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AN ADDLEPATED UNCLE DON PART 2
YESTERDAY, WE EXAMINED UNCLE DON’S ADDLEPATED WEAVES about robotic Bidens. Today we continue with his bizarre behavior as exhibited at this year’s recent West Point graduation ceremony and during our Memorial Day observance. Our source is a respected historian, Heather Professor Cox Richardson.
Heather Cox Richardson in more rational times, February 25, 2022 (in a pre-gilded White House). Image by Adam Schultz/The White House.
Trump’s Advice to Grads. Heather Cox Richardson is a Professor of History at Boston College. She writes on May 26, 2025, “President Donald J. Trump’s erratic behavior was on display this weekend in two public speeches: one to this year’s graduates at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York, and the other at Arlington National Cemetery. While both speeches are traditionally nonpartisan, Trump indicated he would make them partisan when he wore a red MAGA hat at West Point.”
Cox Richardson shares a verbatim weave of his advice to West Point graduates: “Trump veered off into immigration and a chat about golf, then repeated a story about William Levitt, a real estate developer whose post–World War II housing developments became synonymous with suburbia, that he had told at a 2017 Boy Scout jamboree. On Saturday, Trump talked about Levitt becoming ‘very rich, a very rich man, and then he decided to sell. And he sold his company, and he had nothing to do. He ended up getting a divorce, found a new wife. Could you say a trophy wife? I guess we can say a trophy wife. It didn’t work out too well, but it doesn’t—that doesn’t work out too well, I must tell you. A lot of trophy wives. It doesn’t work out. But it made him happy for a little while, at least, but he found a new wife. He sold his little boat, and he got a big yacht, he had one of the biggest yachts anywhere in the world. He moved for a time to Monte Carlo, and he led the good life, and time went by, and he got bored and 15 years later, the company that he sold to called him, and they said, ‘The housing business is not for us.’ You have to understand when Bill Levitt was hot. When he had momentum, he’d go to the job sites every night, he’d pick up every loose nail, he’d pick up every scrap of wood, if there was a bolt or a screw laying on the ground, he’d pick it up, and he’d use it the next day and putting together a house.’ ”
Trump and Lt. Gen. Steven W. Gilland, the U.S. Military Academy superintendent, at the academy’s commencement ceremony. Image by Kenny Holston/The New York Times.
“After his speech,” historian Cox Richardson notes, “Trump skipped the traditional shaking of each graduate’s hand, left the ceremony, and flew to the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey.”
And Then to All of Us on Memorial Day. She recounts, “Trump’s social media account was similarly inappropriate. [Forgive the manic ALL CAPS; they’re Trump’s, not Professor Cox Richardson’s, nor mine.] His message on Memorial Day—a solemn day to honor those American military personnel who died in service to the country—began: ‘HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY TO ALL, INCLUDING THE SCUM THAT SPENT THE LAST FOUR YEARS TRYING TO DESTROY OUR COUNTRY THROUGH WARPED RADICAL LEFT MINDS….’ ”
Sorry, World. This man appears to be acting irrationally.
“But that message,” she noted, “quickly took a turn toward his recurring attacks on judges. Trump claimed that ‘CRIMINALS AND THE MENTALLY INSANE’ are entering the United States ‘THROUGH JUDGES WHO ARE ON A MISSION TO KEEP MURDERERS, DRUG DEALERS, RAPISTS, GANG MEMBERS, AND RELEASED PRISONERS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD, IN OUR COUNTRY SO THEY CAN ROB, MURDER AND RAPE AGAIN—ALL PROTECTED BY THESE USA HATING JUDGES WHO SUFFER FROM AN IDEOLOGY THAT IS SICK, AND VERY DANGEROUS FOR OUR COUNTRY. HOPEFULLY THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT, AND OTHER GOOD AND COMPASSIONATE JUDGES THROUGHOUT THE LAND, WILL SAVE US FROM THE DECISIONS OF THE MONSTERS WHO WANT OUR COUNTRY TO GO TO HELL.’ ”
Were I to carry on in this addlepated manner, my family would seek help for me. What about our American family? ds
© Dennis Simanaitis, SimanaitisSays.com, 2025
Simanaitis Says 
We can only hope today’s demented “Uncle Don” will finally utter something so wretched, so unconscionable, over a hot mic as to doom him surely as Andy Griffith’s 1957 A Face In the Crowd Larry Rhodes character contemptuously mocking viewers of his homespun TV show as “idiots,” not realizing they were still broadcasting.
Or radio’s “Uncle Don” Don Carney supposedly closing his WOR kids’ show in 1947 with “There, that oughta hold the little bastards!” Which never happened, but we can only hope for a 2025 reality for the cloistered buffoon in the Oval Office, surely earning the name Donald Carny, a barker too long hosting once inconceivable presidential lunacy.
But after suggesting COVID sufferers imbibe bleach, dropping nuclear bombs on hurricanes, that he could grab women by their p________s, shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and get away with it, saying John McCain not a hero because he was caught, calling those who died fighting War I Germany buried in a US military cemetery in France “suckers and losers,”
we are hard-pressed to imagine what this might be.
Agreed, Mike. This is why I ask “What about our American family?”
I have watched “Uncle Don” from across the pond and to be truthful, I am somewhat bemused. I have travelled to the USA a number of times over the last 30 years and even have a “Multiple Visit – Indefinite Stay Visa”, the last visit being in 2019 to New York – but have in the past travelled quite extensively around the country.
I have always found the American people to be warm and welcoming, kind and generous – almost the complete antithesis of “Uncle Don”. And given the current onerous and intrusive entry requirements for the USA, I doubt if I will ever be back – which I find very disheartening.
As I watch events unfolding in America I am somewhat aghast, the great country of America looks to be heading for tumultuous times. The MAGA slogan may be appropriate in the future, it is not contextual at this moment in time and it certainly wasn’t in the past as America had never stopped being great.
But as always happens, someone tries to make capital from something that doesn’t exist. A bit like numerous monarchs throughout history, maybe it shouldn’t be “Uncle Don”, wouldn’t “King Don the 1st” sound better?
As an aside I read recently a comparison where “Uncle Don” was compared to “Mad King George”, which is unfair to the “Mad King” – he had a medical condition.
dm