The GOP has announced that after Oklahoma and Alabama, Trump's next campaign stop will be Antarctica.
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I have to admit, I like seeing and hearing tons of Trump voters saying they regret their votes - here on social media, on TV, and elsewhere - but I'm frustrated that more voters interviewed aren't more focused on his constant lying, corruption, lying, ill health, lying, incompetence, or lying.
I wish we could take every Republican Trump-voting adult and strap them to a chair like Malcolm McDowell in A Clockwork Orange and make them watch a teleprompter slowly playing the text of Trump's interview with Time Magazine. It would be game over.
Anyone who reads Time's recent interview with Trump would clearly conclude that the biggest story on Earth, this day and every day, is that the President of the United States is seriously unwell and allowed to continue in office - unfit, untethered, and unchecked. Unbelievable.
After listening to Eric Schmitt today, I think it's high time we instituted a measure whereby - if a speaking lawmaker makes a brazenly false assertion, an airhorn warning goes off - and if they do it again or double down on it, the floor underneath them opens, swallows them up, and they disappear.
Jack Smith is professional, admirable and unflappable. His motivations are unimpeachable. His adherence to the Rule of Law is steadfast and refreshing. He has zero political rhetoric. He shows no personal or professional sensitivity. He communicates accurately. He would be an ideal attorney general.
So far, the highlights of the Jack Smith hearing from Republicans consist of them asking him whether he believes in the Easter Bunny, whether he attended a Hawks game, and calling him a dirtbag. We need to put the Republican Party out of ITS misery AND OURS in November.
I hope there's at least one patriotic American in Trump's senior employ who remembers to craft a master key to the bunker under the ballroom so we can forcibly remove him without much collateral demolishment.
Trump, preparing to board AF1 to Tennessee today, looking lumpy, ruddy, puffy, blotchy, stiff, hunched, loser-y, and disheveled.
Trump freaked out today over the well-documented story that FL Gov candidate Byron Donalds scrubbed Trump's name from his website to create distance. Of course, the story is real. When it broke there was side by side evidence. Besides, how did Trump even find out about it? NATALIE!! DO YOUR JOB!
Here's what I expect Xi is telling his close aides upon return: "It's as we suspected. They surround me with money and pageantry. He thinks everything that impresses him, impresses me. He is an oblivious and foolish man. There is great division there. Opportunity for us. We must watch closely."
I think we can safely conclude now that Scott Jennings' representation that he had a 20-minute conversation with Mitch McConnell in July, was an out-and-out lie.
Here's a new photo of the happy and vivacious couple, enjoying life, and privately contemplating how they can do more good for the world. True love is such a wonderful thing.
Xi is visiting, the UN is in session, the Free Press is under attack - all big stories - but THE biggest story on Earth today, is same as yesterday: The US President is seriously unwell and allowed to continue in office - unfit, untethered and unchecked. Unbelievable. Unfathomable. Unacceptable.
Every loss for Trump is a win for America. He does NOT prioritize the best interests of the American people - he's unable to do so, pathologically. He is trying to sell the word America while he ushers in an era of Un-America. He IS the Anti-American.
I fantasize that when we get to 3 weeks before the midterms, we start hearing the phrase: "No Republican seat is safe."
Remember "analogies" from college? Here's a new one: Trump TV is to News Media what Melania is to Documentary Film.
A SAD, MALIGNANT, DELUSIONAL CONMAN AND FRAUD ... No integrity; No compassion; No empathy; No shame; No conscience; No courage; No character; No humanity; No morality; No manners; No respect; No music; No books; No happiness; No love; No friends; No honor. Not even a dog.
Trump is speaking now about Iran and global uncertainty. Sadly, it is WITH audio. Accordingly, he is full of bluster, bravado, threats and name-calling. All I hear, as a behaviorist, is an injured narcissist with poor polls desperately feigning grandiosity. Same as it ever was.
Venezuelan oil is unusable sludge. The Greenland deal is NOT new. The Strait of Hormuz is CLOSED. Belarus says they've no potash to sell. China isn't buying soybeans they said they would. Saudi Arabia is under attack, Trump sitting it out. He is a distrusted deceitful disaster, despised globally.
November needs to be a Blue Wave so big, so huge, that it reaches into territories beyond the blue and purple, so that it can reasonably be characterized as a voter revolt.
Congratulations to President Trump for FINALLY achieving an approval rating in the 20's. American Research Group's 9/16-20 poll has him @ 29% with 68% disapproval. Roughly same numbers as root canal, chlamydia, and gnats. But even root canal hasn't had its press coverage suspended.
It's been three days since he said this, but I think it deserves an encore: “If we buy $2 billion worth of bananas from Brazil, we’re actually losing $2 billion. So if we stop eating bananas, we actually save $2 billion.” And this guy is in charge of the world's largest economy.
Trump is conducting an online poll in which he is seeking to rename Artificial Intelligence as either “Superior Intelligence” or “Extreme Intelligence,” and it's so ironic to me that this poll is being conducted by a moron, and a person whose only intelligence is Unintelligence.
Saudi Arabia must be mildly upset right about now. I imagine them thinking: "What the f*ck did we buy for the f*cking billions we f*cking spent and paid to the m*therf*cking Trump family?"
Man oh man, these next 6 weeks are going to be LIT!
Sen. Mark Kelly on Nicolle today: "This is what happens when the country elects a reality TV star as President. He doesn't think he's governing a country. He thinks he's running a production. And when the production starts failing and the ratings go down, he throws the press out of the White House."
** JUST IN ** The bipartisan discharge petition for the Epstein Files Transparency Act II now has commitments from Democrats and four GOP - Massie, Mace, Norman, and Fitzpatrick. A vote WILL occur when the House returns post midterms. The bill empowers state AGs, victims and Congress to sue the DOJ.
Trump, from NC, on Fox: “If we buy $2 billion worth of bananas from Brazil, we’re actually losing $2 billion. So if we stop eating bananas, we actually save $2 billion.” Idiot is not a strong enough word.
At any other time in our history, an American President saying, in public, in front of an audience, that if America stopped trading with every country with which there was a trade deficit, America would make at least $1.5 trillion a year -- it would have ended his Presidency.