by Pa Rock
Citizen Journalist
Just four days into the New Year and Donald Trump is busier than ever with his "presidential" pursuits of bragging and bullying his way through life in the Oval Office. Trump began the week by engaging in a Twitter spat with fellow egomaniac, Kim Jong Un, of North Korea. When the portly Mr. Un bragged that he now has a nuclear button on his desk, the perpetually adolescent (and also portly) Trump fired back that he, too, had a nuclear button on his desk, and his, of course, was bigger and more powerful than Kim Jong Un's. Size apparently does matter when you are functioning at the emotional and mental level of a fourteen-year-old.
While any bout of name-calling between a pair of nuclear-armed tyrants is unsettling to the point of being downright frightening, Trump did step back onto safer ground a couple of days later when he changed targets. Yesterday excerpts from a new book on the inner-workings of the Trump administration were released, and in one of those snippets former Trump Chief Advisor Steve Bannon was quoted as calling meetings between Donald Trump, Jr, and a Russian lawyer at Trump Tower "treasonous" and "unpatriotic."
And Daddy Trump was pissed.
Trump and his dark shadow, Sarah Huckabee Sanders. basically ignored the author, Michael Wolff, and his book, Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, and instead turned their wrath on Bannon. Trump issued an official statement (which carries more gravitas than a mere angry tweet) declaring that when Bannon was "fired" from the White House last August he not only lost his job, but "lost his mind" as well.
(Move along folks, nothing to see here. Just a pair of rattlesnakes fornicating.)
Then, as verification of his growing political impotence, Donald Trump back-tracked and disbanded his once ballyhooed Election Fraud Commission. The "independent" group was appointed by Trump last year with the stated purpose of investigating voter fraud in America and perhaps explaining why someone as universally loved as Donald John Trump could have lost the popular vote last November by three million ballots. Trump had long claimed, with absolutely no proof, that large numbers of immigrants had voted illegally - for Hillary Clinton. Many felt that the ultimate aim of the new commission was to muddy the water from the last election and try to disenfranchise as many poor people and people of color as possible.
Trump said that he was pulling the plug on his commission because some states had refused to reply with the group's initial request for massive amounts of voter data. He tried to make it sound as though "Democratic" states had led the assault on his attempts to gather data, but the efforts to block Trump administration overreach actually crossed party lines. The Mississippi Secretary of State, a Republican, had stated emphatically that anyone who tried to access his state's voter information could "take a flying leap in the Gulf of Mexico." Missouri's weak-kneed Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft, on the other hand, rushed with great urgency to give the federal commission everything it demanded - and the privacy of voters be damned!
The Election Fraud Commission was headed by a couple of Republican frauds, Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach and Vice President Mike Pence. Good riddance to a commission on voter fraud that was itself a fraud.
Word also circulated through some news outlets this week that Donald Trump likes to eat fast food because he has a fear of being poisoned. Keep pushing those Big Mac's and greasy fries down your gullet, Donald John - for your safety - and our own!
And, for the record, Pa Rock pre-ordered his own copy of Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House earlier this afternoon.
Citizen Journalist
Just four days into the New Year and Donald Trump is busier than ever with his "presidential" pursuits of bragging and bullying his way through life in the Oval Office. Trump began the week by engaging in a Twitter spat with fellow egomaniac, Kim Jong Un, of North Korea. When the portly Mr. Un bragged that he now has a nuclear button on his desk, the perpetually adolescent (and also portly) Trump fired back that he, too, had a nuclear button on his desk, and his, of course, was bigger and more powerful than Kim Jong Un's. Size apparently does matter when you are functioning at the emotional and mental level of a fourteen-year-old.
While any bout of name-calling between a pair of nuclear-armed tyrants is unsettling to the point of being downright frightening, Trump did step back onto safer ground a couple of days later when he changed targets. Yesterday excerpts from a new book on the inner-workings of the Trump administration were released, and in one of those snippets former Trump Chief Advisor Steve Bannon was quoted as calling meetings between Donald Trump, Jr, and a Russian lawyer at Trump Tower "treasonous" and "unpatriotic."
And Daddy Trump was pissed.
Trump and his dark shadow, Sarah Huckabee Sanders. basically ignored the author, Michael Wolff, and his book, Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, and instead turned their wrath on Bannon. Trump issued an official statement (which carries more gravitas than a mere angry tweet) declaring that when Bannon was "fired" from the White House last August he not only lost his job, but "lost his mind" as well.
(Move along folks, nothing to see here. Just a pair of rattlesnakes fornicating.)
Then, as verification of his growing political impotence, Donald Trump back-tracked and disbanded his once ballyhooed Election Fraud Commission. The "independent" group was appointed by Trump last year with the stated purpose of investigating voter fraud in America and perhaps explaining why someone as universally loved as Donald John Trump could have lost the popular vote last November by three million ballots. Trump had long claimed, with absolutely no proof, that large numbers of immigrants had voted illegally - for Hillary Clinton. Many felt that the ultimate aim of the new commission was to muddy the water from the last election and try to disenfranchise as many poor people and people of color as possible.
Trump said that he was pulling the plug on his commission because some states had refused to reply with the group's initial request for massive amounts of voter data. He tried to make it sound as though "Democratic" states had led the assault on his attempts to gather data, but the efforts to block Trump administration overreach actually crossed party lines. The Mississippi Secretary of State, a Republican, had stated emphatically that anyone who tried to access his state's voter information could "take a flying leap in the Gulf of Mexico." Missouri's weak-kneed Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft, on the other hand, rushed with great urgency to give the federal commission everything it demanded - and the privacy of voters be damned!
The Election Fraud Commission was headed by a couple of Republican frauds, Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach and Vice President Mike Pence. Good riddance to a commission on voter fraud that was itself a fraud.
Word also circulated through some news outlets this week that Donald Trump likes to eat fast food because he has a fear of being poisoned. Keep pushing those Big Mac's and greasy fries down your gullet, Donald John - for your safety - and our own!
And, for the record, Pa Rock pre-ordered his own copy of Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House earlier this afternoon.
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