November 18, 2107: Nuclear War is in the Air!

 

11/18/17: General John Hyten, top U.S. nuclear commander, is asked at an international security conference what he would do if “Old Fire and Fury” (President Trump) ordered an illegal nuclear strike. This follows the first Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing in forty years to address the matter of nuclear warfare – not that anyone thinks Donald J. Trump might be stark raving mad.

 

“I provide advice to the president,” the general replies. “He’ll tell me what to do, and if it’s illegal, guess what’s going to happen? I’m gonna say, ‘Mr. President, that’s illegal.’ Guess what he’s going to do? He’s going to say, ‘What would be legal?’ And we’ll come up with options of a mix of capabilities to respond to whatever the situation is, and that’s the way it works. It’s not that complicated.”

 

In other words, if the president is nuts, the generals will try to stop him before he goes too far.

 

(No one wants to imagine what will happen, if Trump gives an illegal order, is told it’s illegal, and gives it again.)

January 3, 2018: The Skunks Spray One Another

 

1/3/18: Trump’s day spirals downhill when skunks begin spraying each other. Skunk #1, Steve Bannon, once a key campaign strategist, is quoted in a new book, Fire and Fury. Among other gems, he calls Ivanka “dumb as a brick.” Bannon suggests her husband Jared (Skunk #2) and brother Don Jr. (Skunk #3) may have committed treason by holding the now infamous meeting with representatives of the Russian government in June 2016. 

Also attending: Paul Manafort, Skunk # 5 (who doesn’t do any spraying.) 

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Bannon suggests Don Jr. and Jared may have committed treason.

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Naturally, when a skunk sprays Skunks #2, #3 and #4 (Donald J. Trump Sr.), Skunk #4 sprays back ten times harder. The president works on a series of drafts of a statement blasting Bannon. Finally satisfied, he insists Bannon had nothing to do with his victory in November. Trump won the election all by himself. Bannon never had a shred of influence while working in the White House. When Bannon lost his job, Trump says, he “lost his mind.” (See: 1/6/18.)