I think Bill Kristol has it right. Why waste energy on renaming minor spots like the Kennedy Center? Let’s rename the moon!

I was in fact thinking about what He can do with respect to the nations’s capital, where we live. Why can’t He rename the city Trump? I asked that of one friend, who suggested that not only could He change the name of the city from Washington to Trump, but He could possibly change the name of George Washington himself to Donald Trump, the Father of our Country.

If He did that, He wouldn’t have to make piecemeal changes. The State of Washington would automatically become the State of Trump, the George Washington Bridge the Donald Trump Bridge, and so forth. Once He renamed the City of Washington for himself, he could do the same for the District of Columbia. We would then live in Trump, DT.

And then, of course, there is the country itself. Why not call it the United States of Trump? That’s ridiculous, you say, it’s in North America. One signed Executive Order, though, and North America becomes North Trump, just as South America becomes South Trump, separated by the Gulf of Trump and the Trump Sea.

Now, Art, you say, you are being a little silly, aren’t you? The answer is in fact not that clear. Trump, it appears, can rename anything He wants to rename, and, it further appears, that He wants to rename everything.

Merriam-Webster really missed the boat this year. They selected as their word of the year “slop”, a very sloppy choice, if you ask me. The OED selected “rage bait”, which as I look at it are two words, and also pretty inane. It seems to me that both of these organizations should have selected “trump” or perhaps “Trump” or maybe “He” with a capital “H”.

But, then again, as I look at it more closely, I realize that maybe M-W and the OED were just more clever than I am. Take “slop”, for example. “Slop” could just be a code word for “Trump”, couldn’t it? “Garbage”, “slop”, “detritus”, etc., all synonyms for “Trump”. And then “rage bait”. Yes, those are two words, but so are “Donald Trump”, and what incites more rage than He does? In fact, that’s what He wants to do, because He believes that the way to get the support of 51% of the country is to act as bait to the other 49%, because the rage of the 49% is what excites the 51%.

Trump’s polling seems to keep falling in every category. Yet, this week’s Quinnipiac poll shows that the approval level for Democrats in Congress is at the lowest ever, 18 or 19 percent. And that voters favor a Congress controlled by Republicans, albeit by a very slim majority, 49 to 48 percent. Of course, that is fairly close to where Congress is today, and approval of Congress over the course of 2025 has been in the 20 percents. These inconsistent statistics are hard to grasp.

If there were an election today, would Trump win? There is only one correct answer to that question, and that is “Who will be His opponent?”

And so my question of the day is: Who will be his opponent? And if you think you know the answer to that question…..