Karen Pearlman, from Astoria, sums up Trump’s weird behavior patterns. Here’s what she says about one of them:
[Trump] insists on putting his name of buildings like an animal needing to mark his territory.
Thanks, Karen. I could categorize this post as Animal News.
Every day, after reading the Times and the Daily News, I hook up with BlueSky to see what’s going on around the world, according to other news sources.
For instance, yesterday I read a story posted by the Toronto Star: “Breaking: Trump says he has a deal with Denmark for permanent U.S. ‘control over security’ in Greenland.” My reaction? I snorted, rolled my eyes, and sniggered.
Because I’m virtually certain Trump made this up. Even if I hadn’t read the wild, wacky story about Trump’s, uh, “efforts” in Greenland in a recent New Yorker, I wouldn’t believe him. If I wanted the facts beyond this, I’d look for Denmark’s response, but really I don’t need to.
My rules are simple: Anything Trump says that purports to be fact…isn’t. It’s either a lie that he knows is a lie, or a lie he thinks is true. Either way, it’s a lie. If it involves another country, say, Iran, I wait for their response and believe them.*
Totally weird.
When Trump signs his perpetual executive orders, or makes announcements about what he’s doing to American cities, their institutions and their people, without even investigating whether what he’s doing is illegal or criminal, I assume it’s illegal or criminal and await the multiple lawsuits and federal court decisions, which are now being filed with remarkable speed.
Same applies to his entire administration. Lies and criminality, cruelty and corruption. I have a fierce focus on the people who have been tortured and deported, and a mental list of the officials who will be investigate, indicted and put on trial in Nuremberg (Pennsylvania).
Although I have not given up feeling anguish over the people who Trump is trying to destroy, it’s remarkable how peaceful it is here in my apartment. I am thoroughly informed in an upside down sort of way and am no longer screaming in rage.
Update: Today, the New York Times reports that Trump’s “deal” doesn’t seem to be much different from the long-time agreement we’ve had with Greenland. Which is not “permanent ‘control over security’ in Greenland. Also, Greenlanders are bewildered about this announcement. Dear Greenlanders: the mass of Americans feel the same way. See above.
In today’s MediaMatters column, the diligent journalist Jason Campbell, whose usually hazardous duty is to cover the right-wing media, reports the following that occurred on Megyn Kelly’s show, when one of her listeners called in to say:
I’m a three-time Trump voter. There’s no way in hell that I’m voting for another Republican that supports this guy. It has been an absolute disaster from the tariffs to this Hormuz deal…Let’s just call it what it is, enough with the mental gymnastics, jumping through hoops trying to justify this insane war that put us in a worse position economically, militarily — I mean, our standing in the world, we are a joke.
