UP TO HIS ASS IN DIRTY MONEY

We lead with our strengths – all of us. When you take on a challenge, you enlist your go-to strengths. You don’t have to think about which strengths to enlist because your hard-wired, survival motivated reptile brain does it for you.

Muhammad Ali’s long, powerful left jab kept his opponents at a distance where they could inflict the least amount of damage, while he waited for his opportunity to strike like a cobra. When age took its toll, robbing him of his famous foot speed, the left jab needed to be more impenetrable than ever.

His survival depended on it, and well past his prime, his core weapon kept him in the ring and allowed him to continue saying: “I am the greatest!”

We can all see in “high def” that whatever skills the businessman−turned reality tv star—turned candidate may have once possessed, they have eroded. This aging fighter appears to be down to only one trusted weapon − the Big Insult.

The Big Insult: Low-Energy Jeb, Lyin’ Ted, and Little Marco proved to be a devastating punch when landed squarely on the chins of Republican rivals. They not only landed, they stuck. He successfully branded them with simplistic, easy to grasp, bumper sticker messages, paving the way for his championship-winning Big Insult – Crooked Hillary.

But for Trump, those were the good old days. He had nothing to lose. Hillary wins the election and he wins the opportunity to build his crown jewel, Trump Tower Moscow, and take his newly expanded fan base to his next lucrative tv venture.

Now his days are dark. Impeachment is closing in. Despite the protection of his loyal, corrupt attorney general, the Southern District of New York is closing in. The Manhattan D.A., Cyrus Vance is relentlessly closing in. Last week the courts began ruling against him.

With his very survival at stake, he is a desperate man, and it shows. He has taken the Big Insult to a new level – a much lower level.

His latest Big Insult bumper sticker messages:

“Democrats are running a BULLSHIT IMPEACHMENT.”

“Biden understood how to KISS BARACK OBAMA’S ASS.”

If you happen to be a remaining Trump supporter, these messages are meant for you. He wants to excite you as only he can. He wants to remind you that when it comes to offending normal Americans, nobody does it better – the influence on your children and grandchildren be damned!

So, I have a recommendation for the presidential candidates.

When the question is asked: Why did we abandon the Kurds and help restore ISIS to please the despot in Turkey?

Simply answer: Because Trump is up to his ass in dirty money.

When the question is asked: Why are we making it easier for our enemy leader of Russia to reclaim Ukraine?

Just answer: Because Trump is up to his ass in dirty money.

And when the question is asked: Why are we sending our men and women to defend Saudi Arabia?

Just answer: Because Trump is up to his ass in dirty money.

Dear Joe, Bernie, Liz, Kamala, Pete, Beto, Amy, Cory, Julian, Andrew, Tulsi, and Tom, I strongly urge you to drop the delicate, long winded approach and adopt this very Trumpish bumper sticker message that will successfully brand him as the Criminal President.

Of course, each of you should do it your way, in your voice – your own personal version of the Ali jab.

Nancy Pelosi will thank you for the support, and the American people will thank for your courage and clarity.

One of you will win the prize, and by virtue of your election, will begin the process of truly Making America Great Again. Being delicate won’t get you there.

Bruce Coltin

Ex-Marketing Guy

Surviving Trump Two Minutes at a Time

ENJOYING EVERY MOMENT OF "TRUMP: THE FINAL SEASON"

It is wrong to enjoy the suffering of others. I admit that.

But I, for one, feel comfortable making the occasional exception and I hope you do too. The Destroyer of American Democracy and his sidekicks, who have intentionally darkened our days for the past three years are currently in full panic mode and if you don’t admit to finding that satisfying, you are failing our central mission of surviving Trump.

You can tell me all you want that you have no interest in seeing Barr, Pence, Pompeo, and Giuliani in orange jumpsuits, but I will not believe you. “Ukrainegate” is glowing on Trump’s henchmen like the red dye that explodes in the money bag when the bank robbers are making their getaway.

Have you caught any of their stuttering, contradictory, self-incriminating attempts to explain themselves? It can be hard keeping a story straight when their boss keeps changing the story. Comical! Just comical!

We were warned by pundits from both parties that impeachment by the Democratic House would result in four more years of Donald Trump. We were told that impeachment would play into Trump’s hands, casting him as the underdog, being persecuted by the angry, radical left.

Impeachment would solidify the Trump base and alienate independent voters. Democrats, intent on winning the White House, keeping the House of Representatives, and possibly taking the Senate, had no real alternative than to be patient and work strategically to win in 2020.

This conventional wisdom was so two-weeks ago!

Madam Speaker had ordered her troops to hold their fire until she gave the order. For that, she was attacked from inside her ranks as being cowardly, or incompetent, or corrupt. But she knew what they did not. She knew that getting too far ahead of public opinion would end in certain failure.

And now, thanks to the frighteningly unhinged, unpresidential behavior (yes, even more unhinged and more unpresidential than we were used to) of Donald Trump, public opinion has gone from a murmur to a scream faster than Republicans learned how to spell Benghazi.

Prior to Madam Speaker’s announcement that made the impeachment inquiry (not actual impeachment) official, only 40% of the American public were for the impeachment inquiry, while 51% were opposed.

After she made it official, 51% voiced their support for an impeachment inquiry, while 44% opposed. 

Less than two weeks ago, 37% supported actual impeachment and removal from office, while 57% were opposed.

But the latest numbers tell a stunningly different story. Right now, 46% support actual impeachment and removal from office, while 45% oppose.

Have you spotted the trend?

Next week will bring more whistleblower news, more releases of phone and text message conversations, more subpoenas, more witness testimonies, more venomous tweets, more proof of crimes and coverups, and of course more attacks on the Constitution by the President of the United States, and by his deranged personal attorney, his corrupt attorney general, his spineless secretary of state, and his lying vice president.

And what will next week’s poll numbers tell us about the growing popularity of impeachment? I think they will tell us that the Trump Show’s ratings are plummeting fast.

He will suffer the indignity of impeachment by the House, forever branding his presidency, inflicting merciless suffering on his fragile ego until his final days on earth.

We can’t bet that, regardless of the damning evidence that surfaces, Senate Republicans will come out of hiding and do the right thing, but believe me − they too will glow with the red dye of complicity long after the Trump Show is cancelled on November 3, 2020.

I will enjoy watching their clumsy, futile grabbing for redemption.  

Bruce Coltin

Surviving Trump Two Minutes at a Time