About Trump's Swiftian Speech of July 4 2020, my comments video recorded July5/20. FrankPoliat©2020
Channel: Frank Poliat
Date: 2020-07-05

Looking back on my video, I see that that I did not completely finish making my point: that Desert Storm was concluded swiftly, but that the US/Vietnam was not swift, it was agonizingly slow, nor did the US kick ass... to the contrary, the US was the ass kickee, not kicker. No disrespect to American veterans meant. 


As the first comment points out below, perhaps in Trump's muddled little mind, he was also thinking about John Kerry on a Swift boat; but I doubt it. Perhaps in the garbage heap of his brain there were a few desperate axons and dendrites trying to get him to create some calumny against Kerry and the nature of his command of a Navy Swift boat; but I doubt it. And I assume that the term "Swiftian" somehow also floated up from the mental swamp known as Trump's brain. Here's what I do know:
If you asked Trump if Jonathan Swift was a) a bird, b} a spiny lizard or c) the most famous satirist since Aristophanes (OK, there's Moliere), he'd be stumped; the fact that no birds or lizards are named Jonathan would also fly right over, or under, his fluffy little head. 


In conclusion, he WANTED to say that the big bad USA ends all its wars quickly and victoriously. Well Vietnam was neither swift nor victorious, Donald, sorry.


Trump fans have strenuously (and swiftly) objected to criticisms of Donald's stirring speech about Uncle Sam's swift might. Obviously he was conflating two wars (both undeclared, as usual) that started roughly 3 decades apart. In conclusion, he was bigly wrong, bigly inarticulate, bigly illiterate and out of his effing microscopic mind.