And I’m still thanking whatever god that listens, that Trump remains so miserably bad at everything he touches. It’s his only saving grace.
White nationalist protesters in Charlottesville “had a permit. The other group didn’t have a permit.”
— PolitiFact National
Think, for a second, how bad Trump is at lying. Easily one of the worst liars in recent memory. Whenever Trump starts a new cover story, there’s no question what happens next. It’s not like I’m on pins and needles. The instant those measured, rational words pass his lips, you start to see the pressure building in his head. He gets short, he starts to flush, he starts grumping around. If you look really closely, you see the steam starting to leak out his ears.
“This Russia thing with Trump and Russia is a made-up story. It’s an excuse by the Democrats for having lost an election that they should’ve won.”
— PolitiFact National
Trump isn’t big on delayed gratification. He might hold out a day or, rarely, two, but he usually doesn’t last more than a few hours. At the next open mike, interview or freakin’ pep rally, he explodes just the way you knew he would, blurting out the truth burning in his gut. He can’t hold it in any longer!
So, the traditional way, if you look at President Obama and other presidents, most of them didn’t make calls, a lot of them didn’t make calls.
— President Donald Trump, Oct 16, 2017
Doesn’t matter whether it’s racism, obstruction of justice, or just those annoying facts, Trump is pathologically incapable of keeping his mouth closed.
Thank god.
Trump swore he only heard about Junior’s Russian meeting a few days before he was asked. And he didn’t last more than a few hours before, on Air Force One, he declared he knew all about it. I assume because he felt more manly that way.
Trump tweets about brown-on-white violence before it’s hit the newspapers, but ask him about white supremacist violence, and nothing. He might, eventually respond with a half-hearted dog whistle, but usually not. He’s the ‘pro-police brutality’ guy, so long as they’re not white. Men. Faced with football players dropping a knee, Trump shrieks to thousands of his fans that the ‘son of a bitch’ should be fired. “Wouldn’t that be nice?” KKK and neo-Nazis assault and kill people in Charlottesville, Trump sees good people on both sides. Eventually. After a few day’s silence.
Of course he’s a racist. We all know that. Trump tells us about it all the time.
Is Trump on the take? Again, we all know he is. Sure, it’s in the papers, and there’s some great investigative journalism, but at the same time, it’s not like he tries to hide it. And even when he does, he sucks.
Does he hate the Constitution? Hard to say. Here’s a measure: who here thinks Trump’s read the Declaration of Independence? And that’s a page-turner by comparison with the Constitution. Trump is only an American by virtue of being born here. And somehow, he made it 70 years without learning a grade-schooler’s idea of what that means.
Trump lies 70 percent of the time, according to PolitiFact. That number covers ‘mostly false’, ‘completely false’, and ‘pants on fire’. Add in his ‘half-true’ claims and you’re up to 82% of everything Trump says. “Trump seems to lie for the pure joy of it.” Feel free to disagree if you want.
And yet we can barely recognize that he’s not a good man, and not a good President. Hell, he’s not even a good Republican. (Talk about a shamefully low bar to pass.) He’s openly psychotic.
And even so, we can’t seem to shift ourselves up out of our complacency to do anything to limit him. The President isn’t our emperor. Why are we acting like this moron is our boss?
