The White House Gift Shop was created in 1946 by order of President Truman to sell presidential merchandise to visitors and the general public.  It is 100% non-partisan, sells memorabilia from past presidents as well as White House specific merchandise.  The funds raised from the sale of merchandise supports the uniformed Secret Service at the White House.

The Gift Shop now has a competitor.  True to his cheesy form, Trump now has HIS OWN gift shop, selling all things Trump, from autographed portraits to replica “signing pens” that he’s used for his nonstop effort to erase the Obama presidency.  Even MORE cheesy?  He lists the address of the shop as 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.  So, to be clear – Donald Trump is running a private enterprise OUT OF OUR WHITE HOUSE to cash in on this elected office. Don’t believe it?  Here’s a screen shot of the bottom of his merchandising email for his flash sale of his replica “signing pen”.

That’s right, the address of this business is Donald J. Trump, 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., Washington, DC.  It doesn’t get much worse than this.  It seems the least he could do is put the shop address as his hotel down the street where he’s raking in millions of dollars of money paid by foreign government officials trying to curry favor.

Hurry! Only 15 more hours left to buy your replica signing pen!  Or, how about a genuwine autographed portrait of Melania (sorry, she’s clothed in these pics; I’m sure for the right price you can get one of her nude shots).  Or, how about a framed front page of inauguration day?  If you want cheese, here’s your chance.

CBS is reporting that Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Trump’s spokesperson who, more than any other WH spokesperson in history, sold her soul to daily stand before the American people and spew lies and hate in a continuous stream, has apparently found her limit.  She’s out by the end of the year.  Her underling, Raj Shah, will follow her out the door.  I can just imagine who’s next. Unfortunately, Chuck Barris, aged host of the now defunct Gong Show, died last year.

God knows what we get next.

Trump is considering opening a tent city to house all the children we are abducting from parents seeking political asylum.

The Department of Health and Human Services will visit Fort Bliss, a sprawling Army base near El Paso in the coming weeks to look at a parcel of land where the administration is considering building a tent city to hold between 1,000 and 5,000 children, according to U.S. officials and other sources familiar with the plans.

HHS officials confirmed that they’re looking at the Fort Bliss site along with Dyess Air Force Base in Abilene and Goodfellow AFB in San Angelo for potential use as temporary shelters.

I don’t think Trump knows that’s been tried before and resulted in a prison riot because conditions were so horrible.

I have been to El Paso and to Abilene (nicely referred to as the armpit of Texas).  It’s hell hot. It’s dry. There is sand everywhere. There is no vegetation. People regularly die from heat in these cities.  The only reason Abilene exists is Dyess Air Base, which is where nukes and B-1s were stored. Well, we don’t have nukes there now and the only thing a B1 can do is deliver nukes. So now they just do thunderous practicing runs over the mountains surrounding the city.

Fort Bliss is worse.

So round up the kids and stick them in a tent in Abilene.  Or a tent anydamnwhere.

ABC News is reporting that …

Former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen likely to cooperate as his attorneys leave case, sources say

I imagine that Trump and his family are seeking political asylum in Canada.  No, no, not Canada. Uh, Germany? Nope, he’s pissed them off, too. France, uh huh – remember the handshake/stranglehold? Maybe Mexico? I’m sure they have a cage for the Trump kids in Mexico.

North Korea and Russia!  There ya go.

I gotta admit that when I heard a sleazy lawyer pass judgment on a woman in the porn industry, I was amused.  Rudy Giuliani looks down on Stormy Daniels for what she does with her body.

It turns out that Rudy is having an affair with a married woman while he, too, is married.

The mayor-turned-presidential lawyer, 74, and Maria Rosa Ryan, 53, began their affair before he and wife Judith Nathan separated last month — and Nathan filed for divorce five days after the pair was spotted getting cozy at a resort hotel in the Granite State.

 

Rudy, shuddup.

As we all are painfully aware, Trump wrecked the G7 summit by attacking our closest allies, and picked a fight with Canada over trade tariffs.  On top of all that?  Trump’s reasons to attack Canada is 100% based on lies.  Steve Rattner was on MoJoe this morning and talked about the idiocy of Trump’s tariffs.  Here are the facts:

We don’t have a trade deficit, we have a trade surplus with Canada. Also, Canada’s tariffs are the LOWEST in the developed world. Third, Canada’s tariff on dairy is a tiny piece of trade between the two countries. Lastly, since Trump put tariffs on Canadian lumber, price IN THE US have increased 27%.

You can watch it here.  It’s very informative, even with Joe S. interrupting Rattner every 15 seconds which is his most irritating habit.