KANYE WEST: A CRY FOR HIS BELOVED COUNTRY.

ICHEOKU says what made Kanye cry. It must be his great love for America and the so many missed opportunities to make life better for everyone amidst plentiful. But whatever it was, at least it showed a Kanye as a man with a heart, who is compassionate enough to cry for his country men and women. As Alan Paton would put it, "Cry, the beloved Country" and Kanye West responded in kind. 

VAN LATHAN: FIRED BY TMZ RESURFACES AT REVOLT TELEVISION.

ICHEOKU says that TMZ should fire one of its jewel and over such a trifle matter as could pass for an office horsing around, is to say the least arbitrary. As always, they are very quick to act whenever a brother is involved and they will readily take away his meal ticket, without a care in the world as to how such brother is going to buy milk for his infant son or daughter. That is the only real power they have over back people, economic power and they wield it to the maximum. Their only real strength over black folks. 

Why would TMZ summarily terminate Van Lathan's job just because he jokingly said what he said to a colleague Michael Bobcock and for something as trifle as that. ICHEOKU says except he has been written up severally in the past for a job place harassment and Mr Bobcock felt really afraid for his life and Van Latham confirmed that he was really serious about carrying out his alleged threat, what he did did not rise to the level of hostile work environment for which he should be fired. Firing him over this is a very hash decision, especially for a jocularly jovial person as him, who is always joking around with everybody and who so many people actually tune in to TMZ to see what is roiling him again. It is definitely a case where the punishment exceeded the crime. 

The little midget who owns TMZ, Harvey Levin, is not a happy fella and it shows. ICHEOKU says despite all the pretensions to the contrary, his face, his demeanor, his forced smile, his grinning of teeth and the way he often erupts betrays his mask. He is uncomfortable in his tiny body and he appears easily intimidated by the gentle giant, a huge star who was suddenly eclipsing him and he had to find a reason to let him go. Why would he fire Van Latham just because of what he allegedly did, tell a co-worker that he will hear from him the next time he disrespected him and playfully placing his hand on his neck region for emphasis. Did Michael Babcock feel seriously threatened by the act or did he dismiss it as one of Van Lathan's many goofy moments. 

From his reaction, it was obvious that he never felt that his life was in danger or reasonably seriously feared for his life. So why take away this brother's means of livelihood because of this or is Harvey Levin practicing the usual liberal racism of either you know your place or your livelihood will be taken away. Such either you play dumb or you will be fired for not knowing your place is an experience which many black men could relate to, having suffered same in many American work places where you are not supposed to say a thing as your opinion does not matter nor count. Your presence needs only to be acknowledged, but you must never attract attention to yourself or offer an opinion and should speak only when spoken to. 

Why fire the brother because of such a harmless act following a passionate argument between two colleagues, whose work environment requires and somewhat encourages strong opinions in order to keep the ratings and viewership high. Everyone who watches TMZ can relate to Van Latham being a very passionate person, who strongly fights for his convictions and will go to the mat to ensure that you know where he stands on any issue, particularly race relations in America. The world saw him once take on Kanye West when Kanye made that statement of slavery being a choice. Unlike many others who would have cowered at the star power of Kanye West, Van Lance stood his ground and people who watched his performance were thrilled by his strong position. 

So, if TMZ did not fire him then, why fire him now for simply telling a co-worker not to mess with him again. Even if he gestured with his two hands on Mr Bobcock's neck simulating choking, but he never applied force to the neck. How can any rational person adjudge such gesticulation as so egregious and life threatening that his firing would be most appropriate response under the circumstance. ICHEOKU says have severally reviewed the video of what transpired and always arrived at the same conclusion that what happened was not an intolerable outrage that should warrant Van Lathan's firing. But now that TMZ has done their worse, pull his meal ticket, will it be ok for Mr Bobcock to sue TMZ for providing a hostile work environment. 

It was certainly an overkill. Van Lathan deserves much better treatment than taking his job away. If he was a white boy or Jewish, would Harvey Levin have so nonchalantly fired him? ICHEOKU says sometimes wonders if that little fella is on some drugs which makes him often jumpy and fidgety. A close observer also notices his constant sniffling and his watery squirrelly eyes which appears glassy. Many people, including ICHEOKU, watch TMZ mostly because of Van Latham, especially after he made a huge impressive statement with his confrontation of Kanye West. Many people actually saw the depth of his intellect, knowledgeability, fearlessness and the passion which he brings to the show on issues dear to him and which he cares about. ICHEOKU maintains that TMZ did themselves a bad number with this firing; it is also severe a punishment for what happened. 

ICHEOKU says it is about time Black Lives Matter included in their agenda, the protection of black men from being so cavalierly fired from their jobs in America's work places. Just like the Police Union protects even their bad officers, Black Lives Matter should start protecting black males from their employers and should demand that TMZ reinstates Van Latham or pay him some hefty severance. What he did is not such that should warrant his being fired. Van Lathan's black life matters and his having a means of livelihood to nourish his life is also very important. Black Lives Matter should take their protest to TMZ and demand that Van Lathan be allowed to continue to earn a living working at TMZ. It is sad that TMZ fired their rising star over something as trifle. 

ICHEOKU says is even more disgusted that dreadlocked Charles Latibeaudiere signed off on this and allowed a rising black voice, who passionately advocates and defends blackness, to be silenced just like that. So what if Van Lathan put his hand on Michael Babcock's neck, he did not compress it and Mr Babcock did not feel reasonably threatened nor was he deathly afraid for his life. "I will have problem with you if you do this again" is rather a harmless banter which many people would say when they are pissed off. But it is not a threat for which an alarm of SOS protection would go off. If the issue is that he put his hand on Michael Babcock's neck area, did Mr Babcock complain that he couldn't breath or seriously felt threatened and demanded that TMZ took action or he will sue them for a workplace harassment. Anyway, TMZ is the loser and they lost their biggest star.

KANYE WEST: THE MELODRAMA OF A DEAD ON ARRIVAL PRESIDENTIAL RUN.

ICHEOKU says what jolted him or did he think that one can just wake up one day from a midsummer night dream and have a go at the presidency. What takes many years of planning and strategizing to foray into, he thinks that less than 100 days to the election can accommodate? It only goes to confirm the thought in many circles that he is very erratic and unpredictable. It also cements the perception that the Kanye West you will see on any given day depends on the Kanye West that woke up and on which side he woke up. Although he is likable and successful, but running for the presidency of the United States of America requires more than a spontaneous declaration and so close to Election Day. 

ICHEOKU says had Kanye YZY West said that he is forming an exploratory committee for a possible 2024 presidential run, may be, some people would have taken him seriously. At least, American people will see him as establishing necessary protocols required of any serious candidate who is seriously considering himself for the American presidency. There is a process and there is a procedure, none of which he met before his sudden declaration of intention to run for the presidency this 2020 and long after the primaries have ended and people are beginning to pay closer attention to the two candidates running from both parties. 

Kanye West should have stayed clear of the 2020 election and continued his support for the president until he serves out his second term in 2024. Thereafter, he would have cashed in on the then already established goodwill of MAGA family as well as an assured president's endorsement. Some evangelical Christians would also have been persuaded by his newly professed conversion into taking a chance at him by supporting his bid. But for him to so suddenly throw away every political mileage he had cultivated by publicly embracing the president shows that he is not an adept political strategist which makes him the joke of a presidential candidate wanna be. 

ICHEOKU says thought that 2024 was his intended target year to run for the office when he started cultivating some political base by identifying with President Donald John Trump, formed his Christian group and speaking out publicly on issues that affect and concerns American people. Kanye would have stayed the course, continue to create and expand his support base as well as continue to convince American people that he is credible and in fact intact upstairs. But for him to suddenly announce that he is running for president with only four months to Election Day November 3rd simply reduces him in the sight of reasonable Americans as a joke of the century. 

It is either he has lost it once again or he does not actually have the slightest clue about what it means to run for president, a process which takes several years of exploration and planning in order to mount an effective campaign. A politically more savvy Kanye West would have continued to cultivate the president and then exploit the connection to  secure MAGA support for his 2024 presidential run and see how far it could take him. But to now say that he is dropping the red MAGA hat shows that he is unreliable and cannot be trusted. So what if the Secret Service hustled the president into a bunker due to a threatening breach of the peace. It was not the president's decision because presidents don't make decisions about their safety and security; he had no choice in the matter because when the Secret Service says come with us Mr President, a president must comply. 

So, why drop his support for the president because of such trifle excuse or did he want the president to fight his security detail who knew best from their read of an unfolding threatening situation. The same Kanye West now pretending unmatched bravado once sent a peace emissaries to the Bloods gang in Compton when they placed a hit on him because of his slavery being a choice comment. If Kanye West felt threatened then which facilitated the measures he took to remove the threat, why then is it not ok by him that the Secret Service took steps to ensure the president's safety and security as was necessarily required. Why even blame the president for what was not within the president's purview or was he just looking for any excuse to justify his betrayal of an otherwise budding political friendship with the president in order to reestablish his blackness in the black community. 

Kanye West was beginning to get some traction among white people after what he did to their Taylor Swift yanking her microphone away from her and also what he said about President George W Bush not loving black people during Katrina hurricane. Some believers and other Christians alike were also beginning to take a second look at him and loving what they see unfolding that is a new Kanye West, becoming a convert and doing religious worships. Many people were beginning to believe that Kanye West is a changed man only to be disappointed by his sudden somersault and announcement that he is running for president with only four months to the election. 

He nearly succeeded in pulling the wool over people's eyes with his newly found piety and also being a self thinking black man by wearing the red hat. But he botched it all with his sudden declaration of intention to run in the 2020 presidential election.It only confirms Kanye West as too erratic and rascally and not a serious person for the American presidency. No rational person will take him serious going forward about running for president any longer as to want to waste their votes on him. What triggered him into losing all the garnered goodwill and a near endearment back into the white people with his open embrace of President Donald John Trump. Imagine a potential Kanye West and Kid Rock 2024 presidential ticket? It would have been a ticket to beat but he just threw everything away just like that.

He called coronavirus vaccine effort a ploy to implant chips in people, the mark of the beast, and said that Planned Parenthood is a devil's agent that is killing black babies in order to control black population. Which constituency is then left for him to court, having sacrificed MAGA and also dumping on liberal causes. He has no political philosophy and no stated direction which he plans to lead America in. Kanye West bungled what would have been his greatest opportunity for a credible 2024 run, anchored on MAGA and President Donald John Trump's endorsement. His action could only be described as a mental disorder related; otherwise why now when almost all the States have closed their nominating process to be on their ballot. How can a serious Kanye West run for president without knowing even such a basic information about when it is timely to join a presidential race.

MARY L TRUMP IS A MEAN GIRL: HER 'TOO MUCH AND NEVER ENOUGH' BOMBED OUT?

ICHEOKU says what a trashy, trailer park type woman and her cliched regurgitate.  There is no bombshell nor jaw dropping new information supplied, just the same old compilation of dirt, as only a demented mind would conjecture. But borrowing her uncle's phraseology, what a horse face extraordinaire she is and now one can begin to understand why she did it. She is angry, she is ugly, she has low self esteem and self worth, she has no enamoring personality, she has no respect for herself and she felt left behind by the Trump train. She has no decency, no dignity, no honor nor the desire to uphold her family's name. Instead she thrived in trying to drag the family's name in the mud. She signed a non disclosure agreement forbidding her from ridiculing the family, yet went ahead to do it anyway, regardless. What a nasty woman. 

In her uneventful, dour, nondescript life, she figured out that the only way to acknowledge her pitiful existence is to take a Brutus stab to the president, her blood uncle. But she has failed as her attempted fatal blow missed vital organs and arteries by a very wide margin. Like the many others before her, who were vested in tarnishing the president's image and destroying him, she too will also fail. Her attempt to rubbish the Trump family name, particularly the president, shall come to naught. Her useless, spite-filled collection of  diatribes did not generate the anticipated enthusiasm as American people have since lost the appetite for such a hogwash. There is nothing new or spectacularly telling about her drivels, only that she wanted to be seen as a renegade, who can go up against her own family for notoriety and some the few dollars more which came with it. 

As with so many families the world over, the tale of woes of a black sheep of a family is not peculiar to the Trump family. Mary L Trump's knife stab is therefore understandably common with such renegades; they desperately seek to be noticed and they do whatever stupid stuff it takes to get noticed. Such people will do and say anything, no matter how incredulous and improbable, just to achieve their 15 minutes of fame and thereafter   crawl back into the dark, dank and drafty doldrum from where they initially emerged to stir up the dust of disaffection. Mary L Trump will not be an exception. Nobody knew who she was before now and very soon, everybody will forget she ever happened. There is nothing about her that is either compelling or exciting and she is the type of person who nobody really wants to have anything to do with, especially after such a betrayal of family's confidential trust. 

When one thought that John Bolton is yet to recover from his bombed out tale of the 'Room Where It Did Not Happen', out comes a self absorbing, hate-filled account of a family feud by an angry, sex starved lesbian, who took side against her family, joining forces with an outsider in the 2016 election. If only Mary L Trump had advised herself of Don Michael Corleone's admonition to Fredo in The Godfather II 'not to ever take sides with anyone against the family', may be she would have been more circumspect and not engaged in such a tawdry attack of her uncle, the president. Her 'Too Much and Never Enough" will bomb out as nobody believes such a lying cur, who hated her uncle so much that she proclaimed the day he won the presidential election as the worst day of her life. Imagine such a huge cause for celebration but not to Mary L Trump and this is all everyone needs to know about the character behind the book. 

Everybody has their own family problems and nobody is interested in another family's sad story, especially one told by a disgruntled greedy niece who wanted more money from her grandfather's Will. She was not satisfied with a lofty sum of $200,000 bequeathed to her by her grandfather and went to court to contest the Will but lost. Unbeknownst to her, a Will confers only testamentary benefits, post death benefits, to the successors of a decedent but not to those who predeceased them. As a result, her father Fred who died before her grandfather cannot benefit from his Will because he was not alive when the Will was executed. Anyway, American people should just treat the book with the same levity with which they treated John Bolton's book because it revealed nothing earth shattering and complimenting a niece is not a crime. 

Telling a niece that she looks good is just compliments and luckily enough, the nutcase did not accuse the president of sexually molesting her or desiring to sleep with her. So, what exactly is the tragedy which she wants American people to know about their beloved president to make them want to drop him and not reelect him for a second term on November 3rd. Just hear her and you will know how angry and revulsive this divorced lesbian is: “If he is afforded a second term, it would be the end of American democracy. Donald, following the lead of my grandfather and with complicity, silence, and inaction from his siblings, destroyed my father. I can’t let him destroy my country.” ICHEOKU says alcoholic beverages destroyed her father's liver, not Donald John Trump. Also, if the president have not destroyed the country so far in the nearly four years he has been in power, nothing shows that he will suddenly change his love for America and destroy it within the next four years of his second term. 

Why was she even invited to the White House for the president's swearing in party since she is an enemy within. As shown by the amount of her harbored bitterness she could have easily smuggled a rat poison into the White House. Imagine being at her uncle's White House presidential swearing in party and standing in front of Hillary Clinton, wondering how her uncle became president instead of her. A two hours dinner was not long enough for her and you ask yourself which family today can survive each other for that extended period of time on a dinner table. Instead of being grateful, she was busy comparing their family's dinner duration to the president's dinner with Kid Rock and you know exactly what drove her piston of hate in publishing the book, entitlement and attention. 

ICHEOKU says whether the president filed a thousand bankruptcies in the past or not is irrelevant. The only thing that matters now is the president's current status which speaks for itself. To fall down is human, but the ability to rise up again is completely divine. If the president is a clown in Mary's eyes, then he must be a superlative clown as clowns don't usually rise to become president. Mary Lea Trump is just another rat. She is bitter, love forlorn and simply lashing out. Mary L Trump needs to be reminded that Donald John Trump was not endorsed by the Christian community in 2016 because he was an upright, church going candidate. No, he was endorsed because of his promise to do right by and for Christians and protect the freedom of religious worship and he has since delivered on these promises and will continue to deliver more during his second term. 

ICHEOKU says it also doesn't even matter whether the president is a narcissist and meets all nine criteria for the personality disorder and potentially incapable of surviving “in the real world." What is important is that the president succeeded in life and by any quantifiable standards measured, imagined and contemplated. Mary L Trump's vituperation is evident of a black sheep of a family who is out to besmirch and smear; and hopefully American people have seen her for who she truly is and will not edify her by reading or buying her book of idiotic regurgitate. A family member who would take side with an outsider against her own family is a family member from hell and should be better ignored as leprous. What a demon from the pit of hell. 

ICHEOKU says agrees with Robert Trump that what Mary L Trump did was a disgrace, a travesty and an injustice to the memory of her father, his late brother Fred, their parents, her grandparents as well as the entire Trump family. American people stands shoulder to shoulder with Robert Trump in being so proud of his brother, the president. What manner of a woman would call her uncle's presidential election victory a tragedy and then sympathized with his opponent for her loss. This is in addition for having campaigned and supported Hillary Clinton against her father's own blood brother, her uncle. What an evil incarnate Mary L Trump really is that would sell her family short just for a few dollars more. Even Judas Iscariot was not this dishonorable, but she will live with her infamy for the rest of her life. What a piece of work. 

JOHN LEWIS: DEAD AT 80 YEARS, ADIEU.

ICHEOKU says he started his political career by marching for change and equality and by the time he died people are still marching for change and equality, thus begging the question did he succeed and will there ever be change and equality in America. John Lewis, a foremost civil rights marcher who marched alongside Martin Luther King in the 60s, was a United States Congressman and represented Georgia 5th Congressional District since 1987.  May his soul now rest.

NICK CANNON: HATES JEWS MORE THAN LOUIS FARRAKHAN AND AL SHARPTON?

ICHEOKU says why now apologize when he refused earlier and when doing so would have saved his job at Viacom/CBS. Was it an afterthought or was he under the influence when he made the offensive anti semitic remarks and when he refused to heed Viacom/CBS demand that he apologize for what he said. A much wiser Nick Cannon would have tendered an apology initially when demanded by Viacom/CBS and since gotten over the matter, than to now make his belated apology which is both meaningless and contrary to his admonition that "There’s no reason to be scared of anything when you’re speaking the truth." 

ICHEOKU wonders what he is now afraid of or was he not speaking the truth when he claimed ownership of Semitism and that Jews are the source of all world's problems? If African Americans or Africans for that matter are the "true Semitic people", where was it recorded in the Bible. What is the source code of the information which only Nick Cannon has as to the black ownership of Semitism. But he is a pupil of Louis Farrakhan and Al Sharpton, only that he chickened out so soon after starting a fight which he knows he can't win, especially when the same Jews have the power to drain his money-pond dry. Now he is apologizing and you wonder how sincere his apology is and if it was even from his heart. 

ICHEOKU says it is an open secret that there is no love lost between black people and Jewish people, but that Nick Cannon should publicly mouth it off, especially in this time of great racial tension in America, is incomprehensible. ICHEOKU says does not know what drove his mouth into such a diarrhea, but it sure stinks to high heavens and has forever tarnished his image. Going forward, he will be known as a Jew hater alongside Louis Farrakhan and Al Sharpton. It is sad and it is discomforting. 

Nick Cannon also lamented that he created a billion dollar brand for Viacom/CBS based on "trust and empty promises" which ownership has been "swindled" away from him. ICHEOKU says what manner of a person still does contract based on "trust and empty promises" when lawyers are everywhere to help incident such agreed upon terms and expectations of the parties on paper. Nick Cannon should please blame himself for whatever shortchanges he experienced; he was hired to create those contents but not to own them, the reason they paid him for creating them. 

Also he should not make his current tribulations a blacks versus Jews matter. It is purely a Nick Cannon versus his mouth matter, period. He should please leave black people out of his present imbroglio and deal with it alone just like he has been enjoying his wealth alone. If he has additional issues with his former partners, he should hire some lawyers and sort them out in court. The only other snafu is that all the lawyers are Jews and same are all the Judges; begging the question can poor Nick Cannon ever win any war against the Jews since they control and won everything. 

Nick Cannon must be out of his luck in going up against the Jews, knowing that the Jews are all too powerful for his little self to vanquish. Can you imagine poor Nick Cannon all by himself against the Jews. But where is LeBron James on this matter and would the Black Lives Matter now go on the streets to protest against Viacom/CBS for treating Nick Cannon, a black man, so poorly and with such a levity, firing him for attacking Jews. 

TRUMP 2020: REPLACING CAMPAIGN MANAGER NOT THE ANSWER.

ICHEOKU says although it is a good rejig to infuse new energy and new vision for the campaign, but messaging is the problem. So, until fixed, the basement man still poses an existential danger to the president's second term quest. The president should try and concentrate more on highlighting the things which he has accomplished already in his first term and enumerating things which he hopes to accomplish in his second term, instead of continuously attacking a man who is already holed up in his basement. It is akin to still beating up a person who is already down on the ground and such only attracts sympathy for the victim. The president achieved much during his first term and this should remain his primary focus, retailing them to the American people as the reason to give him a second term because he has done a lot and will do more. 

The president should not dwell so much on telling American people how bad Joe Biden is or for them to rehire him because he is better than Joe Biden. Nu, his message should  be to rehire him because he has delivered on his previous campaign promises and will deliver more during his second term. The record of Joe Biden is already a public knowledge and constantly reminding people of that is not all that necessary; his campaign underlings should be doing that instead. Personal attacks sometimes work against the person doing the attack and this is drawing sympathy for Joe Biden. 

Also, the president should try and reconcile with some of those people who helped with his election in 2016, bring them back to the fold and let them go to work for him as  passionately as they did in 2016. But when American people see a former die hard supporter like Ann Coulter attacking the president, they somehow believe that something is indeed wrong somewhere that made her to turn against the president. Steve Bannon also needs to be brought back to the campaign and so should everybody who in one way or the other contributed heavily to the success that was recorded in 2016. As Jesus said, those who are not against us are with us; at least they will stop bleeding the campaign when they stop attacking it. 

Furthermore, the president needs to unleash some media hogs to go to work for him by going to every available television and radio programs to toot the president's many accomplishments. People like Mike Huckabee, Lewindosky, Chris Christie, Rudy Giuliani and other hard charging pundits need to be turned loose and let them go do what they do best. And of course, if the president's campaign can reach out to some television personalities, treat them to a dinner and lean on them to give him a fair shake with their reporting, that will not hurt as well. But be that as it may, ICHEOKU is still very hopeful that the president will win his reelection for a second term despite all the snafus as the idea of Black Lives Matter and ANTIFA dictating what happens in America is the stuff nightmares are made of. #Vote4Trump.

JEFF SESSIONS DEFEATED: NOT RETURNING TO WASHINGTON DC.

ICHEOKU says it was a routing of some sort, thanks to a president who threw his weight behind his opponent and with it, Jeff Sessions' bid to reclaim his Senate seat vaporized. His challenger, Tommy Tuberville, got 63% of the votes to Jeff Sessions' 37% in the Republican runoff election for the candidate who will face the Democratic Party's candidate Doug Jones in November. What a victory and it will ultimately result in the Republican Party regaining the seat they lost to the Democrat in 2018. ICHEOKU says wanted Jeff Sessions to win but now that it did not happen, wishes him well with whatever future endeavor he embarks on; and for Tommy, all the best in November.

BENJAMIN KEOUGH: ELVIS GRANDSON COMMITS SUICIDE.

ICHEOKU says what kind of pressure was he under and what amount of weight was he carrying on his youthful shoulders, to both succeed and also live up to the family's name and the world's expectations of him. Was he on drugs, was he love forlorn and was he sad at a life of celebrity, having a very famous grandfather Elvis Presley, a famous mother Lisa Marie Presley and possibly felt that he can never do enough to compete or compare with them. 

ICHEOKU says it is often the pressure of society and lack of real care and attention by those they love and who should love them back that mainly drives people off the ledge. Money is sometimes not enough as people need people they can indeed talk to about real life issues which they are going through and who understands what is really happening to them inside. Sometimes not even a shrink is enough as it is too formulaic and so transactional that afflicted people often times do not even share their innermost demons with them, because they do not trust them enough to completely relax. Anyway, may his soul now rest. Benjamin Keough was 27 years old. Adieu BK

ALABAMANS: VOTE FOR JEFF SESSIONS.

ICHEOKU says the president's ire is understandable as Jeff Sessions being an insider of the Trump 2016 campaign knew or should have known that there was no collusion with Russia by the campaign. As a result he would have boldly stated this fact as reason for not allowing any investigation thereinto to proceed. But he was simply overwhelmed, either by the Deep Staters inside the Department of Justice or his conviction to do the right thing by assenting to the investigation, fully aware that no such collusion would be found. The investigation has since concluded and there was no evidence found of any Russian Collusion with the Trump's campaign or the president personally, but the ramification lingers on. 

But the nearly three years it took to finally resolve the suspicion took a toll on everybody including an innocent president who was shocked to see such a blatant attempt at a frame up, aghast too because the man he appointed the Attorney General, Jeff Sessions, was not covering the rear at the DOJ. The president eventually fired Jeff Sessions and with it their relationship got sour and that is understandable. Now, Jeff Sessions wants to return back to his old job at the Senate but the president is opposing it and has since endorsed Jeff Sessions' opponent in the race for a Republican candidate to square off with the Democrat in November. 

ICHEOKU says Jeff Sessions made that single mistake of allowing the Russian Collusion to proceed, but he is a good man and an early believer in Make America Great Again agenda. He passionately embraced the president and campaigned his heart out for the 2016 victory. As Attorney General, he successfully implemented the president's agenda on immigration, law and order, border control and MS13. ICHEOKU strongly believes that the president should have forgiven Jeff Sessions of the Russia Collusion indiscretion and let everything slide, but unfortunately it is not so. 

ICHEOKU says Jeff Sessions deserves his seat back in the Senate, a seat which he vacated to serve the country as Attorney General when President Donald John Trump asked him to. He was a strong voice of conservatism in the Senate and being experienced, should be allowed back to firm the support for Mitch McConnell leadership of the Senate. Therefore, notwithstanding the president's opposition to Jeff Sessions' coming back to Washington DC, ICHEOKU hereby endorses and appeal to Alabaman voters to vote for Jeff Sessions and send him back to Washington. He is a real conservative and he will get the president's back as well. VOTE4JEFF.

MANDELA'S DAUGHTER WITH WINNIE, ZINDISWA: DEAD AT 59.

ICHEOKU says she once wrote “Dear Apartheid Apologists, your time is over. You will not rule again. We do not fear you. Finally #TheLandIsOurs.” With those words, Nelson and Winnie's daughter Zindiswa reinforced her position in South African politics as an unblemished heroine who is fully vested in the struggle against racist white people who foist apartheid on South Africa and still wants to maintain somewhat an indirect rule, dictate policies and economic stranglehold on the country. What a salvo. 

Funny enough the same white people who traveled from Europe to South Africa and appropriated the peoples land had the effrontery to complain that "their" land was now being expropriated because the people want some of their land back. ICHEOKU says but who actually owns the land anyway, Europeans from Europe who came to the land or Africans in their native land who were placed there by God? White people are something else and they often times dish out the food which they won't eat themselves. 

But unfortunately, she is now dead and with it the end of her contributions to South Africa's full emancipation and their effort to completely divorce themselves from its racist apartheid past which still haunts them till today. She was South Africa's ambassador to Denmark. Zindziswa was 59 years old and possibly died of coronavirus disease, although the South African government has not yet officially admitted it as the cause of her death. May her soul now rest. Adieu Zindi. 

HE'S ALRIGHT, EVEN WITH MASK.

ICHEOKU says the president looks good in mask and far better than the mentally shriveled Joe Biden ever did in his own black mask. May be the president should have been wearing a mask long time ago as there is nothing bad looking with him behind the mask. The president looks even more powerful with the mask and it will surely intimidate Joe Biden seeing the president masked and wondering if he is seeing a Ninja Warrior. 

Now that the president has finally adorn the face garment, in addition to doing everything requested of him by the Presidential Coronavirus Taskforce and signing every measure needed in the fight against the Chinese Wuhan coronavirus disease, the president should be given some break from all constant attacks and let scientists and medical researchers carry on with doing what they do best, trying to solve the coronavirus algebra. The president is neither a scientist nor a medical researcher, so the continuing hounding of him because of the coronavirus is unfair and American people understands the politics behind the non stop attacks. Anyway, President Donald John Trump definitely wore the mask better than Joe Biden and it showed. #4MoreYears!

ROGER STONE'S SENTENCE: RIGHTLY COMMUTED.

ICHEOKU says the imperative is that the president has the power, the prerogative of mercy, to pardon or commute the sentence of anyone. The discretion is absolute, with or without cause, provided the president deems such a proper and right thing to do and wants to do it. Roger Stone is not the first person ever to be pardoned or had his sentence commuted nor will be the last person to receive such a presidential stay out of prison gift card. Bill Clinton was famous for pardoning Mark Rich and Barack Obama pardoned transgendered Chelsea Manning who actually levied war on the United States of America by sabotaging the United States military. 

So, the president was not out of place nor did he overreach himself when he showed mercy to Roger Stone. The baseline is that the Russian Collusion from which Roger Stone's prosecution or rather persecution was triggered was a phantom investigation. Therefore,  having collapsed, everything arising and attaching therefrom should also summarily collapse as well. It is akin to the fruit of a poisoned tree doctrine because without one there would not have been the other, case closed. If the foundational one is wrong other things following should be wrong as well. The president exercised his right as he deemed it fit and anyone who is not at home with it should either run for office or work to change the law. 

As always, Mitt Romney is a jerk; he never praised the president for the many  things he gets right, but readily jumps at any opportunity to register his disdainful displeasure and disquiet at the president. What manner of a man is he anyway, but a squirrelly eyed piglet who envy and jealousy is eating deeply from the inside. 

ICHEOKU says well done Mr President for doing what is right, especially when similarly impacted people on the other side were never charged nor convicted, yet they want to make an example out of Roger Stone simply for being steadfast to the president. What a bunch of decrepitude. ICHEOKU hopes that Roger Stone has placed a patent on his trademark double hand victory sign. What a happy man the president just minted. Way to go!

LINDSEY GRAHAM: SOMETHING IS CHALLENGING HIS CONSCIENCE.

ICHEOKU says his personal life is shrouded in mystery as he has severally denied being a homosexual gay man, yet he behaves like one and looks like one. He has no family, wife nor children and he is always impeccably dressed with his hair frequently made up and every strand in place. All hallmarks of a gay man or at least a metrosexual. However, Lindsey Graham's personal life is not the subject of this essay, only that it might have influenced his seemingly wishy washy grandstanding on issues of certain importance to the conservatives and Republicans at large. 

Prior to his defense of Judge Brett Kavanugh during the Senate confirmation hearing, his fortunes with the Republican Party conservatives was somewhat waning. But he came out strong, made a passionate speech in defense of the Judge and rekindled his place among the people who identify with the conservative credentials of the Republican Party. But it seems that he was got to by some forces as he has since withdrawn back to his equivocated positioning on things and issues. Many people have been asking themselves what happened to the Lindsey Graham at Judge Brett Graham's hearing.

He used to be a RINO alongside John McCain, his bosom friend and after McCain died, he momentarily warmed himself up to President Donald John Trump. Needless to add that Lindsey Graham looked the other way during the time John McCain was fighting the president, begging the question, how sincere his rapprochement to the president really was. 

Lindsey Graham promised the nation that his Senate Judiciary Committee will investigate Hunter Biden's BURISMA corruption scandal, which would have ended Joe Biden's campaign a long time ago during the primaries. But somebody again got to him and he went cold with the investigation and more than two years now, nobody has heard anything about Lindsey Graham's promised Hunter Biden's investigation. It is on record that Lindsey Graham ended whatever investigation he was doing or never started it after Joe Biden's wife Jill Biden complained that Lindsey Graham is their family friend and that she does not know what happened to Lindsey Graham that warranted his threat to investigate their son Hunter Biden. 

ICHEOKU says if Lindsey Graham could drop the investigation of Hunter Biden which would have somewhat benefitted the president with his reelection campaign, which side is he then really on, anyway? Does it mean that all the attempt to woe him by the president with several golfing sessions did not succeed or that his loyalty to the Washington DC establishment power bloc is stronger than whatever loyalty he owes the Republican Party and by extension the president. ICHEOKU says does not know about you but there is something about Lindsey Graham that loudly shouts "cannot be trusted" and all the unrealized expectations from the Hunter Biden's aborted investigation buttresses this. It also adds credence to his lack of political fortitude, not being fully committed and down with the struggle to Make America  Great Again. There is something about Lindsey that is anti Trump.

MAYOR BILL DE BLASIO: BLACK LIVES MATTER STRIPPING, A SKEWED PRIORITY.

ICHEOKU says it is rather unfortunate that instead of focusing attention and resources on what will in fact improve black people's lives, Mayor Bill de Blasio is busy throwing Black Lives Matter a mere bone, painting a Black Lives Matter sign in front of Trump's Tower on 5th Avenue. What exactly is that supposed to be except pure confrontation, an in your face harassment of a man who worked hard to mount his flag in New York City. Will the Mayor's next move be to make New York pass an ordinance for the removal of the sign Trump Tower from the building or banish the president from New York. 

But how exactly is the stripping of Black Lives Matter at that particular section of 5th Avenue going to improve Black Lives Matter's lives and how many black people will it put food on their table or help pay their children's school fees or their family's energy bill. How does the stripping help black people overall. Will it stop black people's shooting themselves or by the police? Will it stop black peoples family dysfunction? Will it stop the use of crack cocaine and other drugs in black community? Will it stop domestic violence in black community? Will it create jobs for black people? What exactly is the intent and purpose of the street stripping that addresses the complaints of Black Lives Matter? 

ICHEOKU says such unnecessary pandering is what is wrong with politicians as they overlook the big picture items and tunnel-focus their energies on how to get under the skin of their opponents. After the defacing of the street, what next? Hopefully the Mayor will not rudely find out someday in the future when he needs a Federal government's bailout or any other help from Washington DC that an otherwise avoidable antagonization of a president is not a good idea. Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman just found out when his due promotion can only be assented to by the president and it forced himself out of a military career of over 21 years. 

What exactly did the president do to and that hurt black people, afterall he was not the Mayor of Minneapolis nor the police chief there where George Floyd was murdered. The president does not run the City of New York nor is he in charge of the New York Police Department that Black Lives Matter people complain about. The president did not infest black neighborhoods with drugs nor guns with which they kill themselves. The president did not author the 1994 Crime Bill that destroyed a lot of black families, Joe Biden did. So instead of painting Black Lives Matter in front of the president's building, why did the Mayor not paint the Black Lives Matter where it should've mattered, in front of the buildings of those responsible for the actions which Black Lives Matter are complaining about, the NYPD's building or even City Hall for that matter. 

But distraction is the name of the game and a shinning object thrown somewhere will serve to take the attention off the people who are really responsible for the complaints being made by Black Lives Matter. Mayor Bill de Blasio has descended to a new low, actively participating in such an affront and you wonder how he plans to get anything else done in New York with such a septic mindset. It is not only black people that live in New York and the president never did a thing to warrant such blatant defacing of a street in front of his building. It is a sad day when elected officials start being so openly partisan and you wonder what will happen if any red State's City Mayor decides to paint "Joe Biden authored 1994 Crime Bill" on their Street or even MAGA for that matter. Bill de Blasio, shame on you.

SO LONG LIEUTENANT COLONEL SIR.

ICHEOKU says luckily for him he was allowed to retire with his benefits and not fired through a dishonorable discharge. What a rat and he lied against his Commander in Chief and expected to be still respected. Such a snitch does not belong in the military and should have been summarily dismissed and not allowed the honor of retirement for wrongly challenging the president of the United States of America and his Commander in Chief. A perfect telephone call but "Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman thought otherwise, resulting to an impeachment of the president based on a hoax. There is no soldier in him and he will not be missed. What a joke. Now he can proceed to Ukraine and accept their defense minister's offer.

VLADIMIR PUTIN: DESTROYING RUSSIA WITH SIT TIGHT LEADERSHIP.

ICHEOKU says a successful constitutional amendment to elongate power notwithstanding, the fact of the matter is that nobody lives forever. Someday Tsar Vladimirovich Putinya will also go the way of all mortals and will make finding a someone to fill his shoes extremely difficult. He has created a huge gap in succession through his vice hold on power and when he is gone, it will be impossible to fill peacefully. 

How can just one man think that he alone knows what is best for Russia and that without Putin, Russia will no longer exists or go like Afghanistan or Somalia. What happens when he can no longer preside over Russia, either willingly or unwillingly, due to old age, incapacity or death or is his inevitable mortality not cross his mind? 

Any good leader just like any good parent should be preoccupied with what happens after their death than what is currently possible, otherwise what then is the use of all these extensions of power, aware that a day will come when such extensions cannot be possible or his power hold amenable to extension. What will happen then? Why has Vladimir Putin not deemed it necessary to begin grooming a successor after nearly 21 years in power. Bill Clinton was American president when Vladimir Putin first came to power in 1999 and four American presidents later, Vladimir Putin is still in power in Russia and now plans to stay indefinitely or 2032, whichever one comes first. ICHEOKU wonders whether he ever asks himself what will become of Russia when he dies or does he not plan to die someday? 

But he does not seem to care nor worry about the long term welfare of Russia, otherwise he would have seriously started thinking about his successor and working to have him or her enthroned while he san still help nurture him. Why would someone who claims to be of a civilization that is advanced enmesh himself in such prolonged power hold and you wonder what then distinguishes him from the rest of third world countries in Africa and other places where leaders perpetuate themselves in office. It is not a good resume for Russia or Vladimir Putin and it is about time it ended. 

It is not for love of Mother Russia that Vladimir Putin has stuck to power for so long and still continuing into the future; rather it is for love of Putin by Putin; a burning desire to remain the unchallenged leader of Russia, the modern day Tsar Putinya. It is not good; it is not healthy and it can only lead to a fractious third world country like Russia with so many people vying for power the day Putin dies or in no longer able to wield power. For a nuclear armed Russia, such scenario is rather better not contemplated as some of their many nuclear warheads might fall into the hands of terrorists and the result is what nobody wants to think about. 

ICHEOKU says for the interest of a functional Russia after Putin is gone, Dear President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, please reconsider your decision to remain the paramount ruler of Russia in perpetuity. If 2007 wasn't enough and 2015 wasn't enough, 2036 will also not be enough for your power hold. It is greedy; it is evident power lust and it is a foolish egotistic maniacal behavior. Why does Putin look down on Russians this so much that he has convinced himself that there is no other person in Russia who is good enough for Russia's presidency and leadership. But just in case he needs to be reminded, Vladimir Putin is still human and he will surely die someday. What happens then? For the greater good of Russia, Putin should please start grooming a successor now. What a joke.