Preznit give me shutdown
by digby
One of the very oldest memes in the blogosphere was that one above from the immortal Atrios on the occasion of Bush’s triumphal visit to Iraq at Thanksgiving in 2003. It was in reference to the gaga reaction from the sycophantic press corps, which acted as if he had personally led the troops into battle and had engaged in hand to hand combat with Osama bin laden.
Trump isn’t getting the same treatment mainly because this is the first time he’s bothered to visit any battlefield since he took office. It’s also peculiar to choose this moment to do it since the government is shut down and thousands of people are suddenly not getting paychecks.
Even as photo ops go it isn’t all that great. Bringing the glamourous Melania along, dressed as if she’s a tuba player in Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club band, kind of ruins the idea that he was courting some kind of danger by going to a war zone.
They aren’t good at anything, not even staged photo-ops designed to make the press pant with delight. And it’s not that hard to do it.
I mean:
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