President Donald Trump held a news conference on August 11, to announce his latest dictatorial move: federal takeover of the DC police and deploying the National Guard to fight a crime wave in the nation’s capital that is not real.

There is no crime wave in DC just like there is no alien invasion, Trump uses these fake emergencies to display his power and to energize his base.

Trump rambled incoherently, as is his wont, leaving no doubt that his brain has turned to mush. Trying to decipher his word salad rant will render you with a migraine at best and scramble your brains at worst. The stable genius bragged that he was meeting Putin in Russia, he will actually meet his fellow dictator in Alaska.

Trump was flanked by former Fox News personalities Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, United States Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro, and United States Attorney General Pam Bondi.

I do not envy these court jesters having to maintain a straight face and pretend that the clown-in-chief is making sense, and at the same time trying not to choke from the stench of his ripe Depends.

I refuse to pretend that there is anything normal about Trump’s fascist regime, and I will use my platform, however small and insignificant it may be, to expose the racism, xenophobia, misogyny, homophobia, and corruption of Trump and his cronies.