Okay, Donald Trump taped an interview with Sirius/XM Radio.

Apparently, some damn fool told Trump he was a lot like Andrew Jackson.  Only in the hair department, I suspect.

Andrew Jackson was the founder of the Democratic Party.  He was a lawyer, a member of Congress and the Senate, served as Justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court, and was pretty much a career politician.

His nickname Old Hickory came while marching his volunteer army from New Orleans to Nashville.  Imagine Trump doing that.  No, don’t.  Trump sweating is painful to look at.

Anyway, before I get all carried away with pride and demonstrate convincingly that I am a high school graduate who took American history, here is Trump’s interview.

PRESIDENT TRUMP: His wife died. They destroyed his wife and she died. He was a swashbuckler, but when his wife died you know he visited her grave everyday? I visited her grave actually because I was in Tennessee.

SALENA ZITO: That’s right, you were in Tennessee.

TRUMP: And it was amazing. The people of Tennessee are amazing people. They love Andrew Jackson. They love Andrew Jackson in Tennessee…

ZITO: He’s a fascinating…

TRUMP: I mean had Andrew Jackson been a little later you wouldn’t have had the Civil War. He was a very tough person, but he had a big heart. He was really angry that he saw what was happening with regard to the Civil War, he said “There’s no reason for this.” People don’t realize, you know, the Civil War, if you think about it, why? People don’t ask that question, but why was there the Civil War? Why could that one not have been worked out?

Yeah, why didn’t Abraham Lincoln “work it out?”  I mean, a little slavery is alright, is’t it?

Jackson owned 150 slaves. He died 16 years before the civil war so how the damn fool tarnation could he have been angry and said, “There’s no reason for this?”  Are the ghosts talking to Trump in the White House?

Oh good Lord, y’all, he’s crazy. He knows diddle squat about this country and he’s not even curious.

Little known fact: Andrew Jackson also hated CNN.

John Dickerson of Face the Nation interviewed Trump as part of CBS’s 100 Days of Hell coverage.  Dickerson got all the way to the wiretapping claim and pressed him to give an answer.  After jousting for a minute, Trump dismissed Dickerson and ended the interview.  Here’s the transcript of the exchange.

JOHN DICKERSON: Did President Obama give you any advice that was helpful? That you think, wow, he really was–

DONALD TRUMP:  — Well, he was very nice to me. But after that, we’ve had some difficulties. So it doesn’t matter. You know, words are less important to me than deeds. And you– you saw what happened with surveillance. And everybody saw what happened with surveillance–

JOHN DICKERSON: Difficulties how? Read the rest of this entry →

There’s a newspaper in England called the Daily Mail Online.  They like to report American goings-on because we’re so damn entertaining.

Today they did a story about how Louisiana is the most corrupt state in America.  They have charts, graphs, and big ole pictures.

So the cutline under this graph says, “The states with the most public corruption convictions per 100,000 population.”  So, what you have here is not the most corrupt states, but a list of the states actually doing something about corruption.

Texas heads up the bottom quarter on that list only because we don’t indict or convict our crooks. And if we do, they just keep putting off their trial until everybody dies or the law changes.  Texas Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton has been under felony indictment since July of 2015 and from all appearances, he’ll be going to trial after Jesus comes again.

And if we don’t ever get around to indicting them, it’s just easier to send them to Washington, DeeCee to be a congressman or Secretary of Energy or something.

Just when you thought it would not be possible to lower your opinion of Donald Trump …

From the Buenos Aires Herald we learn that the Argentine President is visiting the White House.

The Mauricio Macri administration reverted a decision to award former US president Jimmy Carter the Order of the Liberator General San Martín — the maximum distinction that the country can give to a foreign personality — under the pressure from US President Donald Trump’s administration, CNN Español reported this week.

The official tribute, which had already been approved by the foreign ministry and was published in the Official Gazette, was cancelled after receiving a specific request by the US government, which suggested it would be better to delay it. Carter was to be given the award for his work in promoting human rights during Argentina’s last military dictatorship.

That’s okay.  Jimmy was probably hammering nails or laying tile that day.

Thanks to Jim for the heads up.

Fox News is frighteningly excited about Donald Trump proclaiming May 1st as Loyalty Day like it was the best damn idea ever.

What a damn burden that Trump has to come up with all the good ideas!  Why didn’t any other President think of this before now?

Uh.  Yeah.

Loyalty Day has been recognized with an official proclamation every year by every president since its inception as a legal holiday in 1958.

By tomorrow morning Trump will add “Got Loyalty Day” to his list of accomplishment, announce it was the biggest Loyalty Day ever, and describe the cake he was eating when he thought of it.

Remember when President Obama fired Mike Flynn from the DIA in 2014?  Well.  In an attempt to cover for his own incompetence, Trump is now blaming Obama for Flynn, even though Obama fired him and Trump rehired him despite knowing he was taking money from foreign governments.  In leaked emails from Colin Powell, he described Flynn as a “right wing nutty” and “abusive with staff, didn’t listen, worked against policy…”

Flynn was so bad that apparently he was perfect for Trump, but his history as a foreign agent finally was too serious for even him to ignore.  In Trumpworld, where Cheeto Jesus makes no mistakes, Flynn is now all Obama’s fault.