Trump on Grass

 
Yesterday, I saw a headline about Trump going on and on about grass, and how he was “good at grass.”  I ignored it, because it was an old story from days earlier, when I saw him saying that when (I think) meeting with the European leaders.
 
At least I thought it was an old story. 
 
Seeing it still on my newsfeed, I was surprised, so I checked it out.  And it turns out that, no, this isn’t from earlier in the week – it was Trump going on and on, again, about grass and saying again how he was “very good at grass” yesterday, when talking with the police and military at the U.S. Park Police’s Anacostia Operations Facility for his photo op on being tough on whatever it is he wants his base to believe he’s tough about, while distracting from the Epstein story.
 
Among other things, Trump talked about covering the National Parks with Bermuda grass (that is used for golf courses) and have golf carts.  Yes, really.  He said –
 
“One of the things we are going to be redoing is your parks. … We’re going to be re-grassing all your parks, all brand new sprinkler systems, the best that you can buy. It’ll look like...Trump National Golf Club.”
 
He want to “re-grass” all the National Parks??  And put in sprinkler systems????  Has Trump actually ever been to a National Park?  I would have doubted it before hearing say all this ludicrous yammering, but the two options now are either a) No, of course, he’s never been to a National Park, or b) Yes, he’s been to a National Park, but the dementia is kicking in.  Actually, the part about dementia kicking in fits part “a)”, as well.

Here are a couple of pictures I took from a trip to Yosemite National Park.​

​​And here's a trip to Yellowstone National Park.

​And a hike through Kings Canyon National Park.

And visiting Death Valley National Park.  Yeah, try re-sodding that with Bermuda grass and a new sprinkler system...

​And my trip to Acadia National Park in Maine.

And this is at Joshua Tree National Monument, which I've been to many times.  And yes, that's me on the boulder.  However I'm not including this because it's a rare picture of me in one of my photos -- but rather, for a very specific reason.  It was taken when I was working on a movie that had been filming nearby for a week, and on a day off, several of us went to Joshua Tree -- including the great Oscar-winning Australian cinematographer John Seale, who among his many films has four Oscar nominations, including for Witness and Rain Man, and won for The English Patient.  And I wanted to have a photo of me there taken by John Seale.  So, very intentionally, I asked if he'd take my picture, then gave him the camera, and quickly went off to get in my position.  

(My other favorite moment of the occasion was him first asking me how my camera worked.  Really!  So, I had to show him where the shutter button was...)

Yes, these National Parks and all the others across the country will be getting refitted with Bermuda grass and new sprinkler systems by Trump!  

But cut funding for medical research, vaccines, SNAP food programs for the needy, police and FBI, aid for desperate foreign nations and more.

Of course, what Trump bizarrely said about grass didn't stop there.  This is Trump, after all.  

And so we hear Trump proclaim that he’s “very good at grass because I have a lot of golf courses all over the place. I know more about grass than any human being I think anywhere in the world.”

Head-shaking statement about how very good he is "at grass" because he owns golf courses, and his Brobdingnagian, alarming ego aside -- which is a massive amount to put aside, being the world's expert on grass -- I apologize, but I have to include just one more photo, this from the Death Valley National Park website.

​Imagine being the groundskeeper there. 

And yet, Trump went on even more, in a direction few likely expected, even by Trump standards.  “Grass has a life. You know that? Grass has a life," Trump philosophized. "We have a life, and grass has a life."  Before adding sadly, “The grass here died about 40 years ago.”

Presumably around the time Trump's brain cells did, as well.

This isn't all just crazy.  From everything I've read from psychologists, this digression to an unrelated topic, and his now continued repetition of it, reinforced in my mind, is just one more blaring warning and red flag of his dementia, which we're seeing almost daily before our eyes.  And if anyone doesn't want to call it that, for any number of "trying to be fair" and not being a doctor reasons, then the only alternative is recognizing it as big cognitive decline.

And except for a few in the media -- after all the time they spent on President Biden normal aging failings -- almost none are referencing Trump's.  Which, being dementia, that his father suffered from, is not normal, but a disease and is degenerative.
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What we get instead is Trump telling us, over and over, how he is "on grass." 

If only that was the explanation.  Because if Trump was even on LSD, at least that would be something he could get off of.