Okay, so Trump heads out to the Rose Garden yesterday to report that everything is A-Ok and people just don’t appreciate his presidency and what a great job he’s doing and Obama didn’t call the families of soldiers giving the ultimate sacrifice but he’s fixing to do that just any day now because he was very busy last week and didn’t have time to do it and ohmygoodness aren’t these roses the best roses in the world since I became president and Obama hated these roses and the feeling was mutual and I’m great and I am just great.
No, seriously, that’s what followed this cabinet meeting —
Trump told Cabinet members and reporters that there’s plenty wrong in America, and it’s variously the fault of Democrats, insurance companies, NFL players, Republicans in Congress, Hillary Clinton, former presidents and drug-dealing Mexicans. Trump said he understood why former White House strategist Steve Bannon wanted to torch Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and other Republicans for not getting health care or other legislation through.
If he didn’t mention you by name, I’m sorry but you’ll just have to wait your turn.
And now for a brief message from reality. Reality, available in newspapers everywhere.
From CNN.
Said [Bob] Corker: “My thoughts were well thought out. Look, I didn’t just blurt them out.”
He added: “I’ve had private dinners, I’ve had private phone calls, I’ve tried to intervene on topics that I thought things were going in a different direction and are not going to be good for our country. This is not a new thing, it’s been building for some time. And it’s a pattern that I think we’ve fought and expressed for some period of time.”
And John McCain.
“To fear the world we have organized and led for three-quarters of a century, to abandon the ideals we have advanced around the globe, to refuse the obligations of international leadership and our duty to remain ‘the last best hope of earth’ for the sake of some half-baked, spurious nationalism cooked up by people who would rather find scapegoats than solve problems is as unpatriotic as an attachment to any other tired dogma of the past that Americans consigned to the ash heap of history.”
It is worse than we thought.