TrumPutin had the perfect Trumpian explanation why his racists tweets were not racist: others agreed with him. 

Just when we think that it's not possible for the little, ignorant man to go lower, he knocks from below. 

The four congresswomen hate this country, says the damn fool who thinks he gets to define how people are allowed to show their love for America. If anyone tries to improve the Republican vision for the country, that is hate?

The four congresswomen are socialists, even communists, says the man profiting from his government connections, and spending campaign cash donated by the corporate socialists who define his regime.

The four congresswomen are free to leave, because he can't stand that they deign to question his immorality, his infidelity to American principles, and his wanton disregard for truth and decency.

And others agree with him. Like the others who agreed with dictators before him, and who thought that justified their atrocities. The dictator wanna-be racist needs to go. Along with all the others too afraid to speak out against him.

TrumPutin blasted the UK ambassador for being a stupid guy. The only thing stupid about him was that he thought that the truth would be tolerated in the TrumPutin regime.

"Insecure" the ambassador says of TrumPutin, leaving out racist, ignorant, mean, defensive, racist, lusty, depraved, untruthful, cowardly, and narcissistic. Oh, and racist.

"Inept" and "dysfunctional" he says of TrumPutin's regime, obviously having seen Zinke, Pruitt, Barr, Mulvaney, Ross, Devos, Acosta, et al., cater to the whims of their lord and master. And the UK ambassador must also have seen the parade of sycophants who tell us what the babbler-in-chief means when he says anything. KellyAnn, Sarah Huckster and her successor, Whoever, Mulvaney, Kudlow, and the explainer-in-chief, Rudy G.

Never, it seems, is what TrumPutin says what he means. There are instances, his sycophants tell us loudly, when what he says intersects with what he means, but that is only when he's confused. 

No, the truth is the last thing TrumPutin can abide, and he's lying when he says otherwise.

TrumPutin is no brave man. He lacks intelligence, honesty, modesty, a moral compass. Most of all, he is the antithesis of courage.

He can summon only the shadow of courage, and it is only when he is far removed from conflict that he can call up even the shadow of courage. The farther away he is from conflict, the deeper the shadow of courage he can summon. If conflict gets near him, his courage flags and the bone spurs emerge once more. 

So it's no surprise that July 4th has become for him a celebration of might. Tanks, planes, speeches extolling the bravery he can never summon. And all in front of an audience saturated in reality television, television that paints an image entirely at odds with the "reality" it purports to show. It is the only show that TrumPutin is qualified to host, the only show where he feels comfortable and where his smirk and his blustery, simpering words are at home.

For the rest of us, the tanks are idiotic, a symbol at odds with the day. As is the buffoon who emcees the charade that he and his base call patriotic.