4/7/19: In news too good to miss we learn that Trump has been nominated again for the Nobel Peace Prize! This honor puts him in the running with 216 other individuals and 112 organizations.
There’s only one glitch.
For a second time, the committee which awards the prize discovers that the president’s nomination has been forged.
(I’m blaming Mike
Pence.)
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WE ALSO LEARN, according to Rick Reilly who has written a new book about Trump and golf, that Mr. Trump cheats as much on the links as he cheats on his wives between the sheets.
“If you’re playing golf with him, he’s going to cheat.”
“To say ‘Donald Trump cheats’ is like saying ‘Michael Phelps swims,’” Reilly explains. “He cheats when people are watching and he cheats when they aren’t. He cheats whether you like it or not. He cheats because that’s how he plays golf.…If you’re playing golf with him, he’s going to cheat.”
Typical of Trump’s behavior, here we have one of many stories related to Reilly for the book:
Mike Tirico, the former ESPN
football announcer, said that he once hit a great shot that he knew was close.
But when he got to the putting green, it was much farther away than he
expected. Tirico didn’t understand what happened until Trump’s caddy spoke up.
“Trump’s caddy came up to me and said, ‘You know that shot you hit on the par
5?’” Tirico said. “‘It was about 10 feet from the hole. Trump threw it in the
bunker. I watched him do it.’”
And if Trump isn’t cheating at golf, he’s defeating Time itself. In his latest trip to the border, the Liar-in-Chief claims he’s scoring immigration holes in one and building ten thousand miles of new wall. Alas, the “new” section of wall he chooses for a photo op is an old section being rebuilt – and that rebuilding process was approved while Obama was in the Oval Office.
CBS is
blunt. “Mr. Trump has yet to complete any new mileage [emphasis added] of fencing or other
barriers anywhere on the border.”
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Golfing in the days before he was president. |
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ANYTHING ELSE that might keep you awake at night? F.B.I. Director Christopher Wray testifies before a House panel and has this to say:
The danger. I think, of white
supremacists, violent extremism or another kind of extremism is of course
significant. We assess that it is a persistent, pervasive threat. We tackle it
both through our joint terrorism task forces on the domestic terrorism side as
well as through our civil rights program on the civil side through hate crime
enforcement.
In 2018
almost every victim of a terrorist attack in the United States was killed by a home-grown white
supremacist nut.
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WE ALSO
LEARN that President Twitter Thumbs has picked some gems to represent us as ambassadors round the world.
His nominee to the Bahamas testifies in Congress that the Bahamas are
part of the United States.
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WELL, THEN, how about a shout out for Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, who justified recent spending cuts in her department, saying, “We are not doing our children any favors when we borrow from their future in order to invest in systems and policies that are not yielding better results.” With that, and Team Trump having run up a trillion dollar deficit in the last fiscal year, she announced that funding for Special Olympics would be ended, because, let’s face it, those kids…they’re still handicapped when the contests are finished.
We need “better results.”
This decision is so crass and despicable that even Trump realizes it looks bad and overrules DeVos.
Naturally, he blames her for the idea.
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