Gen. Mattis has responded to Trump calling him “the world’s most overrated general.”
He added: “And you do have to admit that, between me and Meryl, at least we’ve had some victories.”
Zing!
From the ProPublica article:
In short, two books. One of which must be false, but who knows…maybe both are bullshit.
Thanks to both of you. 
In other news, David Brooks comes out. Welcome back to the fight, David.
“If It’s Trump vs. Warren, Then What?”
Now I want a .gif of Meryl & Mattis high fiving.
My favourite was when he said “I earned my spurs on the battlefield. He earned his in a letter from a doctor.”
Not as unique and optimistic as mine:
It’d be fun if the G7 is at his hotel next year and he’s there in an orange jumpsuit on a work detail assisting the groundskeeping staff…
Alternately:
Trump will host the G7 leaders at his hotel, but his ankle monitor won’t let him walk them to their cars afterward.
I would think that Chris Christie is one happy motherfucker right about now, possibly the happiest Republican in America. Talk about dodging a bullet!
And I’d love to read it. For some reason, though, the site won’t let my iPhone (on Firefox) access my three free articles.
Placing a call to their tech support would be a little crass, don’t you think?
On edit: I think I may have already read it. Those excerpts seem familiar.
I guess I’ll try again when they do a profile on Felicity Huffman’s prison stint.
White House lawyers and press staff had prepped Mulvaney before his press briefing, which Trump knew and approved of, according to two White House officials, but the focus of the prep session was on questions Mulvaney would face about the selection of Trump National Doral in Florida as the site for the 2020 G7 meeting – not impeachment.
The very definition, well, one of many, of a clusterfuck.
Does anyone remember the old Brady Bunch song, Sunshine Day? Every day for me is Schadenfreude Day. This motherfucker is going down slow. Slowly, slowly, slowly the noose will tighten. Trump will end up pacing around the White House late at night but he won’t be talking to pictures of dead Presidents because he won’t know who the fuck they are. Well, except for Obama. I’m not a creative writer, can I ask some of you who are to write the dialog between Trump and Obama?
Earlier in the day I heard Trump say he has saved millions of lives. Just now saw another clip on CNN and it’s now “millions and millions of lives.”
I think I see what is going on here in his silly, stupid head. He has intervened into a conflict in the Middle East that would have eventually resulted in some sort of holy war instigated by the Kurds that would have exploded into…oh man…millions and millions of people dying.
Or the other leaders could book themselves into the nearest non-Trump hotel and then just drive over to his place for the actual meetings.
Just read Michael Lewis’s book The Fifth Risk already. The Vanity Fair articles are all excerpts.
“I much prefer a Holiday Inn. And the foods better.”
Did you see how Mick Mulvaney (acting White House Chief of Staff) admitted in a press conference yesterday that there was in fact a quid pro quo, in which Trump held up aid to Ukraine to force them to investigate Hunter Biden and his father.
And then Don Jr., and the father of Jacob Wohl attacked Hunter Biden on twitter.
Yeah, but then, like a champion Trumpeteer, he said that what he said wasn’t what he said. That’s like a checkmate in Trumpland.
Do leaders actually have to go? Can they send delegates? Would it be legitimate to send a nice letter (he really likes “nice letters”) in a giant envelope (which he also really, really likes) that says “Our intelligence checked and there’s no way to guarantee security there.* So we will need to decline. However, we would like to present Miss Mary Elaine George who has just passed her A-Levels and did a stellar job at Model UN. We thought this would be an excellent opportunity to show how our young people will be the future of the world - though they cannot make any decisions in the present. None at all. We’ll use official diplomatic channels for that.”
*true.
They don’t have to go - the G7 talks are totally informal for one thing - but generally speaking it’s good for votes when a head of government is seen taking his/her place on The World Stage and hobnobbing with other famous leaders and so forth.
I can’t believe we’re going to invite French and Italian people to our country and let them eat Trump hotel food.
“Ze beefsteak is, how you say, very heavily cooked.”
“Passa da ketchup.”
I hope they have the option of ordering in Cubano sandwiches, ropa vieja, and panfried plantains from selected joints in Miami.