'Phony' manliness that has run amok !

M. R. Dua

Donald Trump WIith just little over seven months into his four-year term, US President Trump's administration is being branded as 'phony manliness run amok. A wide-spread impression has somehow been created that a sort of an unbridled ruckus prevails over the Trump signature regime -- Trump Oval Office, Trump White House, GOP and (Trump's) Republican Party Congress – including both chambers of Congress—all in the open in the national capital Washington DC.
The impression of the faltering Trump rule has been strengthening since Trump's determined attempts were set a naught during the July- August session of the Congress for repealing and replacing the Obama healthcare legislation. Besides, since late August, pandemic chaos has prevailed all over the nation.
Many Republican Congress members have often voiced their fears of Trump proving to be 'the Chaos President' – a phrase often aired during the 2016 poll campaign.
GOP men often are also heard saying: we don't have any effective government; we don't have any effective leadership and the White House is a snake-pit.'
The situation on the ground in the country is unrecognizable today; massive turmoil is the name of the game. What happened last month in Charlottesville, a city of Virginia state, has amply proved this. The incident, though was not multidimensional; the lone death of a young woman and 40 hurt in the melee, left many bone-shaken and amazed. For, the aftermath revived the White supremacist, racist, neo- Nazis sentiments, and that were responded to by clashes perpetuated by left-wing counter-protesters, that in turn resurrected the bitter memories of the American civil war. The wounds create a racial gulf and will take long, uneasy pause to heal.

Cranes are positioned in front of the South Portico of the White House in Washington, during renovations Dismayed and profusely disturbed by the widespread mayhem that lasted for more than one week, duo father-son former Bush presidents, said that President Donald Trump is perfectly willing to destroy the country to remain in power… he is racing to undermine the federal political system… if not all American public life—before federal courts, press and Congress undermine him. Even this strong indictment emotionally expressed by veteran Republican leaders didn't go a way to chasten the thick-skinned Trump one bit!
A serious offshoot of last month's bloody developments in Charlottesville was the angering of America's influential, robust business community.
Meanwhile, outside the White House turbulence, the Trump foreign policy is in tatters; face-to-face with uniquely unexpected upheavals. The biggest national controversy focuses investigations around Trump's dubious 2016 presidential electoral win said to have been allegedly accomplished by alleged financial crimes effected with the Russian- Trump collaboration.
In addition, with recently imposed strict sanctions against Russia, uneasy ties with China and crisis in the Korean peninsula bode enormously tough times on the ground, posturing enormously troubling fate of the Trump White House. All of August staying in New Jersey resort since the White House was undergoing overhaul, Trump continued his impromptu tweets chiding and threatening North Korean Kim Jong-un for targeting Guam, the American territory, that could endanger the world peace.
Simultaneously, there are special counsel Robert Mueller's wideranging probes into Trump's alleged fraudulent electoral ganging up with Russians, umpteen questionable financial dealings, including globally spanning money-laundering, his federal tax returns, forensic accounting, you name it.

Michael Flynn, James B. Comey and John F. Kelly President Trump's White House has also witnessed numerous administrative whimsical acts such as unceremonious removal of the White House chief of staff; abrupt sacking of the press secretary and director of communications; followed by president's own trenchant criticism of his attorney general, suspecting the AG's competence and loyalty.
The fact of the matter is that nearly one dozen senior appointees of the Trump White House have been shown the door: national security adviser Michael Flynn, Federal Bureau of Investigation director James B. Comey, besides some junior officials and minor functionaries.
Upset by Trump's recent patronizing attitude towards 'supermacist' White protesters, However, the process has stymied with the taking over of the new White House Chief of Staff, retired four-star marine general, John F. Kelly. He's believed to be an ace officer, strict disciplinarian and top confidante of the president. But still an unlikely lull prevades in some wings of the expansive Oval Office, especially the western wing that houses the press and media personnel. More than 100 positions are waiting replacements that remain vacant after President Obama's departure.
The current White House incumbent is said to be more conscious and concerned about the upkeep of the place whose spanking look is undergoing feverish renovation, expected to be completed soon. President Trump's economic and political agendas are confronting massive hurdles, mostly due to the president's own making. The White House is,
however,determined on fulfilling all the campaign promises that include: Repeal and replacement of the Obama Affordable Care law; elaborate tax reform; comprehensive immigration regulations; national and international trade conventions; wage revision; reshaping international policies towards North American and European countries; urgent nationwide colossal infrastructural and construction works -- to mention only the urgent ones.

White nationalists, neo-Nazis and members of the "alt-right" clash with counter-protesters as they enter Emancipation Park during the "Unite the Right" rally on August 12 in Charlottesville, Virginia. How will all this translate into material terms is anybody's guess. But extensive protests are planned across the US in the coming days.
Besides the 'Unite the Right' rally, against the counter-protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia, California's different cities may face several rallies; the Silicon Valley is likely to experience three protests – 'Alt-Right' Group's Freedom rally, 'No to Marxism America' rally, and 'March on Google' in California.
Protests rallies are also planned at eight other Google offices countrywide. The past peaceful times will remain pleasant memories for Americans for long.