People Need to Pace Themselves on the Trump Outrage

You can't do this for three more years

So Trump has demolished the East Wing of the White House.

Now, I didn’t even know there was an East Wing of the White House. I guess I should have inferred it, though, since I knew it had a West Wing.

But people are outraged. They act like he’s just demolishing the White House for funsies. But I guess Trump is building a bigger ballroom. But people have very particular opinions on exactly how big the White House ballroom should be even though that’s something they never mentioned once in their entire lives until now.

Come on, man. We can’t do this.

I mean, we already did four years of screaming about everything Trump did during his first term, and we have over three years left of this one. You’d think people would learn a lesson by now, and that lesson is not, “Scream constantly about absolutely everything Trump does.”

Right now, yelling about Trump is background noise. Nothing can possibly stand out. And the thing is, Trump does some bad stuff — like the tariff nonsense — but the thing is, since there is no discernment, absolutely everything gets lumped in with “more screaming about Trump.”

It’s like that old tale about crying wolf — and there is a wolf that comes around every so often. But when you yell, “Wolf!” multiple times every day, it’s the same as not yelling “Wolf!” at all because people just have to tune it out. They have no way of knowing when there actually is a wolf.

Now, I don’t really want to help the Democrats (I like their people a lot less than Trump), but they won’t listen to me anyway. Still, here is my advice: Pick one thing to get outraged about Trump a month. I know, he probably does more than one outrageous thing a month, but the problem is it’s all noise now. You want to get noticed. And the only way for noise to get noticed is if there is also silence. Think about it: Weeks of nothing said about Trump and then suddenly, “Hey! Look at this terrible thing Trump is doing!” People might be interested now. So there is an absolutely impossible thing for you to try.

Me, I’m going to talk about other things.