Idiotology

To the editor:

Donald Trump’s first 100 days can be summed up by one word — incompetence. 

Fire scientists researching Ebola and phone staff at Social Security without understanding the consequences; scramble to re-hire them.

Develop a ham-fisted algorithm to cut and replace DEI; discover you eliminated programs handling financial equity and portfolio diversity and even deleted references to the Enola Gay. Try to undo the damage.

Top aides sharing detailed, real-time military bombing operations over a phone-app chat, with civilians —twice! Trump’s health tsar claiming autism is “preventable.” Finish by insulting autistic Americans, saying, “these are kids who will never pay taxes, they’ll never hold a job, they’ll never play baseball, they’ll never write a poem, they’ll never go on a date.”

Planes crashing, falling from the sky, clipping wings at airports and engines bursting into flames, all met by silence at the FAA. 

Tariffs are on-off-on-off, increased, decreased, implemented (or not) to stop fentanyl and border crossings, or perhaps to bring back jobs, possibly to reduce trade imbalances, or maybe as a negotiating tactic.  

Tariffs are permanent or temporary, starting in March, or April, in 90 days or never. They will be 10 percent, or 20 percent or 145 percent, or they will “come down substantially.”

Even Trump’s signature mass deportation program has been chaotic. The high-profile first effort was to remove the worst of the worst. But, according to a “60 Minutes” background check, 179 of 238 deportees have no criminal records. How did Trump identify these bad guys? Tattoos!  What a buffoon.

Joseph Cannisi