MAGA: Your Boy is Either a Blasphemer or is Mentally Unwell

He thinks that he's Jesus.

There has been some pushback from MAGA and he's deleted it. But the Internet doesn't forget.

He's deeply unwell. He needs some serious professional care, bless his heart.

Donnie Continues to Beclown Himself

He wants to send a "hospital boat" to Greenland.

But none are available:

Greenland has 50,000 people or so, five hospitals and free health care. They don't need our help.

But we needed theirs:

Denmark’s military said its arctic command forces evacuated a crew member of a U.S. submarine off the coast of Greenland for urgent medical treatment.

And somehow, because of that, he thinks Greenland needs our help. He's definitely not firing on all cylinders (if he ever has been).

Meanwhile, he apparently used one of his aliases to call into C-SPAN and yell about the tariff decision. He is such an immature child. No wonder the rest of the world is laughing at him.

Trump's On-Air Fit

I watched as much of his remarks as I could stand.

Gentle Readers, do you not understand, now? He's fucking crazy, up there ranting that he can bomb countries and embargo trade but he can't charge a tariff. Calling the conservative justices who ruled against him "disloyal" (Roberts, Barret, Gorsuch) and all but inviting his MAGA Flying Monkeys to go after them and their families?

He's lost his shit, in public on live TV. The rest of the world must be laughing at us for having elected this unhinged nutcase, twice. He used language that he'd never dream of saying about Putin, who has stabbed him in the back so many times that Donnie's little more than a Russian pincushion.

And yes, if Biden had done that, the "smart people" would be yammering about impeachment and/or the 25th Amendment.

Reporting is that Republicans in Congress are privately relieved that the Supreme Court struck down Trump's tariffs.

Well, fuck them, too. They are gutless cowards, every last one of them. They're hiding behind the black robes of theSupreme Court, instead of standing up and doing their fucking jobs. as the superior branch of government that they are supposed to be (because they're in Article I of the Constitution).

Hurricane or No, If Biden Did This, the Press Would Lead With It

Trump thinks that the governor of Maine, Janet Mills, is a man.

Former President Donald Trump made a string of false statements on a Monday call to Maine supporters during which he repeatedly referred to Gov. Janet Mills as “he” and conflated issues affecting the lobster industry.

He also thinks that he went to Gaza, when there is no evidence that he ever did.

If Mar-a-Lago has a memory-care unit, it's time to move the poor man into it, bless his blasted and corrupted heart.

Wait, What?? Congratulations on Being Invaded??

Q Mr. President, do you have a message for Poland —

THE PRESIDENT: Yeah.

Q — on the 80th anniversary of the Second World War? What (inaudible)?

THE PRESIDENT: I do have a great message for Poland. And we have Mike Pence, our Vice President, is just about landing right now. And he is representing me. I look forward to being there soon.

But I just want to congratulate Poland. It’s a great country with great people. We also have many Polish people in our country; it could be 8 million. We love our Polish friends. And I will be there soon.

That's the transcript from the White House.

What the hell flitters through his mind?

Our Idiot in Chief

TRUMP: “The Flores decision is a disaster, I have to tell you. Judge Flores, whoever you may be, that decision is a disaster for our country, a disaster.” — remarks at a meeting with local officials in Southern California.

THE FACTS: There’s no Judge Flores involved. Jenny Flores , a 15-year-old El Salvador native, was held in what her advocates said were substandard conditions, contending she was strip-searched in custody and housed with men. They launched a class-action lawsuit on behalf of migrant children in the country illegally. Her mother was a housekeeper in the U.S. who feared deportation if she picked up her daughter.

The case worked its way to the Supreme Court, which sided with the government and against the girl’s advocates. But the case gave rise to an agreement in 1997 setting conditions for the detention of migrant children and the codifying of those conditions in law a decade later. It generally bars the government from keeping children in immigration detention for more than 20 days and guides how they are to be treated.

Before Trump was elected, he had been involved in over 3,000 lawsuits. Surely a man who has amassed such experience with the legal system knows that cases are named after the parties.

Or maybe Trump things that Judge Roe is to blame for legalized abortion. He probably thinks it's a damned shame that Judge Brown outlawed segregated schools.

And this:

Another Time Magazine Cover That You Won't See on the Walls of Trump's Golf Clubs

The earlier one and why this is a thing.

Oh, and as for Melania, she's as much of a monster as he is.

Space Force

The Commander in Chief:

He'd be happy to go into space, himself, but he can't get into a pressure suit with his bone spurs.

President Psychopath

This is immoral as fuck:

President Donald Trump suggested Saturday that he is using his administration's separation of families at the US border as a negotiating tool to get Democrats to cave on his immigration demands, which include funding for a border wall, curbing legal immigration into the US, and tightening the rules for border enforcement.

He proclaims that he "hates" to do it, but he's going to continue to rip families apart until he gets his way.

That is reprensible at best. Trump is an inhuman monster. Those who are "only following orders" are proving that in this century, "good little Americans" will be a long-standing epithet.

This is from the Book of Face:

“Through all the adversities we faced last evening with computer outages, cancellations and delays, nothing prepared me or my crew for 16 passengers. Sixteen. All dressed in black and gray cheap Walmart sweat suits, quietly boarding the 12:30am flight.

Children! Thirty-two scared eyes looking straight forward dazed. We try to speak, yet none speak English.

During the beverage service, one of the crew comes to me in tears. They can’t face these children that have been ripped from their families with a smile.

These children were probably ranging in age from 11, to the most adorable little girl maybe 6 years old. At 2:30 in the morning, deplaned here in Miami not knowing if they will ever see their loved ones again that they were separated from in Phoenix.

Those sweet innocent children, dressed as criminals silently deplaned with the same fear as our initial meeting. Except for the little girl. She looked up at me as she turned left for the main cabin door, with tears of fear streaming down her face. I’m not sure the protocol, but I leaned over hoping to offer some hope, she hugged me, which was returned - much to the scowl and comments from the adult escort.

I pray that these 16 scared little souls, as well as all the other thousands, find their way to reuniting with their loved ones.

We are trained yearly in hundreds of possible scenarios as attendants. Something like this isn’t remotely one of those. I had only met one of my crew a few years earlier, the rest never. Thank God, we had one another to lean on to not only get through the flight, but also maybe some glimmer of hope for those babies.”

This cartoon got Rob Rodgers fired from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:

This is on point:

As is this:

Republicans, this is your guy. You are the ones who are best placed to voice disapproval and to vote for people who are not going to slavishly fall in line behind Caudillo Trumpo.

Republicans: Are you going to continue to be good little Americans, or are you going to take a stand?

If you don't, then this is on you. You will not be able to truthfully claim that you did not know the horrors that were being done in your name.

Manafort Pulls a Shkreli, and "All Hail the Donald! All Hail the Donald!"

President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort is going to jail.

On Friday, Manafort was ordered into custody after a federal judge revoked his house arrest, citing newly filed obstruction of justice charges. The move by U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson made Manafort the first Trump campaign official to be jailed as part of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation. ... “You have abused the trust placed in you six months ago,” she said.

I don't know whether or not Manafort told his attorneys what he was doing before he did it, but if he had, I'd be willing to wager that their response was along the lines of:

Actually, it was worse than Shkreli, for Shkreli had already been convicted and was out on bail awaiting sentencing when he acted ignorant. Manafort now gets to prepare for trial from jail.

Meanwhile, Our Wannabee Dictator, Der Drumpenfuhrer, has a bad case of dictator envy.

President* Donald Trump said Friday that he wants "my people" to “sit up at attention” the way North Koreans do for dictator Kim Jong Un.

The comment came during an impromptu interview with Fox News on the White House's North Lawn, days after Trump met with Kim in Singapore as part of an effort to reach a denuclearization deal with Pyongyang. When asked about whether Kim would be visiting the White House any time soon, Trump responded “it could happen.” He then went on to praise the dictator for being a strong leader.

“He’s the head of a country and I mean he is the strong head,” Trump said to Fox. “Don’t let anyone think anything different. He speaks and his people sit up at attention. I want my people to do the same.”

When Trump realized how that was going over, he said he was only kidding.

But let's be clear, Gentle Reader: He wasn't kidding. Trump has nothing but contempt for democratic institutions, let alone the rule of law. He admires Kim Jong-un, who has had people executed for not paying sufficient attention to him at meetings. Trump would be more than happy to have people be required to line the roads when he passes by and sing his praises and salute him.

Here is my salute:

Trumpist Nuttiness

When challenged by the Canadian Prime Minister as to why Trump had designated Canada as a "national security threat" (which Trump did to justify imposing tariffs), Trump blamed Canada for burning down the White House in 1814.

Trump probably has never known that the U.S.-Canadian border is the longest demilitarized border in the world and has been for two centuries.

Meanwhile "Rudy the Mouth" Giuliani is doing his best to try and scuttle talks between Trump and Kim Jong-un. Trump probably believes that if he can secure a deal with the NORKs, that he'll be a lock for the Peace Prize. Kim probably knows that Trump would trade Jerod and Eric for that, so I'd expect the NORKs to make as tough a deal as they can.

Trump Pulls a Tweener

Shorter Trump: "If all of you won't come, then none of you can come. So there!" Trump, of course, is claiming that it was all about players taking a knee during the playing of the National Anthem, but there was a little inconvenient fact:

A separate NFL source said none of the players on the Eagles team that won the Super Bowl took a knee during the anthem during the regular season

In Trump's disease-ravaged mind, it's all about him, all the time. He really is a special snowflake, a true narcissist.

A politician who cannot handle the idea that people disagree with him does not belong in office. But it should be well-known, by now, that Trump expects everyone to kiss his ass and gets upset when that doesn't happen.

The mayor of Philadelphia had something to say to Trump about crowd size. And this shit is stunningly Nixonian.

Meanwhile, Manafort must be believing Trump's signals, otherwise why would he be doing this shit?

I'm not going to touch on Trump's talking about a really fantastic letter that he received from Kim Jong Un, which he then admitted that he hadn't yet read it. (And he won't, unless his name is mentioned in every other sentence.)

Because Warmongers Gotta Monger

Trump has canceled the summit with North Korea.

The president made his announcement in a remarkably personal, at times mournful-sounding letter to Mr. Kim, North Korea’s leader, in which he cited the North’s “tremendous anger and open hostility” in recent public statements as the specific reason for canceling the meeting.

No, Donnie, me boy, this isn't on Kim. This is all on John Bolton and Mike Pence. Both of those "worthies" have made comments in recent days alluding to the Libyan cessation of its nuclear program as the model for North Korea.

What the North Koreans are aware of and, no doubt, John Bolton, as well, is that things didn't turn out so well for the leader of Libya afterwards. Referring to the "Libyan model" was a direct provocation, which Bolton knew it would be.

Whether or not Pence did, as well, I'm not so sure of. The lad doesn't seem to be terribly smart.

But Bolton did. Bolton was one of those well-connected draft-dodgers who secured a spot in the National Guard, rather than go to Vietnam. He makes no bones about being a draft-dodger, just like other noted chickenhawks, such as Dick Cheney. Bolton wasn't willing to put his precious pink bod on the line for this country, but he sure seems to be awfully eager to fill up Arlington National Cemetery.

As much as I'd grit my teeth, if Trump did secure peace on the Korean Peninsula, he'd damn well deserve the Nobel Peace Prize.

And maybe, if Trump realizes that Bolton's mouth is going to cost him that, Trump will throw Bolton back to his permanent job of running his mouth on Fox News.

Kim Jong Un is Selling Trump a Used Car

North Korea says it’s hosting a nuclear dismantling party this month. On Saturday, state media reported that North Korea’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs plans to dismantle the country’s nuclear testing site in a ceremony between May 23 and 25. The event will take place days before President Donald Trump meets North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Singapore on June 12 for the pair’s much-hyped summit, where they will discuss a potential deal and items such as sanctions and North Korea’s nuclear program.

For one thing, the testing site has been used often enough and for overly powerful weapons that it's no longer usable.

Just like Trump to fall for glitz and not look under the hood.

No Surprise, That

Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn opposes tariffs on Canadian newsprint that have driven up printing costs and forced cutbacks at newspapers around the nation.

“Newspapers are beleaguered already, and I don’t think we need to make that any harder than it already is,” Cornyn said during an appearance at the National Rifle Association convention Friday in Dallas.

Trump's tariff on newsprint is aimed neither at the Canadian paper industry or the American paper industry. It is aimed squarely at newspapers.

Trump, like any half-pint authoritarian wannabee, hates a free press. That's why he's toying with yanking the press credentials of any publication that publishes articles that don't laud the Enlightened Reign of Commandante Bone-Spurs. So this tariff should not shock anyone.

Grade A Snark (About You-Know-Who)

Abstinence-only sex education is one of those right-wing reality-free beliefs, like trickle-down economics and believing that rich folks will step up and fund charities if the social safety net is eliminated.

Donald Trump promoting abstinence is like Alferd Packer promoting vegetarianism.

Do They Make "Supply and Demand for Dummies"?

If so, someone needs to tweet it at Trump.

President* Donald Trump blamed OPEC on Friday for high oil prices, claiming the organization had artificially lifted prices that “will not be accepted.”

“Looks like OPEC is at it again. With record amounts of Oil all over the place, including the fully loaded ships at sea, Oil prices are artificially Very High! No good and will not be accepted!” the president* wrote on Twitter.

If the market price for oil is $71/barrel, then the choices are to either buy the shit or not buy the shit. That's pretty much it.

Is this where I should point out the hypocrisy of Trump complaining about the price of oil while his administration is doing everything it can to gut progress in research and adopting alternatives to oil?

Trump is like an addict complaining about the price of drugs. Nobody gives a shit.

Bombing Syria

I think I'm going to wait a few days and see what the real truth is about what was hit and how much damage was done. Experience gleaned from watching how things have gone over a half-century of wars has taught me to be very wary of the initial assessments coming out of the Pentagon or NATO (or MACV). One thing that has been consistent has been the stuff handed out to the poseurs in the press at the Five O'Clock Follies has often been a fabrication, regardless of which was was going on.

But really, Trump? "Mission accomplished"?

Are you that ignorant of recent history to know how hollow those words have become? What are you going to do next, fly out to an aircraft carrier?

Jesus. The snark almost writes itself. George W. Trump. I'll bet that people are photoshopping Trump's head onto Bush's body.

Military Imbecile-in-Chief

President" Donald Trump has tweeted that Russia should "get ready" for missiles to be fired at its ally Syria, in response to an alleged chemical attack near Damascus on Saturday.

"Get ready Russia, because they will be coming, nice and new and 'smart!'" Mr Trump said in his tweet.

What sort of idiot tells an adversary what he is going to do? If Trump was a mid-level bureaucrat, he'd be on his way to Jon Pollard's old cell at a supermax.

Machiavelli's Fifth Rule of War: "No proceeding is better than that which you have concealed from the enemy until the time you have executed it."

Trump is applying the rules of hucksterism to military matters. This is likely not to go very well.

Historical Moron-in-Chief

"Our relationship with Russia is worse now than it has ever been, and that includes the Cold War."-- so sayeth Twittering Donnie.

So he was shacked up with a hooker during the Cuban Missile Crisis? Or they never mentioned the Berlin Blockade when he was sleeping though his classes at NYMA?

Of course, he blames Robert Mueller for it all.

Too bad we can't get a chorus of a thousand or so schoolkids to stand outside the Whitehouse and chant, in a sing-song: "Donnie's going to jail!"