worst president ever

Apparently, The Worst President Ever doesn’t actually read all of the details of the Executive Orders he signs.

Think about that for a minute (which is longer than Tump would).

This is revealed in the New York Times article Trump and Staff Rethink Tactics After Stumbles. It is filled with amazing quotes.

How does this White House work?

Aides confer in the dark because they cannot figure out how to operate the light switches in the cabinet room.

Help, let me out!

Visitors conclude their meetings and then wander around, testing doorknobs until finding one that leads to an exit.

Who needs official reports and intelligence when you have [fake] cable news?

For a sense of what is happening outside, he watches cable, both at night and during the day — too much in the eyes of some aides — often offering a bitter play-by-play of critics like CNN’s Don Lemon.

“Hey, you think we should let Donald in on the creation of Executive Orders?” “It’ll just bore him, but okay.”

[t]he president, for whom chains of command and policy minutiae rarely meant much, was demanding that Mr. Priebus begin to put in effect a much more conventional White House protocol that had been taken for granted in previous administrations: From now on, Mr. Trump would be looped in on the drafting of executive orders much earlier in the process.

What happens if Trump signs an Executive Order offering his own resignation and naming Bannon his successor? It, apparently, could happen!

But for the moment, Mr. Bannon remains the president’s dominant adviser, despite Mr. Trump’s anger that he was not fully briefed on details of the executive order he signed giving his chief strategist a seat on the National Security Council, a greater source of frustration to the president than the fallout from the travel ban.

Has there ever been such an inept yet vile set of buffoons in The White House? It’s hard to imagine any administration outdoing the incompetence of Trump and his aides. I remind you, too, that we are three weeks into his presidency. THREE WEEKS.

See this tweet for details:

https://twitter.com/ShaunKing/status/825848096961785857?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Gallup poll here.

And graphic in case the link above changes:

62 million Americans voted for this terrible man. Shame on all of them. He didn’t disguise any of his misogyny, racism, narcissism or terrible policies during the campaign. They knew what they were getting and they voted for him, anyway. And now people are genuinely starting to suffer because of their ignorance–and his. The best we can hope for is these profoundly ignorant, gullible idiots never vote again.

Trump has enacted an execute order that has banned all Syrian refugees from entering the U.S. and for 90 days has also halted all immigration from seven Muslim-dominant countries. None of the 9/11 hijackers came from these seven countries. Coincidentally, Trump doesn’t have any business interests in any of these countries, either.

Trump is a craven, simple-minded racist who, through this action, has actually made America less safe and less secure. He is literally playing into the hands of terrorists and their sympathizers by making the U.S. appear “evil” and uncaring.

It’s disgusting and despicable.

(Come on Bigfoot army, get to work.)

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Trump didn’t launch any nukes on his first day as president. Hooray.

Only 1,459 more days to go to dodge the atomic bullet (that’s when the 2021 inauguration happens and Trump will hopefully not be part of it, except as an onlooker–unless he is still missing after having been kidnapped by Bigfoot, of course).

On the second day of his presidency, we witnessed the first press conference of the new administration. The press secretary lied about something easily disproven–the size of the crowd at the inauguration–and took no questions. A press conference without questions. At least CNN didn’t feel more left out than any other media outlet (Trump declared them “fake news” in his last press conference before the inauguration and refused to take questions from their reporter).

Roughly twice as many turned up today for the Women’s March in Washington D.C. as did for Trump’s inauguration, with estimates of around 500,000 participants. Hundreds of thousands of others joined in around the world.

The Associated Press:

Trump said throngs “went all the way back to the Washington monument,” despite photos and live video showing the crowd stopping well short of the landmark.

The liar who became president continues to lie. His press secretary lies. This is not normal and should not be tolerated.

CNN: White House attacks media for accurately reporting inauguration crowds

The nice part is CNN has nothing to lose by going full attack mode on Trump now since he’s already cut them off. They have every incentive to dig for as much dirt as they can find. And they will find dirt.

There’s a good chance Trump won’t finish his term, though it is difficult to imagine a Republican-controlled Congress impeaching him and even more improbable to imagine him resigning. I suspect his usual technique–to simply ignore reality and lie about everything–is ultimately not going to see him through. The ignorant fools who helped elect him will lap up everything he says, of course, and there’s a lot of people out there who seem curiously proud of their stupidity, their unwillingness to think critically or to engage in anything that smacks of rational or logical thought in preference to leading with their emotions or their “gut,” whatever that means. But I don’t think there are enough of these people to protect him when the tide turns.

And it will turn.

Hopefully before the nukes.

The New York Times: With False Claims, Trump Attacks Media on Turnout and Intelligence Rift

Quotes (emphasis mine):

WASHINGTON — President Trump used his first full day in office on Saturday to unleash a remarkably bitter attack on the news media, falsely accusing journalists of both inventing a rift between him and intelligence agencies and deliberately understating the size of his inauguration crowd.

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He also called journalists “among the most dishonest human beings on earth,” and he said that up to 1.5 million people had attended his inauguration, a claim that photographs disproved.

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Later, at the White House, he dispatched Sean Spicer, the press secretary, to the briefing room in the West Wing, where Mr. Spicer scolded reporters and made a series of false statements.

Trump tries to forge a reality that simply doesn’t exist, and he may expect to get away with it by assuming no one will fact check or if they fact check, no one will care. On the small stuff, a lot of people (see the aforementioned ignorant fools) won’t care. But Trump won’t stop with constant, small fabrications. He’ll lie about important matters, too. And it will be his undoing.

The alternative is to watch the United States devolve from a democracy into something else (something worse and terrifying) and I can’t really entertain that notion right now.

On the other hand “President Trump” seemed ridiculous, too.

And again, this is only Day 2.