Does Barron Hate Elon Or He’s Just Miserable Being There Period?

The Inaugural ball is just as weird as you would imagine. Melania is wearing a bondage collar (I kid you not) and Trump started dancing to YMCA with a sword in his hand. And these people do these things sober, so we are told. And of course young Barron was in attendance.

He looks miserable in this video. I don’t have reason to believe it has been doctored in any way. It’s got the MSNBC logo in the lower right hand corner and so this is a clip that was taken live and then posted to social media. So you tell me if this kid looks happy or not. (And no, I don’t know what the slicked, Rudolph Valentino hair is about. He looked far better with his last haircut.)

Not a happy young chap. But of course right-wing media has his future all locked up. Comments like, “If you think the liberals are freaking now, wait until Barron’s president in 2040.” With any luck I’ll be dead by then. I’ll be 87, if I’m not, and the last effing thing I want to do is live through another Trump administration. If I get through this one it will be a miracle.

JFC. If you were able to watch that then I’m sure you wonder as I do, if Melania was wondering if Trump would actually remember to move a foot or just stand there and piss down his leg. But it gets worse.

Maybe Garry Kasparov or one of the other chess players on Twit/X could check this out for us. And I would love to hear these languages drip from his tongue. I speak pidgin French myself, having lived in France for four months once, and I’m willing to bet he can’t speak it as well as I can. The lies are nonstop. I don’t blame Barron for the lies which are told about him.

He has unfortunately been co-opted into an ugly political grifting machine and it is sad. But on the other hand, he’s 18 now and if this is a lie, he could ask that it be taken down and he hasn’t, right? Right. So he may well be part of the grifting family himself. And why not? From where he stands, the best bullshitter wins, not the most qualified or hardest working.

Anyhow, these are the lowlights of the Inauguration. Along with this inanity we had Trump pull out of the Paris Accord and release a lot of violent January 6-ers today. That is not a good thing. That basically circumvents the rule of law and lets younger generations know that accountability is merely a question of who’s in power. Not a good message to send.

And tomorrow is the immigrant raid in Chicago and thousands of people are in hiding from that. This is not the America I grew up in. I’m ashamed that Trump got reelected. I weep that we’re even having these conversations or discussing these topics.

But we can’t stop fighting. Trump won by a plurality, not a majority. That means half of America is still sane. We can and must take back both chambers of Congress in 2026. As Democrats our focus must be riveted to that and we must make it happen.