Incompetent - Kru's Control

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It’s hard to know how long it will take for the horrid effect of Donald Trump to wear off. As government returns to some semblance of normalcy, hopefully his assaults on decency and on democratic traditions will disperse into the air like a foul cloud of black smoke coming out of a chimney. For conservatives, his one lasting claim to fame, however will be his stacking of the Supreme Court with steadfast conservative justices.

But let’s not fool ourselves. Trump’s commitment to any ideology, no less a purely conservative one, is nonexistent. His value system has next to nothing in common with people as different as Antonin Scalia, the late John Buckley, or even Mike Pence. Donald Trump appointed conservatives to the Supreme Court because he thought they would do his bidding, that, like the lapdog Republican Congressmen he has in his pocket, they would support him no matter how outrageous or foolish the cause.

Imagine his shock and disappointment when they refused his appeals to overturn an election that he lost by more than seven million votes. Reacting to their failure to back him, he has labeled the justices “totally incompetent.”

So, although I don’t particularly agree with several of the Justices on the Supreme Court, it occurred to me that that I ought to give some careful thought on the definition of what it means to be incompetent.

First, there’s Donald Trump’s simple and straightforward definition of incompetent: Someone who cannot or will not do my bidding. Used in a sentence: “Jeff Sessions, you were completely incompetent at the time of the Mueller investigation.” Or: “William Barr, you are so much more incompetent now than you used to be.”

But then I thought that perhaps I ought to go about this systemically, checking the dictionary and the thesaurus for synomyms, and I was shocked how many I found. Perusing the list, it seemed that they all had one thing in common; they could all be used to describe President Donald J Trump and/or his four years in office. So for those of you who want to make sure you don’t run out of words to characterize the President and his temperament, or his policies and actions, I offer a partial supply of adjectives should you want to describe the person or his performance:

Mediocre

Deplorable

Lame

Ill-equipped

Laughable

Execrable

Half-baked

Slapdash

Bush

Hopeless

Maladroit

Not-up-to-it

Lousy

Shoddy

Crude

Bumbling

Feeble

Impotent

Rotten

Faulty

Abysmal

Defective

Gauche

Atrocious

Appalling

Frightful

Second-rate

Incompetent

Inept

Bungling

Ineffective

Deficient

Wanting

Lacking

Unfit

Useless

Unsuitable

Pathetic

Bush-league

Ham-fisted

Half-assed

Incapable

Substandard

Inadequate

Amateurish

Out-of-one’s depth

Third rate

Ill-suited

Two-bit

Piss-poor

For-the-birds

Odious

Pitiable

Low-grade

Sucky

Hapless

Butter-fingered

Ignorant

Unaccomplished

Untalented

Feckless

Hamstrung

Negligent

God-awful

Woeful

Unequal-to-the-task

Abominable

Lamentable

Sleazy

Disappointing

Schlocky

Coarse

Lamentable

Insipid

Talentless

Graceless

Mutton-fisted

Unprepared

Repugnant

Offensive

Disastrous

Offensive

Hideous

Cruddy

Vile

Abject

Ghastly

Flawed

Loathsome

As satisfying as it was to have a veritable cornucopia of words for the man, to be in possession of dozens of delightful adjectives capturing various aspects of the man, something still felt missing. Was there not one word, the single perfect word in the English language, that summed it all up, something that absolutely captured his essence. And then, courtesy of Merriam Webster, it magically appeared: