and it is downright pretty accurate and out there for
all to see and unfortunately, for us in the USA, to
experience.
"What the past week also reveals about the Trump team's
utter incompetence
The past week has been another horror show, and I share
your anxiety and sleeplessness.
But the past week also reveals the utter incompetence
of Trump and his regime.
Even The Wall Street Journal criticized Defense
Secretary Pete Hegseth for trying to dismiss
“Signalgate” as a hoax, calls Trump negotiator Steve
Witkoff “out of his depth in dealing with world
crises,” and condemns the administration for thinking
“it can bully its way through anything by shouting Fake
News.”
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-South Dakota)
instructs the administration to “own it and fix it.”
During the ensuing uproar, Witkoff goes off the deep
end, telling Tucker Carlson that Vladimir Putin is
“straight up” and not a “bad guy,” claiming he’s “100
percent” certain Russia “doesn’t want to overrun
Europe,” and embracing Russia’s claim that people in
the seized Ukrainian territory “want to be under
Russian rule.”
Now that Trump has demanded that Greenland surrender to
America, Greenlanders are so adamant they don’t want JD
Vance and his wife to visit that the second couple end
up visiting only a frigid U.S. military base there.
Meanwhile, just as measles is spreading and avian flu
threatens, Trump’s Department of Health and Human
Services cuts 20,000 jobs and dramatically scales back
the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The
White House cancels funding for studies of antiviral
drugs and vaccines to fight future pandemics, as well
as grants to track infectious diseases. It hires a man
who promotes the false claim that immunization causes
autism to do a study on the topic. And the Food and
Drug Administration’s top vaccine official resigns
under pressure, calling Health Secretary Robert F.
Kennedy Jr.’s stance on vaccines irresponsible and
dangerous. “This man doesn’t care about the truth,”
says the official. “He cares about what is making him
followers.”
Elon continues to attack Social Security, with phone
wait times growing even longer.
The stock market continues its meltdown.
Amid the turmoil, Trump expresses his wish at a Women’s
History Month event to “be known as the fertilization
president.” He complains that a portrait of him in the
Colorado state capitol is “purposefully distorted.” He
attacks a law firm because it once employed a lawyer
who worked on a Justice Department probe of Trump
during his first term. He’s imposing sweeping
“reciprocal tariffs” that he says will substitute for
income taxes. He attacks the “absolutely terrible” work
of Fox News White House correspondent Jacqui Heinrich
because she asked on air about the propriety of Trump
hosting a Tesla marketing event at the White House. He
orders proof of citizenship to vote in federal
elections — a power the Constitution assigns to the
states and Congress. He launches a barrage of orders
against California and issues a new cryptocurrency coin
to further enrich himself and his family.
Just this week.
It would all be comic if not so tragic.
Is it any wonder that the special election in Florida’s
6th Congressional District is now trending blue, with
Republican Randy Fine’s former lead over Democrat Josh
Weildisappearing — despite the heavy GOP tilt of the
district?
Or that Trump is so afraid of losing his House majority
that he pulled Elise Stefanik back from her plumb
United Nations ambassadorial job so she’d remain in
Congress?
I don’t want to minimize the cruelty or pain being
inflicted by Trump and his cronies, but this week has
also revealed a foolishness — a mindless obtuseness —
in Trump and this regime that defies belief.
These people know zilch about governing, which is both
laughable and terrifying."
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