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Like in the beloved old TV series of the same name, some people live in different time dimensions, alterative realities, altered states, or alternative universes.

 

We live in the modern version of the Roman Republic; Donald Trump lives in the Roman Empire.

 

We think the president should be like Washington and Lincoln; Donald Trump thinks he’s Nero or one of the crazier emperors of the late empire.

 

We believe in democracy; Donald Trump strongly supported Hungary’s president who believes in “illiberal democracy.” Moron supporting oxymoron.

 

We believe in democracy; Donald Trump supports the neo-Fascist political party in Germany. The last time a Fascist party took over Germany – how did that turn out?

 

Most Americans are Christians and believe in God; Donald Trump posted an image of himself as Christ. Throughout history, there’s been a name for people who do that.

 

We erect monuments in Washington DC to great former presidents; Donald Trump wants to erect a monument to himself with angels on top, while he is still president. Like Nero did.

 

JD Vance is an isolationist. But he supports Trump’s war again Iran as an exception because America has “a smart president, whereas in the past we’ve had dumb presidents.”

No vice president has ever said anything dumber than that.

 

President Trump says he defends Western civilization based on Christianity. He attacks opponents of Western civilization based on Christianity, such as the pope.

 

Many Americans try to understand the global world we live in. Donald Trump, the most powerful person in that world, confuses Greenland with Iceland.

 

Vice President Vance believes that the greatest danger to American prosperity is “childless cat ladies,” whose Schrodinger cats, like Vance, may be living in an alternative world.

 

We believe the elected president represents the people; Donald Trump has privatized the presidency to make himself and his family very rich.

 

Donald Trump believes in such Christian values as multiple divorces, adultery, palling around with people like Jeffrey Epstein, blasphemy, pride, greed, lust, envy, and wrath.

 

There are many verses in the Bible about showing compassion and hospitality to strangers, including “Hebrews 13:2 ("Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers") and Leviticus 19:34 ("love [the stranger] as yourself"). Donald Trump thinks he’s the Pharaoh in Exodus.

 

If Donald Trump’s mind is in the Gilded Age of the Robber Barons, Peter Hegseth sees himself as a medieval knight of the Crusades. Hegseth has the Latin phrase Deus vult—meaning "God wills it," which was a rallying cry of the medieval Crusades—tattooed on his right biceps. He sees using the American army as an instrument of a holy war against infidels. Does that sound familiar?

 

 

Donald Trump has repeatably said democratic leaders of America’s allies and neighbors are the enemy; anti-Democratic parties and Vladimir Putin are praised.

 

Since the Industrial Revolution, political, economic, and military power in the world has been based on technological innovation and subsequent industrial output; Donald Trump has cut funds for scientific and medical research.

 

Americans’ idols include Washington and Lincoln; Donald Trump’s idols are P. T. Barnum, Elmer Gantry, snake oil salesmen, and W. C. Fields (“Never give a sucker an even break”).

 

Donald Trump has broken at least eight of the ten commandments. One of the other two is “Though shalt not commit murder.” I’m ignoring his threat to destroy an entire civilization by bombing them back to the stone age. I’ll also give him the benefit of a doubt that he believes playing golf on the Sabbath is a religious experience.

 

While standing beside Mr. Orban in Budapest on April 7th, Mr. Vance declared that, under Mr. Orban and Mr. Trump, Hungary and America represented nothing less than “the defense of Western civilization”. They stood for the idea “that we are founded on a certain Christian civilization and Christian values that animate everything from freedom of speech to rule of law, to respect for minority rights and protection of the vulnerable”.

         The Economist, “J.D. Vance’s theory of Trumpism is no match for the practice,” April 16, 2026.

 

JD Vance lives in an alternative universe.

 

Elon Musk has the right idea – to get away to another planet, away from a country run by the man he has called a moron.

 

 

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