Now I’m trying to come up with alternative names for Political Officers.
Well, if his AG choice wasn’t Exhibit A of that, I don’t know what could be. Matt Whitaker is a ridiculous choice in terms of qualifications and suitability for the role, but a fanatic Trumpist.
The fact that Trump has already partially disavowed Whitaker, claiming he doesn’t know him when in fact he knows him quite well, perhaps suggests Whitaker is not long for the role, but it’s an example of the kind of Trumpist who’s going to get all the appointments from now on.
Not for an instant do I think Trump’s attitude towards military appointments would be any different.
Got a cite for that?
Better than this one, I mean?
Just in the interest of fighting ignorance. The Nubbin’ did attend a ceremony at Suresnes American Cemetery on Sunday, November 11 (Armistice Day) in France. He arrived back at the Whitehouse at 7:00pm on Sunday. He arrived at Andrews AFB at 6:40pm, the day that observances were held at Arlington.
He spent Monday (US Veterans Day) in his anxiety closet.
Sorry, that’s not entirely accurate but close enough
Holy Jumpin’ Jesus! Was he like that guy in Milliways who was spending the year dead for tax purposes?
Can’t see Trump promoting Graham. Graham has said some nasty things about Trump and although Trump seems to “forget” things he said a few days ago, he does remember who’s on his shit list. Yes Graham has done a complete 180 in the last few months, and started brown nosing with the best of them, I suspect he’s going to end up with the same treatment as Christie. Sent out to get hamburgers, humiliated in public and then left out in the cold.
Oh yeah - Graham is setting himself up for the Romney/Christie treatment.
I think I’ll pretend to feel sorry for him.
NSC aide Mira Ricardel is out because Melania didn’t like the way she treated her.
Melania’s spokeswoman Stephanie Grisham announced, “It is the position of the Office of the First Lady that she no longer deserves the honor of serving in this White House.”
I think Graham might be positioning himself for the attorney general role in case scrutiny forces Whitaker out.
People keep feeling sorry for Melania. I see no sign at all that she isn’t just as much of an entitled asshole as her husband.
But maybe a broken clock is somehow right twice a day and this is one of those times.
And he’s insulting Macron & the French again.
Perhaps, but bear in mind that the solution to a broken spring is most likely to replace it with a defective one.
This is what he wants – well, this is what Putin and the global oligarchs want, more specifically.
It’s as plain as day that the American right wing is all-in on authoritarianism and oligarchy, but those pesky Europeans! Claim that they’re not paying their fair share. Normalize the idea that the US and our allies are no longer allies. Fuck Canada! Fuck France! Fuck Germany!
In reality, we’re just fucking ourselves.
Amen. Putin’s real aim is destabalize the US and Europe and he has done so.
First Benedict Donald (thanks Baal Houtham) lectures Baltic leaders over the Balkans, and now we have a Slovenian first lady feuding with an appointee of Croatian descent. I wonder what Putin thinks.
I don’t know why Graham is called a “moderate.” He was a disciple of Trumpism when DJT was just a gleam in Sheldon Adelson’s eye:
I can barely stop myself from chortling with glee, at the thought of Trump curled up in a fetal position, cancelling all his appointments, too broken to even pick up his Twitter-phone. But then I think of the kind of damage he could do in a fit of pique and it takes some of the fun out of it.
The French Army is trolling Trump.
And the French Embassy attended the ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknowns on Memorial Day, where Trump was not. Though I can’t find a news report on it now, though I did earlier.