The European Union seems to have read the book Trump didn’t actually write. They’re basically willing to walk away from the negotiating table for anyone not taking part in the Paris agreement. With all his talk about the bad deal the US was getting, and by pulling out, Trump would have the whole world eating out of the palm of our hands, I have to wonder what such a bold declaration by the EU would make Trump do behind closed doors? I’m sure he’s going to come out and say this was either part of the plan or that this is just a non-problem and even a good thing, because who wanted to trade with literally everyone anyway? I mean, he’s alienating us from China, Mexico, and Canada one by one, and now all of Europe is getting ready to say no thanks. At what point are we going to stop pretending that he’s the best deal maker around?
Trump has allocated $24 million to Boeing to upgrade the refrigerators on Air Force One. Yes. $24 million to update refrigerators. Because when it comes to Air Force One, an upgrade like that can’t be standard. It’s ridiculous, and flies in the face of all the complaining Trump liked to do when he would slam Obama for wasteful spending. Trump claimed back on the campaign trail that he wouldn’t even use Air Force One if elected because of the out of control spending that thing takes up. I guess one changes their mind when the shoe is on the other foot.
So Trump had his doctors appointment, and low and behold, he’s in “excellent health.” It’s one of those situations where I don’t even know what the point was. I don’t think there was ever going to be a way that there was going to be an official negative health report to come out about Donald Trump. It’s not going to change anyone’s mind, between those who think he’s forcing some poor staff doctor to bend the truth, and for his supporters who will use the information to validate their opinions. It’s just another show to be watched. Another annoying performance.
It’s tough to think of what to say at a certain point, when your expectations get just so low. Beyond the utterly racist sentiments of calling several African countries and Haiti “Shitholes”, I kind of love how Donald Trump thinks the standard of excellence in terms of immigration that we should be aspiring to is Norway. As if we’ve been just turning away all the “upper-class” Norway immigrants who have been itching to come here.
Kellyanne Conway told Chris Cuomo on CNN that nobody talks about Hillary Clinton in the White House. “We don’t care about her. Nobody here talks about her.” That seems to be empirically untrue, as literally right after she gave the interview, good ol’ King Don sent out a tweet about her. It seems like SOMEONE pretty significant in the White House cares about her and talks about her.
So it’s being reported that Rex Tillerson and James Mattis are basically holding Trump back from making an attack on North Korea. I guess he’s just itching to go for what they are internally calling a “bloody nose” approach, which must be music to the ears of America’s favorite bully. All of this would be way more funny if millions of lives didn’t hang in the balance.
So Steve Bannon is walking back his statements made in the new Trump book, and apologizing hoping to save face with his ex-boss. I wonder what it took for Bannon to abandon his “take no prisoners, never apologize or surrender” attitude?
So Trump is throwing around the word genius a bunch. Like just a whole heck of a lot. Unabashedly, he just knows that he’s on the tippity top of the intelligence mountain, and he wants everyone to know. Because that is what geniuses do. They tell every single person they can about it.
Donald Trump is taking credit for the fact that there were no deaths as a result of plane accidents. That is a level of desperation for credit that is just crazy. He talks constantly about all his wins as POTUS, and he’s scraping the bottom of the barrel to find some claim that makes it seem like he’s accomplished something.
President Obama was named the most admired man by Gallup for the year 2017. Trump is in rare company to be an incumbent President to not get that distinction. I can only imagine how that must rub the Donald the wrong way.
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