These are darkish occasions, the typical cynic may argue.
However don’t despair.
In case you deal with the constructive, reasonably than the unfavourable, you’ll need to agree that the US of America is on high and nonetheless climbing.
Sure, protesters gathered Thursday exterior “Jimmy Kimmel Stay” in Hollywood to denounce ABC’s suspension of the host and President Trump’s risk to revoke licenses from networks that criticize him, regardless of repeated vows by Trump and high deputies to defend free speech.
You possibly can name it hypocrisy.
I name it moxie.
And by the way in which, demonstrators weren’t arrested or deported, and the Nationwide Guard was not summoned (so far as I do know).
Do you see what I imply? Simply tilt your head again a bit, and you’ll see sunshine breaking by means of the clouds.
Let’s take the president’s grievance that he learn “someplace” that the networks “had been 97% towards me.” Some may see weak spot in that, or skinny pores and skin. Others may marvel the place the “someplace” was that the president found his TV information favorability score stands at 3%, provided that he might get caught drowning puppies and dishonest at golf and nonetheless get fawning protection from a minimum of one main community.
However Trump had good motive to be grumpy. He was coming back from a information convention in London, the place he confused Albania and Armenia and fumbled the pronunciation of Azerbaijan, which sounded a bit extra like Abracadabra.
It’s not his fault all these nations all begin with an A. And isn’t there a geography lesson in it for all of us, if not a historical past lesson?
We transfer on now to American healthcare, and the numerous promising developments underway within the nation’s capital, due to Trump’s impressed alternative of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as chief of the Division of Well being and Human Providers.
Those that see the glass half empty would argue that Kennedy has turned the division right into a morgue, making an attempt to kill COVID-19 vaccine analysis, espousing backwater views about measles, firing public well being specialists, demoralizing the remaining workers and rejecting many years value of biomedical advances regardless of having no medical coaching or experience.
However on the plus aspect, Kennedy goes after meals dyes.
It’s about time, and thanks very a lot.
I’m unsure what else can be left in a field of Trix or Fortunate Charms when meals coloring is eliminated, however I’m against faux meals coloring, until it’s in a cocktail, and I’d prefer to assume most Individuals are with me on this.
Additionally on the brilliant aspect: Kennedy is encouraging Individuals to do chin-ups and pushups for higher well being.
Are you going to take a seat on the novel left aspect of your couch and gripe about what’s occurred to your nation, or get with this system and attempt to do a number of pushups?
OK, so Trump’s efforts to close down the warfare on most cancers is a little bit scary. Because the New York Occasions reported, on the chopping block is improvement of a brand new approach for colorectal most cancers prevention, analysis into immunotherapy most cancers prevention, a research on enhancing childhood most cancers survival charges, and higher evaluation of pre-malignant breast tissue in high-risk ladies.
However that might all be faux information, or 97% of it, a minimum of. And if it’s not?
All that analysis and all these medical doctors and scientists can apply for jobs in different nations, identical to all of the local weather scientists whose work is not a nationwide precedence. The extra who depart, the higher, as a result of the mind drain goes to liberate plenty of actual property and assist resolve the housing disaster.
Thanks, President Trump.
Is it any marvel that Trump has been seen lately sporting a MAGA-red hat that claims “TRUMP WAS RIGHT ABOUT EVERYTHING!”
Nicely, principally all the pieces.
Local weather change seems to be actual.
The warfare in Ukraine didn’t finish as promised.
The warfare within the Center East remains to be raging.
Grocery costs didn’t go down on Day 1, and a few items price extra due to tariffs.
As for the promise of a brand new age of American prosperity, there’s no rainbow in sight but, though there’s a pot of gold within the White Home, with estimates of billions in earnings for Trump household companies since he took workplace.
However for all of that, together with an approval score that has dropped since he took workplace in January, Trump exudes confidence. A lot in order that he proudly wears that brilliant purple hat, which he was giving out within the Oval workplace, and which retails for $25.
It’s one other ingenious financial stimulation plan.
And there’s an essential lesson right here for all of us.
By no means admit defeat, and when issues don’t go your approach, stand tall, alter your hat, and discover somebody guilty.
We should always all have our personal hats made.
Docs might put on hats saying they’ve by no means gotten a prognosis improper.
Dentists might put on hats saying they’ve by no means pulled the improper tooth.
TV meteorologists might put on hats saying — effectively, perhaps not — that they’ve gotten each forecast proper.
I’m having hats made as you learn this.
LOPEZ IS RIGHT ABOUT EVERYTHING!
Please don’t have me fired, Mr. President, in the event you disagree.
As for Jimmy Kimmel, I’m providing this concept freed from cost:
In case you ever get your job again, you, your sidekick Guillermo and your entire studio viewers ought to be sporting hats.
KIMMEL WAS RIGHT ABOUT EVERYTHING!
Steve.lopez@latimes.com
