FROM MAGA TO KAG

One thing about Donald Trump's 2016 campaign that has always been a sticking pont is the slogan: Make America Great Again.

What the hell does he mean by that?

I speculated he was referring to a time before we had income tax. Around the time we helped save democracy in Europe at the end of the Great War.

But that's too intellectual for Trump.

I concluded he meant Put a White Man Back in the White House.

In other words, his campaign was all about de-Obama-izing the country. And that made sense. Trump full on hates Obama and everything the man did while he was president. In fact, Trump has hardly ever misses an opportunity to denigrate the man and take steps to undo his actions.

Some would say this attitude is simple racism.

Others point out Obama made fun of Trump at a White House Correspondents Dinner. Turns out The Donald has very little tolerance for being kidded, so events that night might explain what amounts to a vendetta against the man.

(Obama showed a tarted-up version of the White House as modified by a future Trump presidency. What Trump is proposing for a redesigned Air Force One is a step in that direction -- and he's not done yet. Wait till the folks in Iran get a load of their new radioactive wilderness, courtesy of the Trump Design Team.)

Fortunately, figuring out MAGA recently became a little easier. Even before launching his reelection campaign, Trump revealed his new slogan: Keep America Great!

(Or KAG.)

Considering how little Trump has actually done (tax breaks to corporations and rich folks), we are left to wonder if this was all it took to make the country great.

Of course, Trump also takes full credit for a booming economy. Let's face it,  no way could he give a nod to Obama for lifting us out of the Great Recession. (Trump probably blames the guy for putting us there in the first place.)

But KAG makes it clear: Trump made America great simply by getting his ass elected. He didn't have to do a thing AS president. And we can keep this great feeling alive just by sending him back for another four years.

Pretty cool, right?

The only problem is that he will have to leave the White House eventually, by (current) law. And that will be the end of America's greatness forever.

That's sad, sure, but those are the inflexible rules of the self-aggrandizing lunatic. There's only so much of the exalted fellow to go around. And when that inflated bag of orange skin is empty, the party's over.