Now the darkness only stays at nighttime. In the morning, it will fade away. Daylight is good at arriving at the right time, it's not always gonna be this grey (George Harrison)

Wie geht's?

The Truman biography remains a fascinating experience, (I'm up to page 558) and it is inevitable that I would compare Henry S. Truman with the present incumbent in The White House. 

Truman was an exemplary leader. He showed exceptional diligence in his job. He was, according to those who worked for him in The White House, 'an extremely thoughtful, courteous, considerate man' who 'spent virtually every waking moment working at being president'. 

The staff was continually amazed by the President's knowledge of the country.

Truman would say sitting in the Oval Office, "It is ignorance that causes most mistakes. The man who sits here ought to know his American history, at least".

Check out this clip from Jimmy Fallon.

If ever there was a "clean break from all that had gone before," Truman would say, the result would be chaos.

That's certainly the reality of now. Screeds have been written about Donald Trump. A lot by him on social media. He thinks he's great. This is known as Figjam. He thinks he's the least racist President of all time. This is known as denial.

He has a pathological need to sow chaos and dominate the headlines. He is at the opposite end of the Presidential continuum to Harry S. Truman - who was a principled, hardworking man with integrity. Everyone who ever knew Truman said he was a man of great character.

In comparison, Trump is a Shakespearian villain like Edmund in King Lear. A bastard and a schemer, wreaking destruction upon virtually all of the other characters.

At the moment we all have to live through Trump's frippery and chaos, but, as George Harrison says: All things must pass away.

Pretty soon he will go the way of all things; history will have its say on the Trump Presidencies, and he will slip into the past like everyone else. No longer relevant. No longer a stain. His name will live in infamy, while Truman's will continue to grow in stature,

Back to the book. It really is a tonic!

Love and peace - Wozza

I just start kissing them. It’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait. And when you’re a star, they let you do it (Donald Trump)

Wie geht's?

Wow - that was a dramatic week that's just passed.

It began with Samantha celebrating her wedding anniversay and ended with Adam and Ashleigh celebrating theirs. Along the way Jade glammed up and went off to a medical ball, I battled a tummy bug while away in Gisborne and the American's took an age to declare a President-elect in the U.S. election.

It dawned on me what a different system the British parliamentary one is. Here and Australia and the UK, the party, ministers and the Prime Minister are elected at the same time. Makes sense, right.

In America the President is a stand alone election, and then, apart from a running mate, he or she creates the team around themselves after they win. Weird when you think about it. Blind faith is the order of the day.

Anyway, we (the world) survived four years of Trump and his swamp creatures (Rudy Guiliani is just the unhinged tip of the stinking iceberg). 

Now that he and his family have been fired, he can go and play golf, tweet to his hearts content, and badmouth everyone who doesn't toady to his every word. Oh wait - he does all of that now.

So, erm, maybe now he'll have to face up to all of the lawsuits from the women who have claimed improper conduct, front up to the banks over all those loans, pay taxes, and spend some time with Melania.

What's that sound? Apart from the chickens coming home to roost, that's the planet's giant sigh of relief.

Love and peace - WNP