I’ve found a handy application for Twitter is using it to stockpile reminders about things that our president has done, things that we once would have said were unbelievable about any president but that in the last few years we have found all to easy to believe about this one. Things that make us nod our heads and say “there he goes again.” (I think Ronald Reagan would approve of us quoting him in this way, don’t you? I think so.) Just this afternoon there was this:
…in which maybe there is actually the possibility that a president can take this action, but not clear that he can do so. And Congress does have room to fight back (not that today’s Congress is going to do that, of course; that much is a given). Also today I saw this item, which I’m sure is just a coincidence (right?):
It feels like every day the Stable Genius invites disbelief and ridicule by making up something, something clearly false and easily disproved, just so he can praise himself:
If you care about the government’s budget deficit—I know this is of no concern to you any more, Republican members of Congress—we got the news this week that the deficit is snowballing toward record highs, thanks in large part to the Trump tax cut:
In fairness, Trump didn’t do this one all by himself—he had the cooperation of the Republican majorities in the House and Senate. The trade war with China, the one that’s got the stock markets around the world concerned: that one’s all on him.
All of this is just from this week, and this list is far from exhaustive (and we don’t know yet what he’ll do at the G7 meeting, other than campaign for his boy Putin):
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