For years we’ve known Fox Network’s Bill O’Reilly as the noisy, over-opinionated, right-wing blowhard and pathetic author of quasi-history books. Turns out Bill, we hardly knew ye. He was, we know now, a serial sexual harasser, part of Fox’s conglomeration of men who took sexual advantage of women who worked at the network.

In O’Reilly’s case, Fox was so eager to keep their prima donna that they paid over $13 million to his accusers to keep them quiet. O’Reilly, of course, has insisted he did nothing wrong. Happily for him, Fox was willing to toss $13 million down the network drain just to allow him to continue bloviating. And lying.

When you consider that the network president Roger Ailes set the tone with his own toxic harassment of employees, ol’ Bill was just following the master. Here’s what is really the grabber about all this: These nasty acts were all committed on women who worked at Fox; these guys didn’t have to go out of the building to find their victims, they just had to roll over to the closest cubbyhole. Obviously since Ailes’ dismissal, Fox has done little or nothing to alter the culture at the network.

And of course, President Trump cheerfully endorsed O’Reilly after this news came out the other day. And why wouldn’t he? If there’s one thing Donald Trump can recognize very quickly, it’s another guy who likes to grab pussy. And ow it seems we have an entire network devoted to that. (I’m excepting legitimate, uncontaminated journalists at Fox like Bret Baier and Chris Wallace, but the condemnation stands.)

Have you noticed that Donald Trump never finds President Donald Trump at fault? For anything? Nothing is ever President Trump’s fault, whether anti-Muslim travel bans, the total failure of Trumpcare or all those Russia connections. Everything can be and is blamed on someone else.

With Trumpcare, we found the President blaming Democrats, who voted in a bloc against the Trump/Republican proposal, for the proposal’s demise. Of course Republicans hold the majority in the House of Representatives and can pass anything they wish no matter what the Democrats do. In this case, Democrats had nothing to do with the proposal’s collapse.

But Trump blamed them. Until he didn’t, when he blamed the Republican right wingers, the extremists who voted against the bill because they don’t see any need for anyone to have governmentally assisted health care. At least this time around Trump got a lot closer to the facts.

Of course, facts are to Donald Trump what lightning is to the lightning bug: completely unrelated. And we know that Trump clings to false beliefs, as the Wall Street Journal puts it, “the way a drunk clings to an empty gin bottle.”

Donald Trump is an empty hat. The self-proclaimed master of the deal is no master at all, as it turns out. He can’t even get his own party together, though in fairness the Republicans have demonstrated anew that they are incapable of governing. For seven years they battled to repeal Obamacare without having any replacement in mind. And when their opportunity to actually replace it arrived, they had only a plan that was ill-conceived and deservedly stillborn.

So Trump and the Republicans seem to have more in common than perhaps some amongst us thought. Neither seems interested in governing, only in advancement of their small-minded beliefs, which are mostly connected to tax breaks for the wealthy.

That’s what it has come down to as we enter the third month of the Trump administration. No one can govern. No one is to blame. Yet everyone is, for there are no winners here, only losers.

There are reports circulating now that President Donald Trump finds it necessary to wear diapers on occasion. The reports, as yet unconfirmed, suggest the diapers are necessary because the President has some issues with incontinence. The White House has made no response.

The reports suggest the evidence of Trump’s need for diapers can be seen in photographs and films of the President on the golf course, where his pants appear to be ill-fitting and enlarged around the hips. On at least one occasion, apparent signs of diaper-wearing have been noticed when the President has been attired in a suit.

There have been occasional rumors of Trump suffering incontinence in the past, according to the reports, but those also have not been confirmed, and there has been nothing said about it by White House sources. There is no evidence or reporting that suggests the problem, if it exists, has affected the President’s policy decisions.

I’ve been waiting several weeks to see how the Trump administration shake out after a few very ragged, chaotic weeks. I figured the worst was probably over. How wrong. How dismaying to find — or to reaffirm — that our President is a man unfit for the office, a man too small, too small-minded to be the leader of the free world.

But it gets worse. In his latest totally unfounded claim, Trump says President Obama tapped his phone and that he demands a congressional investigation. This was, of course, conveyed by his twitter account.

So here’s a new bottom line: Trump is a cynical, irresponsible, narcissist, an incompetent, intellectually challenged and morally compromised liar. There is not even a hint of truth and honesty about him. He is a disgrace to his office and should be removed immediately.

Alas, there seem to be no true patriots in Congress, no men and women who will stand up to Trump and attempt to protect us — the American people — from an unhinged, dangerous and unqualified White House occupant? A man who cannot fathom the depth of his office and who surrounds himself with benighted sycophants merits no respect and deserves to be thrown out of the office. And so I repeat: are there any patriots in Congress – especially among the supposed-patriotic Republicans — who will earn their profile in courage?

It’s not too late. But there’s not a lot of time to spare before our democratic nation suffers serious wounds. God save America from Donald Trump.

The concepts of truth and ethics are getting a few days off as Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu get together in Washington. Here we have the pathological liar and the Israeli corrupter exchanging pleasantries. Honesty and decency are on vacation.

The radical right wing Israeli prime minister is under investigation for two different accusations of corruption with others soon to follow. His belligerency — and his lying — helps to keep the Middle East aflame. He certainly has lots of help in doing so from radical Palestinians, but it is his right-wing party and its dangerous, law-violating supporters who pose an even greater risk to peace.

And of course with President Trump you have a man whose word, whatever it happens to be at the moment, carries no trustworthy weight. Today the President said he no longer endorses a two-state solution to the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. That follows some earlier statements to the contrary. Who knows how he might feel tomorrow?

That makes this meeting seem pathetic. Whatever comes from it can carry little meaning because each man will take from it anything he he wishes. There will be no lasting agreements here because neither man can be trusted with any agreement.

Neither Trump nor Netanyahu is good for their respective country. Netanyahu has caused great damage to his nation’s trust and been the primary cause of disaffection by many responsible Americans for the fate of Israel. He has been, in a word, a disgraceful person, a soiled leader.

And in Trump, well, we scarcely know what kind of leader we have elected so far, though every sign points to a collision of ignorance, laziness, incompetence and pathological egotism. Then again, I may be leaving something out.

Trump’s a loser.

As if we didn’t know it before, his empty narcissism has shown him up again. Big time. And there seems no limit to how far his ineffectiveness, his ignorance and his incompetence can take him.

Let’s go over the latest very quickly. He promised a new relationship with china not based on what China wants (i.e., the One-China policy). Loser trump humbly called China to beg forgiveness and promise his agreement to a One-China policy. Then there’s Trump’s immigration ban. He turned up a loser with the federal courts because of his poorly thought-out and chaotically implemented ban. He’s a loser. So huge.

And his aides are stupefyingly following his lead. Kellyanne Conway loses her ethical bearings in urging people to buy the Trump brand of clothing. Sean Spicer, the maniacal press secretary, spews blatant lies and defends them before backing off of them. What losers. So huge.

And you know, of course, who’s right there with them? None other than Mitch McConnell, who has shown his dislike of women who won’t stay in their “place,” and who lacks the courage — possibly the brains as well — to stand up to Trump. He’s a loser. Huge.

We could go on, but it’s only Friday morning. There’s lots of time for Trump to wiggle into his warm bathrobe, go sit on the toilet and see what comes out. I mean by that a new tweet, of course. What were you thinking?

We are riding a ship of fools. We have elected — okay, only a minority of Americans, truthfully — a President who knows little, lies a lot and has chosen to surround himself with lying fools. Is that blunt enough?

Take Kellyanne Conway, Donald Trump’s personal advisor. She spoke publicly to accuse the news media of ignoring the Bowling Green massacre, a horrible, terrible terrorist event that occurred in Kentucky. Only it didn’t of course. There never was such a thing. But she passed it off as truth and when caught apologized only partially and reluctantly, tying her regrets to mistakes by by other people. In other words, she didn’t really apologize.

Here’s the problem, of course: She’s not alone in the Trump administration of passing off news that is not news. News that is lies. News that bears no more relation to truth and facts than a lightning bug to lightning. She is full of humbug. And she is close to Donald Trump, who believes and spouts humbug. Nothing to be believed. Nothing. Absolutely nothing.

And we have word from The New York Times — that’s the real newspaper — that the Trump administration still doesn’t even know how to turn on lights in the White House. Really — that’s not fake news. That’s so ridiculous that you know it’s real.

Trump denies the validity of new polls that show a majority of Americans untrustful of his executive order calling for an immigration ban, a clueless ban now blocked by the sane actions of the federal courts. The number of people questioning Trump’s behavior in office is growing, sort of the way Trump’s nose seems to be getting larger (but not his hands).

We have seen that in two weeks in office, Trump is governing via executive order. He appears to have taken no lessons in governing beyond his experience as a businessman. Presumably as the head of Trump enterprises he signed one order after another and expected them to be carried out by underlings. He seems unaware that’s not how the federal government works. And he certainly seems disinterested — too lazy? — to learn anything about his job.

In brief — he’s proving how unfit he is for the office of President. In other words, exactly as we feared. And by “us” I mean the majority of American voters who didn’t vote for Donald Trump. Here’s the interesting thing: more and more of those who voted for him are discovering the folly of eerie ballot. And Trump is discovering what happens as more people become aware of his failings: his efforts to governor are slowly diminishing, even as we are but two weeks into office.

Regrettably, that is not good for America at all. We are at the mercy of an unprincipled and unqualified executive who has unleashed a warren of aides and helpmates who are equally poisonous to democracy. The forecast for America is grim. It’s probably going to get worse before it gets better.

It becomes impossible to ignore the dangerous and ill-advised actions by President Donald Trump.

To briefly note his most recent actions: on Holocaust Remembrance Day, Mr. Trump issued a statement that failed to make any mention of Jews. Why? An aide explained that by mentioning Jews other persecuted minorities would feel slighted. Apart from being thoroughly spurious, such logic has been widely used by those who would deny the Holocaust. And some of those people are among Trump’s advisors.

And then there was the executive order temporarily banning immigration from Muslim countries, an action which has created chaos in many places around the world and emboldens terrorists who use it to exploit the obvious Muslim anger. In other words, this is the sort of action that makes America less safe, less inclusive, less democratic, less constitutional. A nation that exalts its Christianity at the expense of other faiths.

This is not what our Founding Fathers wrote. It is an approach to the world that demeans all of us. That’s why the large protests that are occurring around the country — and the world — are good and necessary. This is unacceptable. And illegal, most certainly. It is the product of a clown mind submitting to the counsel of biased, uninformed and vindictive White House aides.

To his small hands we may add small mind.

We have completed the inauguration of Donald J. Trump as this nation’s next President. What a disgrace for America’s highest office.

Can this man ever tell the truth? And why is anyone still believing anything he says?

Consider his inauguration, which he insists was attended by over a million people. Sad. Photos and videos make clear the crowd was in the neighborhood of 200,000. And what’s wrong with that? Only that Trump is eaten up with jealousy because the Women’s March drew half a million people, and that one single March in Boston probably had more attendees than Trump’s inaugural.

Why does he persist in lying? And lying about matters that clearly don’t matter?

He went to the CIA on Saturday and proclaimed his affection for the agency. He denied ever having feuded with it, although there is written and video evidence of his doing precisely the opposite. It’s a fact. To everyone except Trump and those who simply cannot discern a lie from a fact.

That would be people like Press Secretary Sean Spicer, who stood in front of the White House Press Corps and blatantly lied about the size inaugural crowd. Like his master, does he also have size issues? (Ask those women if size matters.)

And so we’re off and running into the new administration. The signs are ominous. Trump is clearly not a conciliator in any way; he remains just what he has seemed to be all along: a narcissistic, vindictive bully and weak thinker, a small man unqualified by temperament and intelligence for the job he now holds. What a pity. For all of us. Sad.

In the new “post-truth” world of Donald Trump, we have something new to observe now. It seems the Donald may well have been cavorting with hookers, indulging in some kinky sex and in general setting himself up for some serious blackmail by those Russians he loves so much.

Funny, did anyone bring up these sorts of things with Lincoln, or Franklin Roosevelt or Woodrow Wilson? Or even Millard Fillmore? (Let’s omit Bill Clinton from the discussion.)

These accusations are as yet unsubstantiated. And Trump says they are lies and part of a Nazi-like effort to demean him. Of course, Trump using Nazi references is somewhat amusing if not caustically abhorrent. But we now live in a Trump world where lies are routine and truths don’t matter. So there’s every reason to believe that where we find smoke, we will perhaps also discover fire.

No, I don’t know whether Trump hired prostitutes to pee on him. But I don’t find it unbelievable given what Trump himself has said about his sexual predilections (you know, all that grabbing stuff). Trump can certainly afford high-class hookers, he’s visited Russia many times, and the Russians surely know a lot about tapping into secret lives, don’t they?

And now we are on the verge of inaugurating Trump as President. A man who is a shady, sleazy businessman, a man who is a self-confessed sexual predator, a demagogue, a narcissist of the worst sort, a bully, an anti-intellectual blowhard, and a jerk with tiny hands.

What’s not to like? And you don’t think that’s true? Well, in a post-truth world, what is true anyway and what does it mean? Truth is what you believe. So there’s lots of reasons to believe the Russians have a lot of blackmail material on the incoming President of the United States. What a revolting development.