It's a gift
As the leaders of the G7 discussed their response to the Russian attack on Kyiv, which killed 28 people and injured 134, and the escalating war between Iran and Israel, Trump dealt with important domestic matters.
As you can see, these "magnificent" flagpoles required his personal supervision and could not be put off until next week, or next month, or forever. They must be ready tomorrow to receive the Juneteenth flag.
Ha ha, I make joke. Racist scumbag occupant of White House does not know there is such a thing. Also, maybe not a good idea to rush this job. A 100-foot flagpole would presumably be set in concrete and not ready within hours. But these are...special?
"Let's have a good -- they call it a lifting. They also use another word but I'm not gonna use that word. It says with an E. Do you know what the word is? If I ever used it I would be run out of town. All right. So enjoy it."
Ha ha, he make joke. He also asked the workmen if any of them were "illegals," which is funny, too. Isn't it? So much hilarity. Nobody tell him the White House already has a flagpole on the roof.
In other flag news, remember short-time Senator Kelly "Sticky Fingers" Loeffler? Appointed by Kemp, defeated by Warnock, best known for insider trading off her job? Trump made her head of the Small Business Administration, whose headquarters she has now decorated with this thing:
There may have been strategic reasons for the Great Kananaskis Bugout. Trump didn't want to meet President Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico, although we're told they had a "very good" phone call. He didn't want to talk to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese of Australia, who wanted to know why someone shot an Australian reporter in the leg in Los Angeles. Above all, he didn't want to run into President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine, not a member but the honored guest of the G7. You'll be unsurprised to know that Russia agrees with Trump about how they should still be a member. At this point it might as well be the G6, since the United States is MIA for the duration. If they have to invite him to the next one for the sake of appearances, they'd better settle Donnie in the reception area with a coloring book and take his phone away to avoid Truths like this:
"We" have control. That sounds different from "Israel" has control. Trump is so desperate for a win he can taste it like ketchup. He wants to associate himself with the IDF without committing any troops or other resources. Maybe he thinks it will give him the "E word" he couldn't use about his stupid flagpoles. Of course, it wouldn't be a Truth without a shabby threat of violence:
Who exactly is Grandpa thanking for their attention to this matter? It's like the only thing he learned at Wharton was the correct way to end a business letter. "We are not going to take him out (kill!)" "Our patience" -- why all the plurals? I doubt "we" really know the location of Grand Ayatollah Khamanei because Israel has learned the hard way not to share intelligence with this bozo.
It's not only the exterior of the White House being vulgarized. A portrait of Hillary Clinton once hung on this wall of First Ladies between Laura Bush and Barbara Bush. Look what's scaring visitors now.
The line from Five Star Final about the tabloid publisher's "squashy, putrid little soul" comes to mind. He already replaced Obama with his own squashy, putrid image.
In yet another move against blue states, Sean Duffy threatened to withhold billions of dollars for infrastructure if the states refuse to assist the ICEstapo goons. Responding to a suit from twenty Democratic attorneys general, Judge John James McConnell, Jr., said that federal agencies "only have appropriations power given by Congress. That's how the Constitution works." He should make all of Trump's minions write it five hundred times, because the Duf also wants to take DoT money from cities that allow free speech in the form of anti-ICE protests. It's the First Amendment, asshole.
Speaking of the First Amendment, Eric Adams is getting more Trump-like in his final weeks as mayor of New York. He has banned Daily News reporter Chris Sommerfeldt from press conferences for "calling out" and generally being disrespectful. While you've got it, flaunt it, Mr. Mayor.
It's refreshing to watch Jerome Powell stand up to Trump, who's getting more frustrated with every effort to make him quit as head of the Federal Reserve. "He just refuses to lower the Fed rate...he's not a smart person. I think he hates me...I call him every name in the book trying to get him to do something...I know how to sell. I've been so nice to him...I'm nasty, I'm nice, nothing works. He's like just a stupid person." And Trump can't fire him and it's making him crazier. He's finally run into someone who won't cave to his bullshit. Every con man does, sooner or later. Powell and Amy Coney Barrett reduce him to ketchup-hurling rage and he appointed them both. Fight, fight, fight!
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