And in other news from the front lines of Cheeto Jesus’ Embarrass America Again tour, at a meeting with European leaders yesterday, Trump threatened to cut off German car sales in the US.  That’s right folks, no more German cars.  In the meeting, he threatened to cut off sales and impose a 35% import tax.  He also called Germans “very bad”.  What an ass (sorry Momma).

In this latest episode of urinating on allies, Trump forgot a few things:

• The BMW X3, X4, X5, and X6 are built in the Bavarian state of…North Carolina.
• The Volkswagen Passat is built in Southern German state of Tennessee.
• The Mercedes C Class, M Class, and GL Class are built in the German state of Alabamdama.
• Other countries where German cars are made are Mexico, Hungary, Slovakia, and France.

The facts are that a huge number of German cars sold in the US are made in the US.  More importantly, of the top 15 productive auto plants in the US, 7 are foreign owned.  Like other industries, the global auto industry is complex.  Some cars built in the US are actually exported to…Germany.  Some are sold here, and some are exported to other countries.  The issues of trade and trade imbalances do not lend themselves to platitudes and childish name calling.

As in most issues Trump has talked about, he takes a simpleton approach to complex issues.  Slapping a 35% tariff on imports from Germany would have an immediate and catastrophic effect, costing Americans thousands of jobs and driving costs up for everyone.  If Trump spent less time on pissing off allies, and more time getting his own goddam house in order, we’d be the better for it.  Or, would someone please just get him a Coke and bag of Cheetos and put him in front of a television so he can just flip channels all day?

It’s zero days since we were embarrassed by this parasite infesting the WH.

Greg Gianforte, who body slammed a reporter on earlier this week for asking a question he didn’t like, was just elected to represent the stupid state of Montana.  Another criminal takes a seat in the People’s House. Facts and common decency no longer count in this country.

I can’t think of anything funny to say.

Yes, he did.

You know he did.

He’s just such a jerk.  A real leader parts the opening with his presence.  A jerk shoves people.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WqJkWntgSg

Ben Carson, y’all.

“I think poverty to a large extent is also a state of mind.”

No, but brutal ignorance, indifference, and insensitivity most definitely are.

Honestly, there’s something wrong with that guy.

Well, lookie here. Jeff Sessions forgot that he met with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak, who must be a very forgettable man because almost every member of the Trump administration met with him and then “forgot” about it.

It’s almost like Kislyak personally picked every member of this administration.  Ha, but that couldn’t happen.

Now here’s what I’m wondering about Grandma Clampett.  His staff is saying that an unnamed FBI agent told them that Sessions didn’t have to include this meeting if the meeting occurred while he was a senator.  The form requires him to list “any contact” he or his family had with a “foreign government” or its “representatives” over the past seven years.

What kind of damn anagram do you have to find in there that says “unless you’re a senator”?

If the meeting was innocent, why not list it just to be on the safe side?

You gotta wonder – are Trump’s appointees coming so slowly because Kislyak has a very busy schedule?

In response to a House Oversight Committee document request, Trump’s lawyers sent a slick pamphlet describing how he’s NOT going to track money he receives from foreign governments, strictly prohibited by the Constitution’s emoluments clause.  Much has been written by legal scholars about Trump’s egregious violations of the Constitutional provision, and it’s all been ignored by the GOP and surprisingly, the press.  The Brookings Institute has published some of the best analysis of Trump’s real and continuing problem of taking money from foreign governments. It’s an impeachable offense, but no one is even trying, at least yet, to do anything about it.  Bloomberg has written about how money is pouring into Trump’s DC hotel which is housed in the Old Post Office building, both from foreign governments and GOP World, which has established the hotel as its new headquarters.  Oh, BTW, Trump is also violating federal rules prohibiting leasing to an elected official, but that’s another story the press is ignoring.

Before the inauguration, Trump said that he was putting all of his interests in a trust, which he didn’t, and wouldn’t be involved, which he is.  The pamphlet generally outlines how his spider web of hotels, resorts, and golf clubs will attempt to track payments, but basically says that it’s just too difficult, “impractical” I believe it says, to track all the payments.

So there.  Emoluments Clause?  We don’t need no Emoluments Clause – it’s just too hard to keep up with the graft, so we’ll just not try.  Just another day in Trumpland.