President Zen Master Totally Losing His Shit Right Now, So That's New And Different
No, but he's MORE CRAZIER, say 'sources.'
With all the terrible news this week and last, you might be wondering how Donald Trump is really feeling in his heart. Or maybe you are like most patriotic Americans and don't give two fucks and just hope that asshole is having a bad day. (SPOILER: He is.)
Last week, Trump's campaign chair was convicted of eight felonies and his personal lawyer/thug/fixer confessed to eight more, implicating the president in two of them. At the end of the week, the Trump Organization CFO was granted immunity from prosecutors, as was former Trump buddy David Pecker, whose National Enquirer has been burying Trump's bodies forfucking ever . Then John McCain died, which led pretty much the entire non-deplorable population of the country to at least pause to recognize the passing of an icon in American politics, which is just unfair to Trump because a cursory examination of McCain's life story reads like a rebuke of the very existence of President Bone Spurs.
What's a loser president to do to get his groove back?
Shame his attorney general into resigning? Hahaha, no dice, buddy.
Pretend to murder NAFTA but really it's just a photo op of the president dancing on his own dick? Well that's one way to handle it.
Make everybody see what a big strong guy he is, by refusing to honor John McCain in his passing? America's response to that was basically to point at Trump and say "LOL what a fucking pussy." (As of this writing, the flag is back at half staff at the White House. Maybe at some point they'll put up a livestream so we can watch them move it up and down as Trump's mood gets progressively Sundown-y this evening.)
Even Trump's daily Twitter affirmations of his own greatness are sounding sadder:
Your hopes are in vain, Captain Mouth Shits. Also you read that poll wrong, just like you colored the American flag wrong, because you're that much of a dumbfuck.
Gabe Sherman has one of his fun little thingies in Vanity Fair, about how apeshit Trump is right now. The short version is that it's waaaaaaay worse than usual, and people inside the White House are a-skeered.
"Trump is nuts," said one former West Wing official. "This time really feels different." Deputy Chief of Staff Bill Shine has privately expressed concern, a source said, telling a friend that Trump's emotional state is "very tender." Even Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump are unsettled that Trump is so gleefully acting on his most self-destructive impulses as his legal peril grows.
Everyone be nice for a minute, as the president is feeling VERY TENDER right now! Or, you know, call him mean names on Twitter if you want, to hurt his feelings more, if you're into that sort of thing, and we are.
White House people reportedly tried to distract the baby by inviting all his best buddies from New York for a playdate, but Trump stomped his feet and said no, because he was pretty sure they were only going to invite his friends over to try to be the boss of him, and nobody is the boss of him.
"People" say Trump taking away John Brennan's security clearance and shitting on John McCain are just Trump lashing out like the thin-skinned and weak little Trump he is. Also, he was very "bummed" and "down and out" last week, according to "people." If his fingers were long enough, he would have been sitting on his bed with a guitar playing Morrissey songs, but LOL, President Stubby Paws can't do that, allegedly.
But then this weekend he was MAD, if you couldn't tell that by looking at his Twitter feed:
"He spent the weekend calling people and screaming," one former White House official said.
GRRR! ARGH!
It's not that Trump and his lawyers don't have a coherent strategy to deal with all his problems, like for instance that thing about how Trump is literally an unindicted co-conspirator now:
Trump attorneys suggested that a strategy for dealing with the issue could be for Trump to admit to having affairs with women and paying hush money to them for years. That way, he could assert that the payments to Daniels and McDougal were normal business—not campaign donations meant to influence the 2016 election. Trump, according to the sources, rejected this advice. "It was because of Melania," one source said.
Hell yeah, Rudy Giuliani is still in the house! First of all, you can't just say the president has been paying every porn star $130,000 to fuck him for decades -- you'd have to show the receipts. And then you'd be literally admitting that the president can't get any strange on the side without paying $130,000. But sure, Rudy, go with the "unfuckable" defense!
Also, though, we highly doubt Michael Avenatti is that dumb. He has said he has evidence of more payoffs, and Steve Bannon told Michael Wolff that former Trump lawyer Marc Kasowitz dealt with literal BINDERS full of women, all during the campaign.
So we're going to rate that "strategy" as #FullOfShit. Also, we're pretty sure Melania knows all.
Finally, Trump is very sad because Don McGahn, who reportedly has been cooperating VERY NICELY with special counsel Robert Mueller, won't draw him up a pardon for Paul Manafort:
Trump has told people he's considering bringing in a new lawyer to draft a Manafort pardon, if McGahn won't do it. "He really at this point does not care," a former official said. "He would rather fight the battle. He doesn't want to do anything that would cede executive authority."
More like he's an idiot who'll do anything at this point, no matter how stupid, to protect his own ass, even if he ultimately takes down his own ass in the process.
Good plan, fuckjob.
Have a HAPPY OPEN THREAD, everyone, because Donald Trump, as usual, is a sad sack of shit.
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I've disliked the GOP intensely for at least the past 15 years, and probably longer than that, but the way they are acting now is just insane. It's like a bunch of angry mental asylum escapees took over the governance of the US.
I had to laugh when that anonymous memo came out today where someone said they worked for Trump, but they were part of the Resistance. I couldn't help but think it was General Kelly. He may be a racist, old shitbag, but he's not a treasonous old racist shitbag.
The other thing about the GOP is that they're making me think about them every goddamned day, if not every hour. I didn't like Bush or Cheney, but I wasn't terrified of them. I am TERRIFIED of Trump and Pence, and I'm sickened that Republicans like Miss Lindsey are just letting them indulge all of their worst impulses. It's shameful at the least, and maybe even treasonous.
I can't wait for all of these assholes to get voted out of office, and/or, just drop dead.
Thanks, again. I just call it a rant because it's long and angry, because Republicans irritate me.
The debt/deficit is entirely a Republican thing. They undertax the rich and overspend on the military and corporate welfare every time they control an electoral cycle, running huge deficits as a result. Then, when they're the minority again, they start screaming about how Democrats spend too much money, would you look at the debt forchristssake?11?!!11 They've also found it useful to blur the distinction between deficit and debt and use the terms interchangeably.
They control spending cuts by deliberately starving public/social programs of revenue until they cease to function properly when they're in power, then demand that those be the things that get cut from budgets to reduce the debt when the Democrats are in power, using those programs' poor function as the reason.
Of course, the Democrats do deserve some blame for all this, because they keep putting up with it, and letting the GOP off scot free despite its constant chicanery and shenanigans. Hopefully, Democratic politicians will wake up with the coming cycles and realize that if they continue to show the GOP that it can act with impunity, it will continue to do so. Trump is a yuuuge hook, and if the Democrats let the GOP off that one, we're looking at single-party fascist rule sooner than later. The GOP has already shown that there is absolutely no limit to what it'll do for power.