January 14, 2019: President Trump Punches Himself in the Face

 

1/14/19: Like the world’s worst heavyweight boxer, the president keeps taking shots to the glass jaw, many of which he delivers himself. 

His decision to withdraw American forces from Syria (decided via tweet), turns into a debacle. “Donald is right,” Vladimir Putin says. But the Israelis freak. This, they fear, is tantamount to ceding control in Syria to the Russians and Iranians. The Kurds (who have been fighting by our side since 9/11) say they’ve been “betrayed.” Sen. Lindsey Graham warns that pulling out immediately, as Trump is planning, would be “disastrous to our national security” and leave “a stain” on our honor.

Preparing to punch himself in the face.

 

Trump is forced to backtrack. He decides he won’t pull out till the Turks, bitter enemies of the Kurds, promise not to attack. The Turks indicate they can hardly wait to begin blasting the Kurds. National Security Adviser John Bolton is forced to hop a flight to Istanbul to meet with Turkish President Erdogan. Erdogan refuses to sit down with him, leaving Bolton looking like a chump. Trump threatens, via tweet, to “devastate Turkey economically,” if they attack the Kurds. 

Apparently, no one has told him Turkey is our partner in NATO and an ally. The Turkish Foreign Minister points out correctly that partner nations should not threaten each other economically.

 

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IT TURNS OUT that Trump policies might not only be terrible in the Middle East, they might be terrible for penguins. 

In another alarming report from scientists at NASA, we learn ice in Antarctica is melting at a rate nearly six times as fast as during the years 1979 to 1989. The melt rate forty years ago was 40 billion tons annually. The melt rate, since 2009, has been 252 billion tons. 

This blogger won’t be around in 2100; but by then the oceans may rise three feet, assuming we act quickly. 

If we don’t, our grandchildren may live to see Miami, Florida (and other coastal cities) become uninhabitable.

 

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WE ALSO HAVE a story from our southern border, proving that “if you build it, they will (still) come.” As construction of the Great Wall of Trump continues, people come with … shovels. On Monday, smugglers dug seven holes under the border fence near San Luis, Arizona, and 376 asylum seekers crawled into the U.S. and turned themselves in to Customs and Border Protection. 

That included 200 children.