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President Trump has added one more stop to the you’re-not-wanted-here world tour: He will not attend the Kennedy Center Honors ceremony, that’s typically a must-go for any POTUS.
“The President and First Lady have decided not to participate in this year’s activities to allow the honorees to celebrate without any political distraction,” White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in a statement. “First Lady Melania Trump, along with her husband President Donald J. Trump, extend their sincerest congratulations and well wishes to all of this year’s award recipients for their many accomplishments.”
Add this to just about any public event, college commencement, and corporate engagement you see any normal president attend. Trump started his term without a baseball opening day first pitch (despite the fact that he played high school baseball, so his pitching arm is hopefully better than his predecessor’s limp attempt), he then eschewed the White House Correspondents Association dinner, and moved on to get himself a likely non-invite to a future Boy Scouts Jamboree.
How many presidents can get themselves disinvited from the Boy Scouts?
What does it feel like to be the pariah president? To be shunned by all social society–not just politically correct society, but any event aside of his own rallies? I am beginning to think that Trump’s reason for officially announcing his 2020 campaign is so he can continue to have rallies and other campaign events since that’s probably the only place he’ll be invited to speak.
Of course, anytime the president wants, he can command a venue and an audience. He can assemble the military, or the CIA, or a veterans group. Or he can go to a military hospital, or appear after a national tragedy. Unfortunately, when Trump does these things, he ends up bringing a butterknife and inserting it into a power socket.
Donald Trump has turned Teddy Roosevelt’s “bully pulpit” into a pestilent pulpit. He has demonstrated a reverse Midas touch on every event at which he attempts to appear presidential. Even when he gives a remarkably cogent and historic speech like he did in Warsaw, his hamfistedness tends to overshadow his accomplishment.
How long can Trump want to live this way? How long can he be so isolated, shunned and boycotted? George W. Bush experienced some of that at the height of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars: daily protests, mockery in the press, and shunning from the left. But Bush was never disinvited from social events simply because of who he was. He was able to be gracious and even funny with those whose political agendas (and in many cases, their livelihoods) depended on publicly trashing him.
Trump cannot act this way. He will act like a peevish high schooler because at heart, he still is one. Anyone who can live in total isolation from friendly relationships for long periods without feeling the slightest pinprick of conscience could very well be a sociopath–an accusation increasingly heard about Trump.
Then again, if he’s like most of us, he’ll eventually be overcome by remorse, or simply exhausted by the emotional strain. In the former case, we could expect some kind of apology or repentance. In the latter, he quits.
But unlike the Clintons, Bush 43, or Obama, this president’s future won’t be marked with welcome signs at many places typically associated with the privilege of office. Unless Trump radically changes (and I doubt he can), he will always be the pariah president.
Will America-First News Outlets Make it to 2023?
Things are looking grim for conservative and populist news sites.
There’s something happening behind the scenes at several popular conservative news outlets. 2021 was bad, but 2022 is proving to be disastrous for news sites that aren’t “playing ball” with the corporate media narrative. It’s being said that advertisers are cracking down, forcing some of the biggest ad networks like Google and Yahoo to pull their inventory from conservative outlets. This has had two major effects. First, it has cooled most conservative outlets from discussing “taboo” topics like Pandemic Panic Theater, voter fraud, or The Great Reset. Second, it has isolated those ad networks that aren’t playing ball.
Certain topics are anathema for most ad networks. Speaking out against vaccines or vaccine mandates is a certain path to being demonetized. Highlighting voter fraud in the 2020 and future elections is another instant advertising death penalty. Throw in truthful stories about climate change hysteria, Critical Race Theory, and the border crisis and it’s easy to understand how difficult it is for America-First news outlets to spread the facts, share conservative opinions, and still pay the bills.
Without naming names, I have been told of several news outlets who have been forced to either consolidate with larger organizations or who have backed down on covering certain topics out of fear of being “canceled” by the ad networks. I get it. This is a business for many of us and it’s not very profitable. Those of us who do this for a living are often barely squeaking by, so loss of additional revenue can often mean being forced to make cuts. That means not being able to cover the topics properly. Its a Catch-22: Tell the truth and lose the money necessary to keep telling the truth, or avoid the truth and make enough money to survive. Those who have chosen survival simply aren’t able to spread the truth properly.
We will never avoid the truth. The Lord will provide if it is His will. Our job is simply to share the facts, spread the Gospel, and educate as many Americans as possible while exposing the forces of evil.
To those who have the means, we ask that you please donate. We have options available now, but there is no telling when those options will cancel us. We just launched a new GiveSendGo page. We also have our GivingFuel page. There have been many who have been canceled by PayPal, but for now it’s still an option. Your generosity is what keeps these sites running and allows us to get the truth to the masses. We’ve had great success in growing but we know we can do more with your assistance.
Thank you, and God Bless!
JD Rucker
