August 10, 2019: Of Course, Trump Would Pose with the Orphaned Baby

 

8/10/19: The president is on vacation today. Maybe he won’t say anything stupid… 

Too late.  He’s up and tweet-bitching early and often: 

Maggie Haberman of the Failing @nytimes reported that I was annoyed by the lack of cameras inside the hospitals in Dayton & El Paso, when in fact I was the one who stated, very strongly, that I didn’t want the Fake News inside & told my people NOT to let them in. Fake reporting!

 

For a fifth day in a row, Trump is acting like he’s the true victim of the El Paso shooting, and the true victim in the Dayton shooting and the true victim of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral. 

One can be forgiven for harking back to the words of wisdom once supplied by John Wooden, the legendary basketball coach at UCLA. Wooden reduced his advice for success in life to six simple rules:

 

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“Never lie. Never cheat. Never steal. Don’t whine. Don’t complain. Don’t make excuses.” 

Coach John Wooden

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President Trump breaks at least one of those rules every day, and on most days, breaks the full half-dozen.

 

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The thumbs up gesture says it all. 

MEANWHILE, WE LEARN that Trump had himself posed with a baby orphaned during the El Paso massacre. 

(That baby, 2-month-old Paul Anchondo, was nicked by a bullet and suffered two broken fingers before being saved.) 

That meant we got a photo – complete with presidential grin – as if to say, “This is great, maybe this will make it look like I care about the baby and not just how I want my hair to look.” 

The thumbs up gesture says it all.

 

Could the man be more clueless?

 

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IN OTHER GUN NEWS, a Toledo, Ohio man, Timothy Ireland, 41, is arrested after threatening to shoot Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, one of four nemeses of Donald J. Trump. Having posted a threat on Facebook, Ireland adds, “Can’t fire me, my employer would load the gun for me.” Ireland, who has multiple felonies to his discredit, which should make him ineligible to own guns or ammo, is charged by law enforcement authorities with illegal possession of both. 

We also learn that Conor Climo, 23, of Las Vegas, yet another neo-Nazi in the news, was arrested and charged with plotting to bomb a gay bar and a synagogue in that city. After his arrest, Climo told authorities he had hoped to mobilize an eight-man sniper “platoon” to take out Jews. 

It seems there are a lot of white supremacist nuts with lots of guns. Someone should notify Tucker Carlson. (See: 8/6/19.)