This is how far we've come. This is how far we've come?
We have to have the discussion on whether the president is a racist or not. Whether you think so or not, the president does provoke this on himself with irresponsible, bigoted, bastardizing, unpresidential and __________ (fill in the blank for yourself) statements about race, ethnicity, countries of origin and, frankly, most all non-whites. Fmr. advisor to Rand Paul and aide in the Bush White House now MSNBC political analyst, Elise Jordan said it best that there is no reason at all to go out of your way to alienate and antagonize people. As president, that shouldn't be that difficult. But we did get Norway in return. Roughly 54 countries in Africa plus
Haiti and El Salvador makes 56 traded away and one in return. Not a good
deal, wouldn't you say, and now we learn that Norway is an unwilling
draft pick and refuses to report to the president's call.
Here's how Donald Trump should defend his latest example of stupidity in calling Haiti, El Salvador and the entire continent of Africa shit holes...
(Aside: The television analysts and anchors and press writ large are giddy to say the word "shit" on live air. You can see it in the faces, which is pretty hysterical in and of itself. We're glad that "Meet The Press" rightly didn't indulge in this TV candy because it's not necessary, and it got tiring of watching them one by one eat the candy. Like you just want a break from it if you follow these things or live an everyday life. But President Trump has lowered the bar another three rungs yet again, teaching our children by example.)
He should defend this untrue statement like he defended himself on his "Putin and Russia kill people" defense. Include us into the group. Like Mr. Trump said, "You think our country's so innocent?" Instead, "You think our country's not a shit hole too?" The president has said that other countries' airports are much nicer than others. He also said our FBI is in tatters. He declared a state of emergency on our opioid crisis so... Isn't that what's he's saying? What everyone is thinking, as some explain....
But we actually don't want to say what "everyone's thinking." It wasn't acceptable when he used this defense the first time, and it shouldn't be now.
The biggest disappointment isn't how Mr. Trumps disgraces the office of the President of the United States on a daily basis and trivializes the overall awesome responsibility it truly carries where lives are in the balance. Donald Trump has never internalized this concept. No, bigger than that is that we voted for the guy or not enough of people showed up to vote for his opponent. Anyway you look at it, it's on us, really.
But there's an out here, be it a slight one, and that is that Americans were sold a hyped product that ended up not being made of the quality we were promised. We expected sturdy bolts in components of stainless steel construction, but instead we got something plastic and one of the knobs has already broken off.
The Out: Where are the individuals who represent us?
Speaker of the House of Representatives Paul Ryan (R-WI) said what the president said unfortunate and unhelpful. Mr. Ryan is so preoccupied and focused on his personal crusade to fulfill every Ayn Rand wish list item that when he says 'unfortunate,' he means he doesn't care all that much and when he uses the word 'unhelpful,' he means to his agenda. The deal that seems to have really been struck was with Republican leadership and Mr. Trump, which was 'let us carry out our agenda and we'll kiss your shit hole no matter what you say.'
Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) said in his interview that what the president said wasn't 'constructive.' That was forceful, no psychache in Mr. Paul's back, apparently. He then defended the president, as did David Brody from the Christian Broadcast Network, with making distinctions between what the president says in public versus what he does or what people close to him say. The latter of which is hardly a comforting method of reassurance. Mr. Paul said that we should give the president the benefit of the doubt, but what doubt is he talking about? Ms. Jordan, said this is what happens when you 'hitch your wagons' to Trump, and then without addressing it to her former boss directly, eviscerated every excuse or notion of logic in defending Mr. Trump.
All that said is the reason we have wiser men and women such as fmr. Ambassador Andrew Young and Andrea Mitchell. Mr. Young explained that you shouldn't call an alcoholic a drunk if you want the person to remain sober and cure the disease. Ms. Mitchell reminded us that compassion and a sense of humanity should be qualities that our presidents have, which Mr. Trump does not have. She importantly noted that 20 people have perished in California mudslides and the president has mentioned one time.
The troubling question is why these concepts would have to be explained to the president in the first place. If this is the case then take all the "executive time," without Twitter, that you need Mr. President.
Panel: Helene Cooper, The New York Times; Andrea Mitchell, NBC News; Elise Jordan, MSNBC; David Brody, Christian Broadcasting Network
One more thing...
Hawaii... A ballistic missile warning that turned out to be a false alarm. Not only does Mr. Trump have us thinking about the possibility of nuclear war with North Korea, but he's also got the military paranoid to the point of making these types of mistakes, as well?
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