4/10/19: The president’s fears of what the Mueller report will reveal once released are growing. In a pair of crazy tweets, Trump insists that duly appointed investigators were enemies of the state. “So, it has now been determined, by 18 people that truly hate President Trump,” he insists, “that there was No Collusion with Russia. In fact, it was an illegal investigation that should never have been allowed to start. I fought back hard against this Phony & Treasonous Hoax!”
He then expands the treasonous group: “I think what the Democrats are doing with the Border is TREASONOUS. Their Open Border mindset is putting our Country at risk. Will not let this happen!”
(See: 4/19/19 for highlights of
the Mueller report.)
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WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, Trump made it clear he had a few fresh tools he’d like to employ if Congress and the federal judiciary would stop barring his path. He claimed Democrats were refusing to change “horrible laws” that prohibit the U.S. military from getting “a little rough.”
The military, he whined, “can’t act like they would normally act. I’m going to have to call up more military. Our military, don’t forget, can’t act like a military would act. Because if they got a little rough, everybody would go crazy.”
If only the military could get a little rough!
Frankly, it sounds as if the president is thinking along the same lines as the
East German government in 1961, when it threw up the Berlin Wall. Guards were
authorized to shoot East Berliners trying to flee. Or perhaps Trump’s model is
the Chinese government when it decided to unleash the military on protesters at
Tiananmen Square in 1989.
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“Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely.”
Lord Acton (1887)
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A STORY is leaked about a trip to Mount Vernon, last April, involving a tour for Emanuel Macron and his wife, and President Trump and the First Lady. The guide told associates later that it was “truly bizarre.” He had trouble holding Mr. Trump’s attention during the 45-minute presentation, and noted that President Macron and his wife knew more about George Washington – and seemed more interested – than the current occupant of the White House.
Trump did wonder out loud why Washington never put his name on anything, suggesting, “If he was smart, he would’ve put his name on it. You’ve got to put your name on stuff or no one remembers you.”
This is why no one remembers the first president.
Especially
the 45th.
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Some guy who never put his name on anything. |
FUN FACT: We do know that Trump admitted in 2016 that he had never read a presidential biography, and he made it plain that he had no plans to start. (I am assuming that the current president did not realize French military aid during the American Revolution played a critical role in the defeat of the British.)
BLOGGER’S NOTE: For a truly bizarre take on U.S. history, see Trump’s July 4, 2019, speech, after his teleprompter went on the fritz.)
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