What Did You Expect?

After watching Trump's Press Conference I was equally shocked and not surprised.  The little voice that's inside all our noggins said to me:

"What did you expect?"

We've always seen and come to believe that the President should be calm, cool, and collected no matter the situation and no matter who is the President.  We even have a term for it, "acting Presidential".

It's safe to say that we didn't see that when Trump gave his 77 minute part diatribe, part rant session, and part display of wackadoo.  Watching the faces of the White House Press Pool might be best described as them watching a train wreck.  There are still interns here trying to sift through the transcript to find pockets of sanity.  But again:

"What did you expect?"

Any gravitas we were hoping for when Trump took the oath of office should be quietly unceremoniously buried out in the back in our cemetery of national common hopes.  He is who he is right?  He is very much the vulgar, English language slaughtering, ignorant, racist, xenophobic, narcissistic, impulse driven loon we always knew he was, and again he just lived up to who he is at his core.

In a week where chaos reigned with the bombshell of Flynn's departure due to Russian collusion, lies, and possible treason, to Stephen Miller doing his best to win this year's Joseph Goebbels Look alike award, to the press conference meltdown; many believe this is a unraveling of a presidency.  I think it's just another week in our new national circus.  When he continues to be what he has been all along, he fulfills the cliche: It is what it is.

When we witness that sort of public spectacle the press in real time needs to adjust and push back in real time.  When the leader of the free world calls the media fake, spews out 100% verifiable lies, and paints a picture of dystopian fantasy, the Press has to call him on it right then during the back and forth where he either answers the questions or continues to look and play the fool.  He is always going to have his 35% sycophant supporters, those who willfully believe his brand of crazy.  The press needs to push back and not continue to be manipulated into being a part of the carnival.

This is where we are right now, this unfortunately is what we will continue to see until he is either impeached or gets his orange gludius maximus voted out of office.  But we should not be shocked anymore.

After all, what did we expect?