I’ve had my own problems with President Trump’s tweets. But he stirred up a major brouhaha by tweeting a few choice comments about MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough and his fiancée/co-host, Mike Brzezinski, with even some conservatives joining in the attack, insisting that Trump wasn’t behaving in a presidential manner.

Because I often judge others by how I imagine I would react in a similar situation, I found myself wondering how I would deal with a pair of brainless twits who spent the better part of five mornings a week trashing me personally, pretty much ignoring my actions and my agenda, knowing that their audience would eat up their calling me “a boor,” “a thug,” “sick mentally,” “demented” and “a guy who poops in his pants and is then surprised when people point it out.”

If I’m being honest about it, President Prelutsky would begin by ordering the IRS to audit both of them to within an inch of their lives. After which, I would really get nasty.

In fact, when “Morning Joe” called Trump a “schmuck,” I thought about suing him for infringement of my COPYRIGHT. But, then, I realized that I had started using that as my favorite epithet only after sitting through a few of Jackie Mason’s one-man shows. Inasmuch as Jackie hasn’t sued me, I guess I can’t sue Scarborough.

The saddest fact to come out of all this is that Scarborough’s ratings have risen by more than 50% since he and his main squeeze started insulting Trump on a daily basis. And now, because of all the media attention that’s come their way, thanks to Trump’s dishing out some of the crap they’ve been serving hot off the morning griddle, their ratings will continue to soar.

It just goes to show what hypocrites liberals are. Remember how they kept insisting that however the rest of us felt about Bill Clinton, the rapist-in-chief, and Barack Obama, who seriously insisted he had a mandate to radically transform America into a socialist state, we were supposed to respect the office?

Frankly, I think we conservatives treated Obama far too respectfully for far too long. I suppose a lot of it had to do with the fact that this product of a white mother and an Islamic father was magically turned into a black man, and, as such, held a sacred status in America similar to that of cows in India.

Although I have had, as I said, a problem with some of Trump’s tweets, I think it’s unfair that some people have attacked him because, as a candidate, he expressed an isolationist approach to world events, while, as the president, he has shown himself to be an activist when it comes to Syria and especially North Korea.


Without arguing for either one approach or the other, I would think that anyone who didn’t change his mind about some matters after becoming president and becoming aware of things that no civilian can possibly know, was a dope.

As I see it, one says certain things during a political campaign, as one does while dating, that one would hesitate to say after one is elected or married. Anyone who is unaware of this basic fact of life has obviously never been elected or married.

---

Democrats seem to believe that if they were capable of successfully impeaching Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton would become president because she came in second last November. That’s what comes of not reading the Constitution.

The bad news for Maxine Waters, Elizabeth Warren, Nancy Pelosi, Al Green, and the other not very bright members of Congress is that according to the rules of succession, Mike Pence would replace Donald Trump, Paul Ryan would replace Mike Pence and Orrin Hatch would replace Paul Ryan. Hatch, in turn, would be replaced by Rex Tillerson, Steve Mnuchin, James “Mad Dog” Mattis, Jeff Sessions, etc., etc.

In other words, there would be no relief in sight, so the Democrats should save their breath and, in the words of their iconic conciliator, “sit down, shut up and get out of the way.”

Perhaps I’m off base suggesting how liberals should behave, but they might keep in mind that we all hated Obama even more than they hate Trump if only because we had to put up with that disaster for eight years, not six months, and we very rarely called for his impeachment. Well, at least not in public.

---

It recently struck me that whenever people speak about wasting our natural resources, they’re referring to such things as oil and coal, when we have a far more precious commodity being squandered. I suppose some might choose to refer to it as fossil fuel, but I’m talking about elderly Americans.

I would never suggest that we defer to every old person the way that legend has it the Japanese do or did. After all, as we’ve all seen with such senior citizens as Bill and Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren, Maxine Waters, Chuck Schumer and Dick Durbin, a lot of old people are just as stupid as they were in their 20s, but with more wrinkles and less hair.

But, as a society, we tend to toss old people out by the curb with the other trash, hoping that someone driving a big truck will cart them away along with the empty milk cartons and last week’s newspapers.

The typical 80-year-old simply knows more because he or she has read more, seen more and had far more life-expanding experiences, than any four 20-year-olds you can round up.

What’s more, they don’t need to make a lot of money because they probably paid off the house and raised their kids decades ago. They’re not looking to make their nest egg. That particular egg hatched a long time ago. What they want is to be useful. Plus, they don’t tend to use so-called recreational drugs or to party till the wee hours, so they usually show up regularly and on time…. unless, of course, they have an appointment with their cardiologist, ophthalmologist or urologist.

---

There’s a plan afoot by the Left to pass something called the Basic Universal Income bill. It would legislate that a paycheck be sent to every American, even if they don’t work.

To most sane people, that sounds like welfare on super steroids, an idea so daft that by comparison, ObamaCare nearly sounds rational. But you can see where it might resonate with members of Congress who, after all, regularly receive paychecks for not working.

Speaking of not working, I often find myself wondering why Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi don’t simply assume power of attorney, allowing their congressional colleagues to stay home with their families. After all, why do they need to have a rollcall in the Senate and the House when it would save so much time if Schumer were allowed to cast 48 votes and Pelosi, 193?

In fact, the Democrats are so predictable that they could make a movie about them similar to “Groundhog Day,” but instead of basing it on weird happenings associated with February 2nd, they could focus on events connected to the first of April, and call it quite appropriately, “April Fool’s Day.”