Some week
You've seen it, the whole world has seen it, the photo by Andrew Harnik of Getty of a pharma executive (not Gordon Finlay as previously reported) who fainted and got first aid in the Oval Office. Probably Trump keeps it around 80 degrees, as old people tend to do. He won't like the comments. "Trump seething because he's not the center of attention for a moment" (John Cleese). "Captures his entire career. Cares about literally no one but himself" (Matt Martens). "Trump looks like the substitute teacher whose class just caught fire" (Sundae_Gurl). "Pulitzer Prize photo right here" (Frank Conniff). "This is officially one of the strangest pictures in American history, and I do not doubt that it will be considered iconic a hundred years from now" (Seth Abramson). Why wait? Post offices and other government outposts required to display a portrait of Dear Leader should use this.
Some people remembered Barack Obama spotting a woman beside him who looked wobbly and reaching over to help ("I got you"), then joking, "This always happens when I talk too long." I remember Tim Walz at a rally last summer breaking off when the same thing happened -- "Uh-oh, somebody's hot" -- and asking for help and water to be brought. This is how human beings react to a stranger in distress. It's called being a mensch. And Trump resembles nothing so much as Oliver Hardy looking into the camera -- Here's another fine mess you've got me into, Stanley. Only not funny.
Tuesday night was fun but none of this is funny. Fighting all the way to the unsurprisingly receptive Supreme Court to keep from paying SNAP benefits and claiming you don't have the funds while spending millions a day to keep the Caribbean safe from fishermen is not funny. Partying like it's 1925 is not funny. Letting health insurance premiums triple while boasting that you'll help fat people lose weight with expensive drugs instead of diet and exercise and encouraging women to breed "Trump babies" -- well, that is kind of funny.
The Kennedy Center is so toxic that the National Opera is thinking of moving out rather than perform in the First Lady Melania von Shtupp Trump Be Best Opera House. The reasons can be found in "The Kennedy Center Crackup" in today's New York Times.
Jim Jordan won't wear a jacket even with black tie. Consistency.
Trump is golfing in Florida to celebrate another week of achievement but he'll be back in Washington tomorrow to help the Washington Commanders "honor" America's unpaid military at a halftime event for Veterans Day. Mostly he'll be there to browbeat principal owner Josh Harris about naming the team's new domed $3.7 billion stadium after him. I'm sure he also wants them to restore the team's racist name. And maybe gold trim for the sky boxes. Washington is not going to the Superbowl in this century. ETTD
When Gavin Newsom gets back from the UN climate summit in Brazil he'll barely have time to shower and change before heading for the G20 meeting in Johannesburg. Dear Leader is boycotting, not just because the theme is "Solidarity, Equality, Sustainability" but because he believes without evidence that Boers are being "killed and slaughtered." Next year G20 comes here and that's fine because it's a money-making opportunity for his Doral country club in Miami. Thirty-dollar hamburgers!
Fully funded ICE is still Keeping America Safe. Yesterday they grabbed an employee of the Illinois Department of Transportation at work based on his complexion, a US citizen of Indian descent. They asked if he had been to New York and was "aware" of Zohran Mamdani. DHS denied that these guys worked for them and it could be true: a recent FBI bulletin warned of robberies, sexual assaults and kidnappings across the country carried out by masked men dressed as ICE and CBP. It advises calling the police. Unless the "patriots" take your phone, then you're screwed.
"Is Hannity on yet?"
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