavirus) and he doesn’t give a shit about YOU. His long time friend Donny Deutsch warned us recently on Morning Joe to wait…

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Suzanne Cloud

Writer, historian, jazz singer-songwriter, PhD American Studies. Author of Images of America: Philadelphia Jazz and the play “Last Call at the Downbeat”