Probably seeing that the end is near, Trump is stepping up his efforts to destroy the US government and its stature around the world.  Just this week he’s nonsensically declared he has absolute power to pardon himself, sent his attack dog, Rudy Giuliani to raise the volume on Stormy Daniels and other women suing Trump, has continued tearing immigrant families apart at the border, refused to enforce provisions in the Affordable Care Act, allowed his EPA director to wreak havoc, allowed his education secretary to exclude guns from the nationwide study of school violence, and poked all of our allies in the eye.  The G6 just announced they are moving on without the US.

Pictures are worth a thousand words, and this picture of this week’s Time and The Economist magazine covers pretty much sums up the chaos that is the Trump regime.

To deflect attention from the fact that virtually no one from the Philadelphia Eagles wanted to visit the WH to celebrate their Super Bowl victory with the worst president in US history, Trump abruptly cancelled the event yesterday, lying on twitter it was because players refused to stand for the anthem.  Lying again by saying that “1,000 Eagles fans” had come to town, Trump slapped together a “patriotic” celebration on the WH south steps with the Marine Band and Army Chorus.  Since there were actually few Eagles fans there, apparently the WH had to hustle up a bunch of staffers to fill out the the crowd on the south lawn.

But the funny part?  Mr. Super Duper Patriot not only doesn’t know the words to the national anthem, he REALLY doesn’t know words to God Bless America.  Have a look, courtesy of The Daily Show:

One of the reasons Trump is so hated by normal people is his fleeting relationship with truth.  In a town where lying is almost more common than breathing, this guy spews falsehood at an even more breathtaking pace than any politician in history.  This week, the Washington Post updated its lie tracker which now sums to 3,251 lies since taking office.

As one of our patrons pointed out yesterday, Philip Roth’s description of Trump says it best:

“I found much that was alarming about being a citizen during the tenures of Richard Nixon and George W. Bush. But, whatever I may have seen as their limitations of character or intellect, neither was anything like as humanly impoverished as Trump is: ignorant of government, of history, of science, of philosophy, of art, incapable of expressing or recognizing subtlety or nuance, destitute of all decency, and wielding a vocabulary of seventy-seven words that is better called Jerkish than English.”

Amen.  Pass the earplugs.

In a gigantic breach of protocol, Trump stupidly hinted at jobs numbers over an hour before the official release this morning.  Early markets were roiled by the tweet.  Trump violated his primary responsibility to the American people which is to protect them and the economy.  To self aggrandize, he simply couldn’t resist front running a positive jobs report.  Here is a chart of pre-open dollar moves by month.  The one on the right is today’s:

.2% doesn’t sound like much, but it is billions of dollars in value changing hands.  Trump is so narcissistically disabled that he has no understanding of the effect of his words.  Everything is about him, his grievance, his gnawing need to be praised and the victor that he simple blurts out whatever he believes makes him looks good.

The markets listen very closely to every single syllable uttered by the president and his representatives.  His words carry awesome authority.  Our system of government is not only one of laws, but over 230 years of protocol and tradition.  It’s not set up to endure a feckless moron.  His unpredictable behavior is causing enormous damage in 2 ways: he’s normalizing outrageous behavior which desensitizes the market to actual risks, and his erratic tweeting is shifting billions of dollars of actual value within the market that has introduced unsystematic risk.  The markets hate not understanding risks.

This tweet this morning is one of the most outrageous breaches of confidentiality we’ve yet to see.  And that’s saying a a lot.

To any objective observer, Dinesh D’Souza is a lying shitbag.  He’s famous for his lie-filled films like “Obama’s America” and “Hillary’s America” where he turns logic on its head peddling wild stories about everyone with whom he politically disagrees.  Debunking his bullshit is virtually a full time job for Media Matters. He spins wild conspiracy theories; for example, his book, The Enemy at Home: The Cultural Left and Its Responsibility for 9/11 blamed Democrats for the 9/11 attacks.  One of his most famous volumes was The Roots of Obama’s Rage where he fabricated the argument that Obama “was carrying out the anticolonial agenda of his Kenyan father”, whatever the hell that means.  Newt Gingrich often quotes D’Souza especially when repeating his birther lies.  On top of that, D’Souza was fired from a Christian college for making unwanted advances on a woman (not his wife).  And to add felony to lies, D’Souza was convicted of violating federal campaign finance laws by using straw donors to make illegal contributions to Wendy Long, famous in New York for losing to both Kirsten Gillibrand and Chuck Schumer.  He got a light sentence of a $30,000 fine and 5 years probation.  He’s pretty much among the worst of the worst lie and conspiracy theory spinners, spewing toxic lies by turning history on its head with his down is up, left is right, and the sun rises in the west logic.

So, like criminal Joe Arpaio, he was the perfect candidate for a Trump pardon.  The goofy part of the story? Unfortunately, you have to stoop to reading the Daily Caller to get the goofiness.  The pardon request was made by none other than Trump enemy, Ted Cruz.  That’s right, the National Embarrassment of Texas successfully drove the campaign to get another famous liar off scott free.

Not only is the hole getting deeper, it’s getting weirder.

UPDATE:

I was reminded by a friend of this tweet from 2013 captured by Jonathan Capehart of the Washington Post.  This tweet is by the person just pardoned by Trump:

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