I wasn’t really sure how to react to the first week of the Trump presidency. I could say a few things jokingly or a lot of things scathingly, or the other way around. It looks like people do have a lot to say, and they’re letting off steam all over the place. Women are marching, anti-abortionists (including men) are marching, protestors are. . .okay, they’re not marching so much as fist fighting and yelling, but you get the picture.
With three years and 51 weeks to go in his stint in the White House, it looks like our new president is trying to cram it all into the first eight days. Slow down, man.
Sometimes when a new person takes over, they go into hyperdrive and do everything at once. People do that when they get an unexpected monetary bonus or an economy sized bargain at the store. The problem is, all the reward, and the joy of it, runs out rather quickly, and you’re back to square one.
What comes to mind is one of the Harry Potter movies in which a new person in a position of power started tacking up new rules, regulations and policies on the walls of Hogwarts to the point of the ridiculous. I think she got abducted by some nasty creatures or something.
The president won’t have to worry about nasty creatures taking him away. We will, however, let him know what we’re thinking. We’d better, whether we voted for him or not. Sometimes it takes a jolt from the joy of the reward to get focused on what matters.
Yup, three years and 51 weeks.
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