AND PLEASE SAY TO ME, YOU'LL LET ME HOLD YOUR HAND
AND PLEASE SAY TO ME, YOU’LL LET ME HOLD YOUR HAND: Over the weekend, Donald Trump joined leaders of the two countries that produced 16 of the 19 September 11 terrorists in an occult-looking ceremony with a giant crystal ball. The next day, the pit of hell opens in front of his Mar a Lago getaway. Coincidence? I think not.
I have to assume the Saudis were trolling Trump – making him kneel before the king, suppressing laughter as it became clear that he didn’t have the nerve to say “radical Islamic terrorism,” and putting his face on billboards and buildings all over Riyadh (overkill that anyone but a total narcissist would recognize as comical). And then the photo op with the crystal ball, which was truly worthy of a National Enquirer cover.
Reporters traveling with the President say he’s already exhausted. Surrogates have already stepped in to give speeches he was scheduled to deliver. Strange, it was supposed to be Hillary Clinton who lacked stamina. As Secretary of State, she visited 112 countries in four years, racking up nearly a million air miles of travel. But if Donald Trump is forced to fly further than Florida, he has to take to his bed. Sad!
But Tump stayed awake, if not alert, long enough to commit his daily quota of faux pas. In Israel, he said he’d just got back from the Middle East. Maybe he thinks Israel is in South America? Then he complained that he’d never mentioned Israel when he gave away Israeli intelligence to the Russians in the White House. Oops. That was a piece of information that the press knew, but hadn’t – at the request of American intelligence agencies – published. And just like that, Trump accidentally spills more top secret information. Oh well, it’s not as though Israel was an ally or anything.
Even routine photo ops have turned awkward. After landing in Israel, he reached for Melania’s hand, and she slapped it away. And today, the White House Press Office issued a memo outlining the goals of their visit to Israel. One of the bullet points was “Promote the possibility of lasting peach.”
Peach is fine, but impeach is better. Let’s promote lasting impeachment.