Never the sharpest knife in the drawer, not his psychotic father’s first pick for heir to the Trump Empire, a lifelong bully, abuser, sexual predator, compulsive liar and childishly aggrieved control freak, he is also now, increasingly, showing signs of dementia. His father also was demented by the time he was DJT’s age. He was not, however, demented enough to let his idiot middle son take over his affairs when Donald tried to make himself master of his father’s fortune while the old man was still alive. To the demented Frederick Christ Trump’s credit, he surrounded himself with lawyers when Donald arrived to get his father to sign over control of his fortune. Of course, as soon as the old man died, Donald defied his father’s written wishes and dissolved the Trump empire at a 40% discount to the buyer, something only the most stable genius would ever dream of doing.
Jimmy Kimmel nailed it the other night. He played a typical incoherent Trump “response” to a question. He looked at the audience for a moment and said “what is he even talking about?” The only proper follow up from any reporter talking to Trump, he said, is “Mr. President, what are you talking about?” ICE agent shoots woman in the face three times because he was stressed at being dragged by a car six months earlier, after he broke the window and tased the driver (the driver is now awaiting sentencing, mind you). “She was the worst of the worst, she ran him over with her car, tried to kill him, she’s a domestic terrorist, still at large, my ratings are still the best of anybody all time, everyone is saying,” says the dotard-in-chief.
Here’s a bit of Heather Cox Richardson’s letter from last night. She begins by noting that all this shitting on the Oval Office desk and have his underlings eat it on camera (my image, not her’s, she speaks of Venezuela, Greenland, ICE murder) has succeeded in one thing — knocking the Epstein files and DOJ’s deliberate contempt of law off the front pages.
. . . This morning, Trump’s social media account posted: “if the corrupt politicians of Minnesota don’t obey the law and stop the professional agitators and insurrectionists from attacking the Patriots of I.C.E., who are only trying to do their job, I will institute the INSURRECTION ACT, which many Presidents have done before me, and quickly put an end to the travesty that is taking place in that once great State. Thank you for you [sic] attention to this matter! President DJT.”. . .
. . . The images coming out of Minnesota have been compared to those of Public Safety Commissioner Bull Connor ordering police officers and firefighters to use fire hoses against the children marching during the civil rights movement in Birmingham, Alabama, or of law enforcement officers beating civil rights marchers in Selma, Alabama. A family with six children in a van caught in the clash last night were hit with tear gas and air bags detonated by a flash-bang grenade. Three of the children, including a six-month-old infant, were taken to a hospital by ambulance for treatment. “My kids were innocent. I was innocent. My husband was innocent. This shouldn’t have happened,” the mother told Kilat Fitzgerald of Fox9 in Minneapolis. “We were just trying to go home.” . . .
. . . One of the other things Trump’s statements have driven out of the news is the revelation from yesterday that the U.S. has sold $500 million worth of Venezuelan oil and is keeping the money in Qatar rather than in U.S. banks. Trump claims that he has the power to manage that money, and is trying to prevent its capture by the oil companies that have prior claims against Venezuela for property seized when it nationalized the oil fields. . .
. . . The strain also showed in Trump’s fury on Tuesday when a worker at a Ford plant Trump was touring as an attempt to appeal to his weakening base shouted “pedophile protector” at him. Rather than simply ignoring the heckler, as politicians usually do, Trump gave him the middle finger and said, “F*ck you. F*ck you.”
The NY Times published a definitive debunking of the Trump lie parroted by ICE Barbie Kristi Noem, her soul-dead assistant “secretary for public affairs” Tricia McLaughlin, JD Vance and other lackies, that murdered Minnesota woman Renee Good deserved to be summarily killed because she’s a murderer. Hats off to the NY Times. They suck in major, critical ways, and have often been handmaidens of American fascism (click the Grey Lady link at the side here for examples), but they also publish very important, authoritative investigative pieces. This is one of them. Check out this video by clicking on the image:
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