Up To Date With Ethan Callender Entry 14: There’s Something About Donald

 Up To Date With Ethan Callender Entry 14: There’s Something About Donald

President Trump will leave an enormous impact as he leaves office in less than a week. Unfortunately, I cannot in good conscience call his impact anything close to anything remotely positive. From his sad excuses for bravado to his inciting an insurrection at the Capitol building, it is clear that he utterly did not care about his job as President. He let his own self-interest cloud what miniscule shreds of a sense of decency he had, as he has done for nearly half a century before in the private sector. Our 45th President is, for lack of a better term, a monster, and this is reflected in his being impeached twice. That has never happened before.

But first, it is necessary to explain how impeachment works, because it is a complicated process. First, the House of Representatives drafts and votes on articles of impeachment. These are essentially criminal charges. That has already happened, as Trump got impeached based on a charge of incitement of insurrection. Now, it is the Senate’s turn to try him on this charge, and if a two-thirds majority is in favor, convict the soon-to-be ex-President. Yes, when Trump gets tried in the Senate, he will no longer be President, so the trial is largely symbolic in this case. However, if he is convicted, a majority vote could be held on an unprecedented lifetime ban from office. That would be the final nail in Trump’s political coffin, and given that his businesses are losing partners left and right, he’ll have nowhere to hide.

After this impeachment, it is pretty clear that President Trump is well behind the 8-ball. From my understanding, if we are the 8-ball, Trump is probably still at the center of our galaxy, 25,000 light-years away. That is how precarious his position is right now. There is only one realistic outlook for him at this point, and he will lose everything getting there. After all, the man who wanted a wall on our southern border has been building a bigger one around himself for his entire life. Through his behavior since the election, this has become impossibly clear to me. 

Everybody who hasn’t stuck with him unconditionally these past four or five years has been cast aside as the enemy in his mind. From Michael Cohen, his longtime lawyer, to Attorney General William Barr, nobody is safe from his wrath. He makes George III, the very King of England we fought to get our independence from, look like just another face in the crowd. It’s not even tragic at this point, because at least George had intentions that were decent by comparison, and he didn’t cause his own illness. That being said, this wall Trump has built is nearly complete, and judging by his ever-decreasing capacity for reason and an ever-increasing lust for some semblance of power, he will soon have no way out. His remaining friends in Congress have already mostly abandoned his cause, with many Republicans voting against impeachment only out of fear for their lives. Soon, the last bricks will be placed in this wall, as his family and remaining friends will distance themselves from him to salvage their own lives. 

Donald Trump could’ve evaded accountability for the rest of his life. He was hardly relevant by 2015, when he announced his Presidential run. He thought his destiny was to have the world in the palm of his hand, but that mentality proved to expose this playboy billionaire as what he really has been his whole life: A selfish child who never remotely grew up. Running for President was the biggest mistake he could’ve possibly made. Now, the world knows the extent of his depravity, from his connections to Epstein to numerous other misdeeds. The whole world is laughing at him, joining what Comedy Central started with a fittingly brutal roast ten years ago.

On top of all that, his Presidency had some brash, god-awful policies. At this point, I don’t need to go into detail about the family separations at the border with children in cages, still without their parents. I don’t need to further explain his total and complete inaction on the pandemic. I don’t need to explain any further why his number grade as a President is a zero out of ten, the first President out of all that have ever served our country that I can give that grade to. There have been several Presidents who’ve earned ones out of ten, and even less. Look no further than James Buchanan, Andrew Johnson, and Herbert Hoover. However Trump trumps them all. Simply put, he leaves behind an abhorrent legacy, one that must never be forgotten, and I hope to high heaven that the Senate convicts him as soon as they can so they can bar him from trying again. Everything we all take for granted depends on what happens in that Senate trial. Only then can America once again be the land of the free and the home of the brave.