Donald Trump growing angrier and more resentful that America seems to be rejecting his presidency.

Take a look at this courtesy of the New York Times: 

President Trump’s first weekend in office unfolded much the way things often did during his campaign: with angry Twitter messages, a familiar obsession with slights and a series of meandering and at times untrue statements, all eventually giving way to attempts at damage control.

Apparently all of the coverage about how small his inauguration crowds were REALLY got under Trump's skin.

Mr. Trump grew increasingly angry on Inauguration Day after reading a series of Twitter messages pointing out that the size of his inaugural crowd did not rival that of Mr. Obama’s in 2009. But he spent his Friday night in a whirlwind of celebration and affirmation. When he awoke on Saturday morning, after his first night in the Executive Mansion, the glow was gone, several people close to him said, and the new president was filled anew with a sense of injury. 

He became even more agitated after learning of a pool report by a Time magazine reporter incorrectly reporting that a bust of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. had been removed from the Oval Office. (The reporter, Zeke Miller, did not see the bust and, after realizing the error, quickly issued a correction and apology.)

That of course resulted in Trump sending Sean Sphincter out to bitch to the press about how unfair the press was treating his boss and to claim that the inauguration crowds were "the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration. Period. Both in person and around the globe."

By the way according to the Washington Post Trump himself wanted Spicer to deliver a "fiery public response," and in the end thought that Spicer's attack on the media "was not forceful enough."

The Post also explains that there is constant infighting and power struggles among Trump's people while Trump himself becomes "resentful, even furious, at what he views as the media’s failure to reflect the magnitude of his achievements, and he feels demoralized that the public’s perception of his presidency so far does not necessarily align with his own sense of accomplishment." 

Trump is also obsessed with how the media covers him.

This from Axios:

With an allergy to computers and phones, he works the papers. With a black Sharpie in hand, he marks up the Times or other printed stories. When he wants action or response, he scrawls the staffers' names on that paper and either hands the clip to them in person, or has a staffer create a PDF of it — with handwritten commentary — and email it to them. An amazed senior adviser recently pulled out his phone to show us a string of the emailed PDFs, all demanding response. It was like something from the early 90s. Even when he gets worked up enough to tweet, Trump told us in our interview he will often simply dictate it, and let his staff hit "send" on Twitter. 

Most mornings, Trump flicks on the TV and watches "Morning Joe," often for long periods of time, sometimes interrupted with texts to the hosts or panelists. After the 6 a.m. hour of "Joe," he's often on to "Fox & Friends" by 7 a.m., with a little CNN before or after. He also catches the Sunday shows, especially "Meet the Press." "The shows," as he calls them, often provoke his tweets. The day of our interview with him, all of his tweet topics were discussed during the first two hours of "Morning Joe." 

"60 Minutes" is usually on his DVR. "He's so old-school that he thinks it's awesome to go on '60 Minutes," a friend said. "He loves being one of Barbara Walters' '10 Most Fascinating People' of the year." Before Trump ran, a staple that he watched every weeknight was Billy Bush's "Access Hollywood." Same with Time Magazine. His office and hotels are full of framed copies of him on the cover. 

This obsession with media coverage combined with his thin skin makes Trump easily manipulated by celebrities, politicians, and members of the press who want to get under his skin.

Something that was reinforced even further by the tweets he sent out this morning after hearing that if he really believes there was voter fraud committed by millions of undocumented immigrants there needs to be an investigation.

I will be asking for a major investigation into VOTER FRAUD, including those registered to vote in two states, those who are illegal and....

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 25, 2017

even, those registered to vote who are dead (and many for a long time). Depending on results, we will strengthen up voting procedures!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 25, 2017

Of course the problem with this is that you need some evidence to start such an investigation, there is none, and it will cost many millions of dollars to launch.

Not that Trump cares, after all it's not his money.

What is becoming impossible to miss is something that most of us identified before the election, which is that Trump lacks the appropriate temperament for the job as president of the united states.

You know I think we all knew that the Trump presidency would be a giant shit show, but did anybody expect this much shit to show so early?

Donald Trump press conference was a shit show. Did you expect anything else?

Trump shutting down CNN reporter trying to ask a question: "Don’t be rude... you are fake news" pic.twitter.com/O4z3pPYdXp

— BuzzFeed News (@BuzzFeedNews) January 11, 2017

Damn he literally called CNN "Fake news."

Some of the takeaways include the fact that he finally admitted that Russia hacked the DNC, more or less: 

“As far as hacking, I think it was Russian,” he said. “But I think we also get hacked by other countries and other people and I can say that when we lost 22 million names and everything else that was hacked recently, they didn’t make a big deal out of that, that was something that was extraordinary.” 

 So yeah he admits we got hacked by Russia, but thinks other hacks were worse.

As if anything could be worse than a hack which helped him to win the presidency.

He also said, that “Russia will have much greater respect for our country when I’m leading it than when other people have led it.” “You will see that.”

Yeah, I think he is confusing "respect" with "control over."

Trump also made a yuge show over signing his company over to his kids, and even had his attorney take the mic and assure all of the reporters that there was nothing to see here and everything was just fine, no need to investigate.

“I could actually run my business ... and run government at the same time,” he said. “I don’t like the way that looks but I’d be able to if I wanted to.

Not parody. He actually said this. #TrumpPressConference pic.twitter.com/OO5tmKhUDQ

— Amy Siskind (@Amy_Siskind) January 11, 2017

Also not exactly true.

But it was his attacks on the media that were the most shocking part of this:

“I want to thank a lot of the news organizations, some of whom have not treated me well over the years, a couple in particular, and they came out so strongly against that fake news,” he said. “I have great respect for the news, I have great respect for freedom of the press and all of that, but I will tell you there were some news organizations … that were so professional, so incredibly professional.” 

Later on, he called BuzzFeed, which posted a document which it says is the dossier about the Russian information, “a failing pile of garbage,” and also criticized CNN for publicizing the reports on Tuesday. 

CNN reporter Jim Acosta attempted to ask a follow-up question, but Mr. Trump repeatedly shut him down. 

“No, not you, your organization is terrible. Quiet. Quiet,” he said. As Acosta continued trying to ask a question, talking over another reporter, Mr. Trump continued: “Don’t be rude. Don’t be rude. Don’t. Be. Rude. I’m not going to give you a question. You are fake news.” 

Damn! I had never see anything like that before!

In one breath he tells the news organizations that he respects them and in the next he is essentially insulting a news outlet to their face in front of  their peers.

 Usually a newly elected president has a honeymoon period with the media, but this guy  is telling them to go fuck themselves right out of the gate.

I have to say that I have watched street brawls that were not as ugly as this.

I can only imagine how much worse it gets from here.

Politico reveals that the problem with the Bernie Sanders campaign is in fact Bernie Sanders.

Courtesy of Politico: 

There’s no strategist pulling the strings, and no collection of burn-it-all-down aides egging him on. At the heart of the rage against Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party, the campaign aides closest to him say, is Bernie Sanders. 

It was the Vermont senator who personally rewrote his campaign manager’s shorter statement after the chaos at the Nevada state party convention and blamed the political establishment for inciting the violence. 

He was the one who made the choice to go after Democratic National Committee chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz after his wife read him a transcript of her blasting him on television. 

He chose the knife fight over calling Clinton unqualified, which aides blame for pulling the bottom out of any hopes they had of winning in New York and their last real chance of turning a losing primary run around. 

And when Jimmy Kimmel’s producers asked Sanders’ campaign for a question to ask Donald Trump, Sanders himself wrote the one challenging the Republican nominee to a debate. 

There are many divisions within the Sanders campaign—between the dead-enders and the work-it-out crowds, between the younger aides who think he got off message while the consultants got rich and obsessed with Beltway-style superdelegate math, and between the more experienced staffers who think the kids got way too high on their sense of the difference between a movement and an actual campaign. 

But more than any of them, Sanders is himself filled with resentment, on edge, feeling like he gets no respect -- all while holding on in his head to the enticing but remote chance that Clinton may be indicted before the convention. 

These are the first seven paragraphs of an article that goes on to point out that Bernie Sanders takes every perceived slight by the media or Hillary Clinton campaign personally and that his guiding principle while under any kind of attack, imagined or otherwise, is “Screw me? No, screw you.”

Essentially, much like Donald Trump, all of the campaign's missteps and self inflicted wounds were the result of decisions made by Bernie Sanders himself.

For me the question that remains after reading this article is how did he fool so many people, for so long, into believing that he had the temperament and self awareness to not only win this nomination, but to then actually BE the President of the United States?

And if there are any who refuse to accept the accuracy of this Politico piece Sanders' speech last night should be the only confirmation that they really need to prove it is dead on.

Courtesy of the New York Times:  

And so, despite the crushing California results that rolled in for him on Tuesday night, despite the insurmountable delegate math and the growing pleas that he end his quest for the White House, Senator Bernie Sanders took to the stage in Santa Monica and basked, bragged and vowed to fight on. 

In a speech of striking stubbornness, he ignored the history-making achievement of his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, who became the first woman in American history to clinch the presidential nomination of a major political party. 

Mr. Sanders waited until 15 minutes into his speech to utter Mrs. Clinton’s name. He referred, almost in passing, to a telephone conversation in which he had congratulated her on her victories. At that, the crowd of more than 3,000 inside an aging airport hangar booed loudly. Mr. Sanders did little to discourage them.

You know I get a lot of shit on here for my criticism of Bernie Sanders and his campaign, but I literally feel more vindicated every single day.

P.S. By the way it should be noted that Sanders irritable and perhaps misogynist attitude is now being reflected by some of his more aggressive followers as indicated by their treatment of certain female reporters:

I won't be answering calls from unknown numbers today, after third call from Bernie supporters telling me they'd hunt me down in the streets

— Amy Chozick (@amychozick) June 7, 2016

Like I said, vindicated.

Alaska's sole Congressman has a solution to the homeless problem, wolves.

"Got wolves?"

Courtesy of CBS News:  

Alaska Rep. Don Young has settled on a novel solution to the problem of homelessness: wolves. Young, a long-serving Republican with a history of odd commentary, discussed the idea during an exchange on Thursday with Interior Secretary Sally Jewell, who was testifying before the House Natural Resources Committee about her department's budget. 

Young has been pushing for the Interior Department to remove the gray wolf from the endangered species list, and during the hearing, he ridiculed a letter sent by 79 lawmakers to Jewell urging her to protect the gray wolf population. "How many of you have got wolves in your district?" 

Young asked the other lawmakers on the panel. "None. Not one." 

"They haven't got a damn wolf in their whole district," he added. "I'd like to introduce them in your district. If I introduced them in your district, you wouldn't have a homeless problem anymore."

I swear we elect politicians in Alaska based simply on how embarrassing they might be to the state. 

You know I really hate to argue with the Congressman, but we have wolves in Alaska. Including some that venture into the Anchorage bowl itself where most of our homeless congregate.

And yet we have a homeless population that is ranked among the top ten highest in America.

Not that it needed to be said, but his "solution" is both ridiculous and inhumane. Sort of like Don Young himself.

By the way I am not even sure that Young knows what he is saying anymore. I think he is more than likely suffering from some form of dementia or Alzheimer's. 

Not that that is any excuse.

John McCain strongly suggests that he will run for reelection in 2016. Because, oh why the hell not?

"Whoa Nelly, I'm gonna win it this time."

Courtesy of AZ Central:  

Veteran U.S. Sen. John McCain reiterated Thursday that he is "seriously considering" and "leaning towards" a 2016 re-election bid. 

"We were talking to our longtime supporters -- many of whom have been with us for many years and we're grateful for their support -- about the options, and what we see as the future of the party in Washington and here in Arizona," McCain said. "We're getting a lot of their input as to whether I should run for re-election or not. They know that I am seriously considering it, and leaning towards it." 

McCain, R-Ariz., made the remarks to reporters after a breakfast meeting with political allies at the Ritz-Carlton, Phoenix, at 24th Street and Camelback Road.

Sure why not? I mean what does Arizona deserve more than to have Methuselah representing them in Washington D.C.?

In 2016 John McCain will be eighty years old.

Not to be an "ageist" but if the old bastard were a horse they would not even bother putting him out to pasture they would just shoot him in the head and be done with it.

Personally I don't know how the old fossil can bring himself to show his face in public anymore. If I were the one who had released the Wasilla Wendigo on this country I would have done the honorable thing long ago and committed seppuku.

It looks like Johyn McCain's goal is to die on the Senate floor.

Actually he should consider himself lucky. If he and Palin had been elected, he would have died in his sleep from "mysterious causes" way back in 2009 or 2010.

That is unless he had been willing to go for a plane ride in Alaska.

Donald Trump continues to show that he is an irrelevant joke by going after David Letterman for pointing out the obvious, that he is a racist.

Courtesy of the New York Post:

In a letter he sent to the gap-toothed comic on Friday, Trump canceled an appearance on "Late Show With David Letterman" and lambasted Dave for saying Trump's prolonged attacks on President Obama had begun to "smack of racism."

"I was disappointed to hear the statements you made about me last night on your show that I was a 'racist,' " Trump wrote to Letterman. "In actuality, nothing could be further from the truth and there is nobody who is less of a racist than Donald Trump."

He continued: "Based upon your statements, and despite the fact that we have always done so well together, especially in your ratings, I am canceling my May 18th appearance on your show.

"Additionally," Trump wrote, "please inform your staff that I will likewise not do the 'top ten' list that they had been trying to set up."

Jesus is this guy beginning to channel Sarah Palin more every day or what?

I mean he has already said hateful things about our President, starred in a crappy reality show, and demonstrated that he knows nothing about politics.

So what is he going to do next?

Fake a pregnancy?

Send his wife running off to a male prostitute?

Threaten to sue a blogger? (Uh oh!)

I find it funny that since Trump just got his ass handed to him by the President of the United States that he has now shifted his sites to a target which he mistakenly believes he might stand a better chance against.

However I have to say that a battle of wits between Donald Trump and David Letterman is comparable to a fight between somebody shooting spitballs through a straw at man with his finger hovering over the nuclear button.

Perhaps he should shift his sites even lower and pick a fight with Lindsay Lohan.  Though to be honest I imagine she could probably kick his pudgy white ass too.

Here is the exchange between Letterman and his guest Dr. Phil that made The Donald so pissy.



(The reference to Trump begins at the 1:06 mark.)

John McCain "Has become the male version of Sarah Palin."

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It seems that John McCain and Palin had more in common then we all recognized back in 2008.  They are both angry, spiteful, thin skinned people who absolutely believe that THEY are correct despite the facts or the mood of the country.

I have to wonder that if Palin REALLY  is planning to move her brood down to Arizona that she and McCain will not sit up late at night trashing the Democrats and kvetching about their losses long after nobody else really gives a shit about their opinions?

One of the most interesting and important stories for the American voter to understand is that these two deeply flawed people were very, very close to being elected as the two most important leaders in our country.

Which should direct us to ask the following questions:

What does that say about us? 

What does that say about our political system?

How can we make sure we never allow something that dangerous to happen again?

You would think that after the debacle of the George W. Bush presidency that Americans would be much more cautious and focused on electing competent leadership, but the evidence suggests that we are indeed a country of extremely slow learners.