The Trumpster's Very Bad Day
Trump’s comments yesterday about ‘shithole countries’ has ignited a firestorm, rightly so. Despite the man’s protests to the contrary—I’m the least racist person in the world—his words and past behavior on all things race-related is evidence of who the man is.
Obama’s birth certificate. Mexican immigrants are all rapists, criminals. Judge Curiel. Khizr and Ghazala Khan, Gold Star family. To mention a few.
We see you, Mr. Trump.
So, forgive us for scoffing at your lame excuse about your cancelled trip to the UK, blaming President Obama once again. Or rejecting your obvious lie about the vile words that actually spilled from your mouth. There were witnesses in the room, sir. No number of sycophants claiming the remarks were not racist or merely economics will ever wash this stain away.
Nor should the interview you gave to the Wall Street Journal be overlooked or minimized. In a jumbled ramble you beat your own drum—the best president ever; excoriated the FBI for doing the investigative work it is mandated to do; accused FBI agent Peter Strzok (relieved of his position on Mueller’s team) of treason; proved beyond a doubt that you have no understanding or respect for the Rule of Law, let alone capable of putting a cogent thought together:
"There was no obstruction. Of course there was no obstruction. But there was no crime. So now they're saying, could there be -- now, I haven't even heard that they're looking at obstruct -- I don't know that they're looking at obstruction. But how can you -- I'm sorry, this is the most open dialogue ever, I've given everything, number one. That's not obstruction.”
We see you, Mr. Trump.
The press/media sees you though for too long they were blinded by the glare, patiently waiting, predicting the ‘pivot’ that never came, never could come because Hillary Clinton was right: what you see is what you get. Nevertheless, the morning cable shows and newspaper headlines have taken up yesterday’s racist comments like a banner, some angry, some emotional. With the exception of Fox News, all disgusted. The countries you slandered are demanding official apologies/explanations and former Mexican President Vicente Fox tweeted out a suitable metaphor for the raucous occasion.
The Wall Street Journal has curiously defended you in the past. But this recent interview has been neither edited nor smoothed over. Your words in all their jumbled glory are on the page—the incoherent thoughts, half-baked ideas and incessant self-aggrandizement.
We see you, Mr. Trump. The whole damn world sees you.
Wall Street Journal summary below. Though I read the interview in its entirety last night, it’s now behind a paywall. Frankly, if I were Trump, I would want this Q&A hidden in an undersea vault. In any case, CNN has picked up the main topics/excerpts here:
http://www.cnn.com/2018/01/12/politics/trump-wsj-interview/index.html
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they're downright scary. The man is definitely around the bend, as they say. And sorry, I have little faith in the WH staff being able to control him. Or his behavior.
We are on a collision course and Captain Queeg has left the upper deck.
