Like many writers I keep a list of story ideas. Many don’t pan out. I recently thought of writing about frivolous law suits, like the class-action one two California women initiated against Costco because its $4.99 “preservative-free” rotisserie chicken failed to note the presence of sodium phosphate and carrageenan. The women got Costco to change its messaging, but they presumably didn’t mind the chemicals being in the chicken as they have been quoted as saying they would continue to buy the budget-beating staple. They also said they did not suffer any physical injury from consuming the chicken.
Then there was the lawsuit faced by Buffalo Wild Wings for allegedly misleading the public because, a plaintiff argued, its boneless chicken wings did not have chicken extracted from a wing. U.S. District Judge John Tharp Jr. dismissed the case, stating the lawsuit had “no meat on its bones” and that diners do not expect “boneless wings” to be derived from a chicken’s wing meat any more than they expect the poultry to actually have chicken fingers.
Then there were lawsuits against Alaska Airlines, Delta and United filed by disgruntled passengers who paid more for what they thought to be window seats only to discover themselves staring at solid walls (https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/us/seat-11a-no-window-ryanair-airlines.html?smid=url-share). This story hit home with me as the “window” seat on my recent Delta flight home from Omaha also was windowless, but I didn’t care. I was in an aisle seat, sleeping almost the entire time we were airborne.
It seems to me Americans are expressing outrage over inconsequential issues when they really should be demonstrating their revulsion at actions by Donald Trump and his spineless enablers. (FYI, there’s another “No Kings” nationwide protest planned for Saturday, March 28.)
Where is the outrage? Trump hid the extent of injuries to troops from Iran’s attack on a Kuwait military base. Six soldiers died and many others suffered extensive brain injuries;
Trump wore a baseball cap to a solemn ceremony greeting bodies of the dead soldiers returned to American soil;
The slur was magnified by Fox News falsifying images of the ceremony to hide Trump’s indignity;
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth spent more than $45 million on expensive food and furniture while millions of Americans have been cut off from federal food and housing assistance;
Four weeks into the war with Iran Trump has yet to address what his plans are for the uranium canisters buried under the “obliterated” nuclear facility he claimed to have destroyed last June. Removing them from Iranian control can and must be the only legitimate conclusion to Trump’s and Israel’s war with Iran.
There is a reason the Nobel Prize is handed out for peace, not war.
With every statement Trump makes attempting to justify his bombardment of Iran in the name of removing a threat to America and world peace, one has to wonder why he is not as vocal in his denunciation of North Korea (which actually has nuclear capability and is refining its delivery system) and Russia which, with its illegal invasion of Ukraine, has embarked on a mission to reconstitute the Soviet Bloc.
Assuming—a big assumption—that Trump will honor the 25th Amendment and not seek an illegal third term, and won’t declare a national emergency to cancel elections in 2026 and 2028, Trump is leaving a mess for a successor to clean up.
My hope is that Donald Trump is alive and cognizant enough to see and comprehend when a Democratic president takes office and declares that the Trump name, portraits, statues and likenesses be removed and erased from all government buildings, documents, monuments, institutions and monetary currency and coin, that America’s true history—warts and achievements—be represented on all official plaques and descriptions, that his era of personal aggrandizement and greed be forever assigned to the trash can of American extremism and demagoguery.
I hope he is alive to witness and take in the repudiation of his reign of turpitude that has tarnished America’s position of leadership among democratic countries and among people shackled by despots, autocrats and war lords.
