Politico posts Trump’s daily schedule. He usually leaves the morning free for watching TV and tweeting (executive time). He usually has a lunch appointment with Pence, Pompeo, or another of his trusted aides. He occasionally attends a ceremony where he gives an award.
Today he has no plans other than to fly to a rally in the late afternoon.
TRUMP’S WEDNESDAY — The president will leave the White House at 4:45 p.m. en route to Greenville, N.C. He will arrive at the Williams Arena at 6:20 p.m. and deliver remarks at a political rally at 7 p.m.Trump will leave the arena at 8:15 p.m. to return to Washington
With so much time on his hands and nothing to do, he has a lot to brood about. He probably wishes he was golfing. It’s so boring being president. At least with a few tweets, he can get everyone stirred up and talking about his favorite subject: himself. Me! Me! Me! He wants to be a worm in your brain and make sure you think of nothing and no one but him.
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Donald (J. for Jabba) Trump, the Part-time President. The price to taxpayers, of his golf trips alone would have bought every refugee family fleeing starvation and violence during his administration and applying for asylum at our borders land to farm here or on the other side of our border.
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https://www.forbes.com/sites/chuckjones/2019/07/10/trumps-golf-trips-could-cost-taxpayers-over-340-million/#2399a3b828aa
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This morning was originally left open for him to watch C-Span and Mueller’s testimony in the House. But that was rescheduled for next week.
What will be the next latest ‘listen to me and not what you see or hear about me’ ? He’s been changing the subject so we are diverted from the truth.
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Politico posts his schedule daily. He doesn’t do anything other than ceremonial events wherepeople bow or rallies, where they cheer.
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Meanwhile. . . . https://bobshepherdonline.wordpress.com/2019/03/17/my-candidate-for-the-most-important-book-you-could-ever-read/
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As the Gershwin Brothers once wrote, Nice Work If You Can Get It.
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I just while away the hours
A-tweetin’ in my tower,
Consulting with TV.
I don’t care for cogitating,
I just sit here agitating
While I’m watching Hannity.
Think I’ll order some hamburders
And tweet out some diverters
From the latest breaking news
’bout crimes I’ve perpetrated
And the folks I’ve terminated
For developing a clue.
Oh, I, can’t tell you why
Burning fossil fuels warms the Earth,
I care only for increasing my net worth.
A man is measured, by his girth.
I would not be just a nothin’,
My head all full of stuffin’
And neediness and pain.
I wouldn’t be insane, erratic;
I might be quite Democratic
If I only had a brain.
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Think I’ll order up some burders
As I Tweet encoded murders
For the latest fake news.
Oh, I’m so unappreciated
Though my success is unabated!
The enemy’s so cruel!
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Does Politico say where they obtain this information? Does the White House publish Trump’s schedule? (In which case, why does Politico need to?) Otherwise, what’s their source? I ask because Politico is a “Never Trump” organization, so they have motive to make him look bad (as if he needs assistance with that).
Dubya, for instance, was famed for playing golf and going on vacation, the implication being that he didn’t do anything presidential all day. Do we still believe that about Dubya? If not, what changed? Do we only realize in hindsight how the media distorts things to make presidents look bad?
I know all of you are going to take this as yet another of my defenses of Trump, but it’s exactly the opposite (as all of my supposed “defenses” of Trump have been). When you attack Trump over petty things, you only make him look better and make yourself look small. Being president of the U.S. – even a horrible one like Trump – is a lot of work. I don’t think any president could get away with lounging around being fed grapes all day. You might not like how he’s doing it (and I’d agree with you), but it’s ridiculous to say he’s not doing anything.
There are plenty of things to criticize Trump for that he actually does. It seems pretty petty (not to mention ironic) to complain that he doesn’t do anything.
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The White House publishes Trump’s schedule, just as every Cabinet Department publishes the Secretary’s schedule.
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W. also had the reputation of going to bed at 10 pm or some similarly un-presidential hour.
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Wait, what?! He didn’t pull all-nighters, like Bill???
(Now, actually, I liked it that Clinton would ruminate at all hours of the night, & called weighty people for their views & opinions at 3 AM.)
Anyway, there’s something to be said for presidents & other leaders (corporate execs included) who sleep well at night…& that something is not nice.
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DIANE: Trump said that Belgium is a city. It’s not. It’s a country.
DIENNE: Was it Politico that said this? They are never Trump. Of course that’s what they’ll say. And what map did Diane get get her information from? Was it published by CNN? NBC?
DIANE: Check any map.
DIENNE: Pointing out his errors just gives him the attention that he wants. You want to get him elected again, keep doing this. And his saying that Belgium is a city doesn’t mean that he is PERSONALLY ignorant of geography.
VARIOUS PERSONS: Not knowing that Belgium is a country shows ignorance of geography. But then, Trump couldn’t find New York on a map of New York.
DIENNE: And what about George Bush, Jr? He used the wrong salad fork. And slavery and genocide traffic in Boston?
FLERP: This is only mildly amusing.
DUANE: That’s the problem, right there. Geography is a variety of measurement, and as Noel Wilson has written. . . .
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Bob! Laugh out loud!
Have you ever thought of writing humor as a professional?
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Thank you, Diane. That means a lot to me. Plugging away at my short fiction, of which I’ve written a lot, and working on a novel.
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I almost choked laughing. I have to be careful.
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Diane: !!!!!!!!
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Writing novels is like running for President on the Democratic ticket. It is rumored that there is a Democratic ward chairperson in Chicago who is planning not to announce her candidacy this year. Of course, there are some, like Brother Lloyd, you actually do this novelizing and do it well. I’m committing my second. My first, called Pagan Moon, was soundly rejected by a ream of publishers and literary agents. Then there are those who say that there are two types of H. sapiens–those who are writing novels and those who talk about doing so. (Usage Note: In LA, substitute “film script” for “novels” in this comment.)
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Brilliant. There’s a German saying, often said in bars when one’s had a bit much to express joy with others or to express pure joy with friends: Lass Dich umarmen, literally, let yourself be hugged! Tried to post a funny comic frame about this from an Asterix comic, but WordPress wouldn’t let me. Excellent, Bob.
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You know, Greg, I really need to learn German. Everywhere I turn, I encounter these delights. Thank you for sharing this.
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OMG, Bob…LMAO!!
& I thought your little ditty (ha,ha, clever satire of “If I Only had a Brain!”) absofriggin’lutely BRILLIANT!!
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Gosh. Thanks.
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Bob– echoing retiredbutmissthekids! May I have your permission to share it with a small forum of wordcrafty friends as an example of why we should start a song-parody section?
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Oh, please do!
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Fourth line of the third verse should read,
’bout the crimes I’ve perpetrated
In my haste, typing, I left out the “the.”
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Executive Time (with apologies to Harold Arlen and Yip Harburg)
I get up at twelve and start to work at one,
Take an hour for lunch, and then at two, I’m done.
Jolly good fun!
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Let him golf, let him golf, let him golf.
A few guards, one in a watchtower disguised as a huge palm tree, and maybe an ankle monitor.
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A perfect solution. Could be done for the rest of his life for less than the cost of the golf trips for the rest of his misadministration, though the prospect of his removal from office before his term terminates puts me in a perturbed and pence-ive mood.
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Prayer may help.
Also there’s a rumor he’s in this world illegally by marrying his mother.
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lol (but you’re right; the satire needed it’s context)
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Whoosh–went, at first, over my head. Thanks for the link.
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https://www.google.com/amp/s/nypost.com/2019/07/17/trump-repeats-false-claim-that-ilhan-omar-married-her-brother/amp/
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Yes, and Pence refers to his wife as Mother. But if you have to explain a joke . . .
I’ll be live from Teachers College explaining one-liners and front loading surprise.
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The readiness is all. –Mahatma Gandhi (hee hee)
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Had no idea where that was going at first.
We’re way off topic here. (Oedipus Wrecks)
Now back to our political civil war already in progress.
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