The Night Donald Trump Was Elected


My latest column in the Reader, It begins:

Last Friday night, 30 days before the 2020 Presidential election, Donald Trump was put on oxygen and admitted to Walter Reed Hospital for a disease that kills one in every 33 people it infects. It prompted this memory.

The night Donald Trump was elected President of the United States I wrote in my blog, “America is like the character Dustin Hoffman played in the Graduate after he raced off from the church with his runaway bride and sat panting on the bus wondering what the hell he’d just done.”…

AND at the columns conclusion I urge my eight loyal readers to read my speech at the Topeka VFW. This is it.

And if you would prefer to watch it click here.

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