Seriously?
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.
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.
Harry Truman said “The buck stops here.”
Donald Trump says “The buck stops over there with anybody else but me.”
1This has me so angry, I’m almost vibrating! Texas has the right of it. FWIW, Truman felt every soldiers death, he often wrote their families personally and even met with them. That was during WWII when he was rather busy. Truman was a foot soldier in WWI he knew the reality of combat unlike the posturing peacock in the Oval Office and while he didn’t get to everyone he signed his own mail.
2Trump responds to McCain: ‘People have to be careful because at some point I fight back’
3Ooooo! Threats! From the Draft Dodger In Chief. I are so scared!
4TTPT? “The buck doesn’t stop here. I’m being audited,”
*wink*
5Trump might think there’s plenty wrong with America. Meanwhile, many of us think there’s ONE GREAT BIG THING wrong with America (and it’s in the White House).
6It cannot be worse than I thought. But it is starting to approach what I thought. Not there yet, but moving in that direction.
7Death toll from the California wild fires is up to 41, with nearly 100 still missing and tens of thousands displaced who have lost everything they owned except what they could grab and carry.
Reaction from POTUS? Null.
But I guess the toddler in chief doesn’t need California, since we mostly hate him back. Never mind that we’re 10% of his population and 30% of his economy.
8“But McCain was captured and I had heel spurs.”
9And then there was SecDef Rumdum, one snacilbupeR pres ago, who robo signed identical form letters to families of KIA.
10snacilbupeR scum.