7/29/19: Trump is still bitching about Rep. Elijah Cummings, who is black. You figure he’d really like to say that Baltimore, with its mostly African American population, is a “shithole.”
At least he’s back at the White House for now, following
another weekend getaway. According to Google Maps, Trump National Golf Club,
where he stayed, is 29.7 miles from Washington D.C. It costs the Secret Service
extra – some say the tab for all his golfing trips is now more than $102 million – every time the president leaves the White
House to visit another one of his courses.
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If Trump really wanted to do his job, he could have demanded that the Secret Service haul his butt in a different direction, 38.3 miles north to Baltimore for the weekend. He could have rolled up his sleeves, talked to people in poor neighborhoods, listened to their problems, and called a cabinet meeting this morning to see what might be done to address the issues they face. (See: 7/27/19.)
He didn’t do that, of course. He did make time to stop and chat with reporters on the South Lawn. He grumbled that U.S. intelligence communities have “run amok” and must be reined in, because they keep coming up with conclusions that bruise his fragile ego.
That means Director of National Intelligence Dan
Coats, highly respected for his work, is out.
Rep. John Ratcliffe, who has virtually zero
experience in the intelligence field, is the choice to fill his shoes. Why
Ratcliffe? Trump loved his performance during the televised Mueller hearings.
Ratcliffe did his best to savage Mueller and shield Trump, no matter
what. He’s the kind of toady Trump loves.
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