REMOVE THE CRIMINAL-TRAITOR-ETHICS VIOLATOR-CHILD KIDNAPPER-LIAR (TAKE YOUR PICK) FROM OFFICE

Michael Cohen indicates Trump ordered him to violate campaign finance laws to pay hush money to two women he has extra-marital affairs with.

Trump violated his oath of office by aiding and abetting Russia when he validated Putin’s denial of meddling in the 2016 election against the information he received from his entire intelligence apparatus.

Trump signs into law a Tax Bill last December that substantially benefits him and his organization, specifically it gives huge tax breaks to golf course owners and real estate developers, to the tune of billions of dollars after Republicans, and only Republicans, pushed the $1.5 trillion tax bill through the Senate without any hearings, testimony, or expert witness feedback. And on June 22, Trump signed an executive order to roll back environmental regulations to protect the world’s oceans thereby handing himself a business win in the process. It will “facilitate the economic growth of coastal communities and promote ocean industries” which will include most of Trump’s hotels and golf courses, increasing their profit margins. The order eliminates several regional planning bodies that were designed to keep an eye on local bodies of water and apply federal standards accordingly.

To date, 535 migrant children have still not been reunited with their families even after being ordered to do so by a federal court over a month ago. This is a form of terrorism endorsed by Trump to scare immigrants from coming to the U.S. by forcibly taking their children away when they cross the border. The children are innocent, yet they are ripped from their parents and put in cages in a detention camp. One has died while in ICE custody, and at least a dozen have been sexually or physically abused by ICE or HHS employees.

Immediately after Trump became the Republican nominee, the FBI provided him with high-level security information by high ranking counter-intelligence officers that the Russians were infiltrating the US election system and trying to spy on his campaign. They even warned him explicitly that the Russians were trying to contact his campaign and that if he was contacted or if he knew of any attempted contact, he should alert the FBI. This was AFTER the meeting Trump had in March with George Papadopoulos at the table who presented an offer to contact the Russians, after the Trump Tower meeting with Jr., Kushner and Manafort with at least 5 Russians on June 9^th, after Jeff Sessions first meeting with Sergey Kislyak, after Paul Manafort had offered a Russian oligarch close to Putin with a personal update on the Trump campaign, and after Carter Page had gone to Moscow at the behest of Manafort for the Trump campaign. Keep in mind this was BEFORE he became president. Yet he still claims there was no collusion. Was there a criminal conspiracy, then?

Trump’s lies? Did he ever provide his tax returns before the election which he vowed to do at least 16 times before November 8^th?  Was Don Junior’s meeting with the Russians at Trump Tower about adoptions like Trump wrote aboard Air Force One as an explanation? Didn’t Trump brag when he came back from Singapore that North Korea would de-nuclearize immediately? Didn’t the White House promise that 70% of the GOP tax cuts would go to workers when it is now confirmed that 83% has gone to the ultra-wealthy in this country? Didn’t Trump say he would hardly leave the White House to play golf because there was so much work that needed to be done? To date, he has golfed over 60 times in less than 2 years in office, far more than Obama did in 8 years.

Trump has been involved in over 1,300 lawsuits in the last 18 years, including one over his fraudulent Trump university that was still ongoing during the campaign. Nineteen women have accused him of sexual assault or misconduct, including ex-wife Ivana who once used the word "rape" to describe what he did to her in a court case. His businesses have repeatedly declared bankruptcy, including three casinos, an airline, vodka, a mortgage company, bottled water, steaks, a magazine, a dot com company, even a board game. He has told an average of 6 1/2 lies per day since taking office, for a total of over 4,000.

At the beginning of June, the Pentagon told Congress it estimates that nearly 500 civilians were killed as a result of US military actions in the first year of the Trump administration. "The Department of Defense assesses that there are credible reports of approximately 499 civilians killed and approximately 169 civilians injured during 2017." The report adds that "more than 450 reports of civilian casualties from 2017 remained to be assessed," meaning the number of civilian casualties caused by US military operations could go up. The report covers both US airstrikes as well as ground combat operations. The DoD acknowledged that civilian casualties have more than doubled since January 2017.

How many more reasons does anyone need to remove this criminal Russian asset from the Oval Office?

Hello, GOP. Anyone home?

Do Not Be Silent - Do Not be Fooled - Resist traitorous Donald Trump

Our Constitutional Republic is in danger due to this man. Trump is drawing closer and closer to invalidating our Founding Father’s experiment in self-government. He violated his oath of office and no one who can do anything about it in Congress or on his Cabinet is holding him accountable.
        Trump sided with Vladimir Putin against all of our intelligence gathering agencies filled with men and women who quietly defend this nation against foreign intrusion. Men and women who just want a president that has their back...not stabs them in it.
Trump does nothing to preserve, protect and defend the United States or the people who serve it.

That is not incompetence.

That is not ignorance.

THAT IS TREASON.

DON'T SUPPORT TRAITORS - BECAUSE THOSE WHO SUPPORT TRAITORS ARE THEMSELVES TRAITORS.

Evangelicals and the GOP - What is Wrong with You?

Republicans and evangelicals: WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU? I know I am digitally shouting by typing in all caps and then making it bold, but this is an issue worth shouting about.

Even the American Bald Eagle recognizes Trump is a danger.

Are you Republicans and evangelicals just going to stand by while Trump trashes ALL of our intelligence services and then sides with Vladimir Putin? When he waits over 28 hours before being forced to read a statement that claims he simply misspoke one word, but he doesn’t take back anything else he said defending Putin or questioning US intelligence assessments, do you swallow that hook, line and sinker? If there is no collusion, as Trump claims, why wouldn’t he want to prove it by doing everything in his power to help Mueller get to the bottom of the Russian interference question and clear his name? Why is it okay for Trump to “consider” for over four days to handing Americans over to the Russians for interrogation with no apparent reason to do so? Trump said it was “an interesting idea" and "an incredible offer” and still has not refuted that stance. Why do GOP members block every effort to get to the truth? 

Here is Trump wiping 'a fluid from Vladimir Putin' off of his tie.

Do you really think Trump is the poster-boy for your Christian values and associated political viewpoints? It appears you have been corrupted by something far beyond the boundaries of patriotism, decency and moral standards. It's called Trumpism. Trumpism is a term for duplicity, deception, and contempt for the American people. It is Trump First, not America First.

          The GOP and evangelicals used to be rabidly anti-Russian. They couldn’t say enough bad things about the Russians, the Soviets, the communists, the oligarchs that ran the country from the Kremlin. Now, the GOP and evangelicals all cozy up to the Russians because of Trump. Trump participated in a Russian disinformation campaign by agreeing with Putin - thereby legitimizing Putin's denial and weakening the credibility of U.S. intelligence agencies. If Trump sides with Putin, that’s good enough for his supporters. They'll side with Putin and the Russians too. Those Russians are tough...but when Trump cuddles up with them, Trump is tougher. Does that make sense?

GOP and evangelicals, seriously, what in the hell is wrong with you?

On Twitter, Trump says his critics are suffering from "Trump Derangement Syndrome". The desperation in Trump’s tweet where he even wants to take oblique credit for a perceived medical condition because his name is on it - came a day after he appeared side by side with Putin and chose to believe the claims of the Kremlin that there was no meddling in US elections rather than the unanimous consensus of all US intelligence agencies that there WAS Russian meddling and influence. So people who question the motives of a president siding with the Russian leader are 'deranged.' Over a day later, to show how not adding an "n't" was just a slip of the tongue, Trump read from a prepared statement that he repeated a part of almost word for word, three times…as though he hadn’t read it up to that point and wasn’t sure what it would say next...then added a qualifier that "it might have been someone else," Trump's non-explanation immediately placated Republican congressmen. And despite the controversy, Republican voters still support Trump.

Trump knows he doesn’t have to convince the American people. He just had to convince the GOP…because those GOP leaders will block all attempts to hold him accountable and will run interference against any impeachment proceedings. They will lie to Trump’s supporters and tell them the Deep State is just trying to destroy good-old-honest-stable-genius-Donald Trump. All the GOP members are behind this, even when they stand on the sidelines. They all support Trump and his agenda.

Republicans: WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU? 

Senators Jeff Flake, Bob Corker, Orrin Hatch, Lindsey Graham, Mitch McConnell, Lisa Murkowski, Susan Collins…etcetera, and all you GOP congressmen and women - like Paul Ryan - abandoning ship prior to the November 2018 election…where are you? You have nothing to lose. Why are you NOT doing more than shrugging your shoulders when you should be defending the nation from Trump?

Iowa senator Joni Ernst still supports Trump even though, by her own admission, his tariffs and trade policies are detrimental to Iowa farmers and will vastly hurt her constituents. Yet she says she will still support Trump because he came up with $12 billion - that is not in the federal budget thanks to Trump's tax cut last December - to pay the farmers because his trade war with the EU, Mexico, and China has cost them at least $11 billion. So Trump is solving problems of his own making by conjuring up money from a supply of cash the government doesn't have. 

Evangelicals say they will give Trump “a mulligan” for his banging adult film actress Stormy Daniels, former Playmate Karen McDougal, sexually harassing Apprentice actress Summer Zervos and at least 19 other women who have accused Trump of years of serial sexual assault, all while he was married to one of his three wives. But evangelicals find nothing wrong with that and don't get the least bit excited about Trump’s adultery, dishonesty and misogyny since they think he is working for God. They remind us with quotes from the bible like Romans 13:1 Every person must be subject to the governing authorities, for no authority exists except by God's permission. The existing authorities have been established by God.“ 

So Trump is in office because that's the way God wanted it. 

But wasn’t King George III appointed by God…and the 13 colonies waged a war on him and killed his soldiers? Doesn’t that mean that the United States began its existence by violating the word of God? Of course not. American Christians say the United States was different. But because we were so different, we should and would base our laws on God's laws. The evangelicals are counting on Trump to do just that.

So Trump screwed a porn star while his (3^rd) trophy wife was home with their newborn son, Barron...just as he did with former Playmate Karen McDougal. Keeping the Stormy Daniels affair out of the newspapers before the 2016 election reportedly cost him only $130,000 which he admitted to in the addendum of his tax release last April. It makes up only 0.004 percent of his claimed net worth of $3.1 billion — But paying her off and letting the world know about it means nothing to him. This speaks volumes about him, and it speaks volumes about his supporters when he can pay off a woman he screwed 10 years prior - to keep her quiet while he was running for president - with the EVANGELICALS giving him their full support.

And they STILL support him.

Why?

 Keep in mind Trump doesn't give a damn about anyone being concerned and worried about his collusion, treasonous actions, emolument violations, lying about paying for adulterous affairs, passing a tax bill that almost exclusively gives him and his wealthy friends massive tax cuts, or his threatening nuclear war. Trump is immune to scandal and social censure. Ridicule hurts his feelings and he whines like a baby about it but it doesn’t change who he is. Republicans in Congress must accept much of the blame for what has happened to our democracy and our presidency. They sat on their asses and “let Trump be Trump” for too long. Now it may be too late. Just four days after Trump's disastrous Helsinki meeting he invited Putin to Washington DC. Not even the president’s Director of Intelligence knew this was coming. Why?

Republicans and evangelicals: What in the hell is wrong with you?

Trump knew on January 6, 2017, that Russian Military officers, at Putin's express instruction, carried out interference in our presidential election to help Trump. That is no longer in question. Trump was told the meddling was Russia…and Russia alone...two weeks before he became the 45^th president. He has lied about not knowing it since then.

Think he should answer any of the above questions? Should we have access to the interpreter's notes from his 2+ hour meeting with Putin? Should Trump be held accountable for violating his oath of office? Should he finally have to pay a price for all his lies?

Or are you just going to let him get away with another outrage?


July 19, 2018

Philippines President Duterte’s “God” Challenge

It’s hard to imagine someone less appealing on so many levels than the current president of the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte. He is a singularly unpleasant gargoyle-ish man who brags about murdering people himself, ridicules other world leaders, insults anyone for just about any reason, and shows no regard for the rule of law. But last week, he made a comment that finally got me cheering for him if only a little bit.

          He stated that God was stupid.

 

Referencing the nonsensical Book of Genesis, Duterte said “This son of a bitch is…really stupid.” What Rodrigo claimed is that god was stupid based on what is recorded in the Bible. If that god knows all and sees all, how did it not know what was going to happen, especially in the Garden of Eden? It’s proof that that being is stupid. For example, why would god punish Adam and Eve for not knowing right from wrong when he created them that way? And if that supposedly supreme being did know - and yet let it happen with over 99.9999999…% of all humans who would live on this planet being condemned to Hell after death…it is stupid to a degree unimaginable. Who wants to worship a god that stupid? 

 

 Then, Duterte followed that comment a few days later with a challenge - if anyone could prove to him that god existed, he’d step down from the presidency immediately.

Talk about a win-win.

If no one can prove that god exists, just as no one can prove the Easter Bunny exists, it is solid evidence that belief in a supreme being is without merit and should be abandoned for the good of the world. But if god’s existence is proven, we get rid of Duterte. (Although even if some being did introduce itself, Rodrigo would probably claim that wasn’t good enough or he’d say he didn’t really mean he’d leave office.) But I can agree with his basic premise - prove to all of us that god...any god...exists! 

So many people around the world swear that god exists; they just can’t seem to agree on which one. They can’t all be right. But as many non-believers have repeatedly pointed out, they CAN all be wrong. All we are asking is provide the evidence that a god exists. Real evidence, not words in a book that cannot be verified as anything more than the ramblings of half-educated men trying to make sense out of a world they didn’t understand. Don’t point at the trees, the mountains, or the sunset and claim “see, that’s god’s handiwork.” Setting aside the immediate problem of identifying which god created it, you can’t find god’s fingerprints, signature, or DNA samples on any of it so stop the ridiculous nodding at nature and giving it supernatural qualities it doesn’t have.

 

                Two clowns holding hands

The baffling part of Duterte’s recent statements is that he claims to believe in a god…he just doesn’t believe in religion. So if he believes, why does he want someone else to provide proof of the existence of god? You don't need evidence if you already accept there must be a god. It seems as though Duterte is simply chasing and chewing off his own tail in a search for an imaginary being, or he wants confirmation that his delusion is valid. Duterte uses "God" just like many U.S. politicians and other Americans do: convince the gullible he’s just like them and then exploit those people. Duterte and politicians like Trump use it as a tool to attain power, not as a standard of morality, honesty, or humility.

Bizarre as it seems, such a thing as a god could quickly put an end to the debate about his existence once and for all…by providing unmistakable proof he exists. The fact that he doesn’t can only lead to one of two conclusions - that he doesn’t want to be found…or doesn’t exist. Which makes more sense?

Stupidity - Trump and his twitter feeds

According to reporting from the Boston Globe, West Wing staffers say they intentionally insert grammatical errors into messages they draft for Trump's Twitter account, trying to mimic the president's peculiar style. Two staffers who talked with a Boston Globe reporter said Trump’s online voice at @realDonaldTrump, highlighted by his boorish language and broken syntax, “emphasizes his rejection of the elites” …and that helps him appeal to his low-information loyal base.

Stupid is as stupid does

While Trump appears to, with some embarrassment, delete earlier tweets that were originally posted with strange wording or child-like spelling errors — the most well-known is the bizarre "covfefe" tweet — he seems proud of the vast majority of them filled with capitalization of random words, quirky grammatical inaccuracies, and an overuse of exclamation points and ellipsis’. They all fall into a subterranean-level stratum that his predecessors stayed far away from. Prior presidents using Twitter and other social media strove to come across as intelligent, enlightened, thoughtful and appeared to be fully aware of the awesome and extraordinary responsibilities of the office of the president.

Trump does not.

British comedian and actor John Cleese nails it

          Nor does Trump attempt to appear presidential. As long as he appeals to his base at a simpleton’s level, with no understanding of governance, civic duty, or the dignity usually displayed by high office holders, they will support him. They think of him as the juvenile delinquent sitting in detention hall with them, and that makes Trump admirable. The Trump team likes to employ a strategy seen among other conservative trolls on Twitter: they intentionally screw up to, from their point of view, ‘own the liberals.’ They think if liberals - or educated people - point out the unprofessional, coarse, and childish nature of Trump’s tweets, it means those people have been ‘owned’ by Trump. He outwitted them by tweeting like a dolt. How exactly that is accomplished is never explained but it doesn’t matter so long as his base BELIEVES that’s what Trump has done. Style trumps substance. Fiction trumps fact.

The mind of Trump

Some White House staff members even take a perverse pleasure in the scoldings Trump gets from better-educated readers who are stunned by the Trumpian language the staffers have attempted to imitate, believing that debates over Trump’s grade school errors and typos fortify the belief in his base that he has the common touch. To put it bluntly, the base approves of his being an ignoramus…because it’s just like them.

Thoroughly Pathetic

So you have to be a dum-dum who likes misspelled words, overuse of exclamation points, random capitalization, broken syntax, and made up stories from the dum-dum who sits in the Oval Office claiming to be ‘presidential.’ And those dum-dums cheer on that kind of ignorance. They see it as an asset.

It makes sense that Trump and his team would be obvious about his lack of understanding and his appeal to the lowest expectations of his base. Since Trump’s presidential style, if you can call it that, revolves around grievance politics, he and his handlers like to metaphorically poke a stick in the eye of anyone with more than a fourth-grade education – you know, to put them in their place.

Trump Loves Stupidity

          Trump and his twitter enablers spend more energy inventing fractured posts complete with deliberately misspelled words and nonsensical capitalizations than working on a comprehensive strategy for dealing with North Korea. That would take real work, and as we have seen, Trump is allergic to real work. It cuts into his golf time.

There was no collusion with Russia, as long as you ignore that, and that, and that, and that, and…

Oh. Okay. The recent addition to Trump’s eccentric stable of legal advisers - Rudi Giuliani - says there isn’t a stitch of evidence that Donald Trump colluded with Russia - even though Giuliani hasn’t seen any of Mueller’s information - so on his word, we can take that to the bank. After all, Don Jr., Jared Kushner, and Paul Manafort’s meeting with at least 5 Russians on June 9, 2016, (in Trump Tower of all places) two of whom had known ties to Russian military intelligence, wasn’t collusion. Rob Goldstone who would also attend that meeting had even written in one of the earliest emails to Don Jr., quote "This is obviously very high level and sensitive information but is part of Russia and its government's support for Mr. Trump." unquote. Plus the subject line of the email sent to Don Jr. and forwarded to Jared and Manafort states right at the top “Russia-Clinton-private and confidential,” so 'a confidential liaison with Russians and their government's support proves it wasn't collusion.

Natalia Veselnitskaya, the Russian lawyer who met with Don Junior and those other officials in Trump Tower, acknowledged on NBC news Friday, April 27^th that she is not just a lawyer but a source of information for top Kremlin official and confidante to Vladimir Putin, Yuri Y. Chaika, the prosecutor general…but of course, interacting with a self-admitted Russian government informant isn’t collusion.

President Trump concocted a cover-up story aboard Air Force One that Don Jr., Jared, and Paul were just meeting with the Russians to discuss a suspended child adoption program - which fell apart days later when Don Junior released the email chain showing it was a clandestine meeting with the Russians to get dirt on Hillary Clinton - but that doesn’t suggest collusion.

At a Wilkes-Barre, Pa campaign rally in October 2016, Trump quoted almost word-for-word from a supposedly recently recovered Hillary Clinton email regarding the Benghazi attack in 2011 that was posted on the Russian propaganda website Sputnik. The information was discovered to be a false story spun by Sputnik and upon exposure they immediately took it down. Trump never retracted his statement, but naturally, quoting from a Russian propaganda site wouldn’t be an act of collusion.

Michael Flynn violated the Logan Act by discussing the President Obama-enacted U.S. sanctions with Russian ambassador Sergei Kislyak in several phone calls on Dec. 29, 2016, but that wasn’t collusion. Trump later defending Flynn for that very act and claiming he “didn’t do anything wrong” and “I would have expected him to do it” isn’t remotely collusion.

 Jeff Sessions having at least three discussions during Trump’s campaign with that very same Sergei Kislyak that he initially told a Congressional committee he “didn’t remember” isn't indicative of collusion.

Jared Kushner contacting Kislyak in December 2016 to see if members of the Trump administration could use the Russian embassy’s communications to contact the Kremlin instead of using U.S. services can’t seriously be mistaken for collusion.

Also, Jared having - what the White House described as - a "relationship meeting" with Sergei Gorkov, president of sanctioned Russian bank VEB in mid December 2016 as part of Trump’s efforts to establish a back channel to Putin, could never be confused with collusion.

President Trump meeting in the Oval Office with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and ambassador Sergei Kislyak, then banning any U.S. media from covering the occasion but allowing a TASS photojournalist unlimited access, giving away highly-classified intelligence from Israel to the Russians during that meeting, and bragging about his firing James Comey the day before got rid of “the Russia thing,” would NEVER be misconstrued as collusion.

Felix Sater, a Trump business associate who boasted of connections to Vladimir Putin, sent back and forth emails to Michael Cohen about a Trump Tower Moscow project and that Donald Trump had personally signed a letter of intent for it in October 2015, contradicting his repeated assertions that he has had no business dealings in Russia. But plainly, no one would accept THAT as collusion, would they?

The distinction in Giuliani’s mind is, everyone in Trump’s campaign, transition team, and his administration, DID interact with the Russians, but since Trump doesn’t know what the word collusion means, how can he be guilty of committing it? Besides, he can’t remember doing any of it, or hearing about any of it…ergo...there wasn’t any collusion. Whew, there you have it, the guaranteed "not a stitch" of evidence as Giuliani interpreted it., Everybody's innocent. Case closed.

What Might Happen when Kim Jong-Un Meets Trump at the very first meeting

It was hoped the unprecedented, ground-breaking meeting set up by new Secretary of State Mike Pompeo between President Trump and North Korea's Kim Jong-Un would distract the world's news organizations from the looming threat of obstruction of justice charges against the president, the deepening Russian collusion scandal, the lawsuit brought by adult film actress Stephanie Clifford a.k.a. Stormy Daniels, the criminal charges stemming from incriminating information found in Michael Cohen's confiscated material, a lawsuit 19 women brought against Trump for serial sexual assault, 26 plaintiffs suing Trump regarding his golf courses over non payment of labor, personal injuries, and unannounced changes to membership fees, and several other cases making their way through federal courts regarding Trump's Emoluments violations, Oath of Office violations, and even overcharging the government when secret service agents had to rent his golf carts in order to protect him at his Mar-a-Lago resort. Instead, what did happen caught everyone off guard.

If the Trump Administration was a railroad train...

          In a startling development, just as the meeting with Kim Jong-Un got under way, President Trump asked for, and was granted, political asylum in North Korea. 
          Trump was accompanied to the meeting by his entire cabinet and several aides, most of whom waited just outside the hall. Trump had deliberately excluded the U.S. press from the summit meeting so it was left to North and South Korean journalists and photographers to report on what happened. They said at the very opening Mr.Trump entered the room and walked over to the table as Kim Jong-Un entered from the opposite side of the room. Breaking protocol, Trump moved around to Kim’s side of the table and kept going toward Kim and his group of advisers. The journalists were expecting Trump’s usual power-handshake when he reached Kim. But instead, Trump put his hand on Kim’s shoulder and leaned down to his ear. The North Korean security men started to close in to protect Kim when Kim’s interpreter Chun Kei-Ryong, who had walked rapidly up behind Kim, spoke quickly and then turned to the gathered officials.

Chun Kei-Ryong (left) and Kim Jong-Un moments before meeting President Trump

          “Mr. Trump says he would like to come and stay in North Korea permanently,” Kei-Ryong said. “He has asked for asylum.”

There was a loud gasp from the South Koreans lining the southern and eastern walls and many rushed outside, while two American aides who had accompanied President Trump into the room stopped in their tracks at the table and stared at Trump’s back.

          Trump again leaned down to Kim’s ear and spoke for several seconds, then reach down for Kim’s hand. Jong-Un, looking uncomfortable, hesitatingly held up his hand and Trump grasped it, shaking it in a rapid, piston-like movement and smiled as North Korean cameras began clicking away.

          “Mr. Trump says he can bring much to the North Korean people. He has offered to show how a Trump Tower can be built in Pyongyang. He would only ask to have the top five floors for himself when finished.”

          One of the Americans called out several times to the President but Mr. Trump never acknowledged him.

Still furiously pumping Kim’s hand Trump spoke more loudly. “I think this is a great day for the people of North Korea, a great, great day, and Mr. President, I will help make North Korea Great Again, that I can tell you…that I can tell you.”

Kim and Trump fist-bump to cement their bromance

          Still looking baffled and uncomfortable, Kim stared at Trump for several moments and then turned to whisper to Chun. Kei-Ryong nodded several times as four of Kim’s highest ranking generals also drew closer. Kim’s hand was still being held and shaken by the president as Kim occasionally looked back and smiled at Trump. One of the generals spoke loud enough for a South Korean news anchor to overhear. The anchor blurted out to others nearby, “He just asked if Trump is willing to supply them with the U.S. missile codes.”

          There was a distinct rise in panic of the voices of the South Koreans near the news anchor and they all noted that Trump, smiling at the generals, appeared to nod his head yes to the question, then spoke softly to Kim and his entourage.

"What are you hiding in there?" Trump and Kim enjoy an intimate train ride to Pyongyang

          “President Kim Jong-Un is pleased to offer Mr. Trump freedom in the People’s Democratic Republic of Korea. We know Mr. Trump had been the target of many unfair investigations in his country. He has been accused of breaking many laws, having sex with many women who were not his wife, and enriching himself with millions of dollars from American taxpayers by signing a GOP tax plan last December. Here, he will be free to live his life without such annoyances, distractions, and threats to his freedom. He said his wealth has already been transferred to a Swiss bank. He will be able to access it through our connections in Pyongyang.” 
                    Mr. Trump handed a folded piece of paper to Chun, walked over to and through the door Kim had originally entered the room from. He never looked back and never offered an explanation. It was later reported he did stop long enough out in a portico to say goodbye to Melania before leaving.

Trump and Kim upon leaving his armored rail car 

          
          Chun Kei-Ryong glanced at the paper and continued “We will make arrangements once a week to operate a flight down to Seoul to buy McDonalds and KFC food for Mr. Trump, as well as purchase however many boxes of golf balls he needs. We do not allow Fox News in Pyongyang so President Kim will have to address that issue if Mr. Trump still wants to watch Fox and Friends before he twitters when he gets up."

          Kei-Ryong then read the rest of the sheet and shook his head in disbelief. “These actions granting asylum apply only to him. This says it is specifically not to extend to Don Junior, Eric, Ivanka, Melania, Barron, Kellyanne Conway, Stephen Miller, John Kelly, Sarah Huckaboo Sanders, Mike Pompeo, Mike Pence, Betsy DeVos, Mick Mulvaney, or any other member of his administration past or present. They will be responsible for whatever is left to do in Washington DC.

Before he left, Trump stopped to shake Melania's hand in a farewell gesture. Aides say she had never looked happier.

          Shocked and saddened aides to Trump grabbed their cell phones and called home. But when they reported what the Korean press said had happened at the meeting, they were stunned to hear a party broke out all across the nation. Congress immediately recessed, called it a day of thanksgiving, and gave federal employees the day off. Bars stayed open all night and fireworks were shot off continuously for the impromptu three day celebration.

          A strange glitch occurred later that got little news coverage. When Air Force One and Two returned from the aborted summit, they were diverted from landing in Hawaii due to heavy fog and were sent far to the north to a small airfield just outside Unalaska in the Aleutians. There the 747s were refueled but everyone was told the weather was getting so poor they would have to stay for the night. Next day the aircraft engines could not be started and all communications on the island were inexplicably cut off. 
          No one noticed any of them missing in Washington DC for several weeks until people realized the government was working correctly again. When an inquiry was made, the press was told a temp staff had been hired and was handling government business from a small office in the Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice Building and that the remaining administration members who had been on the planes had not returned. They had been encouraged to take a long vacation after Trump defected and they asked not to be contacted in any way. To date, no one has heard from any of them. 

Trumpin' Syria - Here We Go Again

Why is Syria our problem? In other words, why does the U.S. need to punish Bashar al-Assad for his use (maybe) of chemical weapons...again?

Trump doesn’t mind Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines slaughtering Filipinos. Duterte openly boasts about killing his own people. Trump even praises him for it.

Trump doesn’t have any issues with Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of Turkey who has killed hundreds of people opposed to his regime. 
          Trump also recently called and congratulated the re-election of Abdel Fattah el-Sisi in Egypt who has massacred thousands of Egyptians. 
          And Trump has literally praised Kim Jong-Un as a smart, “tough little cookie” who has overseen the deaths of close to a million of his countrymen and women. So why is Trump making a big deal about Assad killing other Syrians?

Trump tried out his warmonger stance last year on April 6^th when he authorized the U.S. Navy to launch 59 tomahawk missiles at airfields and infrastructure in Syria. Congress was not notified to approve military action, nor was any legal authority established for the US strike. Some people have a knack for war-making decisions. But not Trump and his administration. They display nothing but weakness, blundering, and cowardice. No one is impressed with Trump's ability, not even Death.

And this is telling, just like he did tonight, last year Trump said the strike was in the “vital national security interests of the  United States." But three days later on Sunday April 9^th, Trump conceded that it was just an “impulsive action” prompted by a video earlier in the week that upset Ivanka of seeing gassed Syrian children. There was no vital national security issue. Trump didn't give a damn about gassed Syrians, he just didn't want to see Ivanka's tears.

How effective was Trump’s attack last year? Reconnaissance photos taken after the strike found four destroyed aircraft with sixteen more damaged, and a few burned out buildings. Yet the runways were left completely intact. Syrian jets even use them later that morning for another bombing run on rebel-held territories in northern Syria. So, do you think this year's strike will be any more effective? What are the odds of getting entangled in a war with Russia and Iran...especially with someone as incompetent at military matters as Trump? There are now indications that, again, the Russians were warned of the missile strike ahead of time. Didn't Trump say he was not going to "telegraph?"
          Still trying to woo his evangelical base, Trump asked people to pray to god, for the troops involved, and for the Syrian people (who by and large believe in a very different version of god.) Why didn't Trump just pray to god to get rid of Assad and save risking any more lives? After all, thoughts and prayers work, Just ask Republican congressmen.

Just last week at a campaign pep rally in Ohio, Trump surprised everyone back at the White House and the Pentagon when he announced U.S. troops were going to be pulled out of Syria “very soon." One source even said Trump had initially planned to withdraw them within 48 hours. He had to be quickly dissuaded by General Mattis because it was an impossible time schedule. So Trump isn’t serious about Syria, nor is he about Assad killing his own people. It’s a distraction from all the legal, ethical, and criminal issues Trump is facing. The problem is, American, British, and French lives are going to be put at risk to protect Trump from his own stupidity.
And I have to wonder, what ever happened to THIS Trump?

Syria is not our problem and there never has been any "vital national security interest." Trump just wants everyone to think he's a big, tough, macho man, even with that painful bone spur in his foot. 
          Only an idiot plows ahead when he knows his decision will create more debt and cause a possible long term conflict. Did Trump get Congressional approval? - Big mistake if he did not.

Addendum - April 14, 2018: After claiming in his press briefing last night that this attack on Syria would be a sustained effort, this morning Trump proved to be as poor a commander-in-chief as George W. Bush when - indicating that that one attack would teach Assad a lesson and also scare the Russians - he tweeted about the early morning missile assault - "Mission Accomplished!"