Last night, the Senate passed a FY2018 budget, paving the way to pave the way (and no, there are no typos there) for the GOP’s tax agenda.
And as you might imagine, Donald Trump tweeted about it … some 8 hours later. Here’s what he said:
Some readers seem to think it’s ok for Donald Trump to continually lie, but somehow not ok for the media to continually call him out for lying. It’s almost like by virtue of the sheer number of times he’s lied, he now gets a free pass to lie some more. Well sorry, but it doesn’t work that way.
There’s an old adage about politicians lying every time they open their mouth, but Trump’s lies are different. They are big, bold, and most importantly, dumb lies that are readily refuted by facts. They aren’t indicative of any real strategy and they aren’t any semblance of devious. They are just big, fat, and semi-retarded like the person spewing them. That second tweet is a great example. That is a lie. This is not (and remember, this hasn’t even passed yet) “the biggest tax cut in the history of the country.” It’s just not. Period. He’s lying. Bald-faced lying. He’s pointing at the sky and saying “see that right there? that’s not blue.”
Whatever, right? So if Trump is tweeting about that at 6:00 in the morning, what was he tweeting about when the budget was passed last night? Well, we’re glad you asked, because as it turns out, he was tweeting about dead soldiers again and now he’s given Democratic Rep. Frederica Wilson of Florida a fun nickname: “wacky Wilson”:
Here we go again. He just can’t let it go. Even after forcing John Kelly to criticize Wilson, Trump is going to keep up the attacks. And here’s the thing: Kelly did not dispute Wilson’s account of the call and indeed, he actually seemed to confirm it. So far, Trump, despite saying he has “proof” that Wilson is lying, has provided anything but. Instead, he’s now piling a lie on top of a lie on top of a lie. And to add insult to injury, he’s now accusing Wilson of spying on the call.
But it gets worse. According to Wilson, John Kelly was lying about her on Thursday in his press conference. Here’s The Miami Herald:
When White House Chief of Staff John Kelly condemned a Miami congresswoman on Thursday for sneering at President Donald Trump’s condolence call to a soldier’s widow, the retired general recalled when the two attended a somber ceremony in Miramar to dedicate a new FBI building named after two slain FBI agents.
Kelly criticized Democratic U.S. Rep. Frederica Wilson for claiming “she got the money” for the new building during the 2015 ceremony while he and others in the audience were focused on the heroism of agents Benjamin Grogan and Jerry Dove, killed during a 1986 shootout with bank robbers south of Miami.
“A congresswoman stood up, and in a long tradition of empty barrels making the most noise, stood up there in all of that and talked about how she was instrumental in getting the funding for that building, and how she took care of her constituents because she got the money, and she just called up President Obama, and on that phone call, he gave the money, the $20 million, to build the building, and she sat down,” Kelly told reporters.
Thursday night, Wilson said Kelly got the story flat-out wrong. In fact, she said Washington approved the money before she was even in Congress. The legislation she sponsored named the building after Grogan and Dove, a law enacted just days before the ceremony.
“He shouldn’t be able to just say that, that is terrible,” Wilson said of Kelly’s remarks in the White House briefing room, the latest volley in the controversy over Trump’s condolence call to a military widow from Miami Gardens, an area Wilson represents. “This has become totally personal.”
Yes, it has. And to be fair, she helped make it personal in the first place – let’s not pretend she didn’t know what she was doing.
That said, now Frederica – who was simply trying to stand up for the honor of a fallen soldier – is “lyin’ wacky Wilson” the “empty barrel making the most noise,” who “SECRETLY” listens in on calls from the President to the widows of fallen soldiers and who, according to Kelly anyway, is emblematic of how soldiers aren’t “sacred.”
As if that wasn’t absurd enough, Kelly equated the perceived lack of respect for fallen soldiers’ families with women and religion not being sacred anymore. So not only is Frederica ‘lyin’ “wacky Wilson” the “empty barrel” who spies on phone calls, she’s also somehow emblematic of a nation that no longer respects women and Jesus.
All of this from an administration whose leader “grabs em’ by the pussy.”
Do you see how ridiculous this is?
The whole point was that Donald Trump was trampling on the sanctity of fallen soldiers by telling the Johnson family that their “guy” (he didn’t even call him by name) “knew what he was signing up for.”
Now, the person who suggested that was inappropriate has been politically assassinated by Trump and Kelly.
As has become customary to start the day in the era of Trump we ask you: “what the actual fuck, America?”
I watched Lawrence O’Donnell, The Final Word, late last night and by the time his one hour was over I was almost in shock with his “take-down” of John Kelly. If everything he said about Kelly is certain, I am very disappointed in a military man I hold/held in high esteem. I saw videos of Kelly making his speech of his issues with the entire disgusting series of events and was ok with some his comments about in today’s world we no longer honor women, which seemed to degrade trump’s history and then he got into all the rambling about religion and then the personal account of F. Wilson and that new FBI building. He did seem to kinda ramble into that and seemed angry overall. Not a prepared statement. I wonder if he regrets it this morning?
O’Donnell apparently goes back to childhood with Kelly and where they both grew up and he made it very clear that the comments “honoring women” is a completely false memory and in fact, the opposite was true – “that drunk husbands beat their women on a regular basis and the Catholic priests pretty much told the women they were not allowed to divorce due to the religion and to make the best of their situations.” If that account is in fact true of their childhood times, then what Kelly spoke of yesterday was a lie. So, my conclusions about Kelly are distorted this morning and I am wondering how do I feel about this man now.
It is clear that assface regrets nothing and never will. He remains a rotting pile of human garbage.