The sick joke of the Trump presidency
‘Freedom unifies the soul’: Trump's State of the Union speechwriters have thrown in the towel https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/feb/04/freedom-unifies-the-soul-trumps-state-of-the-union-speechwriters-have-thrown-in-the-towel?
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The sick joke of the Trump presidency is that it’s becoming increasingly hard to tell the difference between funny strange and funny haha. After bragging about getting his NATO allies “to help pay their fair share”, Trump pointed to his greatest military innovation.
“Just weeks ago, for the first time since President Truman established the Air Force more than 70 years earlier,” he declared, “we created a new branch of the United States Armed Forces, the Space Force.”
At this point the cameras turned to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Mark Milley, who looked like he could barely stifle his giggles.
It has long been unclear how much of this president’s entourage is engaged in a daily stifled giggle.
On the eve of his impeachment acquittal, so many of the jurors listening to Trump’s state of the union treat him like a man-child whose conduct cannot be judged by normal adult standards. “I believe that the president has learned from this case,” Senator Susan Collins of Maine told CBS News. “The president has been impeached. That’s a pretty big lesson.”
Yes, that’ll teach him. Now he knows he can ignore congressional budgets, use military aid for his own personal gain, and coerce a foreign government to interfere with an American election.
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