“America Now!,” the newest and most watched reality show, is breaking all kinds of records. If winter ratings are any indication, “America Now!” will beat all ratings for any program shown on television or streamed through Internet for all recorded time. That’s any show, including the funeral of Princess Diana and the last episode of “M*A*S*H.”
“America Now!” can be seen on all networks and 24/7 cable news any hour of the day and night. The show’s star, the President of the USA, is basking in the glory of the best ratings he’s ever had.
Well-deserved!
“America Now!” is hilarious and our hero would agree. I understand he has been known to sit chuckling in front of his multiplex of screens sipping a diet drink for hours. He’s rumored to sleep only 3-4 hours a night. That and the heavy burdens of the Presidency probably explain the bags under his eyes.
There hasn’t been a week without an event that hasn’t sent the press manically in search of the background and facts from which to sort real news from fake news. One didn’t have to vote for the President to appreciate his extraordinary skill in releasing just the perfect amount of information and opinion to turn every channel and all of cyberspace in his direction. Each week is a new topic!
Breathtaking!
Fake breaking news is turning into real breaking news. In the pre-“America Now!” world, breaking news could be anything from “the President arrives in Boston for a commencement address” to “the king of Jordan is arriving for his expected visit” to “More ground forces are being sent to Iraq.”
Breaking news was such a big yawn that viewers could easily miss real breaking news unless it was posted on Facebook by a friend.
“America Now!” breaking news is minute by minute action.
Spellbinding!
Can’t make this up
The plots are so fast-moving and surprising that I wonder if there is a secret script behind the whole reality. You know, something written by H.G. Wells. Only, he’s dead. How about the writers of “Scandal”; intrigue and mayhem positively drips red from their pens? Metaphorical pens that is.
However, our President would not want Americans to think anyone but he is in charge and making decisions. He is very responsible that way. He has gone so far as to correct his spokespeople or vice president or Cabinet Secretary when they have misrepresented his decisions even though his admission may put both him and them in an unfavorable light. More recently, he showed real strength in saying the “Russia thing … is a made-up story” — or did he say hoax — was part of the reason he fired the director of the FBI.
Courageous!
Besides, he says, quite correctly, he is President and can fire people, something he is very good at doing. He demonstrated considerable showmanship when he gave the viewing public the full firing experience by arranging to have the firing announcement on screens behind the unaware director of the FBI while the director was speaking to a large group of staff. The art of firing on a reality show must include the final humiliation of the designated antagonist.
Although, there is something heartwarmingly human about our hero when he sits in his chair, slumped forward with his hands clasped between his legs. In those moments, his face takes on the look of someone who is either contrite about doing something really bad or really mad that his astute maneuvering to make America great again is so under-appreciated.
Luckily, those moments are brief and inconsequential and he is on to meeting with another foreign leader. Speaking of which, wasn’t it a wonderful twist of plot when he met with Russian leaders the day after the firing the director of the FBI and the only press present was from the only Russian news agency. The President looked well and happy. He deserves some down time with friends.
Speaking of the press, the American press is having a hard time getting any other role in “America Now!” now than shouting questions like magpies cackling for something to eat. “Please, Sir, just a crust of bread will do.”
Pathetic!
In our reality show, our hero has never been shy in expressing his views about most of the American press — he alleges nothing less than the press is “the enemy of the people.” Apparently, he doesn’t feel that way about the Russian press.
Hilarious!
Congress stage center
Utterly fascinating is the role of the Congress under the full control of the President’s political party. When or will the moment come when they can no longer rationalize the unpredictable, ground-breaking action and rule-breaking President.
The suspense is killing us — will they …
a. Continue to wait it out, hoping to get their agenda into law and policy
b. Have warm heart to hearts with the President about socially and politically acceptable tweeting
c. Insist the President treat America like something other than a giant business that he can control by discrediting the institutions that support its democracy.
d. Step back and consider life if the Vice President became President
We needn’t worry that any of this will impact our lives. Conceivably, we will never be noticed or missed when a North Korean nuclear missile lands in Seattle.
Make no mistake, sacrifices have been made such as the Congressman who took it upon himself to throw his body in front of an oncoming investigation in an attempt to give the President an out for his tweet in which he claimed the prior President had him “wiretapped.”
Far as I know, that Congressman hasn’t been seen since; at least, not on “America “Now!”.
At this stage of the plot, the President’s party in Congress seems to have arrived at the point of explaining what seems unexplainable by saying the President is learning; he doesn’t know how to be a President.
How long will that take? How much time does he get? The suspense of not knowing the strength of moral fiber remaining in the other Washington is pervading the airways and cyberspace.
We could at least hope for a season finale, the non-fatal kind and hopefully not a cliffhanger. That will come in the fall around the vote to shut down the government. Again.
Sad!
Hard to tell what “America Now!” storyline will be when this report is published.
Exhausting!
Worried!
Bertha D. Cooper is retired from a 40-plus year career as a health care administrator focusing on the delivery system as a whole. She still does occasional consulting. She is a featured columnist at the Sequim Gazette. Reach her at columnists@sequimgazette.com.
