May 22, 2019: Infrastructure Fail - The "I-Word" Angers the President

 

5/22/19: Let’s talk deals. Let’s talk Democrats and President Trump working out a $2 trillion deal on infrastructure...  

Never mind. Let’s talk temper tantrums! 

A meeting at the White House collapses like an interstate highway bridge in desperate need of repair, when Donald R. Trump (the “R” is honorary, for his collaboration with Russians) stalks into a meeting with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Sen. Chuck Schumer and never makes it to his highchair. 

The Toddler-in-Chief is steaming because Democrats are accusing him of obstruction of justice, and keep coming up with evidence to support their charges. Trump informs Pelosi that her comments – that he’s engaged in a cover up – are “terrible” and stomps out of the room before anyone else can utter a word.

 

Moments later, he appears in front of reporters at a lectern in the Rose Garden. Some thoughtful aide has stuck a sign in front, reading, “No Collusion, No Obstruction.” 

Trump lets rip: 

Instead of walking in happily into a meeting, I walk in to look at people that have just said that I was doing a cover-up. I don’t do cover-ups.

 

I walked into the room and I told Senator Schumer, Speaker Pelosi: “I want to do infrastructure. I want to do it more than you want to do it. I’d be really good at that, that’s what I do. But you know what? You can’t do it under these circumstances. So get these phony investigations over with.”

 

“You can’t legislate and investigate at the same time,” he complains. This is like saying you can’t drive a car or mail a letter if you are going through a divorce. At any rate, we’re never going to know if Trump might be “really good” at doing infrastructure, because he proves once again, he’s a septuagenarian baby. 

“This meeting was set up a number of days ago,” Trump continues. “All of a sudden I hear last night they’re going to have a meeting right before this meeting to talk about the ‘I word.’ The ‘I word.’ Can you imagine?” 

Can you imagine?   

“Incontinent?” 

Other possibilities, swirl in imagination: “imbecile,” “infantile,” “immoral,” “impede” (as in “impede an investigation”) and “indict.” 

“Impeach?” 

Speaker Pelosi sums up the meeting later. “He just took a pass, and it just makes me wonder why he did that. In any event, I pray for the president and I pray for the United States of America.”