Normally, a presidential speech to the United Nations is a big deal. But we don't live in normal times. President Trump spoke to the United Nations yesterday. Nobody laughed, unlike the response he got from the U.N. last year.
Delegates from undeveloped nations looked at Trump and his acting British counterpart and muttered "If that's developed, we should stay un."
But, as I say, once upon a time such a speech was such a big deal The New York Times would print the whole text. When texts became so easily and quickly available on-line, the Times stopped running them, but you can always go to the Supreme Court's site to read its decisions, and you used to be able to go to the White House to see presidential speeches. But that was in normal times. The new, improved White House doesn't make texts available. Only tweets and notes.
If you want to know what the former leader of the free world had to say, you have to sit through the whole video. Or wait for the hardcover edition.
Well, anyway. The U.N. speech was upstaged by the dirty, stinking, shameful Democrats finally starting impeachment proceedings. (And over one of his venial sins, while there are so many mortal sins to choose from.) However, the lines Mr. Trump and the White House and others hit upon as the theme of his immortal address are these:
"The future does not belong to globalists. The future belongs to patriots."
Hmm, where did I hear something like that before. Oh, I remember.
Every time he opens his mouth he just keeps digging the hole he's in deeper. The media needs to publish every word he speaks, and every tweet and twitter. Congress wants an airtight case for impeachment? He's making it for them. Should be painfully obvious by now that Trump is incapable of doing his job.
ReplyDeleteAnd Congress needs to demand the unredacted phone conversation, and the whistleblower's complaint, also unredacted. There is also talk of having the actual whistleblower testify in closed session.
DeleteThe transcript published in the NYTimes is not a real transcript - it is based on "notes" and recall of people who heard the call.
DeleteWow - I guess we're supposed to swallow it whole?
So, my question is, was the call recorded? If not we're stuck with he said, he said.
DeleteLet me help:
ReplyDeleteThe gold in my tower is polished each night,
And all of my minions must jump
For Rudy will lead them into the great fight
The future belongs to Trump.
Eat your heart out, Sondheim.
I take it back. After reading the whistleblower report, I have to concede that Rudy is toxic. Anyone going near him will die a horrible death of reputation.
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