Wait and see
It’s Saturday afternoon; I guess Trump is bored with watching football.
“Presidents and their administrations have been talking to North Korea for 25 years, agreements made and massive amounts of money paid … hasn’t worked, agreements violated before the ink was dry, makings fools of U.S. negotiators. Sorry, but only one thing will work!” Trump tweeted in two messages on Saturday afternoon.
“Sorry, but I plan to blow up the world.”
“Soz, but I’m a reckless idiot who can’t find his own buttocks in the dark so I’m going to go to war with North Korea and its buddy China.”
“Sorry, but you laughed at me one time too many.”
The president’s latest tweets come as the world continues to try to decipher another cryptic message that Trump issued on Thursday night at the White House, as he posed for a photo with the country’s top military leaders.
“You guys know what this represents?” Trump asked reporters in the room that night. “Maybe it’s the calm before the storm.”
When pressed to explain what he meant, Trump said: “You’ll find out.”
Oh, isn’t that adorable. He’s such a card.
At 7:18 p.m., reporters were led into the lavish dining room where the military’s senior leaders and their spouses were lined up on either side of the president and first lady Melania Trump in preparation for a formal group photo.
“You guys know what this represents?” Trump said gesturing to the commanders surrounding him as he made looping motions with his right index finger.
He dramatically paused and then said: “Maybe it’s the calm before the storm.”
“What’s the storm?” a reporter called out, as the officials and their spouses continued to pose, their faces frozen in toothy smiles, even as many of their eyes began to dart around the room.
“Could be the calm before the storm,” the president said.
It felt like the opening scene of an action movie — the president, stiffly rotating from side to side, surveying the country’s military leaders and providing an ominous hint that something would soon unfold. He wouldn’t say what, but it seemed clear that it wouldn’t be anything good. Maybe something involving North Korea or the Islamic State terrorist organization or Iran or who knows what else.
Who knows, who knows, because here is this stupid vain greedy man we’ve given possession of all the keys, and he’s toying with us. It could be anything – anything except a good idea.
On Thursday evening, reporters were only in the dining room for about a minute — and they kept asking the president to explain what he meant.
“What storm, Mr. President?” an NBC News reporter called out.
“We have the world’s great military people in this room, I will tell you that,” Trump said in a loud but calm tone, flanked by his generals, whom he then thanked for coming to the White House.
Again, a reporter asked: “What storm, Mr. President?”
He responded: “You’ll find out.”
That’s this reckless toad of a man playing games with the people he’s supposed to serve.
At the White House press briefing on Friday afternoon, about one quarter of the questions directed at press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders revolved around the president’s calm-before-the-storm remark. She did little to provide clarity to Americans worried that the country might be headed into war.
“We’re never going to say in advance what the president’s going to do,” Sanders said when first asked about the storm comment. “And, as he said last night. . .you’ll have to wait and see.”
As if we were talking about birthday presents or a surprise trip to who knows where. That’s how childish and incompetent they are.
Later in the briefing, another reporter noted that the president did give advance warning that he might do something by saying that there could be a storm coming.
“He, unprompted, dangled these hints,” the reporter said.
Sanders responded: “He didn’t talk about any specific actions at all.”
So she confirmed he was playing a stupid sadistic game. That makes sense.
Because not even the president knows what he’s going to do until he’s fucking done it.
Seems to that nobody concedes that both Trump and Tillerson are likely both right, and that it is possible to have a very good relationship with a fucking moron.
Of course, it’s equally possible he’s going to sic ‘his’ Generals onto the 60,000+ mental health professionals who signed this petition; https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-time-cure/201709/the-dangerous-case-donald-trump
For decades, Congress has been looking the other way as Presidents have expanded their ability to make war, taking us into war zone after war zone without a formal declaration from Congress. Did no one realize this could happen? Of course they did; that’s why someone made a movie like Fail Safe, and like Dr. Strangelove. If Hollywood could see it, why couldn’t the damn Congressmen who not only allowed Presidents to start wars, but also began giving them a discretionary budget so they could do all sorts of other things?
And where are all the “original intent” screamers when there really is something in original intent that needs to be maintained?
And the actual tweet, of course, had a typo (specifically a superfluous pluralisation, as spotted by Patton Oswalt).
I suppose we’ll be lucky in that a nuclear exchange will likely destroy any digital records, and so any surviving future generations will be spared the embarrassment of having to sift through the Orangoontan’s illiteracy.
I’m reminded of that scene from “When Aliens Attack” in Futurama where Brannigan puts President McNeal in a bag while everyone cheers and a judge kicks the bag after said president continued to pursue a dangerous course of military action…
For once Brannigan had a good idea… Kelly might want to watch that episode.
Apropos the previous:
https://www.facebook.com/144310995587370/photos/a.271728576178944.71555.144310995587370/1682845131733941/?type=3&theater