Today is Monday, May 5, 2025. While I was away, I missed the anti-Dump demonstration scheduled for May Day, May 1, last Thursday. I know that protesters were out in Arizona as well as many other states across the country. Of course, I was unable to join them, even though I would have preferred to do so. I’ll have to wait until the next one is scheduled, which could be sometime in the next two weeks.

An online article for AlterNet predicts a catastrophic meltdown of the Dump administration as millions of Americans are shitting on Dump’s autocratic agenda. The article is written by Adam Lynch and is entitled ‘A broad-based crash’: Here’s why Americans are dumping Trump’s agenda” and it’s a bad omen for the failing president if there ever was one.

The article’s opening paragraph begins, “Salon Magazine reports multiple sources are watching President Donald Trump’s agenda implode under the weight of Americans’ disapproval.” Senior Writer Chauncey DeVega writes in that piece that Dump’s approval ratings are falling to levels not seen for an American president in the last 80 years. Another bad first for you, Donnie!

Oops, I lost the article by accidentally clicking on something else on my phone and I can’t retrieve it. Sorry! But you get the idea!

Another earth-shattering story is the one that occurred on Sunday on Meet the Press which was moderated by Kristen Welker in which the deranged president sat down for another one of his rambling, incoherent interviews, but this one is drawing outrage from many sectors for what the president admitted about upholding the Constitution after responding to a question about it from Welker. This bizarre admission of “I don’t know” when asked if he would uphold the principle of due process, repeating the same vacuous response when asked if he would uphold the Constitution, drew the attention of conservative former judge Michael Luttig – who was a vehement critic of Dump during his first term – who called the comments made by the Orange Mussolini as the “most important” statement made by a U.S. president for an online RawStory article by Sarah K. Burns entitled “Trump uttered ‘most important words’ ever spoken’ by a president: conservative ex-judge.”

I promise I won’t lose this article. This interview which aired Sunday did not see me viewing it, so I had to learn about it from my news sources on my smartphone. The questions posed to the doofus involved the deported migrants sent to a prison in El Salvador and whether they received the due process required under the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution. It is here where he answered with “I don’t know.”

Then on Monday, Luttig told MSNBC’s Nicole Wallace that Chump’s comments “are perhaps the most important words ever spoken by a president of the United States.” He added that the story is “one of the most important stories of our times.”

Luttig dismissed this president’s bizarre words as not just another gaffe made by an Alzheimer’s-afflicted person, but that he believes that Dump himself doesn’t necessarily thinks he is obligated to preserve the Constitution of the United States, as it’s interpreted by the Supreme Court. Luttig feels Dump might be subscribing to a school of thought called “constitutional denialism,” a corpus of belief that Luttig himself has followed and has attempted to understand for most of his career. Here Luttig gives Dump more credit than he deserves; I sincerely doubt that he even understands the term “constitutional denialism,” let alone following it in his shambling, plodding course through his second term.

Don’t get me on the more bizarre exchange that ensued between Welker and this idiot about dolls. That girls don’t need 30 dolls to play with, they need only 3 dolls and then threw in pencils. Can anyone grasp what this moron is saying?

Where are the men out with the butterfly net for this guy?

I should mention that Elliot and I are going away – yet again – this Thursday, May 8, to England where we will be boarding a Celebrity ship called the Apex on Saturday, May 10, to enjoy a seven-day jaunt to Norway to see the fjords. We also will spend some time in Wales to visit a remarkable book village called Hay-on-Wye. And spend some time in London as well. We return to the States on May 22. This cruise marks my first sailing venture since February 2020 – right before the looming pandemic. So I’m a little nervous about doing it five years later. My last entry will be on Wednesday then.

Tomorrow marks my men’s reading club meeting, so I will be away from this venue on Tuesday eve since I will be discussing The New Life by Tom Crewe with, maybe, 30 or 40 other avid readers. I made it my business to finish the book before going to Los Angeles for the TCM Film Festival.

And so it went!