News Flash
President Donald Trump has sent his son-in-law-in-chief, Jared Kushner, to China to negotiate the sale of the Great Wall to the United States. If the purchase is consummated, the Wall would be relocated to the border separating the United States and Mexico, the purpose being to deter Mongolian immigrants from reaching United States territory. The Government Printing Office is reported to already be printing posters reading “Keep Out” in Mongolian and Mandarin. In return for allowing the US to acquire the famous Wall, Mr. Trump is, according to sources not authorized to speak on the issue, prepared to offer the Chinese government the opportunity to rename any three properties in Beijing after Mr. Trump.
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Buttering Up
If President would not be honored enough by the removal of a world heritage site to the United States and, in return, having his name slapped on edifices in the Forbidden City, he has been extolled by Rep. Troy Nehls (R-Texas) as “better than sliced bread.” Nehls adds in his “humble opinion” that Trump is “almost a second coming.”*
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I Love You to Death
Former Fox News host Megyn Kelly ripped into some of the most vocal supporters of President Donald Trump’s war in Iran, listing the names of people she said pushed him into the conflict.
“Stop with that ‘it’s President Trump’s decision.’ I’m aware, but someone talked him into it, and those people should be held to account,” Kelly said on Friday’s episode of her show. “As this thing goes south, we need to know exactly who talked him into it, and what representations were made to convince the president that this was a good idea. Who? Who, specifically?”**
The above view of Megyn Kelly that Trump’s Iran policy is the result of his listening to advisors who “talked him in to it” is just one example of Trumpian excuse-makers who hand Trump an exculpatory get-out-of-jail-free card when presidential policies go south. “It ain’t Trump to blame—it’s those who have his ear,” and so they have an excuse themselves to continue to support the wayward President (to the extent, in Megyn Kelly’s case, that he “could drop a nuke and I’d still vote Republican over Democrat”)***
The Economist has a recent story about a “fashion influencer speaking truth to Putin” via a “viral Instagram video.”**** The article notes that while Victoria Bonya, “a Russian former television presenter turned influencer,” claims that
“the people are afraid of you, bloggers are afraid of you, artists are afraid, governors are afraid,”
she goes on to counter their feelings, saying that they should not be afraid (“I am not afraid”—because Putin is “the president of our country”).
The Economist points out that
she mainly attacks intermediaries (following the ancient formula “good Tsar, bad boyars”).
Just like the approach of Trump brown-nosers who can’t separate themselves from the incompetent, deluded, self-loving Tsar in the White House (with the destroyed East Wing)—blame the boyars!
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Guru
Finally, if one really needed advice from a well-educated, level-headed, politically-astute commentator, one could turn—as Trump did at a recent dinner of his—to Mike Tyson.†
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* https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/republican-lawmaker-says-trump-almost-160542506.html
** https://www.huffpost.com/entry/megyn-kelly-maga-pushed-trump-iran_n_69c7f6f7e4b0a014076f381c
*** https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/celebrity/articles/megyn-kelly-says-donald-trump-114235855.html
† https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/crypto/articles/tickets-trump-vip-event-now-145022033.html
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