By Carole McWilliams
The good news about the Jan. 20 coronation of His Imperial Awesomeness is that once again, America had a peaceful transfer of power, despite the nastiness of the presidential campaign.
It goes downhill from there.
His Awesomeness presented such a dark vision of America that you might expect Canada and Mexico to build border walls at their own expense to keep out hordes of Americans fleeing their hellish existence. That's not the America I've experienced.
Then, Himself and his handlers made a huge stink over media reports about the size of the coronation crowd, and women's rights rallies the next day.
It's hard to estimate the size of very large spread-out crowds, let alone distinguish which people were there during the coronation to celebrate and which to protest.
Himself's mouthpiece, Sean Spicer, proclaimed "the biggest audience to witness an inauguration - period - both in person and around the globe." Spicer made claims about the visual size of the crowd that didn't match aerial images.
He cited rail mass transit figures for proof. Those also didn't match transit agency figures.
For the whole day last Friday, it was 570,000 people (presumably including quite a few protesters), versus 1.1 million in 2009 for President Obama's first inauguration and 782,000 in 2013 for his second inauguration, National Public Radio reports. And just over 1 million the next day for those women's rights rallies.
On Sunday, His Awesomeness tweeted that more people than ever watched his coronation on TV. That also didn't match statistics from the Nielsen rating service.
Himself's advisors said on Sunday talk shows that the regime was just supplying "alternative facts." Outside the Trump Magic Bubble, those are called lies. It's the job of the media to call out people in power when they lie. Enough of calling it "mis-stating the facts."
If I was going to lie about stuff, I'd stick to things that wouldn't be so easy for the evil fact-based media to show are false, and I wouldn't keep repeating them after they've been shown to be false.
If His Awesomeness wants the media to stop picking on him, maybe he should stop lying.
Then Himself had to mock the huge number of people who protested around the country and the world the day after the coronation.
They should have voted on Nov. 8, he proclaimed. I'm guessing that anyone who went to the trouble and expense to attend those rallies did vote, including locals who marched through the snow in Durango. I'm guessing it's another reason a large share of Americans won't be accepting His Awesomeness as their president any time soon.
He continues to show himself as a very insecure 70-year-old petulant, spoiled child. In case Congress opts out of its constitutional checks and balances function, it'll be up to the rest of us to make His Awesomeness act within the limits of the constitution and the rule of law.
Saturday's protests weren't a one-and-done.
