The president of the United States announced last month that, in place of performances by Martina McBride, Young MC, the surviving members of the Commodores, one member of Poison, and other sought-after musicians who had dropped out after being recruited on apparently false pretenses, he would personally provide the entertainment for a 250th-anniversary celebration of American independence … This week, he announced another rally, to take place July 4. “We are going to host the most spectacular TRUMP RALLY of them all, a ‘TRIBUTE TO AMERICA.’” The Rally to end all Rallies will apparently end them for a mere week and a half. The shambolic decision to turn the quarter-millennium anniversary of the Declaration of Independence into yet another rally is, perhaps, an inevitable outgrowth of Trump’s megalomania, which renders him unable to keep separate the functions of party leader and head of state. In merging the two, he has trashed the latter. | |
