Forrest Gump in the Oval Office

In case you missed this story, the conservative radio host, Erick Erickson, took a call from an angry Republican congressman this week. 

The lawmaker wanted to meet but didn’t want to be seen anywhere near Capitol Hill. They agreed to rendezvous at a D.C. Safeway store.

What Erickson’s source really wanted was to vent about President Trump, a man equal parts Richard Nixon, Warren G. Harding and....Forrest Gump?

With Trump you get the same simpleminded thinking as with Gump,
but without the strenuous exercise and kind heart.

Erickson relates the conversation this way, as the two men wander the supermarket aisles, squeezing the avocados and pondering which brand of toilet paper to buy:

“I read you writing about this, about wanting to say nice things when you can and criticize when you need to. He may be an idiot, but he’s still the President and leader of my party and he is capable of doing some things right,” the mysterious congressman began.

But dammit he’s taking us all down with him. We are well and truly f**ked in November. Kevin [McCarthy] is already circling like a green fly circling sh*t trying to take Paul’s [Ryan] job because nobody thinks he’s sticking around for Nancy [Pelosi]. She’s going to f**k up the cafeteria again too. It’s like Forrest Gump won the presidency, but an evil, really f*cking stupid Forrest Gump. He can’t help himself. He’s just a f**king idiot who thinks he’s winning when people are b*tching about him. He really does see the world as ratings and attention. I hate Forrest Gump…Can you believe it beat the Shawshank Redemption? Judiciary [the House Judiciary Committee] is stacked with a bunch of people who can win re-election so long as they don’t piss off Trump voters in the primary. But if we get to summer and most of the primaries are over, they just might pull the trigger if the President fires Mueller. The sh*t will hit the fan if that happens and I’d vote to impeach him myself. Most of us would, I think. Hell, all the Democrats would and you only need a majority in the House. If we’re going to lose because of him, we might as well impeach the motherf**ker. Take him out with us and let Mike [Pence] take over. At least then we could sleep well at night…You know having Mike as President would really piss off all the right people, too. They think they hate Trump. Mike is competent. I say a lot of shit on TV defending [Trump], even over this. But honestly, I wish the motherf*cker would just go away. We’re going to lose the House, lose the Senate, and lose a bunch of states because of him. All his supporters will blame us for what we have or have not done, but he hasn’t led. He wakes up in the morning, sh*ts all over Twitter, sh*ts all over us, sh*ts all over his staff, then hits golf balls. F*ck him. Of course, I can’t say that in public or I’d get run out of town.

Erickson sums it all up: 

The congressman’s base loves the President. And we’re done. He feels better having let it all out. It was a funny conversation with a few additional remarks about the President’s personal life I dare not print. And yes, I agree, it is bad form to say all this in private while publicly praising the President. Welcome to Donald Trump’s Washington.
 Everybody does this sh*t here.

Source: The Resurgent, April 11, 2018

Like Trump:
With Harding you got randy sexual behavior and the Teapot Dome Scandal.

Like Trump:
With Nixon you got hatred for the free press and a healthy dose of impeachment.