September 20-21, 2019: Trump Understands How to Get Busty Women to Have Sex

 

9/20-21/19: Technically, Bruce Bartlett is listed as an “Independent” in politics; but I will quote him on Trump because he worked in both the Reagan White House and the George H. W. Bush administration.

Stormy Daniels - with whom Donald cheated on Melania.

 

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Easier to list the number of subjects Trump understands than the ones he doesn’t understand.

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A British reporter wanted to know if Bartlett thought Trump lied so much because he was dishonest. Or were his false statements a function of profound ignorance? 

The Independent, a British paper sums up his response: 

…former Deputy Assistant Treasury Secretary for Economic Policy Bruce Bartlett said it would be easier to list the number of subjects Trump understands than the ones he doesn’t understand. “Other than how to pander to right-wingers and get busty women to have sex with him, I can’t think of anything,” [that he actually understands].

 

Bartlett agreed with the assessment of Harvard economics Professor Jeffrey Williamson, who insisted that Trump couldn’t tell the difference between business debt (hey, let’s declare bankruptcy) and sovereign debt (federal deficit; we’re ballooning the budget again). Both men told reporters they feared, 

that Trump’s apparent ignorance was exacerbated by his advisers’ sycophancy. “The real problem isn’t Trump’s ignorance and stupidity – it’s that he is surrounded by people like [Treasury Secretary] Mnuchin who are just as ignorant and stupid, or too cowardly to tell him when he’s wrong.”

 

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BARTLETT AND WILLIAMSON are not alone in suspecting that the President of the United States is an uninformed numbskull. Former National Security Advisor John Bolton trashed his former boss behind closed doors this week. He told a gathering of conservatives that Trump’s decision to invite the Taliban to Camp David was “disrespectful” to the victims of the 9/11 attack. He said negotiations with North Korea and Iran were “doomed to fail,” and said Trump’s decision to call off a retaliatory strike on Iran after they shot down a U.S. drone in June convinced Iran they could get away with the recent strike on Saudi Arabia’s oil refining facilities. 

Of course, we know Bolton. We know what Bolton is like. He says Iran’s attack on the Saudi facilities is “an act of war.” If it were up to him, the United States would bomb Iran back – if not to the Stone Age – at least to 631 A. D., before Mohammed got the idea of spreading a religion.

 

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IN OTHER NEWS, the National Rifle Association has made it clear it considers a White House proposal on enhanced background checks a “non-starter.” Guns aren’t the problem an NRA spokesman insists. You just think they are, because every time we have a mass murder in this country the murderer uses a gun. 

Well, the NRA is not buying that “guns are the issue” hooey. The White House proposal ignores “what actually matters: fixing the broken mental health system and the prosecution of violent criminals.” Senate Leader McConnell agrees. Why, there’s nothing he can do! He’s waiting to see what President Trump says he thinks we should do. “The administration is in the process of studying what they’re prepared to support, if anything,” McConnell explains. 

Try, “Nothing.”

 

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THE PRESIDENT decides to knock off for the weekend and spends Saturday at one of his private golf courses. This is Day #299, since taking office, that he has spent completely or in part at one of the properties he owns.