Galaxy Brain: Trump Plans to Solve World Hunger with Surplus Hog Feed

[Judi Lynn]

Galaxy Brain: Trump Plans to Solve World Hunger with Surplus Hog Feed
Another grand idea from America's stable genius.
by ANDREW EGGER MAY 14, 2019 12:44 PM

Perhaps you’ve noticed by now that Donald Trump likes to make stuff up, from time to time. Every morning, the nation arises to a fresh heap of lies, misunderstandings, and outright fantasias already dispensed, mostly on Twitter, by our early-bird president. Off dash the fact-checkers and pencil-pushers in his wake, but it’s mostly a futile exercise—by the time they’ve punctured any given falsehood, he’s already off on some new riff, and away they must race again. And three years in, it’s clear that they’re wearing themselves out faster than he is.

So prudence dictates that people interested in sussing out the president’s fictions have to pick their battles. Sometimes, when the president pops off with a loony idea, you can just wince and wait for it to fade into the noise on its own. Remember when Trump suggested Antonin Scalia might have been murdered? Or that the Access Hollywood tape was faked? Or that Ted Cruz’s dad helped kill JFK? They basically disappeared on their own. Perhaps because Trump was only speaking literally. Or seriously. Or whatever.

But other times, alas, Trump’s spur-of-the-moment concoctions seem to lodge in his brain and fester, such that for days on end he can hardly discuss related issues without sidetracking himself by bringing them up. At such times, these brainstorms have a dangerous tendency to be suddenly transubstantiated from “momentary ad-lib” to “new federal policy.”

These are the ones to watch out for.

The most recent of the festerers cropped up over the weekend, involving the president’s ongoing trade war with China. The conflict has already begun to have serious economic consequences for America—particularly for farmers in the Corn Belt, who have in recent decades invested heavily in Chinese trade and have subsequently suffered heavy losses. Not to worry, however, as the president announced last Friday that he’d devised a solution: With all the money America was making on tariffs, the U.S. government was simply going to buy up the surplus product that’s no longer going to China—and send it to the Third World to feed the global poor!

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https://thebulwark.com/galaxy-brain-trump-plans-to-solve-world-hunger-with-surplus-hog-feed/

[rurallib]

1. Thanks for this

living in one of the big bean states I have been wondering what is going on. Local news doesn't cover this at all it seems.

[Judi Lynn]

2. Figures, doesn't it? Local news has been hard to come by since they all were consolidated

as right-wing interests started gobbling them all up to make it easier to block the truth everywhere, and they decided people aren't important enough to hire local journalists to keep a close eye on information they need for their daily lives, and to hold local politicians and businesses accountable.

You really notice the change when the weather is threatening and you don't get local news on the radio to tell you what the hey is going on, since they are all right-wing lunatics spewing, or non-stop sports, with no reporters or weathermen at all any longer.

So damned wierd!

[tanyev]

3. Trump was right about one thing.

Never before have I uttered “Oh, dear God,” so many times in any given day.

[Blue Owl]

4. Operation Slop

Or "Sloperation" for short