Trump declaration

So President Trump is now doing what all his predecessors have done before him, declaring certain months for particular celebrations or campaigns. He wants February to be African American History Month. And so it shall be. But surely this tradition will give Trump the chance to convert it into something more advantageous to his style of leadership. Perhaps March could be National Twitter Month, April, Think About Torture Month, May, Building Wall Month, June, Support Stephen Bannon Month, July, Support Jared Kushner Month, August, Forget Obama Month, September, Rebuild Guantanamo Month, October, Smash Raqqa Month, November, I said forget Obama Month, December, Trump Month. The first two weeks of the Trump administration have been extraordinary. He must be getting cramp in his fingers with all the Executive Orders he has been signing. And then there are all the orders to the Pentagon to produce warlike plans within 30 days. Poor Mad Dog Mattis must be twitching with the stress of it all. A plan to destroy Isis in Raqqa, that's the big one. Trump is not impressed with Obama's slow crawl to the terrorists' caliphate capital. Look out for some serious bombing, although Mattis, four-star general though he was, is quite a cautious man. He doesn't want American bombers killing hundreds of civilians. Isis in Raqqa is embedded within the population, every family is a  human shield against the bombers which is why Central Command's daily dose of airstrikes continues to take out a bulldozer here, an oil well there, and a garden shed suspected of containing fertiliser somewhere else! Raqqa itself remains untouched, and the advance towards the capital by the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces is so slow and tentative that it could take years to take down the Isis flag in the centre of the town. Trump has other ideas, or to put it another way, he wants Mattis to come up other ideas. Perhaps we'll have a Support Mattis Month.