Relative needs

Trump really really needs a $300m gold-plated ballroom to entertain his billionaire buddies, but your child only needs one or two pencils for school, and one or two dolls to play with.

Meanwhile, at FIFA World Cup HQ ...

 

Sensitive much?

More Trumpian meltdowns on his personal media platform, whining about guests on Fox among other things.

It’s such a consistent pattern it’s no longer news. Any time his (used to be) favourite channel features a guest he doesn’t like, or someone reports news he doesn’t like, or makes a joke he doesn’t like, it’s a flaming all-caps rant about how stupid everyone else is, how criticism is illegal, and how people should just shut the fuck up and give him the undiluted adoring praise he deserves.

There used to be a time when politicians knew that criticism and unfettered scrutiny in the press came with the territory, and they put on their grown-up pants and took it on the chin.

I can’t believe you managed to elect such a whining toddler to the White House. America is an utter laughing stock to the rest of the world.

Censorship

Now the Trump administration is going to deny entry to people who have been caught fact-checking government statements. The rationale is that they are infringing on free speech. It’s censorship.

Quick fact check: No it’s not. Fact-checking doesn’t remove the original statement, it simply adds commentary on its accuracy. It provides additional information that the reader is entitled to hear.

Preventing people from fact checking? Now that is censorship.

Nevertheless, checking the factual accuracy of what your government is telling you is now too dangerous for Trump.

Yeah, that figures.

Autopen furore

Trump is off on a rant about Biden’s use of the autopen, claiming the former president didn’t know what he was signing, and that all his actions are hereby invalid and rescinded.

Trump seems to forget (though that’s no surprise, given his clear signs of dementia) the number of times he’s claimed no knowledge of individuals he’s pardoned, or the contents of executive orders he’s signed, when questioned by the press. He himself frequently has no grasp of what he’s signing.

And, of course, in his “do as I say, not as I do” style of leadership, he conveniently ignores his own frequent use of the autopen, along with every past president for the last hundred or more years.

It makes me angry that the US public seems happy to normalize this level of naked hypocrisy in their leaders.

Inverse logic

Apparently, exhorting people to obey the law is now sedition punishable by death.

Pretty symbolic of Trump’s tenuous relationship with both truth and the law.

Coward in Chief

The Great Dealmaker’s idea of a peace deal in Ukraine is to roll over for Vladi Daddy and surrender everything the invader wants, in return for ... ?

The USA has once again proved just how utterly worthless it is as an ally.

The truth about tariffs

“Tariffs are paid for by the other country.”

“Tariffs don’t raise prices here.”

The same themes repeated over and over all year.

But, the moment Trump sees high cost of groceries hurting his popularity, his answer is to reduce tariffs.

Clearly, Lizard Brain knew all along he was telling lies.

Remember them

Predictably enough, Trump’s Veterans Day speech quickly descended into a grieve-fest. And it shows he has no clue what the day is actually about.

Trump wants to celebrate national victories, claiming the US single-handedly won both world wars. The fact that the day commemorates the people who died in the name of freedom is lost on him. Because he’s never sacrificed a thing in his life, and knows nothing about service except to himself.

Wanker.

Trump math

Hypothetical scenario:

Last week I went to the grocery store and bought ingredients for a fillet steak dinner.

This week I went to the same grocery store and bought ingredients for mac & cheese.

My bill this week was considerably less than last week. Big surprise!

But according to Trump (who’s never bought groceries in his life) this is proof that grocery prices are down.

Who elected this clown?

Land of the free

With his razor-sharp legal mind, Trump seems to have reached the conclusion that any criticism of him is “probably illegal.”

That’s odd.

Only a few months ago the USA was still a free country and the president served the people, not the other way around.

The state of US priorities

Trump: I need $300 million for a new ballroom.

(Snaps fingers)

(Wealthy donors line up with open cheque books)

America: There’s no money for social programs. Families are starving.

Trump: (Shrugs shoulders) Nothing I can do. Blame the Dems.

Person, Woman, Man ...

Once again, Trump the genius is touting the cognitive test he aced years ago, as evidence of his brilliance.

It isn’t.

It is not an intelligence test. It’s a test to detect early signs of dementia. It’s meant to be easy for a normal functioning adult to pass. “Acing” it isn’t an astonishing feat of mental acuity, it’s basic table stakes to sit with the grown-ups.

Sadly, we need no tests in Trump’s case. The evidence of cognitive impairment is plainly visible every time he talks or appears in public.

Trumplethinskin

Now I’ve heard everything. Trump is having a hissy fit at an advert featuring Reagan contradicting Trump’s stance on tariffs. He’s so upset, that trade negotiations with Canada have been called off.

Dearie me! How very presidential.

Presumably he’ll now sulk until Canada says “sorry” (which, TBH, will likely happen in short order because saying “sorry” is our second nature, even when we’ve done nothing to be sorry about) and delivers a truckload of beaver and maple syrup.

Even more balls

Trump promised his big ballroom vanity project would be separate from, and not touch the structure of, the East Wing.

He lied.

Why the heck is anyone surprised?