Friday, September 06, 2019

I honestly thought he was through


Sorry, Nate Silver; this is not the result of a "slow news week."  And however "right" Trump may have been sometime in the (now distant) past, he's as wrong as he can be now.  His statement on Alabama being in the path of the storm was not "at the beginnings of Hurricane Dorian," but almost a week later.  Nobody in media "went Crazy" (is this the 18th century?) until after Trump's Sept. 1 tweet, if by "Crazy" you mean accurately reported on it, because he's the President, and what he says about stories in the news, matters.

This never happened to another President because no other President has ever been such a petulant child.  That, actually, is the news story, and it's an important one.  Four days, not of "corrupt reporting," but of the President tweeting about this non-story that he started and insists on keeping alive.  This is 12 tweets now since September 1, all unprompted by anything except Trump's need to be right even when he's wrong.  Yes, it's a tiny wrong and a silly subject, but this isn't your drunk uncle at Thanksgiving, this is the POTUS.  What the goddamn hell?

And while he rails against the "Witch Hunt" again, and now "Spygate" (?), no mention of Sharpiegate, no refutation of the fact he altered that map and then told the press he didn't know who did it. He has spent, directly and indirectly, government resources on this nonsense, and not just a Rear Admiral on the National Security staff:

FEMA has no more than an acting head, funds from FEMA have been redirected illegally to build 50 miles of border wall (it's all the money he's diverted will build, if any of it gets built), the storm is still striking the East Coast....

....and this is what the President is obsessed with.  12 tweets.  In four days.  And yet, "Nothing to see here"?

You would think so, if it was anybody but the President of the United States.

 

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