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The president of the United States is feuding with the pope—and the pope is winning.
After President Donald Trump called
Pope Leo XIV “WEAK on Crime” in a lengthy Truth Social post Sunday, the
pope shot back by declaring, “I’m not afraid of the Trump
administration.”
Unsurprisingly, that left Trump—who has a habit of likening himself
to Jesus Christ—quite upset. So here are some of our favorite
religion-related cartoons making fun of thin-skinned Trump and his
temper tantrums.
It’s a catastrophe on the way to becoming a cataclysm.
Trump is rapidly going stark-raving mad. He’s a clear and present danger to the United States and the world.
Yesterday he lashed out at The New York Times after its chief White House correspondent questioned his mental health and stability and pointed to his “erratic behavior and extreme comments.”
“HAVE THEY NO SHAME? HAVE THEY NO SENSE OF DECENCY?” Trump posted in CAPITAL LETTERS about the Times,
inadvertently echoing the famous words of Joseph Welch when standing up
to Joseph McCarthy during the Army-McCarthy hearings of 1954. Trump
went on to take issue with the Times’s coverage of his war in Iran rather than his mental state, as if to prove the Times’s point.
He keeps saying he’s “won” the war with Iran, although he’s never
said what “winning” means. At one moment his goal is to free Iran’s
people. At another, it’s to end Iran’s capacity to produce a nuclear
weapon. At another, to destroy Iran’s missiles. At another, to achieve
“regime change.” At another, to open the Strait of Hormuz (which was
open before Trump started his war). At another, he says he’ll know the
U.S. military operation in Iran is over when he feels it "[in] my
bones.”
He can’t even stay on the same subject for more than a few minutes.
In the middle of a high-level Cabinet meeting about the war, he spends
five minutes talking about his preference for Sharpie pens. He
interrupts another Iran war update to praise the White House drapes.
He threatens that if Iran doesn’t reopen the strait, “a whole civilization will die tonight.” Then he says America doesn’t need
the strait reopened. Then he says: “Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy
bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah.
President DONALD J. TRUMP.”
He calls the Pope “WEAK on Crime, and terrible for Foreign Policy”
because the Pope wants peace. He posts an AI-generated picture of
himself as Jesus, then says he was only depicting himself as a
physician.
He won’t give up on his illegal and dangerous (for the economy)
criminal investigation of Fed Chief Jerome Powell, claiming it’s not
just about Powell’s renovations at the Fed but also a “probe on
incompetence,” adding he’ll fire Powell if he doesn’t resign after his
term as chair ends.
After Robert Mueller’s death, he says, “Good, I’m glad he’s dead.” He
blames the murders of Rob Reiner and his wife Michelle on “the anger
[Rob Reiner] caused others through his massive, unyielding, and
incurable affliction with a mind crippling disease known as TRUMP
DERANGEMENT SYNDROME.” After Joe Biden is diagnosed with an aggressive
form of Stage 4 prostate cancer, Trump says, “I’m surprised that the
public wasn’t notified a long time ago because to get to Stage 9, that’s
a long time” (there is no Stage 9 cancer).
He’s been losing it for a while now, but in the last few months it’s become far worse.
In 2017, 27 psychiatrists, psychologists, and other mental health professionals concluded in The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump that Trump’s mental condition posed a “clear and present danger” to the nation.
In 2021, members of Trump’s own Cabinet — horrified by the January 6,
2021, violence at the Capitol and Trump’s lack of urgency in stopping
it — discussed whether to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove him from office due to mental incompetence.
During his 2024 campaign, he attacked Kamala Harris and then went into the stratosphere of his bonkers mind:
“She destroyed the city of San Francisco, it’s – and I own a
big building there – it’s no – I shouldn’t talk about this, but that’s
OK, I don’t give a damn because this is what I’m doing. I should say
it’s the finest city in the world – sell and get the hell out of there,
right? But I can’t do that. I don’t care, you know? I lost billions of
dollars, billions of dollars. You know, somebody said, ‘What do you
think you lost?’ I said, ‘Probably two, three billion. That’s OK, I
don’t care.’ They say, ‘You think you’d do it again?’ And that’s the
least of it. Nobody. They always say, I don’t know if you know. Lincoln
was horribly treated. Uh, Jefferson was pretty horribly. Andrew Jackson,
they say, was the worst of all, that he was treated worse than any
other president. I said, ‘Do that study again, because I think there’s
nobody close to Trump.’ I even got shot! And who the hell knows where
that came from, right?”
It’s no longer possible to overlook his conspiracy-obsessed paranoia,
his uncontrolled rage, his emotional volatility, his delusional claims,
his vengeful rantings, his foul-mouthed posturing, his increasing
detachment from reality.
Yet his Cabinet members and aides keep their heads down. Republican
members of Congress pretend not to notice. His billionaire supporters
dare not speak of his rapid decline. The media tries to “sanewash” his
growing incoherence.
But some voices on the right — people who have long been supporters of Trump — have had enough.
Former Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene says Trump’s threat to destroy Iran’s civilization is “not tough rhetoric, it’s insanity.” Far-right podcaster Candace Owens calls him “a genocidal lunatic.”
Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones says Trump “does babble and sounds like
the brain’s not doing too hot.” A White House lawyer in Trump’s first
term, Ty Cobb, says Trump is “clearly insane.” Former Trump White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham says “he’s clearly not well.”
The public is catching on. Fully 61 percent
of Americans think he’s become more erratic with age, while just 45
percent say he is “mentally sharp and able to deal with challenges”
(down from 54 percent in 2023).
For the good of the nation and the world, it’s time we face the
reality: The most powerful man in the world does not have the mental
capacity to do the job. Donald Trump — who has a family history of dementia — is increasingly unhinged.
We are all endangered. What happens if, in a demented rage, he hurls a
nuclear bomb? Who is watching the “football” with the nuclear codes?
Who’s ready to stop him to save the world?
'Pope Leo XIV is a measured, soft-spoken man of God whose holy mission is peace and unity.' (photo: Getty)
“I have no fear of the Trump administration, nor of speaking
out loudly about the message of the Gospel."
Dan Rather/Steady
16 April 26
One might think an American pope would be good for
an American president. After all, Catholicism is having a moment here,
with conversions on the rise, especially among young people. More than
half of American Catholics voted for Donald Trump in the last election.
The vice president is Catholic, as is the secretary of state, and the
first lady.
But forget all that. Nothing matters if Trump feels slighted. And right now, he is acting like a toddler in timeout.
These two men could not be more different. Pope Leo XIV is a
measured, soft-spoken man of God whose holy mission is peace and unity.
Trump is a bombastic narcissist, who is convinced peace can best be
achieved through bombing — and is a constant divider, not a unifier.
Leo, who had stayed above the political fray since becoming pope last
May, began to shift his stance with an impassioned speech following the
capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in January. “A diplomacy
that promotes dialogue and seeks consensus among all parties is being
replaced by a diplomacy based on force,” he told ambassadors to the
Vatican. U.S. officials took it as a direct challenge to the Trump
administration.
Soon after, Pentagon officials demanded a meeting with Vatican
representatives, telling them the U.S. has the military might to do
whatever it wants and that the Catholic Church had better get on its
side, according to The Free Press.
The Catholic Church did not heed that threat. Instead, Leo issued
appeals for peace, but as the war with Iran escalated, so did his
criticism. On April 7, he took the rare step of calling out a political
leader after Trump’s social media threat to wipe out “a whole
civilization,” calling the sentiment “truly unacceptable.”
On Friday, Leo posted a direct condemnation on social media. “Absurd
and inhuman violence is spreading ferociously… God does not bless any
conflict. Anyone who is a disciple of Christ, the Prince of Peace, is
never on the side of those who once wielded the sword and today drop
bombs.”
During an evening prayer service at the Vatican on Saturday, the pope
called out the “delusion of omnipotence that surrounds us and is
becoming increasingly unpredictable and aggressive… Enough of the
idolatry of self and money! Enough of the display of power! Enough of
war! True strength is shown in serving life,” he said.
The subject of his pointed remarks wasted little time responding.
In a lengthy and scathing social media rant on Sunday, Trump
retorted, “Pope Leo is WEAK on Crime, and terrible for Foreign Policy…”
Later telling reporters, “I’m not a big fan.”
Because everything in his world revolves around Trump, he suggested
that the only reason Leo was even elected pope is “because he was an
American, and [the Vatican] thought that would be the best way to deal
with President Donald J. Trump.”
Trump followed his diatribe by posting an AI-generated image of
himself as Jesus Christ healing the sick. It has since been taken down.
In a hastily arranged photo op at the White House, the president
admitted he posted the photo but said it had no messianic meaning. With a
straight face, he said it depicted him as a doctor.
Democrats have long decried the president’s mental status, and now
Republicans are joining in, some even suggesting he needs to be removed
from office. After his genocidal “whole civilization” post, The New York Times wrote,
“… never in modern times has the stability of a president been so
publicly and forensically debated — and with such profound
consequences.”
On Monday, during the first leg of a 10-day trip to locations in
Africa that have been hard hit by the loss of U.S. aid, Pope Leo told
reporters, “I have no fear of the Trump administration, nor of speaking
out loudly about the message of the Gospel. And that’s what I believe I
am called here to do.”
When asked specifically about Trump’s Truth Social post, he said, “It’s ironic — the name of the site itself. Say no more.”
“The message of the Gospel is very clear: ‘Blessed are the
peacemakers’... Too many people are suffering today, too many innocent
people have been killed, and I believe someone must stand up and say
that there is a better way,” he added.
Quite the irony — Trump, who for years actively campaigned for the
Nobel Peace Prize, is now attacking the pope for advocating peace.
Trump has picked a fight with one of the holiest and most popular men
in the world, who represents 1.4 billion Catholics, 53 million of whom
are American. At the same time, he publicly embraced one of today’s
longest-reigning authoritarians, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.
Trump and Orbán have been members of a mutual admiration society
since the president’s first administration. The Hungarian leader lent
Trump support and his playbook. Many of Orbán’s authoritarian tactics,
including manipulating the media, stacking the judiciary, and attempting
to control elections, have been embraced and employed by the president.
Trump dispatched the vice president to Hungary last week, a trip paid
for by the American taxpayer, to prop up his old friend. At a campaign
rally in Budapest, JD Vance said, without irony, that he was there,
“Because what the United States and Hungary together represent under
Viktor’s leadership and under President Trump’s is the defense of
Western civilization.”
As if sending the Vice President of the United States to campaign for
a foreign strongman wasn’t enough, Trump joined the rally via
speakerphone, saying, “I love Hungary and I love Viktor!”
Vance’s attempt at help fell flat. On Sunday, after 16 years of
autocratic rule, the Hungarian people said enough. Orbán was trounced in
a landslide by Péter Magyar. The victory was so decisive, Orbán didn’t
even try to contest the election and conceded just hours after the polls
closed.
Although sometimes flawed, moral authority has been an essential
component of American strength and leadership for 250 years. Time and
again, Trump’s behavior and actions have severely damaged that claim at
home and abroad. Now, with what he has done in the cases of Pope Leo and
Viktor Orbán, he has deepened the damage.
Peter Magyar waves a flag. (photo: Bernadett Szabo/Reuters)
Orbán’s loss brings
to an end the assumption of inevitability that has pervaded the MAGA
movement
Anne Applebaum/The AtlanticApril 14, 2026
Péter Magyar, the opposition leader and likely next Hungarian prime minister. (photo: Denes Erdos/AP)
In
the end, the defeat of Viktor Orbán, Hungary’s autocratic prime
minister, required not just an ordinary election campaign or new
messaging but rather the construction of a broad, diverse, and patriotic
grassroots social movement. And by building exactly that, Hungary’s
opposition changed politics around the world.
Orbán’s loss brings
to an end the assumption of inevitability that has pervaded the MAGA
movement, as well as the belief—also present in Russian President
Vladimir Putin’s rhetoric—that illiberal parties are somehow destined
not just to win but to hold power forever, because they have the support
of the “real” people.
As it turns out, history doesn’t work like that.
“Real” people grow tired of their rulers. Old ideas become stale.
Younger people question orthodoxy. Illiberalism leads to corruption. And
if Orbán can lose, then his Russian and American admirers can lose too.
Péter
Magyar, the opposition leader and likely next Hungarian prime minister,
has now won by a substantial margin, giving him and his party, Tisza, a
constitutional majority.
To do so, they had to overcome obstacles not
usually present in European democracies. After 16 years of what Orbán
himself described as an illiberal regime, the Hungarian leader’s
political party, Fidesz, had come to control much of the judiciary,
bureaucracy, and universities, as well as a group of oligarchic
companies that in turn controlled a good chunk of the economy.
Orbán
used his control of the state to build an extraordinary web of
international illiberal and far-right supporters, and funding mechanisms
to support some of them. In the last weeks of the campaign, these
friends and beneficiaries rallied round. Orbán received visits or verbal
support from Donald Trump, J. D. Vance, Benjamin Netanyahu, Marine Le
Pen (the leader of the French far right), Alice Weidel (the leader of
the German far right), and other illiberal leaders from Argentina,
Poland, Slovakia, Brazil, and more. Both Hungarian and American news
organizations reported
that a Russian intelligence team had set up in Budapest to amplify
Orbán’s social-media campaign, and perhaps to stage provocations.
By
contrast, Magyar had very little access to Hungarian media, the
overwhelming majority of which is owned either by the state or by Fidesz
oligarchs. He and his party had limited access even to billboard space,
both because they had less money than the ruling party and because many
advertising spaces are controlled by the government. Tisza leaders and
supporters faced personal obstacles as well. A year ago, I met a Tisza
politician who told me that his wife had lost her job and his friends
began to stay away after he announced his support for Magyar. Tisza’s
database was at one point hacked
and posted online, apparently to encourage harassment of party members.
Even three weeks ago, many Tisza leaders in Budapest would speak only
off the record.
Magyar and his team fought back on the ground.
Knowing he could not win if he stuck to Budapest and other large cities,
Magyar has been traveling the country since 2024, visiting small towns
and villages, many more than once. In the last few days of the campaign,
he was holding five or six election meetings every day. He avoided the
themes that Orbán chose to promote—global politics, the war in Ukraine,
the conspiracy that Ukraine was somehow colluding
against or might even invade Hungary—and focused his campaign speeches
and social media on the economy, health care, and schools.
As a former
member of Fidesz himself, he was able to speak with extra conviction
about Fidesz’s corruption. He portrayed himself as a part of the
European, democratic, law-abiding center-right. He waved a lot of
Hungarian flags, as did his supporters.
Despite enormous
restrictions and both financial and political pressure, the tiny number
of journalists who were still able to report in Hungary also made a
difference. In the past few weeks, the investigative journalist Szabolcs
Panyi, along with his colleagues at the website Direkt26,
one of the few independent outlets in the country, patiently debunked
Orbán’s anti-Ukrainian propaganda, producing leaked transcripts and
audio that revealed Orbán and his foreign minister colluding with Putin
and the Russian foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov.
These tapes exposed
what Panyi described to me as the “big lie that Orbán was a
sovereigntist prime minister.” Indeed: Orbán boasted and talked a big
game about Hungarian traditions and Hungarian nationalism, but when he
spoke on the phone with the Russian leader, he described himself
as a mouse and Putin as a lion. For years Orbán has claimed to be
fighting shadowy foreign forces—George Soros, the European Union,
migrants—but in fact he was himself dependent on foreigners all along.
Those stories resonated, especially with younger Hungarians. At a rock concert in Heroes’ Square in central Budapest on Friday,
tens of thousands of them started chanting “Russians, go home”—the same
chant that their grandparents used when Soviet soldiers invaded their
country in 1956.
Although results are not final, Tisza appears to
have won more than two-thirds of the seats in Parliament. That would
give Magyar a constitutional majority that should allow him to pick
apart some of the damage that Orbán has done to the Hungarian
constitution and to public life. In his victory speech, he called for
the resignation of the president, the prosecutor general, the president
of the constitutional court, and other institutions.
He said he would
rejoin the European legal system. In response, according to one witness, Hungarians at his rally chanted, “Europe, Europe, Europe.”
Nobody
is pretending this will be easy. Fidesz still dominates many Hungarian
institutions and businesses, and the party’s friends and supporters will
do their best to undermine a Tisza government. Orbán also leaves behind
a fiscal mess, which the analyst Dalibor Rohac suggests
Orbán might be happy to abandon while plotting his comeback. “Letting
the opposition deal with the economic fallout of the last 16 years might
well facilitate Orbán’s return to power in the future,” Rohac wrote
earlier this week.
Some in the opposition are still expecting dirty
tricks in the next days and weeks, before Orbán formally hands over
power.
But whatever happens next, this election represents a real
turning point. For most European governments, this result is a relief:
We can’t know yet what kind of government Tisza will create, but it
won’t be one that functions as Russia’s puppet in Europe, blocking EU
funding for Ukraine or European sanctions on Russia. Nor will it be a
regime that serves as a model for Americans or Europeans who want to
capture their own states, or take apart their own checks and balances,
or impose their own illiberal ideologies on people who don’t accept
them.
"For many Hungarians, the election was a referendum on Orbán’s model." (photo: Akos Stiller/Bloomberg/Getty Images)
Tuesday, April 7, 2026
Now that the Easter crowds have thinned, the Gazette Blog is taking a few days off to tend to some grandparenting. See you on the 14th.
Sen.
Lindsey Graham of South Carolina shrugs after meeting with fellow
Republicans on the Homeland Security budget stalemate, on March 26.Refuse to work with Dems to reform Immigration and
Customs Enforcement in the wake of killing two U.S. citizens
and brutalizing immigrants.
Congressional Cowards
is a weekly series highlighting the worst Donald Trump defenders on
Capitol Hill, who refuse to criticize him—no matter how disgraceful or
lawless his actions.
Congressional Republicans have jet-setted across the country
after refusing to ensure the very Transportation Security Administration
officials keeping them safe on their travels get a paycheck.
The entertainment outlet TMZ has been posting user-submitted
photos of GOP lawmakers leaving town and even vacationing after failing
to reach a compromise to fund the Department of Homeland Security.
The agency has been shut down for over 50 days
as Republicans refuse to work with Democrats to reform Immigration and
Customs Enforcement in the wake of officers killing two U.S. citizens
and brutalizing immigrants.
Thirty members of Congress—including Republican Reps. Derrick Van Orden of Wisconsin, Claudia Tenney of New York, and Jason Smith of Missouri—took a taxpayer-funded trip to Scotland. Many of them even got to visit Edinburgh Castle, a must-see with tourists.
The most embarrassing of the photos, though, were a series of
shots of Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, who was
spotted enjoying himself—perhaps a little too much—at Walt Disney World,
in Orlando, Florida.
After the humiliating images surfaced, Graham gave this lame statement to TMZ: "I voted 7 times to fully fund the government. Call a Democrat.”
Of course, Democrats do not control either chamber of Congress,
thus Republicans have the responsibility to put forth legislation that
can actually pass.
Even some mainstream media outlets, which often couch
their words to avoid losing access to GOP sources, are now placing the shutdown blame at the feet of Republicans in Congress.
In this image from
video, Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas walks to check in for his
flight back to the U.S., at Cancun International Airport, in Mexico, on
Feb. 18, 2021.
Meanwhile, Democrats have
offered their own funding measures to make sure TSA agents and other
non-immigration-enforcement DHS functions are funded, but they were
blocked by Republicans.
But I digress, back to the cowards fleeing D.C. while DHS is still shut down.
Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, infamous for hitching a flight outta dodge when faced with challenging circumstances, was spotted
flying to sunny Fort Lauderdale, Florida, which seems to be a popular
location for Republicans on this ill-advised two-week break amid a
partial government shutdown.
Other Republicans TMZ caught fleeing Washington, D.C., include Sens. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee and John Barrasso of Wyoming, the latter of whom was confronted by angry travelers, per TMZ.
Ultimately,
Republicans abdicated their responsibility and left town without a
funding deal. It’s no wonder the Congress they control has an abysmally
low 11% approval rating, according to the latest Economist/YouGov poll.
President Donald Trump looks out at White House ballroom construction on Jan. 9.
What if President Donald Trump’s ballroom wasn’t just an ugly vessel for his obsession with gold-plated detritus? And what if it wasn’t just a way to bribe the president or a way to turn Washington into Mar-a-Lago 2.0? What if it was also … a shed?
Yes, a shed.
“The ballroom essentially becomes a shed for what's being built
under the military, including from drones and including from any other
thing,” Trump said.
That sentence makes no sense, as nothing is being built under “the military,” so let’s try that again.
President Donald Trump holds renderings of his ballroom on Oct. 22, 2025.
“The
military is building a big complex under the ballroom, which has come
out recently because of a stupid lawsuit that was filed,” Trump said.
“But the military is building a massive complex under the ballroom, and
that's under construction, and we're doing very well. So we’re ahead of
schedule.”
Who is paying for this “massive complex?” Is it covered by the ballroom’s $400 million price tag?
Trump didn’t explain how the existence of his top-secret military complex was revealed due to a lawsuit, but he did already blab about it during a Cabinet meeting last week.
“I mean, now it's no secret, the military wanted it more than
anybody. It was supposed to be secret, but it became unsecret because of
people that are really unpatriotic saying things, but doesn't matter,
doesn't matter. It's going to be great,” he said.
So it’s top secret but was revealed in a lawsuit, so you decided to just tell everyone. Got it.
It isn’t wise to try to divine what the hell is going on in
Trump’s mush of a brain, but let’s do it anyway. The “stupid lawsuit” is
definitely the one filed by the National Trust for Historic
Preservation seeking to block construction
of the monstrosity. In that case, the White House has insisted that
construction can’t be stopped—even below ground—for national security
reasons.
The administration argued
in a public filing that completion of the ballroom project “in a timely
fashion is imperative for reasons of national security” and that it is
“unworkable to distinguish between construction elements that are
national security-related and those that are not.”
But that argument rests on classified ex parte filings, which are seen only by the judge—not the opposing party.
So, the NTHP has to fight back against this amorphous assertion
that the ballroom is necessary for national security without the
benefit of knowing exactly how or why. Things aren’t entirely a mystery,
though. In its motion for a preliminary injunction, the NTHP noted
that the White House has “all but admitted in public filings that the
national-security claims relate to a bunker long located at the site of
the former East Wing.”
The East Wing is being demolished to make way for President Donald Trump’s ballroom on Oct. 23, 2025.
No
problem, said the NTHP. It doesn’t want to stop construction of a
bunker or anything else related to national security—just the ballroom.
And that’s where the ballroom-as-shed concept seems to come in.
It’s Trump’s dumb, bombastic way of saying what the administration has
already argued in court. But anything beyond the vague invocations of
national security has been seen only by the judge.
No one else knew that
the ballroom was a “shed” needed to protect a below-ground military
complex, nor what would be included in that top-secret installation.
Trump’s big dumb mouth is the only reason we know about it now.
And, hilariously, the entire reveal seems to have occurred because The
New York Times made Trump sad.
Over the weekend, the Times published a piece showing just how much the ballroom design, well, sucks. Like, objectively sucks because it cannot possibly be built as is.
Trump’s minions on the Commission of Fine Arts, in their zeal
to approve whatever slop Trump put in front of them, signed off on plans
with teeny-tiny issues like “stairs to nowhere” and a portico that “has no doors to get you into the ballroom.”
The article also unpacked how much the ballroom design
aesthetically sucks. The frenzy of columns in the portico will block the
daylight inside, and the White House driveway has to be rerouted, destroying its symmetry.
The whole thing is far too large, with a proposed East Wing that will
be 60% larger in square footage than the White House residence.
The Times noted that, measured by cubic volume and including the porticos, it’s actually three times as large as the residence because the ballroom is so tall.
“Viewed from the south, the ballroom’s size will make it the dominant building of the White House complex,” the article stated.
In response, Trump decided that correcting the record was the
most important thing he could do. So he gathered reporters on Air Force
One Sunday night to show them new designs that attempt to fix the whole stairway problem.
“We took the stairs out that were on the south side and really
replaced them with these stairs,” Trump said, referring to what he
called a “fire stair.”
He also shared that the columns will be hand-carved in the Corinthian style—Trump’s personal favorite
type of column. These plans are entirely different from the ones his
lackeys signed off on, which really brings home how little they matter.
Trump’s comments about how the lawsuit made him share top
secret information came at the same time as the new designs, part and
parcel of his shambolic efforts to keep the bribe palace afloat. And you
should be grateful that he took the time!
“I’m so busy that I don’t have time to do this,” he said. “I’m fighting wars and other things.”
By “other things” he must mean planning his UFC Birthday Boy match, fighting over college football, and contemplating adding a spare bedroom to the White House.
It’s
clear that Trump views his presidency as the ultimate cheat code for a
hack developer like himself. He can build whatever he wants, wherever he
wants, whenever he wants—and all with other people’s money.
No permits, no regulations, no inspections, no laws. Just vibes. The most rancid, tasteless vibes imaginable.
