Trump's foreign policy pronouncements go beyond self-parody: 'We have very fast airplanes'

[Demovictory9]

https://www.alternet.org/2019/02/trumps-foreign-policy-pronouncements-go-beyond-self-parody-we-have-very-fast-airplanes/

Donald Trump came up with a lot of memorable lines during the 2016 campaign, from “build the wall” to “drain the swamp.” One of his most common, from the moment the general election campaign began, was a complaint that his rival Hillary Clinton didn’t have the “strength and stamina” to be president. He made it clear over and over again that he believed the job of president was too much for her, and she wouldn’t be able to handle the rigors of the job.

As it turns out, this was another case of Trump projecting his own weaknesses onto someone else. A White House source leaked some confidential official presidential schedules to Axios and they show that the man with the most important job in the world is barely working:

The schedules, which cover nearly every working day since the midterms, show that Trump has spent around 60% of his scheduled time over the past 3 months in unstructured “Executive Time.”

“Executive Time” (also known as free time) was created by former White House chief of staff John Kelly when it became clear that Trump just couldn’t handle a normal presidential schedule. Apparently, it takes up most of his day. (One Twitter wag pointed out that the schedule looks like a day in the life of one of his cats.)

Nobody is quite sure what the president does with all that time, but the last few days have shown once again that he isn’t spending any of it boning up on national security and foreign policy. His understanding of world affairs is actually getting shallower and more confused than it was when he was elected.

[RockRaven]

1. Non-English speakers who read his comments in translation must think they've got a bad translator...

at least at first. What grown-ass person in a position of such power could sound like such a moron?

[PJMcK]

2. He doesn't just sound like a moron

He is a moron.

That's the problem.

By the way, he's also an idiot.