The Trump Presidency is a joke. Nothing has changed on that front. The amazing thing is that it just keeps getting worse. The health care bill is most likely going to fail. The wall probably isn't going to be built. And on and on. Even the small victories, like the travel ban being reinstated, come with caveats. And of course, according to Trump, it's all the media's fault.
Well, in the past week things have only gone from bad to worse. First, Trump looks like an idiot at G20, announcing that Mexico will definitely pay for the wall, right in front of the Mexican President. Then, he walks out of a meeting for no apparent good reason, leaving his daughter as our representative there. Then there's the disastrous meeting with Putin, where we have conflicting reports on whether or not Trump accepted Putin's denials of Russian interference in the election. And finally, Trump touted an initiative that he and Putin discussed, a so-called 'cyber security unit' that tyhe U.S. and Russia would jointly run. Senator Rubio had this to say on Twitter about the idea:
Partnering with Putin on a "Cyber Security Unit" is akin to partnering with Assad on a "Chemical Weapons Unit". 2/3— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) July 9, 2017
Now if even Rubio is ripping you a new one as the Republican President, then you're in trouble. Trump did some backtracking, saying on Twitter, "The fact that President Putin and I discussed a Cyber Security unit doesn't mean I think it can happen. It can't." Thinking it was a good idea in the first place, which is obviously the case, doesn't make backtracking after all the backlash any better. He is clueless and flailing around uncontrollably, hoping to get something right.
Now, Trump's son and namesake, Donald Trump, Jr. finds himself in hot water. The NY Times first reported that he, Paul Manafort and Jared Kushner all met with a Russian during the campaign. At first, Jr. said it was to talk about adoption practices in Russia, but when further information came out, he changed his tune. He's now saying it was a meeting with someone whose name he didn't know, with information he had no idea about. So he supposedly invited Kushner and Manafort to a meeting with a nameless person with unknown information, supposedly damaging to Hillary Clinton. Sound reasonable? I didn't think so. So less than a week ago the White House and various aides denied ever meeting with Russians connected to the Kremlin, now we finally have proof that they're lying.
Will anything come of this constant barrage of smoke? Are we close to getting fire? I sure hope so. dump Trump!
UPDATE 2:29PM EST: Trump, Jr. has tried to say that everyone goes to secret meetings with nameless foreign agents from adversarial countries, but tons of former campaign advisers say differently. “I’ve been involved in 9 presidential campaigns ... never happened, never would happen for all kinds of reasons,” said GOP consultant John Weaver, who advised the White House bids by Ohio Gov. John Kasich and Sen. John McCain of Arizona. “Senior presidential campaign officials don’t take meetings with nameless people. Doesn’t happen,” said Rick Tyler, a top aide on the Cruz campaign.
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