As tough as this was, it’s been a wonderful thing
The imbecile president went back to Houston today. He says everything’s great, people there are blissed out.
President Trump toured part of a cavernous Houston convention center on Saturday that has provided refuge to thousands of families displaced by flooding since Hurricane Harvey roared into the city a week ago.
Trump said he saw happiness among the people crowded into the NRG Center. Many have lost their homes, cars and possessions in the epic flooding.
“We saw a lot of happiness,” Trump told reporters traveling with him. “It’s been really nice. It’s been a wonderful thing. As tough as this was, it’s been a wonderful thing, I think even for the country to watch it, for the world to watch. It’s been beautiful.”
Yeah. It’s been great. The people who lost everything are so happy, it’s really nice, plus it’s great television. It’s beautiful. It’s just a fabulous fabulous thing all around.
Asked what people had said to him, Trump replied, “They’re really happy with what’s going on. It’s been something that’s been very well-received. Even by you guys [the media], it’s been well-received.”
Definitely. The hurricane was well-received, the flooding was well-received, the days in the shelter were well-received. The whole thing has been absolutely awesome.
Some of the adults did not sound particularly happy.
Devon Harris, 37, a construction worker, was skeptical about the impact of a presidential visit.
“Is he going to help? Can he help? I lost my home. My job is gone. My tools are gone. My car is gone. My life is gone. What is Trump going to do?”
Later, the Trumps put on plastic gloves and helped hand out lunch boxes — hot dogs, potato chips and applesauce.
Yum.
After Trump’s remarks on stage, he and Mrs. Trump went outside, where a line of cars was waiting to collect supplies. They loaded about a half-dozen cars and trucks.
“Hey can you handle this?” Trump said to the first recipient, a man in a pickup truck as the president handed him a plastic American Red Cross bucket.
“There’s a lot of stuff in here,” Trump said. “You’re all set,” he said after loading a few boxes in the flatbed and slapping the truck a couple of times.
“It’s good exercise,” Trump said as the man drove off.
Awesome.
If Trump had never said any of the other things he has said, this should earn him a place as the worst president we have ever had. It paints a clear, and grim, picture of exactly how much compassion this monster possesses – and how much understanding of things that don’t immediately affect him.
All I can hope is that, once we get rid of him through whatever means – ballot or impeachment – we never ever ever forget this horror show. We reform the electoral college system so that it never happens again. We put some sort of minimum standards on being president (other than the unwritten one of being male). We bring the media back to a sense of their real mission, instead of just getting ratings, and get them to understand that it is up to them to sort through and tell the truth, not just to act like all sides are equivalent and letting us sort it out; many don’t have the skills, the time, or the interest in sorting it out, and the media should be acting in the role of fact checkers, not just talking heads.
Our system is broken, and I am not sure it can be fixed, at least not without drastic measures.
It’s all one big photo-op to him, one grand backdrop, with housands of extras. He gets to swoop in and pretend to be a hero (though can’t be bothered to try to care) and go back to play golf between tweets. Most presidents seem to age, I think, with the, weight and responsibility of the office. I don’t see this sort of thing touching Trump. Just too callous and oblivious.
And the goal of our climate policy is to make sure we get many more such wonderful things in the future. You just wait and see. It’s going to be covfefe!
I’v had the experience of interacting with royalty when they open my projects, and they’ve said some pretty inane and disconnected things (although honestly I think on one particularly memorable occasion the poor man was visibly ill, and should probably not have had to spend a long working day being ferried from building site to building site). But royalty’s job is simply to be present at an event, not to make policy or direct a branch of government. I’m wondering whether if the USA had the kind of split government the UK does we could go merrily about our business not giving a shit what DT does, and DT could enjoy himself swanning around pretending to be important. On the other hand, royalty have been trained from birth to know how to behave and what to say at a ribbon cutting, a military parade or a natural disaster, something DT has never been trained to, or had to, do.
YNnB, you make the Trump sound like a modern day Dorian Gray.
AofS
In Trump’s case, it’s the decaying, decrepit, two dimensional image that is out and about, with a youthful, boyish Trump trapped in video recordings from the past.