Trump's 3-ring circus has made a joke of the presidency: Analyst

US President Donald Trump “is a joke to all other world leaders and a majority of the world’s population,” according to Myles Hoenig, an American political analyst and activist. 

Hoenig, a former Green Party candidate for Congress, made the remarks in an interview with Press TV on Thursday while commenting on a statement by President Trump.

Trump on Tuesday claimed he “did not really care” about a trial in the US Senate following his impeachment by the House of Representatives, but he would be happy to have a trial. 

“I don’t really care. It doesn’t matter. As far as I’m concerned I’d be very happy with a trial because we did nothing wrong,” Trump told reporters at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida.

The Republican president reiterated that he considered his impeachment by the Democratic-led House a hoax.

Trump and his Republican allies have attacked the impeachment effort as illegitimate.

In an impeachment probe, the House functions like a prosecutor’s office. If the chamber charges a president with committing impeachable offenses, a group of House members presents evidence of wrongdoing during a trial before the Senate, which acts as a jury in deciding whether the president should be removed from office.

Under the US Constitution, a two-thirds vote of the Senate is required to convict the president.

Trump: ‘I don’t really care’ about a trial in US Senate

US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he “did not really care” about a trial in the US Senate following his impeachment by the Democratic-led House of Representatives.

Hoenig said, “It really doesn’t matter at this point whether or not Trump wants a trial or even if Pelosi is interested in passing it over to the Senate for a trial. These last 3+ years has been a political 3-ring circus where the MC has been from the old school where there’s a sucker born every minute.”

“We’re living in a very warped picture of typical status quo America where everything has either been turned around or exposed. The president, once respected world-wide, is a joke to all other world leaders and a majority of the world’s population. He is seen as completely out of his league but still dangerous enough to both go his own way, not his country’s way, and still be controlled by forces stronger than him. Why else would he buddy up with Kim Jong-il one moment yet do the State and Defense Departments bidding by bombing Iranian allies within Iraq?” he stated.

“What has been exposed, thanks much to Donald Trump, is the incessant racism and class divisions, as well as class exploitation, that has long endured in the US. Many of the very people with the pitchforks out are those who are most hurt by the Trumps of the world, destroying their hopes of a decent middle class lifestyle yet giving them the raw meat to make them forget, or even forgive, the crimes being committed against them. With Obama and all presidents before him, American exceptionalism was the diet, but Trump’s raw meat is outright hostility towards minority groups and the Democratic Party, ironic being that the two main parties are essentially actors on behalf of Wall Street. They just exploit the middle and working classes in different ways,” the analyst noted.

“What does matter in Trump’s impeachment, trial or not, is how history will view it, as there is no objective analysis at work at present. Nixon was resurrected by the press for his foreign policy advancements, and even compared to many of the Democrats who are running today who are to Nixon’s Right. Everyone loved Reagan, especially Democratic Party operatives who cried crocodile tears for the cameras and future funders when he died. But how historians and others will view Trump in decades to come is an open book,” he concluded.

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