I feel like the term “witch hunt” has taken on a new sort of resonance since the special investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 elections began. President Donald Trump uses the word publicly several times a week to refer to Special Counsel Robert Mueller III’s investigation because he has decided that it’s a liberal conspiracy to bring him and his administration down (OR he he’s trying to hide his malfeasance and/or criminal behavior…that’s a possibility as well). But you see, the term “witch hunt” is supposed to imply that you’re searching for something that isn’t there or doesn’t exist, and as a result, innocent people get burned. But it’s important to note that if you’re on a witch hunt and you find ACTUAL witches, e.g. You find exactly the bad things you suspected you might find, then it CAN’T be a witch hunt. In the case of the Russia investigation, besides uncovering Russian spies and several conspirators working with Russia who had key roles in Trump’s campaign, it also uncovered specific examples of Russia explicitly attempting to collude with Donald Trump’s campaign. Whether Trump or his campaign did anything wrong remains up in the air, but Mr. Trump! Your witch hunt has turned up witches! You can’t run from that anymore!
He’s still pretending everything is cool with North Korea! Despite literally everything seemingly falling apart, North Korean officials all but saying so. Also, those remains that Trump kept harping on? Where are they? They’re certainly not here. North Korea has continued accelerating their nuclear program on a number of levels…it’s a fiasco guys It’s a FIASCO. And there Trump is, saying “No! No! It’s all cool guys! Seriously, look at this totally legit letter that Kim Jong Un sent me! That’s more legit than literally everything else!” I mean…is he just going crazy now or what? Because at a certain point, he can’t pretend everything is fine, can he?
Right out of the gate at the NATO summit, Trump was working hard to get on everyone’s bad side. If he’s made it his mission to alienate the US from it’s allies, then he is nailing it, and nailing with style. It’s like he’s not off Air Force One 10 minutes and he’s heckling Angela Merkel with accusations that should have made her laugh in his face. Trump essentially accused Germany of being in Russia’s pocket, being under their control, being maneuvered like a puppet and…How could he say any of that with a straight face? Besides bending over backwards to constantly defend Vladimir Putin, his open admiration has caused him to act worryingly sycophantic. Hell, just days ago, he said he was more excited to hang with Putin than those grumps at NATO. So for Trump to suggest that anyone is Putin’s puppet…well I feel like I throw the term “pot calling the kettle black” around a lot these days.
So for…reasons? I guess? So for reasons, the Trump administration has decided to take a hardline stance AGAINST breastfeeding, and on a GLOBAL scale. In fact, Trump reps went to the World Health Assembly, and flat out told the assembly, and many countries that despite decades of science backing up the benefits of breastfeeding, that the US was NOT okay with the Assembly promoting breastfeeding programs, and would retaliate against many countries who would seek to employ that goal within the World Health Assembly. There is a lot of speculation as to the why of all this. I mean, it’s pretty baffling. The popular rumor is that Trump is really trying to help the formula industry because…who knows. Whatever the reason, it’s a weird situation. Frankly, I suspect something more childish.
I’ve been watching with a bit of excitement the development of this Trump baby blimp that was successfully funded. It’s truly a wonder in the sky, and it’s getting ready for it’s world tour! But thankfully, it will be in England while Trump is there, and I can’t hope enough he sees it floating in the sky some day. Because as we all know, Donald Trump has brought back a certain prestige and respect to the United States. Where a mere two years ago the whole world was laughing at us behind our backs, No ONE is laughing now! Everyone thinks Trump is this super serious, formidable intellect that no one would dare make fun of!
So I was born just late enough to be on the cusp of ironically enjoying the idea of making something “Facebook official”. The term, if you’re not familiar, presumes that once something is cemented on Facebook, namely relationship statuses, that it is Officially official. Because as we all know, life is the most real when it’s lived through our social media. Now I point out all of this to say, I think Michael Cohen has OFFICIALLY washed his hands of Donald Trump. Not because of interviews and announcements regarding his Investigation cooperation, but because he dropped his title of “Personal Attorney to Donald J. Trump” from his Facebook profile. Making it Facebook official must have been quite the blow to the Social Media conscious POTUS. Then again, I’m sure in few days we’ll be hearing that Michael Cohen didn’t’ know anything, that he barely knew Trump, and that he never worked on anything significant for Trump.
Donald Trump recently put out a tweet defending his writing prowess. Not before everyone had a field day with his spelling error which caused him to remove and fix the mistake. I personally found the spelling error less funny than the content of the tweet. Trump suggested that he doesn’t Tweet anything without considering every word, every capital letter. While the media “pours” over his tweets, looking for mistakes, he claims they will find none, because he is a genius writer. As he reminds us all, he has written many books, and those books, by his estimation, are groundbreakers. All of them. Hmmm…even, if we accept at face value that his books are any good, the level of credit he can really get for writing them is…questionable AT BEST. We know, for a fact, that he had little to do with actually constructing art of the deal. Tony Schwartz, the “co-author” has gone on record about the process of how that book came into existence. Most of the story involves Donald Trump rambling incoherently, Schwartz trying to make sense out of what he could, then basically making up the rest as he went along. The idea that Donald Trump is some gifted writer is a bigger fib than his claims that his Access Hollywood tape was just “locker room talk.”
Despite Donald Trump’s constant self back pats about his unprecedented success in North Korea, there seems to be a growing cause for concern that MAYBE Kim Jong Un isn’t as committed to de-nuclearizing the peninsula as he first might have seemed. In fact, intelligence reports seem to indicate the exact opposite, with him expanding nuclear research sites and funding into fuel for nuclear weapons. Basically the EXACT opposite of what Trump “negotiated”. Now, pettier people might go for a fun little “I told you so!” number complete with laughter and finger pointing, but I do feel like it’s appropriate to point out that he’s not the first guy to get that promise out of a Kim on the exact same thing that never came to fruition. Though it might ache a little harder for Trump considering he couldn’t help talking up how unprecedented this whole thing was. I just wonder how long Trump will feel it’s appropriate to stay in denial about it before he finally decides he’s been had?
So while Trump continues to toot the horn of Kim Jong Un, insisting that he’s a good, true leader with integrity and loyalty, Kim Jong Un continues to show why he is very much none of those things. Recently a story broke that Kim ordered the execution of a Lieutenant General. Not for insurrection or corruption. Not for going off the rails as a military leader. No, this man’s crime was feeding his soldiers and their families. The Fiend! Seriously, in case anyone had forgotten, Kim Jong Un is a cruel dictator who keeps his people scared, hungry, and traumatized. The very last thing anyone, most especially the leader of the free world, should be doing, is trying to sell the merits of a monster.
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