This is the title I chose for my personal blog, which is meant to give me an outlet for one of my favorite crafts – writing – plus to use an image from my favorite sport, golf.  Out of college, my first job was as a reporter for the Daily Astorian in Astoria, Oregon, and I went on from there to practice writing in all my professional positions, including as press secretary in Washington, D.C. for a Democrat Congressman from Oregon (Les AuCoin), as an Oregon state government manager in Salem and Portland, as press secretary for Oregon’s last Republican governor (Vic Atiyeh), and as a private sector lobbyist.  This blog also allows me to link another favorite pastime – politics and the art of developing public policy – to what I write.  I could have called this blog “Middle Ground,” for that is what I long for in both politics and golf.  The middle ground is often where the best public policy decisions lie.  And it is where you want to be on a golf course.

It’s been only a few days since the incredible, life-taking attack on Israel, but, still, Donald Trump has managed to make the tragedy all about himself.

No surprise, I guess.

Consider the following from late-night TV host, Jimmy Kimmel, who also demurred from taking his usual comedic swipe at political events, given the incredible loss of human life in Israel:

Kimmel called the Hamas attack a “nightmare situation,” earning condemnation from world leaders, including “our super-duper, pro-Israel former President Donald Trump.”

Kimmel added that Trump, “immediately found a way to make it about himself.”

He reported that Trump said this: 

‘The horrible attack on Israel, much like the attack on Ukraine, would never have happened if I were president.  Zero chance!’  

That’s right, Kimmel added, “if Trump was president, we’d all be blissfully downing jiggers of bleach. There’d be no war anywhere.”

Kimmel recapped statements Trump made at a Saturday rally in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where this piece of stupidity who wants to be president again compared his physical prowess to President Biden’s.

“On the day one of our closest allies is hit by a devastating terrorist attack, Trump is onstage talking about how much better his body is than Joe Biden’s,” Kimmel said.

Enough!

If you think about it for only a minute or so, as I said earlier, this is not surprising conduct from Trump.

What else would you expect from the epitome of a narcissist?