PAUL GORDON

When I started writing this column for this important newspaper, I was tasked with keeping up with politics.

These days that is difficult to do for a monthly publication because everything is moving at such a rapid pace. Every day there is something new and unbelievable and usually awful that comes out of the White House.

It’s bad enough that we cannot open our computers or cell phones or turn on the television without seeing faces that have come to disgust many of us. We also have to read or hear about their latest shenanigans or threats or bouts of ignorance that undermine our laws and display utter disregard for people.

There is no point here to talk about specific issues, such as accepting extravagant gifts from a foreign government suspected of supporting terrorism. Or perhaps the Big Beautiful Bull — I mean Bill — that at this writing is waiting for Congress to vote up or down. It’s important because of who will be harmed by it.

There is no point in bringing up specific issues now because they will change tomorrow. Or next week. The will of the people will be ignored because 47 believes he can do anything he wants and, despite the Constitution, seems to be getting away with it.

He believes because he won the last election by a pretty decent margin that it was a mandate. Don’t tell him that far more registered voters (89 million) didn’t cast their ballots for him (77 million) or Harris (75 million). He doesn’t get it or he simply doesn’t care. Accountability is not in the Trump administration’s vocabulary.

So in the coming months we will likely see more illegal deportations because our president doesn’t know if he has to obey the Constitution (his own words). We will probably see more questionable gifts from other questionable countries because the Qatar jet bribe is just the start.

In the coming months we will realize many more promises have not been kept, that Russian leader Vladimir Putin has played us, and that the tariff war will slam our economy.

Oh, we will also see a full-blown, multi-million dollar military parade through the streets of Washington, D.C., to make Trump feel important on his birthday. There will be little concern about how that money could be spent to help people, except from the liberals who care about people.

What else comes from the White House in the coming months is anybody’s guess. But there will be plenty of the same. After all, Trump himself has said he’s just getting started.

Isn’t that marvelous?