POTUS is Wrong | The Professor's Convatorium

For most of my adult life I have had great respect and adoration for America’s elite historians. Some of the first that come to mind are Doris Kearns Goodwin, John Meacham, Annette Gordon-Reed, Douglas Bradburn, David McCullough, and several others. I follow most all of them and have read many of their published books. Sometimes another historian enters the limelight of American political history and/or journalism. One such historical journalist was recently a guest on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. His name? John Dickerson, a frequent guest on Colbert’s shows.

*The meaning of Separation of Powers as our Core Founding Fathers intended in the late 18th-century*

But sadly, this original design by our Founding Fathers (above image) no longer exists today. Try hard to find its current virtues, the applications, the execution and equal humble moderation. You won’t find it under this administration. They could care less about it.

Dickerson summed up superbly on the Colbert late show aired February 25, 2026, with exactly why the cogs and wheels of our federal government today are falling off, broken, and disintegrating… or “obliterated” to use an overkill abused White House word of late. And the prime example, the prime felon and demolisher—no pun intended on the East Wing of the White House—was made bare and obvious with the supposed State of the Union Lies and Address delivered February 24, 2026, to the American public. I highly recommend watching John Dickerson’s interview, answers, and explanations of just how monumentally President tRump and his MAGA cult followers are comprehensively missing the Venezuelan and American boat, so to speak:

If any of you cannot watch the interview on YouTube because of “location restrictions,” then try this option with some transcript reading:

The Daily Beast’s — “Ousted CBS Anchor Joins Colbert to Expose Trump’s Fatal Mistake“

Hopefully the second link works for you. 🙂

Leave your thoughts, comments, or personal opinions down below to spark some discussion and/or civil debate. I’d love to hear from all of you.

Live Well – Love Much – Laugh Often – Learn Always

By now everyone has likely heard and gotten wind about the shameful, disgraceful tirade Vice-president J.D. Vance and President Trump went on with and against President Zelensky of Ukraine. To say this childish behavior from the White House was unprecedented is to wrongly identify the facts of the last 4-years (Feb. 22, 2022) and the last 11-years (Feb. 20, 2014).

US President Donald Trump and Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky listen to Vice President JD Vance (R)as they meet in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, February 28, 2025. Zelensky on February 28 told Trump there should be “no compromises” with Russian President Vladimir Putin as the parties negotiate to end the war after Moscow’s invasion. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP)

Trump and Vance wrongly accuse Zelenskyy and Ukraine of ‘not wanting peace’ in their illegally occupied country. This is classic Trump diversion tactics of historical, contextual facts and “foolish” naive American Trump-Vance supporters. One simple question to Americans, particularly MAGA Republicans, will easily make light of their idiotic fallacy about the war in Ukraine made by Russia and Vladimir Putin. That question is this:

If North Korea invaded the United States and seized huge swathes of American soil, reducing our 50-states to say… 34 states, would loving patriotic Americans stop fighting and defending their country’s borders because China accuses America of not wanting peace, in negotiation attempts between Kim Jong Un and President Trump?

The answer is GLARINGLY obvious. Duh.

So why should President Zelenskyy and Ukrainians drop their weapons and let Putin and Russia have whatever they want in Ukraine (and the Crimea?) “for the sake of peace”? Would Trump, Vance, the U.S. Armed Forces, and real patriotic Americans just let Kim Jong Un and North Korea have whatever they want?

Exactly.

And THAT is why Trump, Vance, and all MAGA Republicans are dead wrong today praising our Commander-in-Chief and V.P. for their humiliating, childish tirade on President Zelenskyy today. Duh!

An excellent read from Heather Cox Richardson’s Letters from an American on just how dead wrong Trump, Vance and MAGA Republicans truly are and how they are taking the USA down a very dark, dangerous road, fast.