Revolving Doors

Al Harris, the hander-out of nicknames, christened him “Revolving Door” for his style of basketball play. That was a slur on revolving doors, actually, because he didn’t even spin right and was always falling from getting his legs and feet tangled.

Back after Trump got elected, Revolving Door started ragging on me on Facebook for my Civic Duty columns against Trump. This made some sense because we had been in the same Sunday school class in a Methodist Church that was slightly to the right of the Klan and Revolving Door obviously is still a member in good standing.

Just for the hell of it, I recently sent him an E-mail asking if he was still a Trump guy and, if so, why? Real quick, I got a response that the alternative to Trump would have been “100 times worse” and 22 attachments extolling Trump and all he stands for, which Revolving Door seems to think is the path to a true Methodist heaven.

While on the subject of revolving doors, how about the one at the White House which seems to be in perpetual motion? Rachel Maddow can call up this big chart which has all the WH turnover on it – something like 35% have left for one tawdry reason or other in a little over a year. Trump, the cool-ass businessperson that he is, must know (or somebody should tell him) that you can’t run a business that way, yet alone the government. You can’t even run a day care center that way, which Big Fat Liar John Kelly is finding out every day – and he’s the four-star general who was going to bring grownup, military discipline to the House of Chaos, where everybody is backbiting everybody else and  around 100 of the staff – including Ivanka and Jared and the White House lawyer -- don’t even have full security clearances.

People like Rob “Knuckles” Porter, Trump’s favorite wife-beater, right up there with the late, not-so-great Steve “Bam Bam” Bannon. Porter was actually in line for a promotion and would still be handing Trump the country’s most secret documents with his uncleared, unsecure hands if the press hadn’t copped to him. After he quit, Trump wished him all kinds of well in his career, with nary a word about the battered wives and girlfriend, which is about par for any Trump course when it comes to defending women. Kellyanne, that paragon of feminism, but the whole deal in perspective when she said that Hope Hicks, the totally unqualified White House press czar and Porter’s lucky current GF, will never get beaten on by ol’ Rob because she is “too strong.” In Trumpland, that means “weak” women like Porter’s wives and girlfriend get what they deserve.

The flak is still flying over the Porter affair, and somebody has to take the hit. Hopefully, it will be the swinish Kelly – if the Florida shootings don’t distract too much. He is a disgrace to the USMC and a liar almost in the same world class as Trump.

Hey, Trump, I’d like to suggest a replacement for Kelly: the good Revolving Door himself. He is totally unqualified, of course, which makes him the perfect candidate with only one hitch: he could probably get a full security clearance.