Been a long time, Donald, but I’d like to hit some, um, “highlights” from your Twitter stream over the past week. Because some of it was highly entertaining.
I’m going to ignore most (but not all) of the various Iran and Pakistan and North Korea and Palestine tweets, because your throwing gasoline onto campfires in diplomatic matters is pretty well known already. I’ll just pick a few others to look at.
It may seem a foreign concept, Donald, but have you ever heard that old saying about flies, honey, and vinegar? Are you really accusing the Justice Dept. of being some sort of “Deep State” conspirator (apparently so) and then expecting them to do stuff for you?
It kinda sounds that way.
As to the Abadin matter, the reality of what was released doesn’t seem to align with your description, nor with anything to do with “sailors pictures on submarines”.
Yeah, Donald, pretty much everyone had a laugh over this fraudulent erroneous tweet. Commercial jet deaths have been in decline for twenty years. There were no commercial passenger deaths world-wide in 2017, not just in the one country where you have some indirect control, for one thing. And the last US commercial passenger jet death in the US was back in 2009.
And the White House explained what you meant by “very strict”: an announcement that the Air Traffic Control system would be modernized and semi-privatized (no work on which has happened yet), and the various travel bans announced through DHS (which don’t seem at all related to “Zero deaths in 2017”).
So no idea what you’re going on about, Donald.
On the other hand, your FAA head has just left, and you have no replacement nominated. Tell me how that helps your safety record going forward, Donald. [6]
Whining that you’re not being treated fairly is what 9-year-olds do, Donald. I mean, really.
Oh, by the way, Donald, the NYT is still not failing. Just saying.
So what “RESULTS” are you and the GOP showing for DACA, aside from saying, “No deal unless I get my wall“? Nothing much I can see.
Oh, Donald.
First off “We have taken Jerusalem, the toughest part of the negotiation, off the table” isn’t negotiation, it’s bullying. I mean, really, Donald.
Also, so what have the Israeli (to whom we contribute BILLIONS OF DOLLARS a year in just military aid) actually done about talking peace?
What are you, Donald, ten years old?
Or just compensating for something else by touting your “bigger & more powerful” “button”?
Yeesh.
So Donald “I never quit” Trump is admitting that opposition from states to turn over personally identifiable private information on their voters, sometimes in violation of their own laws, to be dumped into an unsecured database through an insecure process, is enough to make you quit?
Of course. Because it was all just for show, Donald. You just want to be able to continue to claim that you lose the popular vote in 2016 because of “voter fraud.”
Oh, the whole “mostly Democratic States” thing? Really not all that true, Donald. Nor is your assertion that “many people are voting illegally.” [13]
So let’s try this, Donald. Push for an initiative for a national identification card, with the primary purpose to make sure that everyone can get one, that it won’t be subject to additional fees and weird document needs and limited hours and oh, yeah, we just closed the place that does that in your neighborhood shenanigans that the GOP has pulled on state voter ID.
Do that, and I might be inclined to think you’re actually serious about this, Donald.
Are you still going on about that, Donald?
At any rate, the ideas that (a) the national anthem is played as a tribute to soldiers, or (b) that soldiers consider NFL players taking a knee in protest of police violence against minorities as an insult to them, and that therefore (c) glurgy Facebook memes of a veteran’s widow at a military cemetery is somehow a germane argument is …
… well, it’s another case of not knowing whether you are goofy enough to believe it, Donald, or simply want to stir up your hyper-nationalist base.
That’s accompanied by a (of course) Fox News chart about the Dow Jones Industrial Average breaking 25K.
Actually, a look at the DJIA for the last ten years shows a pretty steady climb from the depths of the Great Recession brought on by the last GOP Administraion. I mean, I know that you prefer to look at the last year alone, rather than the preceding decade (as that means that your Democratic predecessor gets some credit, the horror!), but it’s sort of sloppy statistics to take credit for everything when you’re standing on the record of those who come before.
Really? Because I’m pretty sure I saw it headlined everywhere, Donald.
That’s kind of a misleading statement, Donald.
We all love it when you come up with names for your ostensible enemies. It’s even funnier (or more pathetic) when you do it to people who you used to call allies and advisors and friends and supporters.
Vindictive, much?
Aside from the unfounded assertion that it was a “fraudulent” comment, vs. an erroneous one (something he clearly stated later in the day in issuing a correction), you’ve not only (once more) gone over his punishment for it, but called for greater punishment.
You are kind of a mean person, you know that, Donald?
So, first off, Donald, if “there’s no such thing as bad publicity,” then you scored big time with this triptych of tweets. I mean, amazing, zany stuff.
Not to be contradictory or anything, but just to clarify a few points.
- Russian collusion has not been proven a total hoax. I’m not sure where you get that from, Donald, but it’s clearly untrue.
- Ronald Reagan was, in fact, suffering from dementia during his time in the White House. It was covered up by White House staff and family at the time, but it was known to be the case and is a matter of record today. So … really, not the best defense.
- I don’t know that anyone has ever talked about your having a reputation for mental stability, but you have been known in the past as a very sharp, clever operator (which I guess we can take as a proxy for “smart”). However, as I’m sure you are aware (or once would have been), Donald, being “smart” and “stable” at age 20, or 30, or 40, or 50, or 60, is not at all an indicator of where you are at age 71.
- Hillary Clinton did not go down in flames. She garnered more popular votes than you, and your electoral victory was a modest one. That doesn’t mean you aren’t President, but, really, Donald, it’s unbecoming and a bit worrisome that you keep repeating the same (inaccurate) attacks over, and over, and over.
- Hyperbole is not your friend, Donald. You are not a sharpie real estate mogul any more. Claiming to be a “genius,” “and a very stable genius at that!” is not only really kind of goofy, but … well, it’s not really the sort of thing that is proven by asserting it, but by others observing it in your actions and words.
Actually, Donald, you’ve decried any criticism — even stuff using live quotes from you — as “fake news” from the first day you announced. This followed a long pattern of threatening to sue media outlets that posted material that you didn’t like.
The real problem, Donald, is that it’s unclear whether this is merely a rhetorical tactic (the quasi-grown-up equivalent of a grade-schooler answering ever accusation or criticism with a loud “Nuh-UH!”), or whether you’ve actually slipped a cog and simply believe that by denying it you can you make it all untrue.
I think, perhaps, it’s best to let the public make that judgment by watching the video of the interview (where Tapper basically had to cut off Miller who simply wanted to tout Trump as a triumphant genius without answering any questions) [2]
I have to ask our studio audience, is anyone else disturbed by the President of the United States not merely letting truth prevail (as Jefferson put it) when he feels falsely accused, but personally supporting creating a Media Event to mock journalists and news organizations he claims are “corrupt and biased”?
Because I’m disturbed by it.
Harry Truman suggested that those who can’t stand the heat should get out of the kitchen. Perhaps you consider that advice, Donald.
That is to say that people who have the money to invest in the stock market are making (if they cash out before it dips back down again) oodles of money. How much of that money is actually benefiting the folk who aren’t gambling on the market?
And let’s also be real — that creation of “value” is illusory. It’s creation of electronic records of wealth — nothing tangible is actually produced when the market goes up (or is lost when it goes down). And because of the nature of the market, the value only “exists” while a minimum number of people actually try to draw on it. If everyone went and sold off all their stock value increases over the past year, the market itself would crash and “lose” tremendous value.
Also the whole job thing? Kind of weird that you’d take credit there, given that job growth in 2017 was actually lower than job growth in 2016. Obama also managed to take the unemployment rate from 10% in the depths of the Great Recession down to 4.8% when he left office; the current 4.1% is nice, but not that huge of a change — certainly nothing in improvement approaching the continued stock market records.
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Welp, that’s about it. Man, these things take a long time to write up, which is why I’ve largely given up doing so regularly, but it’s good to see the zaniness, narcissism, fragile ego, and lies haven’t diminished any since I stopped doing so. Hang in there Donald — I’m sure the rest of 2018 will be a hoot ad a half as well.
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