Marble Falls       For Trump, the White House is mainly a stage for him to perform one act after another.  Part of this is now distraction from his war in Iran, which he says will stagger on for another couple of weeks, as he pretends there is a victory he can claim from this mess.  Part of this reflects the fact that his already consistently low polling favorability numbers are edging from 39% down to only 33% in a University of Massachusetts poll according to some reputable sources like The Hill.  Changes in his claims about his mammoth ballroom addition that will dwarf the White House making it less about him and more room for big whoop dancers are now about security and drones after a federal judge’s order halting construction until he received Congressional approval were just one of his daily press performances.  In a doubleheader, he threw another executive order against the wall to once again discredit the election system and attempt to personally control and dictate who and how people can vote.

In this executive order on voting, he tried to block the US Postal Service from sending mail ballots to any potential voter that was not on a list of eligible voters provided by of all agencies, the now ever controversial Department of Homeland Security, which is currently partially shutout of funding because of its wild mass deportation program administered by ICE.  No detail is too small in his efforts to block voters from mail balloting.  In this order he also wants to dictate what kind and shape of envelopes can be used.

Of course, it’s worth noting that there is no such thing as a national voter list, despite Trump’s efforts to seize that authority and create one.  This effort was the subject of another executive order last year, which the courts have blocked.  They did so after a number of parties filed suit to remind Trump that the Constitution is clear that the states, not the federal government, control the elections procedures and administration.  Some 29 states have also sued to block the efforts of the Department of Justice, acting for the White House, to turn over their voting list to the feds, claiming correctly the need to protect delicate information including Social Security numbers, along with the fact that it’s not the federal government’s business.

All of this mischief and mayhem is part and parcel to the rest of his temper tantrums and word bombs about his own loss in 2020, which is a defeat he still can’t seem to reconcile with his self-image.  The FBI has seized ballots in Georgia as part of this performance, while other ballots have also been taken in Arizona without authority for this 2020 zombie hunt.  He has threatened everything but missile attacks on the US Senate because they have not passed the SAVE act in another voting aberration where he wants to assert federal control over citizenship proof at the ballot box in order to disenfranchise millions who don’t look and vote like him.

In another one of the ongoing Ripley Believe or Not situations from Trump and the White House, this latest executive order show pony wouldn’t even go into effect until after the midterms elections, where betting odds are predicting a Democratic tidal wave.  Ironically, Trump personally voted recently in his new home district in Florida with a mail ballot, saying simply, that he’s the president so he can, if he wants.

It’s a pretty sure bet the courts are about to tell him there are things he can’t do if he wants, and that’s change the constitutionally dictated state control of elections and voting rules.  Meanwhile, the curtain on his stage hasn’t been pulled, so the show goes on as he tries to pull other rabbits out of his hat.