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? (more…)

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.

Cheeto Jesus to Reuters: “I loved my previous life. I had so many things going.  This is more work than in my previous life. I thought it would be easier.”

Then you are a dumbass.

Sorry, Momma.

The the 9th circuit court overturned Trump’s harebrained decision to withdraw federal money for law enforcement from cities that he considers sanctuary cities.

The judge ruled that wasn’t constitutional because …

The Constitution vests the spending powers in Congress, not the President, so the Order cannot constitutionally place new conditions on federal funds. Further, the Tenth Amendment requires that conditions on federal funds be unambiguous and timely made; that they bear some relation to the funds at issue; and that the total financial incentive not be coercive.

I imagine the average fifth grader could understand that.

I want to stop right here and say one damn thing: Republicans do not, no matter what they repeatedly say, support the Constitution.  They try to make laws against it and now they want to hold constitutional conventions to re-write the whole damn thing.  (I suspect the role of Thomas Jefferson will be played by Donald Trump.)

Trump’s lawyers, who understood it perfectly well, tried to say that they agree with the judge completely because they, you know, went to law school.  So they argued that, “the January order was intended to be largely symbolic.” Oh dear, Judges aren’t real big on symbolic stuff and this judge called it an “ominous, misleading, and ultimately toothless threat.”

Holy damn cow. I, for one, am pleased as punch that we finally have a court ruling saying Presidents can’t go around threatening people with his tiny little hands.

Then Trump tells the judge, “See you in court!” which is also the favored weapon of tiny little hands.

The Sean Hannity goes on the electric teevee and says that the 9th circuit is the most overturned court in America, probably because it’s in San Francisco.  Hmmmmm, wildly incorrect, of course.  The most overturned is the 6th Circuit in Tennessee, Ohio, and Kentucky – Trump’s base.  A very close second is 11th Circuit, which is parts of Alabama, Georgia, and Florida.

The whole thing was a bustermuck.

Thanks to everybody for the heads up.

United States Attorney General Jeffrey Beauregard Sessions is standing by his man.  Jeffrey says that if Mexico doesn’t pay for the wall, the United States can start investigating Mexicans’ taxes.

Oh yeah, that sounds real constitutional.

Jeffrey is following his man by echoing Trump’s promise to get the money from Mexico “one way or another,” including kneecapping your grandmother for payment if she ever ate a tamale.

Bottom line: You have to have congressional approval to build the damn wall.  You’re not gonna get it. Every elected official along the Texas border – both Democratic and Republican – are opposed to it.

It’s dumb idea. It’s always been a dumb idea. And, thanks to Jeffrey, it’s getting dumber every day.