With his second impeachment trial to start this week, former President and still current horrible human being, Donald Trump will unfortunately dominate the news cycle. The idea of going after him after he’s left the building seems like a complete waste of time, energy, and money. Like calling up your ex to relive your worst fight just for kicks. What’s that old expression about sleeping dogs?
Let the lying dogs sleep?
Sleazy dogs always lie?
Oh, it’s let sleeping dogs lie. I was way off!
As the former President robs the necessary and far more important coverage of the Covid vaccine rollout, there’s no doubt that the crazies will once again come out of their racist woodworks. Although I try not to engage with the truest Trumpers, sometimes it just seems impossible to avoid. If you should find yourself in this situation, try to remember and use these seven factoids for the Fox and Friends followers.
- Under Trump’s administration, the national budget deficit increase was the third largest, relative to the size of the economy. The number doesn’t seem real or relatable because at $7.8 trillion, it’s just too many zeroes.
The crazies will obviously point to the pandemic for this lasting effect on the economy. At this point, I would recommend walking away from the conversation for your own sanity. But if you’re the masochistic type, use this as your counter argument. Despite unemployment rate at a historically low level and the stock market hitting record highs, the 2017 tax cut increased the deficit and debt of the country.
- Trump’s physique that seems to scream privileged white male golfer, is not a coincidence. The former President spent nearly 20% of his days in office playing golf. The actual number of times he was at a golf course is a robust 308.
The President of the United States is still a human being. The American public understands that the position is a job and no one deserves to work 24/7, but 20% seems a tad bit too much. The excess of time on the links was responsible for over $550,000 spent on golf cart rentals by the secret service.
The crazies will no doubt, look up from their Chick-fil-A sandwiches long enough to say that Obama played golf too. They would be right. Obama played golf 333 times. The only difference is that Obama was president for twice as long!
- It doesn’t take an ex wife or former mistress of Trump to know that he has an extraordinary talent for making false or misleading statements. However, it might impress you to know that Trump once told over 500 lies in a single day.
For someone that has to type every single word he wants to say, with his eyes no less, the notion of saying 500 false statements sounds impossible. I use a Surface Pro tablet and eye gaze technology to communicate because I have ALS. This means that I don’t waste words.
The idea that Trump said more than 30,000 false or misleading statements in his four years in office is infuriating and impressive. The former President’s disrespect for the truth is infuriating because no one likes to be lied to, no matter what political party you call home. The impressive part of the Pinocchio performance is that he did it with a grade school level vocabulary.
- Trump slammed the door on the American public by shutting down the daily White House briefing. It was a tradition steeped in transparency that goes back a century. Trump officially held half the number of press briefings as the previous two administrations.
This sounds like a complete lie. After all, the former President never seemed to be silent, but that is because he was constantly shouting his simple words via Twitter. The absence of the briefings were replaced by something that sounds much cooler, “chopper talks.” The name comes from the quick Q & A sessions that happen as the President walks to Air Force or Marine One.
Press briefings are the job of the Press Secretary. Trump went through four press secretaries during his time in office. The job is a high profile and extremely stressful position, so it’s not uncommon for a President to have multiple secretaries. Obama had three in his eight years. Trump’s decision to eliminate the pipeline of information to the public was only made more obvious by the ease and frequency that his press secretaries were parodied on Saturday Night Live.
- The idea of state run TV sounds more Russian than Vladimir Moscowesky. But when you consider the fact that the former President was on Fox News more than 70 times more than any other network, it seems like that’s exactly how Trump used it.
The only thing Trump loves more than Trump is his loyal army of Fox News viewers. They are his people. They hate fake news almost as much as they hate the left. The role of the President is to represent and lead the American people. Not just the ones that voted you into power. The country has never been more divided or defined by where we get our news.
- Trump once said, “I just start kissing them. It’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait. And when you’re a star they let you do it. You can do anything… Grab them by the pussy. You can do anything.”
I have been in a lot of locker rooms and I worked in the hospitality industry in my 20’s in NYC. I am very liberal. I have heard some shit. But I have never heard anyone say something so derogatory to the human race. He sounded like he was referring to an inanimate object. Giving directions on how to get something off a shelf.
No one that is or has a mother, sister, daughter, aunt, or even a friend should be able to hear that and not question the moral compass of its source. If the crazies try to argue the validity or context of these comments, I have one piece of advice. Walk away. Just walk away.