Been a busy week.
1). You can’t fake this stuff.. After complaining about “fake news” for two years, Trump has actually finally defined it.
Declaring that the “fake news” is “working overtime,” Trump went on to tweet, “Just reported that, despite the tremendous success we are having with the economy & all things else, 91% of the Network News about me is negative (Fake).”
So now we understand the disconnect. To the rest of the world, “fake” means fabricated. False. Untrue. A lie. You remember a lie: the thing that comes out of Trump’s mouth whenever it’s open. But to Trump, “fake” means something that is critical of him. You see, Trump is so star spangled awesome that any critique, complaint, or negative observation of him cannot possibly be true, because no sane person would see anything wrong with him.
To any reasonable person, that is of course complete bûllšhìŧ. People get criticized constantly: by news media, on social media, by spouses or loved ones, teachers, bosses, friends and enemies alike. And they respond to it in a variety of ways: by considering the criticism, apologizing, trying to make amends, ignoring it, even doubling down (which is the typical hard right strategy.) But I can’t recall anyone flat out stating that any criticism of him at any point across the board is flat out untrue. That’s nuts.
And that’s Trump.
2). Iran away. Trump has been assiduously stating that the Iran anti-nuke deal was “the worst” ever made and that Iran was cheating on it. Curiously, our allies asserted that Iran was remaining faithful to it. These were the same allies who asserted that Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction, which George W. ignored and launched a war that cost the lives of 4500 Americans and one million Iraqis before we found out that, no, he had no WMDs. So that worked out well.
But because, as the saying goes, those who do not listen to the lessons of history are doomed to repeat it, Trump has just taken the first step into destabilizing the Middle East even further (admittedly it’s not all that stable now) by terminating America’s adherence to the Iranian deal. Because a month before you go into a meeting with a North Korean dictator to make a deal, that’s exactly the message you want to send: That you can’t be trusted to keep a deal that your country makes. You’d think that a man who allegedly wrote a book called “Art of the Deal” would know that you should never break a deal. Which, actually, he has been quoted on previous occasions: you don’t break a deal. You’re sending a message that your word can’t be trusted.
Trump can come up with all the BS excuses he wants, but it’s painfully obvious why he broke the deal: Because it was something that Obama had done. Trump, like any demented racist, is determined to shatter every single accomplishment of his predecessor. He wants to create his ideal America, one where Obama was never president because, look, nothing he ever allegedly did lasted. This is the same dìçk who keeps blaming the Democrats for HIS demolishing of DACA. If he could find a way to remove Obama’s and Michelle’s portraits from the White House, he would do so in a heartbeat.
In the meantime, Israel has taken encouragement from this dûmbášš move and is currently exchanging missiles with Iran. We could wind up seeing a full blown war between Iran and Israel with nuclear missiles flying. All because Trump has taken away the main incentive for Iran to refrain from developing nuclear weapons.
3). Get rid of your poor, your tired…. A new plan to hurt immigrants has doctors and hospitals extremely concerned. The potential new policy calls for the following: If any legal immigrant holding a visa uses Medicare, food stamps, Obamacare or a number of other government policies, then their application for a green card can be denied. But what if your child was born here, meaning they’re American citizens? Doesn’t matter: it could still cause the parents to have their green card refused. The concern is that immigrants will starve or not seek medical care lest their green card becomes lost to them. Which of course the government knows, so hey: gets rid of immigrants, right? It’s all good.
Bášŧárdš.
4). Meanwhile in Cohen Land…. It turns out that Michael Cohen created a shell company, Essential Consultants LLC, which seemed to have one reason for existing: to sell access to Trump. It’s unclear if Trump knew about it at the time or not, but he knows about it now and he is extremely not happy with Cohen. It also seems to have bridged the gap between Stormy Daniels on the one hand and Russia on the other because companies with Russian ties have been “hiring” Essential Consultants. Which means Mueller’s playhouse has constructed a second floor.
Did he do anything right?. Somewhat, but he managed to get that wrong, too. Kim Jong un decided to free three prisoners in advance of meeting with Trump. Trump had been stating that he was working to do what Obama had failed to do and get the three of them released, even though only one of them had been taken while Obama was president and the other two were taken under Trump’s reign. Furthermore, it’s obvious that Kim is taking advantage of Trump’s idiocy by using the opportunity to present himself to the world as a wise, considered leader rather than the homicidal dictator we all know him to be. While idiot supporters are claiming that Trump should receive the Nobel prize, that’s absurd. Trump is a dictatorial bully, and the ONLY reason Korea is getting its act together is because they’re proving that they are collectively wiser than the idiot in chief. And then when he flew to welcome the returnees, he insanely speculated on how good the ratings they were getting were at 3 AM. When is he going to realize that ratings are NOT something the freaking president should be concerned about?
I’m betting never.
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