All the President’s hallucinations and lies
by digby
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| Yes, he actually had this sitting on the conference table in the Cabinet Room for some obscure reason |
Your batshit lunatic of a president was really pumped today. Way, way, way too many “diet cokes” (if you know what I mean) this morning. Some highlights:
TRUMP, brandishing a letter, says: “I just got a great letter from Kim Jong Un. The few people that I’ve showed this letter to – they’ve never written letters like that. This letter is a great letter”Adds that if he hadn’t won in 16, “You’d be having a nice big fat war in Asia” pic.twitter.com/XMXZYoYCid
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) January 2, 2019
“Russia should be fighting. The reason Russia was in Afghanistan was because terrorists were going into Russia. They were right to be there. The problem is it was a tough fight.” 😳
https://t.co/0NFDde59Xz— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) January 2, 2019
TRUMP can’t specify a timetable for Syria withdrawal, then says this about the country: “Look, we don’t want Syria… we’re talking about sand and death. That’s what we’re talking about. We’re not talking about vast wealth. We’re talking about sand and death.” pic.twitter.com/W2NgJsDCQi— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) January 2, 2019
Trump argues DOD inspector general reports should be kept private & claims that releasing them is “insane”: “The enemy reads those reports. They study every line. Those reports should be private reports. Let them to do a report, but they should be private reports & be locked up.” pic.twitter.com/M6XSh1iXJF— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) January 2, 2019
TRUMP: “When they say the wall is immoral, then you better do something about the Vatican. The Vatican has the biggest wall of them all…They work 100%. Never going to change. A wall is a wall… I think the people of the country think I’m right.” pic.twitter.com/spBtcDm3Bk— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) January 2, 2019
Asked about Mitt Romney’s op-ed, Trump claims that “I don’t think anybody would have been able to do the tax cuts like I did. We got the greatest tax cuts ever.”He then goes on a bizarre rant about Obamacare — including criticizing the late John McCain by name. pic.twitter.com/BXcL4oiqbp
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) January 2, 2019
Trump, fabricating figures out of thin air, claims “I’ve heard numbers as high as $275 billion we lose on illegal immigration.”(Trump’s made-up numbers about the cost of immigration have more than doubled since 2015 and have no basis in reality https://t.co/DmzlMfYFjn) pic.twitter.com/KbwPmx0R29
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) January 2, 2019
Trump said he gave U.S. generals “all the money they wanted” for Afghanistan, but they did a bad job. Of Mattis, he says, “What’s he done for me? How has he done in Afghanistan? Not too good. Not too good.”— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) January 2, 2019
Trump lies again that he has the highest approval rating in the history of the Republican Party. He’s near the top, but post-9/11 George W. Bush was in the mid-to-high-90s; Trump has been around the high-80s.— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) January 2, 2019
Trump says that if the courts say Obama had the right to do DACA unilaterally, he can do whatever he wants on lots of other stuff. He adds: “Can you imagine me having this power? Wouldn’t that be scary?”— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) January 2, 2019
To all who think this moron is an isolationist, just wait to see what he does if there’s a major terrorist attack during his misbegotten reign…
The potted plants sitting next to him to the table all dutifully licked his boots and agreed that Trump’s stupid 4th century wall is the only answer to the non-crisis that Trump is ginning up to please his Mistress of the Dark, Ann Coulter.
It’s only the first day back and it’s already surreal. Drink up.
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