The Observation Deck: Beware the Ides of Trump

It seems almost every day something bordering on the bizarre or at least a bit strange pops up regarding The Trump. This week two things happened. In the publicly televised opening of his cabinet meeting, after The Trump bragged about how massive his accomplishments have been in his first months (which they haven’t, but never mind) then his cabinet members, one by one, declared how wonderful The Trump is and how “honored and privileged” they are to be part of his administration.

When Reince Priebus stated how “blessed” he and his staff were to serve him, I expected them all to start referring to The Trump as “our supreme leader.” The cabinet has elevated groveling for The Trump’s favor to the highest level. Might it be they are intimidated? Could they possibly think that if they crossed the supreme leader and incurred his wrath they would be ignominiously fired and subjected to public disgrace?

Which brings us to event number two. The venerable New York Theater in the Park is staging a production of Julius Caesar portraying Caesar as The Trump and Brutus as a female in a pants suit. Not really very subtle. Now you can debate however you want about whether it is in bad taste, artistically valid, free speech etc. But the point is that two major sponsors of the Theater in the Park, Delta Airlines and Bank of America, pulled their sponsorships. In other words, they were intimidated by The Trump. Both companies groveled to the supreme leader presumably to curry favor in his eyes and essentially publically demonstrated that The Trump can dominate them
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These are both rather ominous signs.