And there’s his hat
“The MAGA crack-up has begun,” declares Michael Tomasky. I’m here for it. Tomasky offers some bullet points:
• Trump tried to sell Ukraine down the river to Putin. The howls of outrage were instant, loud, and bipartisan to some extent….
Who knew “Which Side Are You On?” predicted Trump?
• Trump, bumbling around on domestic policy because he knows nothing, desperately said he was considering extending the Obamacare coverage subsidies on Monday. Congressional Republicans were up in arms….
They’d just shut down the government for 43 days to prevent that.
• Trump and Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth’s push to reinstate Senator Mark Kelly as an active-duty soldier (he’s 61!) so they can court-martial him is quickly turning into one of the leading disasters of this administration. There is no chance they’re going to convince a majority of Americans that a guy who flew 30-something combat missions is a disloyal American.
Does that old line about men wearing their brains between their legs apply to getting revenge?
• It was a disastrous week for Attorney General Pam Bondi as she stood there watching a federal judge dismiss the laughable indictments she directed against James Comey and Letitia James. And she stood up there, in perfect East German Communist Party circa 1957 fashion, repeating the assertion that everyone knows to be a lie, that Lindsey Halligan is “an excellent U.S. attorney.”
So it goes for FBI Director Kash Patel who looks to be headed out the door. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem defied a court order to halt a deportation flight to El Salvador. She could face a contempt of court charge and jail time. Don’t expect her to get access to a puppy in prison.
There’s more, Tomasky offers, from a “whole murderers’ row of Trump’s awful appointments.”
Everywhere you look, in other words, Trump and his people are wrecking the country. He doesn’t know what to do about the economy. Presidents don’t have a ton of power to lower prices in the first place, and people are now understanding that fact, and that Trump swindled them last year. He’s going to give Putin most of what he wants. His pursuit of his perceived political enemies is going to be massively unpopular and drive his numbers down into the mid-30s before too long if he keeps it up. And all these incompetent and corrupt henchpeople aren’t helping. The movement is collapsing.
I can dream, can’t I?
I’m of an age that I remember the late “king of deadpan” comedy, Jackie Vernon, from “The Ed Sullivan Show.” One of his signature bits involved calmly describing his (imaginary) vacation slides he “advanced” using a hand clicker. Imagine this with Trump administration officials:
- “Here I am touring the Everglades. That’s my guide. Guido the Guide.”
- “[CLICK!] Here’s Guido leading me around a bed of quicksand…”
- “[CLICK!] Here’s Guido from the waist up…”
- “[CLICK!] There’s his hat.”
There’s a rescue party … and more hats. Trump 2.0 won’t get a rescue party.
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