Donny Boy is just messing with us, isn’t he? Or, in the language of my sons, who throw the term around all the time, Donny Boy is trolling us. He has to be, right?How else do we explain two meetings he had today?First, Trump invited the press into the Oval Office for a photo op with Henry Kissinger. Poor Hank doesn’t look too well these days. Some might assume it’s because he’s 93 years old, but I suspect it’s because he just realized that the current Oval Office occupant is even more of a maniac than the president he served, Richard Nixon.I’ve always questioned Kissinger’s judgment. I don’t mean for this to be a history lesson, but anyone who thinks that ending a war by expanding a war is a good idea (as he proposed by expanding the Vietnam war into Cambodia), or supports on oppressive dictator after a military coup against an elected leader (as he did in Chile), has poor judgment.But overall, I think Kissinger’s a smart guy. He’s advised nearly every U.S. president in the last fifty years. And other than avoiding certain countries for fear of being prosecuted as a war criminal, Kissinger is held in somewhat high esteem.However, is there anyone more identified with Richard Nixon than Henry Kissinger, who served as Nixon’s National Security Advisor and Secretary of State?And considering that Trump’s firing of F.B.I. director James Comey is highly reminiscent of Nixon’s Saturday Night Massacre in which he fired the independent special prosecutor appointed to investigate him, who’s the idiot who thought, “You know what we need today, a photo op with Henry Kissinger?”Come on! Was G. Gordon Liddy not available?Let’s not forget that all of this controversy stems from the fact that the F.B.I. has an ongoing investigation into ties between Russia and various members of Donny Boy’s campaign and administration.Once again, just to emphasize, there are questions about whether the current President of the United States, or people around him, have acted unlawfully in their relations with another country, Russia.So then in the bumbling, chaotic, we-don’t-know-what-we’re-doing West Wing, someone decides, “We should meet with the Russian foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov, today.”I suspect that Donny Boy made the decision to meet with Kissinger and Lavrov right after firing Comey. He’s trolling us.He has decided that he can do whatever he wants and get away with it, so why not fire the person leading the investigation against him, and then invite a reminder of the last time just such an event occurred, and a reminder of the subject of the investigation?And why shouldn’t Donny Boy think he can get away with it? He’s been doing whatever he wants since he began running for president and it has worked just swimmingly for him. He’s the President. Republican officials who swore Never Trump now have chapped lips from kissing his ass so often (I’m looking at you Paul Ryan). And a sizable portion of this country still thinks he’s going to Make America Great Again or that he deserves a chance, or that he’s just the victim of fake news.Donny Boy is a narcissist, so of course he thinks he can do whatever he wants without consequence. Unfortunately for him, the consequence is coming. Some day, some way, the consequence is coming. And he will be a disgraced (rather than just disgraceful) president.But even more bizarre than Donny Boy’s decision to meet with Kissinger and Lavrov today, is the fact that the only pictures of Lavrov’s meeting with Donny Boy came from a Kremlin Twitter account. Donny Boy’s disdain for the American media leaves the Kremlin to tell the story.But even more bizarre than that is Lavrov’s comment at the end of this clip.
#Lavrov: Was FBI Director James Comey fired? You’re kidding! pic.twitter.com/5OXNKBF2QA
— MFA Russia (@mfa_russia) May 10, 2017
It’s clear that Tillerson wants no part of the press, but Lavrov hesitates, as if he’s hoping to engage. And then when someone asks him about Comey, Lavrov says, “Was he fired? You’re kidding! You’re kidding!” And then walks away.Lavrov seemed like every villain from every James Bond movie in that moment. I’m surprised his next line wasn’t, “No, America! I expect you to die!”Everyone’s trolling the American people. We should expect as much from the Russians. I’m sure they love watching the charade of American government unfold. However, it’s not too much to expect the President to refrain from trolling us.But this is Donny Boy we’re talking about, so anything goes.I won’t be surprised if, this afternoon, Donny Boy announces that he has opened a re-election office at 2600 Virginia Ave NW in Washington, DC.That’s an address you might recognize as the Watergate Office Building.Wasn't that well-written and fun to read? You should subscribe to my blog and we'll send you an e-mail every time I write a new one. Type your email address in the box and click the "create subscription" button. My list is completely spam free, and you can opt out at any time.
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