Let’s Relax and Enjoy the Stupidity of Donald Trump.

In the Summer of 1970, I was driving around a rural area in Spain and stopped in a small, peasant village called Menasalbas. I went into the one public space in the village, which was a small taberna, and ordered a beer. The bartender immediately knew I was from somewhere else, and after pouring me a draft, asked me if I wanted to see what the village considered to be their most valued site.

Of course, I answered. Why not?

Whereupon he took me by the arm, led me out of his taberna and down the block to the little town square with the parish church on one side and the ayuntamiento, the town hall, on the other.

And there sitting in front of the parish church, smiling and waving at me, was a dwarf-like man of indeterminate age who was also totally and completely dumb. If you believe I’m being politically incorrect, I should add that my tour guide proudly referred to him as the ‘idiota del pueblo’ (read: the village idiot.)

I thought about this incident yesterday when I happened to see a story about what Trump posted about the Queen’s funeral on his bullshit Truth Social and the seating of the Bidens in the fourteenth row: “This is what’s happened to America in just two short years. No respect! However, a good time for our President to get to know the leaders of certain Third World…