Back in the 70’s when Tricky Dick was president there was a break-in at the Democrat headquarters in the Watergate Hotel. The reason for the break-in was for nefarious research by people in the Republican Party. A quick illicit look around would become the scandal of all scandals for a generation.

The information reached the president, who suppressed evidence about the break-in. President Nixon, who some called Tricky Dick, even erased an audio tape recording about the break-in that was made in the oval office. At the time this was a HUGE scandal.

The Watergate scandal as it became to be known, caused President Nixon to resign the presidency. Some will offer finer points on the history of Watergate. But the fact is, it was the downfall the presidency.

Foe decades after, any political scandals would be tagged with the suffex -gate. According to Wikipedia there are over a dozen -gate scandals “Billygate, Briefingate, Contragate, Deavergate, Debategate, Doublebillingsgate, Frankiegate, Franklingate, Genschergate, Housegate, Iraqgate, Koreagate, Lancegate, Maggiegate, Nannygate, Raidergate, Scalpgate, Travelgate, Troopergate, and Whitewatergate” in all of them, someone fibbed.

This -gate business started in the 1970’s. In 2020 there was a movie called “ObamaGate”. It was a flop. Still it is worth mentioning that older people still use the term, until recently.

Let’s face it. Watergate was over 50 years ago. Things were so much tamer back then. Now we have Whiskey Tango Foxtrot. Things are orders of magnitude worse.

For example, I never thought Trump would actually win. I really thought the deep state would win. So what happened? They didn’t have enough preprinted ballots to stuff the box, or Trump sold out, or he actually won? I have no clue. So whatever. It is what it is.

Was it a decade ago that I went to see Trump the candidate? I thought I saw a smart man. Candidate Trump wanted to define Trump Gate before it actually became a thing. Trump Gate would be a big beautiful gate for emigration. Something like Ellis Island, except there would be multiple gates.

This is something I wrote about previously.

So here we are ten years later, and there is no big beautiful TrumpGate. All we have is a mess. So I will call the mess TrumpGate. Not that anyone knows what I mean, or cares. Is there anything better than TrumpGate?