We Dropped the Bomb, He Wore a Hat.

Okay… So the United States has just, in an act of war, dropped an arsenal of weapons on specified targets in Iraq. Americans are on edge. To reassure us of the awesome power of the U.S. presidency, they show us pictures of the national security team assembled in the Situation Room — a matter of all seriousness — and Donald Trump is wearing that stupid hat.

WTF?

Nobody else present is wearing a hat. There are generals and admirals, soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines of various ranks and designations present — none of them wearing hats (primarily because it's indoors). There are other dignitaries assembled, but only one hat.

So if you are the leader of the free world, and you decide to let the media take pictures of the sausage being made, and you think you need to be wearing a hat (even though no one else is), shouldn't that hat be something spectacular — like a crown (since you want to be king)?

But no. You appear in that same stupid golf cap that could have been produced at any pop-up kiosk near the food court in any mall.

If your aim is truly to Make America Great Again, shouldn't you start with that hat?

Okay, maybe you got the idea for the first hat when your campaign motorcade stopped at the Sapp Bros. Travel Center to grab snacks and sodas for the next leg of your tour, and you spotted a guy in a golf cap that said, “Who farted?” But come on—it’s been nine years. Surely, by now, you could’ve commissioned Giorgio Armani, Telfar Clemens, Daniel Roseberry, or Tom Ford to design something a little more dignified to wear on your dome, but wait — you'd probably consider all of them too woke.

Or… is wearing a hat that most of your supporters automatically think, "Damn… I could have designed a better hat than that," just the point?

Are you thumbing your nose at all who plopped down somewhere between $25 and $100 for — at best — $1.75 worth of workmanship?

Are you saying, "Yeah — it looks terrible… and you still bought it."

Are they part of the suckers and losers?

Or is cheap, do-it-yourself branding something you thought made America great at some point?

When the stakes are high — when lives are on the line, when the world is watching — leadership should look like something more than a trucker hat at a tailgate.

If that’s the symbol of American greatness… then maybe we’ve already lost the thread.

But go ahead. Keep the hat.
Just don’t pretend it’s a crown.

... I'm just saying

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