Maybe it’s time to bleach Trump and let it roast!

Jose Antunes
4 min readApr 24, 2020

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Zapping patients with light or injecting disinfectant into the lungs to clean sick patients from Covid-19 are Trump’s newest “medical” suggestions made from its pulpit at the WH. How stupid can it be?

If Americans want to show their best, Trump is not their best asset. In fact, it looks as the worst, as seen from here, a corner of Iberia, on the other side of the pond. This strange non-creature — which I dare not say is human — has used its stay at the WH to destroy everything it touches. The recent pandemic, something the world as not seen in a century, has revealed how dumb, how idiotic, how bad IT is. Bad in the global sense of the term: if the President of the US is a mirror of the nation, then we’ve to be afraid of Americans.

One important note before we continue: I do not use he to refer to Trump. No way this thing can be human. So you will see IT apllied instead.

Years ago I thought that Bush, the two of them, were the dumbest presidents chosen by Americans — forget Nixon, we was not dumb, he was evil — but now I kind of feel they were OK, when I see what comes from this non-human’s mouth, day after day: it’s either bile or pure nonsense. This is the image America shares with the world, and let me say it is painful to see.

The worst thing is that this thing is not the president of all Americans — something it has made clear over and over — so the image we get gives us a wrong idea of America: this is not America… I hope. This said, Trump is surrounding itself of pundits and henchman that promote its “scientific” ideas — it keeps repeating it is not a doctor but someone with common sense… let me laugh -, like William Bryan, acting director of the Homeland Security Department’s Science and Technology directorate, who also seems to support the “scientific theories” recently shared at another Covid-19 Task Force meeting.

This has been going on and on, and despite all the lies, the stupidity, the truth is that Americans, who have the office of President in high regard, keep trying to give some credit to this non-creature, as if there is any credit due to it. There isn’t, this thing is just a bully that never grew from school days and keeps treating others as it always did. Now feeling superhuman )or super whatever it is…), because Americans were fool enough to give it a place in the history of America. Seeing the thing in action I wish — as many Americans do, I believe — there was a way to rewind the tape, clean the slate and start all over again. America deserves the chance to delete these four years from its History. How will we explain to new generations that this was even possible?

Following the recent developments in the US, I tend to believe that HC was right when she mentioned Trump supporters are a “basket of deplorables”. It surely looks like this as time passes and we see the kind of people that circles around this idiot using the WH Task Force meetings as a substitute to the rallies it — yes, it — has not been able to hold lately. Luckily, although from its FOX friends to the new press “screaming dipstick” secretary or the new spokesman for the Department of Health and Human Services, MC, everyone seems to follow the same vision of an imaginary world they want to be real, I believe most Americans are seeing that “the king has no clothes”.

Having lived through a revolution that put an end to a dictatorship, I don’t understand how Americans work. Is this, still, the same people that created a new nation on July 4, 1776, with the Declaration of Independence of thirteen British colonies? With the 4th of July around the corner isn’t it time to depose the thing, and put an end to a growing spiral of ignorance led by an unlettered, uneducated and vulgar thing that is now the mirror of America?

Maybe Americans should give Trump some of its medicine, and ask it to lead by example, by injecting disinfectant into the lungs to clean them from any Covid-19. Then they could take it outside, under the basking sun, and let it roast! Else, you can always “fire the thing” or “lock it up”.

What’s wrong with America?

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Jose Antunes

I am a writer and photographer based on the West coast of continental Europe, a place to see the Sun die on the Sea, every day.