January 30, 2018: Fox News Excited because Trump Uses Word "America" 82 Times in State of the Union Address

 

1/30/18: Trump supporters try out a brand-new argument in the Mueller investigation. The president should refuse to answer questions. He has absolutely nothing to hide. So why testify!

 

Chris Christie, former least-popular Governor of New Jersey ever, says Trump should button his lip. “I don’t think the President of the United States – unless there are credible allegations, which I don’t believe there are – should be sitting across from the special counsel. The presidency is different. I don’t think they should do that.”

 

Who will decide if allegations are credible?

 

Trump.

 

Meanwhile, Trump delivers his second State of the Union Address. He doesn’t insult anyone. So, it looks like a huge success. It also turns out to be the third longest in history, partly because Trump talks really slowly, so dimwitted Americans can follow his logic-no-logic speech. In eighty minutes, the president uses 5,146 words. That would be roughly 64 per minute, half normal speed.

 

Fox News is excited, however, because in his address Trump uses the word “America” 82 times.

 

I can top that right here: America, America, America, America, America, America, America, America, America, America, America, America, America, America, America, America, America, America, America, America, America, America, America, America, America, America, America, America, America, America, America, America, America, America, America, America, America, America, America, America, America, America, America, America, America, America, America, America, America, America, America, America, America, America, America, America, America, America, America, America, America, America, America, America, America, America, America, America, America, America, America, America, America, America, America, America, America, America, America, America, America, America, America. 

Why not: American. 

I win 84-82.

The blogger, right: Camp Pendleton, USMC, 1970

Trump's bone spurs hurt; the blogger enlisted in 1968.

February 1, 2018: President Trump Claims Largest Audience Ever Listened to Him!

 

February 1, 2018: Trump is feeling good about his State of the Union Address. So he decides to tweet. First, he says 45.6 million people watched, which is true.

 

Then he asserts that was the largest audience in history.

 

Like so much of what he says this is untrue. It’s less than watched George W. Bush’s first speech in 2002 (51.7 million) or his second in 2003 (62 million). It’s less than listened to Obama’s first State of the Union Address in 2009 (48 million). And it is way less than watched Bill Clinton’s State of the Union Addresses.

His audiences were bigger.

 

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IMMIGRATION in the news! The president has revoked Temporary Protective Status for 200,000 Salvadorians living legally in this country. More than half arrived before 1990. Now they may be forced to return to a country they barely remember. Between them, they have 193,000 children (combined), born in the United States, and therefore citizens.

 

If only they were Norwegians (see: 1/11/18).

 

If they were, we can bet President “I’m-the-least-racist-person-you-know” Trump would find some way to make it possible for all to remain.

 

While we’re on the topic, did you know 9,000 Dreamers, now at risk of being deported, are working as teachers in this country? That includes New Mexico “Teacher of the Year,” Ivonne Orozco.

 

Neither a “rapist,” nor a “murderer.”

February 5, 2018: President Trump Believes if You Don't Love Him, You Don't Love This Country

 

2/5/18: Trump loves to talk about all the stock market gains since he took over. But today the market bombs, dropping 1,175 points. This forces the president to fall back on his other favorite tweeting topic: Insults! 

One tweet allows him to call five people liars. What are all five lying about? The Russian investigation: 

Little Adam Schiff, who is desperate to run for higher office, is one of the biggest liars and leakers in Washington, right up there with Comey, Warner, Brennan and Clapper! Adam leaves closed committee hearings to illegally leak confidential information. Must be stopped!

 

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THE U.S. SUPREME COURT allows a ruling by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to stand.

In that decision judges ruled a gerrymandered map drawn by Republicans “clearly, plainly and palpably” violated the state constitution. 

That map allowed the party to capture 13 of 18 U.S. House seats in 2012, even though Democrats polled 2.7 million votes to 2.5 million for Republicans.

 

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TRUMP TOPS off another busy day with a campaign-style rally in Cincinnati. In another rambling talk, he complains about the response of Democratic lawmakers during his recent State of the Union Address. He’s mad because when he said, “you have the lowest black unemployment in the history of our country,” all the Democrats didn’t rise and applaud like an audience at a Kim Jong-un speech. 

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“I mean they certainly didn’t seem to love our country very much.” 

President Trump

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Trump looked at the lawmakers’ faces. Dead silence from the Democratic side of the aisle. “Not a smile,” he said. “Half the room is going totally crazy,” he told his audience, but the other side was giving off nothing but “bad energy.” 

You’re up there, you’ve got half the room going totally crazy wild, they loved everything, they want to do something great for our country, and you have the other side even on positive news, really positive news like that, they were like death and un-American. Un-American.

 

Trump hears someone shout, hesitates and points out at the crowd. 

“Somebody said treasonous,” he says and shrugs. “I mean, yeah, I guess, why not. Can we call that treason? Why not? I mean they certainly didn’t seem to love our country very much.” 

Trump seems to believe that if you don’t love him, you don’t love your country. His fans seem to agree.

 

BLOGGER’S NOTE: Looking back, near the end of the Trump presidency, it’s clear. This was the template for his four years in office. His political opponents, critics, and voters who disapproved of his performance didn’t love the country. His political allies, media pals, and voters who approved did. They were great Americans.