Putin claims Trump helped him again

A new TASS story sounds suspiciously familiar: 

because it's almost a carbon copy of the incident Sarah Huckabee Sanders announced from the White House Press Room on Sunday, December 17, 2017, (two years ago) saying that Russian President Vladimir Putin phoned Donald Trump to thank him for a tip from the CIA that thwarted a terrorist attack being planned at Kazan Cathedral in St. Petersburg, that Trump's supplying “secret information” had helped Russian FSB agents mop up a terrorist cell.

So on December 27, 2019, according to the Kremlin, Putin spoke with President Trump to thank him…again…for information that Putin said assisted Russia to thwart another terrorist attack this time over the New Year's holiday. (How is it U.S. intelligence agents can catch terrorists in Russia but can't catch terrorist mass shooters here at home?)

TASS reports that the Russian Federal Security service said it obtained the information from its “American partners” and seized material from two Russian suspects that confirmed they were preparing to launch terrorist attacks...again in St. Petersburg...during the upcoming holiday. What an amazing coincidence; terrorists are stopped at the same time of year in the same foreign city by the same U.S. Intelligence people! 
Of course, no further details were provided.

(What the Russians are asking people to do is to connect the dots - with no dots.)

There was no immediate comment from the White House, which is strange because if Trump actually had anything to do with supplying this information that stopped an attack, he'd be tweeting about it nonstop. The White House did not even acknowledge any call with Putin. All the reporting came from TASS or the Kremlin. 
(Two days later, after repeatedly being asked about the Kremlin report, the White House released a statement admitting there was a call and promptly re-directed everyone to a claim that the two had also discussed nuclear issues.)

So what this sounds like is Trump getting a positive performance review at his annual evaluation from the boss for not saying a word about Russia completing a railroad into Crimea ahead of full annexation and diverting election-interference attention away from Russia and toward Ukraine. 

Fox is always willing to deflect for Trump to appease Putin.

       Putin is thanking Trump for a tip from something U.S. intelligence sources discovered…the same intelligence agencies Trump has openly disparaged in favor of whatever Putin says. Why would Trump trust anything our agencies uncovered? And if Putin is so convincingly powerful why is he relying on American intelligence agencies to save his ass from a terrorist attack in St. Petersburg and then thanking his puppet Trump, who believes our intelligence and national security agencies make up a part of a "Deep State" that is out to get him? Does the FSB suck at discovering potential terrorists in their own country? How did U.S. intelligence stumble upon it first? Why would anyone, including Putin, believe anything Trump says?

       This is a calculated cynical appeal to Trump supporters as a means of embellishing Donald Trump’s great accomplishments from a Russian perspective.

“You like Donald, yes? Here, we give you more reason for liking...because he helps Mother Russia.”

Season's Greetings from an Old Friend

Here's to a great 2020

Kim Jong Un to Donald Trump - "THANKS"

Donald Trump is raising Seoul’s financial obligation for continued U.S. military presence in South Korea by 500% starting next year or he’s pulling all the troops out.

Think Seoul will agree to Trump's extortion scheme?

If starting tomorrow you had to pay five times as much for any food you purchased what would be your response?

But North Korea's Kim Jong Un could not be happier with this turn of events. He might achieve what his father and grandfather could never achieve, the complete removal of the U.S. from the Korean peninsula.

And he gets to keep all his nuclear weapons.

Kim says "감사합니다, 트럼프 대통령."

SHAME ON THE COWARD-IN-CHIEF, DONALD J. TRUMP

         Imagine how the Kurds feel about the United States now? Or what Taiwan, South Korea, or Israel must be thinking about the prospect of the U.S. having their backs? Why would any country trust anything the U.S. did from this day forward?
         This is what Trump supporters, with Russian help, forced on us in the 2016 election...a self-centered coward who is loyal to no one. The United States will be paying for Trump's disastrous foreign policies (not to mention his domestic ones) far into the future.
         The popular old flag meme needs to be updated to this for U.S. military personnel to wear so our allies know...

The GOP firmly faces up to Trump's criminal activities

Once again, the Republicans (with evangelical help) are on the job...of obfuscation and misdirection, to help Trump.

Impeach Donald J. Trump

Why is removing Trump from office even a question anymore?

A Clown Gets a Pie in the Face

        Why wait? We need laughter now. If only for a moment. So we'd benefit from a hilarious distraction away from the constant chaos, mounting scandals and lawsuits, violations of the Constitution, the subjugation of American democracy, and destroying whatever international goodwill was left toward this nation. There's got to be a pie out there somewhere with his name on it.

Lest We Forget - Donald Trump Memories

         This is a small example of how much 'respect' for our military Trump has. Does our military matter to him at all? Well, when he takes $3.6 billion out of the Defense Department budget that was meant to help our military and their families in order to stroke his ego with his vanity wall project, what do you think? Trump doesn't care. To him, our military budget = Mexico. Trump's comment at the top, from a Howard Stern radio show, gives you all the insight you need to determine Trump's regard for our military. What happened in Vietnam is the same as avoiding STDs from all the unprotected vaginas Trump managed to assault in the 70s and 80s.  And when you're a star, they let you do it... Just in case anyone in the GOP forgot.

Only an Idiot Like Trump

Only an idiot would…

…believe windmill noises cause cancer.

…think raking a forest floor will prevent forest fires.

…want to use nuclear bombs to stop hurricanes.

…think you need a photo ID to buy cereal.

…claim Continental Army soldiers captured the airfields around Washington DC in 1776.

…think he can buy Greenland. (This idiot can’t even take care of Puerto Rico, a much smaller island)

…retweet and endorse a post that referred to him as the King of Israel and like the second coming of God. (Since the Jews aren’t waiting for God again, he probably meant Jesus.)

…admit on camera he is willing to break the law to stay in office, by accepting foreign assistance and by telling government employees to violate the law and he’ll pardon them after they seize private property illegally using Eminent Domain, ignore impact reviews, destroy local infrastructure, defile a historic cemetery…etc, in order to build a wall that simply panders to his base.

         This idiot tweeted a highly classified photo of a failed Iranian rocket launch that had not been cleared for publication by the Dept. of National Intelligence. To avoid charges of illegally exposing highly sensitive material to our adversaries, ex post facto he asserted an “absolute right” to release it as president as if there was nothing wrong with doing so. It's the same as in 2017 when from the Oval Office he confidentially bragged to the Russians about highly classified information from a spy inside ISIS. We found out about this from the TASS photographer in the room and then from the Israeli government. Trump brushed it off by asserting he never mentioned Israel by name, while in Israel. H R McMaster was forced to go out before the public and further muddy the waters to cover up Trump's massive security blunder. Two weeks earlier it was revealed that in a phone conversation with Rodrigo Duterte, he nonchalantly mentioned that two US nuclear subs had been positioned just off the coast of North Korea, a serious violation of military procedure. Again the White House scrambled to issue an after-the-fact justification that explained 'of course Trump had the right to do so as president.' How is any of this serving, protecting, and defending our country? And this idiot has our nuclear codes.

        Only this idiot would pose with a thumbs up next to Melania holding a child survivor of the Aug. 3rd El Paso mass murder whose shooter had cited Trump’s word ‘invaders’ to murder that child’s Hispanic parents.

Only this idiot would rail against socialism then turn around and dole out $28 billion taxpayer dollars to farmers who have been financially ruined by his trade war with China.

Without any evidence this idiot accused the Clintons of being complicit in the death of Jeffrey Epstein.

Without any evidence this idiot accused Ted Cruz’s father of being involved in the assassination of JFK.

Without any evidence this idiot claimed Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was murdered.

Without any evidence this idiot said Hillary Clinton got almost 3 million more votes than he did only because 3 to 5 million illegals voted in 2016.

Without any evidence this idiot claimed a judge who was born in Indiana of Mexican parents could not do his job because Trump was building a wall on the Mexican border.

Without any evidence this idiot claimed Barak Obama created ISIS.

Without any evidence this idiot accused Barak Obama of wiretapping his phone in Trump Tower.

Without any evidence, this idiot accused Barak Obama of being foreign-born for five years. Then, when the proof was demanded, he simply said he didn’t find anything. So to Trump, no evidence = fact.

Like a five-year-old, this idiot insults the physical appearance of rival candidates and their spouses or makes up a childish playground bully type of name to call them. He even fat-shames his own supporters.

Only this idiot would think that since we have nuclear weapons in our arsenal we should use them…and not just on hurricanes.

This idiot doesn’t even know what 5G means yet brags incessantly that no one knows more about technology than he does.

This idiot still claims Alabama was threatened by Hurricane Dorian and defaced an official weather map to maintain his fiction that it was in danger even though the National Weather Service showed the storm would stay well off the eastern seaboard two days before he made the claim.

This idiot makes up phone calls with world leaders, brags about letters he’s received but can’t prove he actually has, and can’t even operate an umbrella. He lives in a make-believe world where facts don’t matter, where truth doesn’t matter, where integrity doesn’t matter, nor does character matter. Only he matters. This man does idiotic things that wouldn't amount to a hill of beans if he weren't president. But he is and those actions endanger us and the world. 
Cabinet members, you took an oath of office to defend the Constitution and the nation, not Donald Trump. It’s time to take your oath seriously and save our republic from what this idiot is doing. History expects nothing less from you.

Trump 2020 - Here's Hoping

         How about that? Clothes to match his skin color. Let's work to make this happen...and put an end to the Trump Family Crime Spree. 

Word Hurt Trump Feelings. Bad!

It’s hard to accept that, here in the 21^st century; the United States has as its president, the most ignorant, self-centered, and petulant being to ever attain high office, but it’s what we actually have. Trump doesn’t understand how government works, he doesn’t understand how international treaties work, he doesn’t know what an autonomous body is, he thinks just flashing a large amount of cash around solves anything, he is constantly astounded when people don’t take him seriously, and even more frequently angered when people prove to be smarter than him. It has this effect on him...

Donald Trump abruptly canceled a long-planned meeting with the government of Denmark and is now belittling as “nasty” and holding a grudge against Mette Frederiksen the Danish Prime Minister because she called his idea of buying Greenland from Denmark absurd. Never mind that it can’t be done. Never mind that no one mentioned any of this to the Danes or Greenlanders first. Never mind that the people of Greenland have their own voices. Never mind that Trump can’t even take care of Puerto Rico, a much smaller island. Never mind that Trump thinks in such simplistic terms. What he is mad about is because she used a big word he didn’t know and he had to look it up. He didn’t like the sound of the word but he didn’t know what it meant. And that made him do something he hates, learn a fact. Trump prefers to just go with whatever he thinks up so realizing someone used a word he was unfamiliar with forced him to abandon his safe space to look up something new and different. It’s work. And Trump hates work.

Because Ms. Fredericksen wouldn't just agree to whatever he wanted, Trump projected onto her the biggest most derogatory word he could think of at a moment’s notice. It's a word Trump uses primarily when describing women who stand up to him and defy him. That word is nasty. She was describing Trump's idea as being absurd, not him. And at no time did she indicate the word applied to the United States. Yet Trump claimed she did and she can't call the country that. Trump conflates himself with the nation. Trump = America.

The whole situation, which Trump started, is absurd.

Actually, absurd is a president who is proudly ignorant, self-centered, gullible, incompetent, dishonest, and demonstrates to the world he thinks like a petulant five-year-old.

Trump's Rhetoric is Getting People Killed

Given the two recent mass shootings on August 3^rd in El Paso and August 4^th in Dayton (although Trump didn’t pay attention when he was told about it so he said it happened in Toledo), Trump was asked by a reporter outside the White House if in light of these attacks he thought his rhetoric was divisive. Trump immediately claimed “No” that his rhetoric brings people together.

In a way, his rhetoric does bring elements together - El Paso shooter Patrick Crusius wrote in his online posting that he viewed Hispanics in El Paso as invaders because that’s what Trump and his supporting far-right mouthpieces have been calling immigrants for the last four years. So Trump helped him bring together his intended targets, his loaded automatic weapon, his disgust with Latinos, and the motivation to kill. In the case of Dayton shooter Connor Betts, he was motivated by extreme misogyny. He had a pathological hatred of women, even making out a rape list while he was in high school and later a kill list. On August 4^th, he felt he no longer needed to restrain himself. Why should he when we have a president who said of women that he could do whatever he wanted, grab ‘em by the pussy…? When the president, now married to a third wife yet was also having an affair with an adult film star and a Playboy model at the same time, shows no more regard for women than that, Connor Betts decided he didn’t need to show them any regard either. Betts was mad at the world - and the misogynistic man who admitted on tape to acting on his impulses, well, he got elected president – so Betts acted on his.

But Trump is 100% right in that his rhetoric brings people together - the people who think just like Trump. The dishonest, scheming, racist, narrow-minded bigots who think only white people should have rights of any kind in this country. Trump’s verbal attacks on non-whites and/or non-christians bring out the worst in people who think like him. They now feel emboldened to say and do things like Trump suggests. If some of that leads to killing those that Trump railed about as invading our country, well that’s the price we pay for the freedoms guaranteed by the First and Second Amendments. Trump supporters just wish the media would stop reporting it. That, to them, is the problem. There’s too much attention paid to the negative things Trump says and does. Why can’t the media just ignore all that? They approve of the torturing and deaths of little children by ICE agents, by Border Patrol, and DHS. It doesn’t trouble them any more than it troubles Trump so talking about how cruel and un-American it is is a waste of time. Their attitude is “I don't care” because they know Trump doesn't care.

This is what we are up against. The people who defend Donald Trump may not have his wealth and power but they damn sure share his ideas. That includes the evangelicals who defend whatever Trump does by claiming he was anointed by God so who are we to judge. There are even profits...er, prophets…who claim the God of the bible told them Donald Trump was going to be president and you can read about it by buying their book which has been mass-marketed at evangelical churches since 2015. Those evangelicals are required by God to do all they can to protect Trump as president, even when he repeatedly says and does un-godly things. They have sold their souls to defend Donald Trump but deflect attention from it by claiming it is the forces of darkness (Satan, demons, the Deep State, the Never-Trumpers, the Democrats, liberals…) who are trying to usurp God’s chosen one by unconstitutionally taking the presidency away from Trump. It doesn’t matter if he colluded with the Russians, or that he obstructed justice, or that he treats women badly, they want everyone to acknowledge that Trump was hand-picked by God…their God…the God of the Protestant (preferable King James) Bible. If the Russians helped get Trump elected, it’s because God wanted it that way.

It has come down to the people who carry a bible also carry a torch for Trump. They make up about 30% of the population. There is another 5% that claim they are ambivalent about Trump.

The other 65% of us are the people who oppose what Trump is doing to our country and to the image of the United States around the world. When Trump’s actions and language encourage a shooting gallery type atmosphere, travel to this country from anywhere will dry up. When he encourages the use of torture by terrorizing little kids in order to stop their parents from seeking amnesty, looking for safety or work in this country, no one will want to come here anymore. Is that what Trump thinks is best for the United States, complete ostracization from the world? At the rate people are being gunned down from sea to shining sea, most countries prudently list the U.S. as a rather dangerous place in which to travel and the Travel and Tourism Advisory Board reported that from 2018 to 2019 there had been a 17% drop in people seeking to vacation in the U.S. Get ready for that number to plunge dramtically this year.

And it’s Trump’s rhetoric that is accelerating people getting murdered. His words have definitely brought people together: the most violent white people imaginable doing the most violent things imaginable in the most violent way imaginable, and it nurtures an atmosphere of hatred where those violent people cause battlefield-type casualties because the president uses battlefield-type language to describe people he just doesn’t like. Yet Cabinet members are still too afraid to confront Trump, even though his rhetoric and inflammatory language are being quoted by mass murderers because those cabinet members have deluded themselves into thinking Trump hasn’t really done enough to warrant removal from office. So more Americans must needlessly die thanks to cowards in high places.

Fake it 'til you break it -- A False Presidency and a Fantasy Wall

Now that the Supreme Court has determined that Mexico - as in “Mexico will pay for the wall” - is located in the Defense Department’s budget, it’s time to consider Trump’s “wall.”

Trump's wall is as fake as his understanding of the presidency.

His wall is as fake as his marriages.

His wall is as fake as his love for Don Junior, Eric, Tiffany, and Barron.

His wall is as fake as his comb-over.

His wall is as fake as his conservatism.

His wall is as fake as his religious beliefs.

His wall is as fake as his golf handicap.

His wall is as fake as the top 10 floor numbers of Trump Tower

Need I say more? Okay…

His wall is as fake as his patriotism.

His wall is as fake as his skin color...

Add your own.

Angela Merkel's Reaction to Trump's Latest Rant

Just imagine if this happened as the world responds to America’s Buffoon-in-Chief.

Former British Prime Minister Theresa May called Donald Trump’s tweets against U.S. Congresswoman Ilhan Omar “completely unacceptable.” Incoming Prime Minister Boris Johnson echoed May’s sentiment that this is not how world leaders act with his own observation that “If you are the leader of a great multiracial, multicultural society, you simply cannot use that kind of language.” UK Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn brooked no semantic games and straight-up called Trump a racist. Canada’s Justin Trudeau told reporters “That’s not how we do things in Canada.” Many more voices were raised against Trump’s screed, from New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, and the European Council. Every day more world leaders express their revulsion over Trump's remarks.

Now German Chancellor Angela Merkel has become the latest to condemn Donald Trump for tweeting and then telling four young Democratic Congresswomen to “go back to your country” while tacitly approving of his sycophants at a Greenville, NC rally to chant “send her back” for a full 15 seconds. Merkel revealed she opposed the sentiments…but for an entirely different reason.

“No, this needs to stop,” Merkel said outside the German Chancellory, “there should be no more of this sending them back talk. Do you realize that if this spreads, those opposed to Trump will demand he go back to where his family is from? I know he told reporters that his father was from Germany, but this is Donald Trump. He lies. His father was born in New York so that is where he should go back to. His grandfather Friedrich Drumpf, however, was born in Kallstadt, Bavaria in 1869. That means people might start demanding that Trump be sent back here.”

          At this point, a look of disgust swept over Ms. Merkel’s face. She then shook violently, took a deep breath, and almost hissed “We don’t want him here. The German people do not want to have any association with Donald Trump. That would be an additional disaster for us to have to contend with. Our past is tainted by tyrants. We have been bled to death by the decisions of those men. But now we are a peaceful country. We have learned to live with others on this planet. We don’t need Trump’s divisiveness, empty promises, and self-centeredness. Donald Trump is America’s problem.”  

          Just imagine if it was possible to send Trump back to Germany like he thinks those four Congresswomen should go back to the country their ancestors left. What kind of chaos would ensue? While I don’t know about conditions in the various countries where the four women’s ancestors lived I would bet that any of them would be welcomed by the people of that country as well as they are welcomed by the constituents they represent in their home states. But the Germans clearly no more want Trump in their country than a majority of Americans want him here. We have to get him out of office, arrest him, try him for the crimes he has already admitted to, and see to it he spends the rest of his life in an orange jumpsuit behind bars. His wealth and power do not put him above the law and they are not "get out of jail free" cards.

Angela Merkel would be right. Only Americans can do anything about a president who defies our courts, who replaces people around him with only “yes-men” and “yes-women” to provide cover for him while he enriches himself  at our expense, who lies about anything as he goes along, who approves of foreign leaders killing Americans or legal residents of the U.S., who was having sex with an adult film star and a Playboy model a year after marrying his third wife and just after the birth of his fifth child then covered it up with Michael Cohen’s help in order to get elected, and a man who is laughed at and denigrated by the rest of the world as confirmed by the former UK ambassador’s private email exchanges, and at the UN last September. That is why we have the 25th amendment, to remove a person who has proven to be morally and mentally unfit to hold the office of President of the United States.

George Washington weighs in on the Trump presidency

Celebrating our Independence?

The Republican Party has sold out the nation to Russia. Our own intelligence agencies, as well as our foreign intelligence friends, were warning us the Russians were interfering in the 2016 election. The Mueller Report confirmed this. Donald Trump became president thanks to Russian meddling.

How clearly does that have to be stated to anyone?

Here’s the thing; Donald Trump doesn’t care how this looks. He doesn’t care if there was collusion or obstruction. As long as it got Trump what he wanted, it was okay. He admits it in his line of tweets like “…I had nothing to do with Russia helping me to get elected.” This is called an Excited Utterance which the Federal Rules of Evidence say is admissible in court. Trump is admitting he knew they were doing it but he doesn't see anything wrong with it.

The Republicans, the nation, even the Constitution mean nothing to him. Power and the unbridled capacity to enrich himself with it is the only thing that matters.

Yet the GOP still defends whatever Kremlin-asset Donald Trump does without question. This is the very definition of treason against the United States.

But by all means, enjoy Trump’s overpriced Fourth of July martial spectacle celebrating our “independence.”

The Swarm

Maybe Donald Trump’s anger is justified, or at least understandable in a primitive, insect kind of way. He is accused of covering up his misconduct…but he doesn’t recognize his bumbling actions, his threats and distractions as a cover-up anymore than a bug considers the consequences of eating a field of a human’s crops. To Trump, he is being himself because we all knew he was a coward, a con-man, a bully, a liar, and a tax cheat when he was running for the presidency. He figures since we knew what we were getting, why are we surprised? He doesn’t understand our anger and disgust because he’s still the cowardly, bullying, lying, cheating, con-man who got elected for at least a four-year term thanks to Russian interference (he even tweeted his admission that they did, it's just that he wasn't involved), so what right does anyone have to complain?

Trump’s supporters got exactly what they wanted; an unbridled wrecking ball who would shake things up in Washington. The first few weeks of his presidency when he started to display gross incompetence, those supporters and his cheerleaders in the GOP insisted that Trump would eventually “grow into the job.” No, of course, they didn’t expect him to make enemies with the world, threaten war against North Korea, Venezuela, Mexico, Iran, expand fighting in Afghanistan, Syria, Somalia, Niger, Yemen, ram through a massive tax cut bill that primarily rewarded him and his billionaire friends, renege on his promise that manufacturers like Carrier, Ford, and Harley Davidson would stay open and expand when all three companies have laid off their workforce and closed down or moved operations overseas, initiate a trade war with China, Mexico, Canada, the European Union, and other trading partners. But they crossed their fingers and hoped he could somehow look presidential while still "being Trump."

Trump takes his job so seriously that the “I-won’t-have-time-for-golf president has spent fully one-fourth of his time in office at one of his resorts or golf courses…usually playing golf. We the taxpayers have had to pick up the bill for over $100 million to provide security for him at his own golf courses…you know, those places he mentions at his rallies that make him a billionaire. But his supporters did expect him to be different. Vive la difference, huh?

They look around and gasp “but what about our economy, look at all the new jobs, the low unemployment numbers, a booming stock market...that has to be Trump's doing. Yes. Look at all those - but peek behind the curtain to see what is really happening. Bloomberg, MarketWatch, and even the Wall Street Journal admit that Trump’s massive tax cut bill in December 2017 hasn’t done anything the Trump administration predicted it would. The nonpartisan Congressional Research Service confirms it has had no effect on the economy, other than driving the federal deficit $2 trillion further in the hole. Are prices coming down? No. Are jobs paying more? Only a few of the high tech, limited access jobs. Low-income job numbers have risen but not the pay. If you’re in the stock market, you’ve had a hell of a roller coaster ride, which is not what the market is supposed to do, but it has gone up in the past two years. However, a simple check of the Dow Jones chart for the past 10 years will show that due to policies enacted by Obama, there has been a steady bull market since 2010. When Obama left office, the jobless rate had dropped to 5%. Under Trump, it has gone down to 3.8. How has that 1.2% drop improved things for you personally? The most honest answer I’ve heard on that from a Trump supporter was “it makes Trump look good.” If that’s your bar, then the bar is sitting flat on the ground.   

The laughable part (if there is anything to laugh about) is that all along the Republicans have kidded themselves into thinking they could contain and control Trump and his horde. They found out it is like trying to herd locust. That is a pretty good metaphor for the Trump administration…a criminal enterprise that operates like a swarm of locust. Locusts usually gorge themselves on whatever is in front of them and to hell with anyone or anything else.

You can see Trump and his hand-picked “best people” fit the locust comparison perfectly, like Elaine Chao, Alex Acosta, Michael Flynn, Tom Price, Scott Pruitt, Ryan Zinke, Jeff Sessions, David Shulkin, Rex Tillerson, Betsy DeVos, Ben Carson, Wilbur Ross, Steve Mnuchin, Rick Scott, Reince Priebus, Kellyanne Conway, Kirstjen Neilsen, Rob Porter, John Bolton, William Barr, just for starters. Plus, consider the people who have been forced out or deserted this bizarre White House like rats abandoning a sinking ship: John Kelly, H. R. McMaster, Jim Mattis, Gary Cohn, Nikki Haley, Don McGahn, Rod Rosenstein…etc. How have they made anything great again when they leave their job after only a year, or are forced out by the guy who said they were his best people? Remember, the GOP supported and approved of every one of them.

What these human locusts amount to are the flotsam and jetsam that stuck to the bottom of the hiring barrel and had to be scraped out of the corner with a sharp stick in order to be considered. Trump has filled up the Washington swamp with a massive swarm of locust, because every one of these “acting directors,” Cabinet yes-men and yes-women serve Trump and Trump only, not the American people. They are enriching themselves at our expense while they encourage, enable, and run constant interference for Trump to cover up what he does. They know what he is doing is wrong just as they know what they are doing is wrong. But Trump provides camouflage. And like a good cult leader, Trump has convinced not just his administration but his supporters that they are not seeing the whole picture or the real world. Only Trump knows all and sees all. So they believe his lies and this helps them continue to support Trump because who can now tell who is telling the truth anymore. They believe it is better to simply support Trump and his lies than to search for the truth of a story. That’s too much work.

Trump supporters, when did intelligence, decency, and character in a president stop mattering to you? Why do you approve of the Trump swarm picking America clean?