"Trump is unraveling before our eyes. He isn’t fit for reelection."

By artappraiser on Wed, 04/03/2019 - 1:02pm |

Op-ed by Jennifer Rubin @ WashingtonPost.com, April 3

[....] In the past 24 hours, Trump — who will be 74 in November 2020 and is “tired,” according to aides — has:

Falsely declared multiple times that his father was born in Germany. (Fred Trump was born in New York.)

Declared that wind turbines cause cancer.

Confused “origins” and “oranges” in asking reporters to look into the “oranges of the Mueller report.”

Told Republicans to be more “paranoid” about vote-counting.

He is increasingly incoherent. The Post quotes him at a Republican event on Tuesday: “We’re going into the war with some socialist. It looks like the only non, sort of, heavy socialist is being taken care of pretty well by the socialists, they got to him, our former vice president. I was going to call him, I don’t know him well, I was going to say ‘Welcome to the world Joe, you having a good time?'” Even when attempting to defend himself, he emits spurts of disconnected thoughts. “Now you look at that [presidential announcement] speech and you see what’s happening and that speech was so tame compared to what is happening now, that trek up is one of the great treacherous treks anywhere, and Mexico has now, because they don’t want the border closed.” [....]

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/04/03/we-should-be-asking-if-trump-is-too-old-stand-re-election/?utm_term=.8ea7966e026c

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Fresh signs of Trump’s unfitness have emerged. How can Democrats deal with this?

Op-ed by Greg Sargent @ WashingtonPost.com, April 3

There’s a deep disconnect, or even a pathology of sorts, festering at the core of the Trump administration’s response to the humanitarian crisis at the southern border.

On the one hand, Kirstjen Nielsen, Trump’s secretary of homeland security, is appealing to congressional Democrats to engage in a constructive effort to find real solutions to the crisis. Nielsen has embarked on a new private and public campaign to get Democrats to consider legal changes that will supposedly ameliorate the situation.

Yet even as this is happening, Trump is rampaging around like a madman, threatening or putting in place all kinds of unhinged responses, through unilateral action, that are utterly disconnected from the realities of the actual crisis. These actions will only make the situation worse, and they render constructive engagement far less likely, or even impossible [.....]

by artappraiser on Wed, 04/03/2019 - 1:05pm

Acting President Kushner?

As Trump rages over border, Kushner quietly plans legal immigration boost

Hardline activists are ready to oppose any move to expand immigration.

By Anita Kumar @ Politico.com, 04/03/2019 05:02 AM EDT

by artappraiser on Wed, 04/03/2019 - 1:14pm

More on Acting Prez Kushner and The Onion story downthread:

Unbelievable. These Republicans are a clear threat to our national security. https://t.co/JnIFbcI3wi
— Peter Daou (@peterdaou) April 4, 2019

by artappraiser on Wed, 04/03/2019 - 9:35pm

Trump now says he never wanted new ObamaCare replacement vote

By Jordan Fabian @ TheHill.com - 04/03/19 09:33 AM EDT

by artappraiser on Wed, 04/03/2019 - 1:31pm

Tourist In White House Gift Shop Browses Rack Of Security Clearances https://t.co/MwHlMoIEC8 pic.twitter.com/e4OFejIbp8
— The Onion (@TheOnion) April 3, 2019

by artappraiser on Wed, 04/03/2019 - 4:14pm

Feds Actively Investigating Whether Chinese Gov’t Has Been Spying on Trump at Mar-a-Lago

By Matt Naham @ LawandCrime.com, April 3

On the heels of the arrest of a Chinese national who allegedly lied her way into President Donald Trump‘s Mar-a-Lago club, it’s being reported that federal authorities are now investigating whether the Chinese government has been spying on the president.

According to a 10-page criminal complaint filed Tuesday, Yujing Zhang attempted [....]

The newly-revealed investigation also centers on immigrant entrepreneur Li “Cindy” Yang, the former owner of the Orchids of Asia massage parlor that ensnared, among others, New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft for allegedly soliciting prostitution. Yang was photographed with Trump at a Mar-a-Lago Super Bowl party,

The active counterintelligence probe was reportedly “turbo-charged ” by Zhang’s Saturday arrest [....]

by artappraiser on Wed, 04/03/2019 - 5:08pm

Lots more on the Mar a Lago investigation @ WaPo:

‘You pay and you get in’: At Trump’s beach retreat, hundreds of customers — and growing security concerns

The FBI is looking at why a Chinese national illegally gained access to Mar-a-Lago last weekend.

By David A. Fahrenthold, Devlin Barrett, Josh Dawsey and Ellen Nakashima
1 hour ago

How China’s ‘Dr. Charles’ peddles claims of access to U.S. power

by artappraiser on Wed, 04/03/2019 - 9:14pm

another oldie but goodie "unraveling" recalled in new book by Politico reporters:

Trump responded "who the f-ck are you" to GOP lawmaker who challenged his crowd size claims: New book https://t.co/RwfrbeLZkv pic.twitter.com/nRh0zYUlAT
— The Hill (@thehill) April 4, 2019

by artappraiser on Wed, 04/03/2019 - 10:21pm

@ Esquire, April 3: Donald Trump's Windmill Cancer Speech Was Another Horrifying Look Into His Broken Brain

Donald Trump rounded out a remarkable day with a speech he feared would be leaked even though it was televised live on C-SPAN.

by artappraiser on Wed, 04/03/2019 - 10:24pm

This week, Trump announced he’d release an Obamacare alternative, close the Southern border and allow the full public release of the Mueller Report.

Later this week, Trump also announced the opposite of all 3 initiatives.

Thanks Donnie. We thank you for your steady leadership
— Bryan Behar (@bryanbehar) April 5, 2019

You know who else called himself Don and launched idiotic attacks on windmills? https://t.co/1GNtkDLkBc
— Eric Columbus (@EricColumbus) April 3, 2019

by artappraiser on Fri, 04/05/2019 - 12:13pm

great point, truly the height of absurdity, pot/kettle/black:

“Positive things?” His klan rallies are a 90-minute bitch session about his long litany of grievances.@realDonaldTrump https://t.co/cNzynEJ0Nw
— Col. Morris Davis (@ColMorrisDavis) April 5, 2019

He really does think his bitch rallies are about being positive. He can't even see that one of his few skills is whipping up grievance and anger at the other. Total utter self-delusion about what comes out of his mouth continually.

by artappraiser on Fri, 04/05/2019 - 12:29pm

It's "positive" if it's about him. A pretty low threshold to complexity there.

by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 04/05/2019 - 12:36pm

our newsroom has added tourniquets, door stoppers, emergency panic buttons, and paid for training on what we should do if someone decides they want to shoot us up pic.twitter.com/qdV7JJ7Awu
— Molly Priddy (@mollypriddy) April 5, 2019

by artappraiser on Fri, 04/05/2019 - 2:46pm

Trump made two remarkably authoritarian remarks in one day (Friday)

Did you even notice?

By Aaron Rupar @ Vox.com, Apr 5, 2019, 3:40pm EDT

President Donald Trump made two remarkably authoritarian comments on Friday, first urging Congress to “get rid of judges” — specifically, immigration judges — and later demeaning the entire media as the “ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE!”

But in a sign of how normalized the behavior of this president has become, neither remark amounted to much more than a blip on the news radar [....]

by artappraiser on Sun, 04/07/2019 - 8:13pm

Be fair - he's just reading the Republican platform. And he left out the part about locking up all Democrats as treasonous traitors - think he was having a good day.

by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 04/08/2019 - 1:17am

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