Tony Brenna

Donald Trump’s second bid for the presidency has already become a perfect storm of political corruption, fascism, racism, and his dangerous mental decline. 

            As he attempts to drag millions of voters into a sewer of lies, greed, and self-aggrandizement, his base of misled MAGAs should be wary of putting a cognitively challenged 75-year-old criminal into the Oval Office – not that they see it that way.

            Word is out from those closest to former Potus that he behaves “like a raving lunatic” while dealing with campaign staff and the battalions of lawyers handling his multitudinous legal problems – “the slightest little thing has him screaming and cursing…”

Would you plonk down between $200,000 and $400,000 to spend eternity next to the remains of Marilyn Monroe?

          That’s what it may cost to buy a crypt next to the “Some Like It Hot" star in Westwood, Los Angeles, where cemetery owners Pierce Brothers will soon auction off that special space.

          The news got me thinking about the days in 1984 when I was at the same place, helping in the fight to keep Marilyn’s best friend, actor Peter Lawford, in his niche in the Memorial Park Wall.

Journalism is fast becoming one of the most dangerous jobs around the world.

          It is a deadly profession in Mexico where the cartel and government agents have murdered 105 reporters and editors. In Russia, writers and reporters stand the chance to be poisoned, thrown out of the window or shot in the back if they upset Vladimir Putin, who hushes up the number of deaths he’s responsible for since taking power. Meanwhile, the most recent war in Israel has taken the lives of seven reporters and photographers in the short time since it started. More journalists have lost their lives covering the war in Ukraine.

          I, too, know the fear of working in a war zone after being sent to Uganda in 1972 by London’s Daily Telegraph, for which I was then the United Nations correspondent.

Donald Trump vs. John McCain - two American archetypes in starkest contrast with each other: devious Donald could never compare with the dauntless spirit of Senator McCain. The enmity transcends the grave.