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My guess: Tail between legs, ears up.

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Professionally! That's why this is such an apt analogy. Live and learn.

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Agreed! It almost seems to be part of the plan...

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Can the President have a conflict of DISinterest? Like he doesn't do the job at all because he's too busy playing with himself? There oughta be a law.

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Josh Marshall should double-dog-dare the Trumpeter to prove Josh's theory wrong. Trump being such a badass brawler and all.

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Our own homegrown Berlusconi.

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No, one who makes gaffes, right?

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There's not much to play with....

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but ratings!

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Is he still going to forego his presidential salary? Nice chunk of change there.

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Between moonlighting on Celebrity Apprentice and ignoring his daily intelligence briefings, I'm beginning to think that Donnie's heart really isn't in this whole presidentin' thing.

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He'll use his own trademarked signature saying, "I'm going to pump you up?!

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"Now, watch this outtake!"

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Well, W insisted on being in bed every night by 9:30. This isn't so much different.

Not that it's normal. It's just not that different.

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I wrote Rob Portman after he signed Tom Cotton's letter to Iran, and, about four months later, I got a letter from him saying we'll just have to agree to disagree.

Oh, and he grabbed my email address for his weekly newsletter, Rob's Rundown. After reading a few attempts to make the Senate's weekly activity sound momentous and important and exciting, that shit went in the spam folder.

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