President Trump: The NEW one and only politics thread

She can spell it any way she wants to.

 

David Roth gets Trump at his miserable essence better than any columnist, I think.

https://theconcourse.deadspin.com/this-is-all-donald-trump-has-left-1830329753?rev=1542079517338

 

On the third anniversary of the 11/13 attacks not that this fucking shitbag has any clue that’s today.

 

25th amendment, I say, 25th amendment.

 

When the U.S. came along they faced 11 German divisions at Normandy.

Because 230 German divisions were, uh, "occupied" elsewhere.

 

I seldom agree with BTE on Russia, but here he is exactly right. The Russian front was where seven-eighths of all German military activity in WW2 took place. The American belief that the war was won on D-Day is natural, as it marked the start of our biggest military commitment of the war, but incorrect. The prosaic truth is that the US's vital contribution to the triumph was its matchless industrial production of war materials.

 

Reading it, I was far more interested in the commentary about Trump's generation - and the little sliver about Obama - than I was any of the stuff about Trump.

The generation stuff:

Like many in his generation, Trump has mistaken the end of his life for the end of the world. He can’t imagine, let alone care about, what will be left after he is gone, if only because no one who matters to him will be around for it.

The Obama sidebar:

Barack Obama wanted to be a cosmopolitan leader who brought people together and into a deeper empathy through a mastery of reason and rules; the country he governed doesn’t work like that, though, and the tension between that cool vision and this seething reality grew and grew. By the end, his presidency had the feeling of a prestige television show in its fifth season—handsomely produced and reliably well-performed but ultimately not really as sure what it was about as it first appeared to be.

The Trump material was fine, but generally standard invective and ridicule delivered from a left perspective. I think Trump is a manifestation of America- the worst of the right and the left - not some standalone asshole who collected all the other assholes' votes - and so I'm less interested in him than I am in what created him.

His press conferences are absolutely theater and, if I'm honest, equal parts dismaying and hilarious. First, those pressers have always been theater, regardless of the president. Second, Trump's shitshow routine is compulsively watchable. Third, he clearly loves the press and loves playing the heel in front of them. He draws energy from their disdain.

 

CNN had no choice, I suppose, but to die on this hill.

 

They might not die there.

 

John Bolton, ladies and gentleman, John Bolton:

Trump national security advisor says tape of Khashoggi killing doesn't implicate Saudi crown prince

 

I have no idea why you're getting your panties so riled up about these Tweets.