By Nora Soriño

ILIGAN City -- Let’s not go parochial this time. Let’s focus ourselves not necessarily “in a galaxy far far away.” But still in our own galaxy which as science tells us is called “Milky Way.” Which is going towards another galaxy called Andromeda.

Hmm, it just happens that I wasn’t absent when this was taken up during some high school days.

But we talk still of land in this galaxy though still far from our shores. Like this fellow called Donald Trump who wields enormous power in a land in the West called America.

Some refer to him, maybe, wrongly or in jest as an “alien” there. This is because of his colorful hair and his mouth. When he speaks after doing some tweeting, I can’t help thinking of his mouth as resembling some part in the buttocks area—now that’s unfair for Trump, hi hi though he doesn’t know me. At least that’s what comes to my mind when he speaks.

But the alien, per his thinking, is his friend and mate called Melania. This can be gleaned in his speech about “immigrants.” He even wanted to have them blocked from coming to America by building a wall in the Mexican boundary with the latter country picking up the tab.

Melania, not to be outdone in her speech too takes a dig at Trump saying about somebody touching some woman somewhere in the body which should have been “forbidden.”

For some woman or women have been coming out of the woodwork telling the world that they have been subjected to such “unauthorized” touching and then being offered some “hush money” after that. This had left “the alien” in a defensive position. Those episodes were supposed to happen somewhere in another time in his life.

Okay, as I said, this is about Donald Trump, the 45th President of the US of A.

And then, another battle looms big before Trump. Which I call “trumping.”

The latter word, to note, means “defeating.”

Spearheaded by a powerful politician in the House of Representatives there called Nancy Pelosi. She is said to be “pulling the trigger of impeachment” on Trump!

Speaker Pelosi, reports say has asked the House Judiciary Committee chair to draw up the charges so that a formal vote in impeaching Trump is all but settled.

Trump, to note, has been trumping mortals, including women. One such woman is Hillary. The world then thought at the time that she would become the first woman to become President in that part of the world.

Trump though, in one of his speeches during the time he was still campaigning for the presidency said that she did not have the stamina, for the position, this Hillary girl. He said that she would do this, but she didn’t have all that energy.

Meaning, Hillary could not defeat him. “No stamina,” Trump said in so many words.

But this move against him with Pelosi as the prime mover, well, Trump should be afraid. One thing, Pelosi has all the stamina even of all the girls he’d loved combined. He might as well sing that one which Julio Iglesias popularized, “to all the girls I’ve loved before.”

Pelosi is not just any girl though who happened to pass through Trump’s door. She’s a hell of a feisty lady. Note that sometime in February 2018, the lady had made a record-breaking speech. In Washington, reports say that she made history by delivering the longest address in the chamber in at least 108 years!

She spoke for more than eight hours about protecting undocumented immigrants from deportation in their beloved America. She took the floor at 10:04 in the morning and began to speak. And she kept speaking. And speaking. And speaking. Eight hours and 7 minutes later, at 6:11 pm, she relinquished the floor. Her fellow Democrats high fived her and her colleagues gave her a standing ovation. Atta girl...

“The president,” Pelosi said, “abused his power for his own political benefit. He withheld military aid and a White House meeting in exchange for Kiev’s commitment to investigate Joe Biden.” Biden, to note  is a potential Democrat rival for the presidency in next year’s elections.

Trump is defiant, daring Pelosi et al to “move fast” confident he can have a “fair trial” in the senate.

In a way, it’s Pelosi vs. Trump. So, like a master thriller story, it’s “abangan natin!”