A Trump peace prize for Trump?

If they made Superman outfits in extra, extra large, I would buy one for him or borrow Sen. Grassley’s for Donald Trump. With luck, he would put it on, look in the mirror, shout “up, up and away” and be gone from our lives. I doubt he would, but I‘m prepared to waste my money in the fat chance he might. If not, I can still hope, with some help from a jury, that he disappears in costume, to vacation at Mar-a-Rikers.

His self-adoration is awe inspiring. He announced recently, “I’m the only one who can prevent World War III.”

If you had a kid that grandiose, you would seek professional help and hope that the grasp of reality improved. Trump said earlier that he could prevent World War II. Someone must have pointed out to him that It had already taken place. His discovery of WW III and his ability to prevent it, is about as true as if he suggested that he had met Stormy Daniels while jogging through the Garden of Eden

If it is hard to believe anything that Trump says, it is even harder to understand that millions of supporters still exist. When I have challenged true believers, they invariably respond “Well, he did some good things.”

Pushed further, they say, in effect, that he had a golden touch and had wonderful results with the economy.

For some bizarre reason they think he was responsible for a “strong” economy. The idea that tax breaks for the wealthy and $7.8 trillion added to the national debt was something to cheer about is absurd. The federal debt was less under George Bush and Barack Obama. The House of Representatives now has a crowd of Republicans bellowing about Biden deficits. They embraced Trump’s spending spree. Hypocrites at best.

Bill Clinton described the mass of Trump supporters well. “When people are uncertain, they’d rather have someone strong and wrong than weak and right.” He said that in 2002, but that certainly describes those who still strangely find Trump strong and Biden weak.

Some patient souls have found thousands of lies in Trump’s time with us. Some liberals say that every time Trump opens his mouth, he lies. Not true. Sometimes, he belches noxious air.

Trump may not make a Superman departure, but we hope he is off center stage soon, rejected by his own party or defeated by mine. But what he will leave for starters is the Freedom Caucus mentality. Matt Gaetz, and his buddies are able to ignore the massive additions to the national debt under Trump which far exceed the debt levels under Barack Obama or Joe Biden.

The war I wish Trump would stop is his war on our democracy. He is a one-man pandemic and has infected our governor and Legislature. Banning books, making teaching more difficult, funneling public dollars to private schools, banning abortions, denying climate change, even as the Mississippi River becomes a salty swamp.

The war Donald Trump should stop is not a hypothetical future one, but his current one on our country. Please Donald, it's up, up, and away time. That will make America great again.

Norman Sherman of Coralville has worked extensively in politics, including as Vice President Hubert Humphrey’s press secretary, and authored a memoir “From Nowhere to Somewhere.”