Donald Trump is finally scheduled to visit Britain.

Just make sure there are no protesters. I hate protesters.

Courtesy of The Guardian: 

Donald Trump will make a “working visit” to the UK on Friday 13 July, the UK and US have both confirmed, with the US president set to meet the Queen during the trip. 

The visit, which will take place immediately after a Nato summit in Brussels, will include bilateral talks with Theresa May, according to Britain’s ambassador to the US.

It will not, however, be the full state visit the US president was promised when May visited Washington last year, meaning he will not be honoured with an official banquet at Buckingham Palace or a carriage procession up the Mall. 

Downing Street has insisted the invitation for a full state visit still stands, but there is no timetable for it to take place.

May invited Trump for a state visit when she became the first world leader to meet the president in the White House in January last year.

It was downgraded to a “working trip” after huge public opposition to the visit and MPs said Trump should not be given the opportunity to address parliament. He has clashed publicly with London’s mayor, Sadiq Khan, who has said the president’s visit would result in mass peaceful protests and that Trump’s values were the polar opposite of Londoners’. 

I can only imagine how badly Trump will embarrass America when he visits the Queen.

There are already mass protests planned: 

Jeremy Corbyn-backing activist and commentator Owen Jones took to Facebook to urge Britons to join mass demonstrations against the visit. 

Writing on the 'Protest Trump's Visit' Facebook group - which has over 100,000 people interested in it, he wrote: 'It's official; Donald Trump is visiting the UK on 13th July. 

'Everyone out on the streets! Invite everyone you know to this event.'

Police have been bracing themselves for what could be the biggest protests the country has seen. 

So apparently this will go off like every other event planned by the Trump White House. 

Donald Trump cancels his visit to London.

Courtesy of The Guardian: 

Donald Trump has cancelled a visit to Britain next month to open the new US embassy in London, amid fears of mass protests.

The London mayor, Sadiq Khan, said Trump had “got the message” that many Londoners staunchly opposed his policies and actions. 

“It appears that President Trump got the message from the many Londoners who love and admire America and Americans but find his policies and actions the polar opposite of our city’s values of inclusion, diversity and tolerance,” Khan said on Friday. 

“His visit next month would without doubt have been met by mass peaceful protests. This just reinforces what a mistake it was for Theresa May to rush and extend an invitation of a state visit in the first place.”

But Trump wants everybody to know that he is not cancelling the trip due to the protests, but rather he is making a protest of his own. 

Reason I canceled my trip to London is that I am not a big fan of the Obama Administration having sold perhaps the best located and finest embassy in London for “peanuts,” only to build a new one in an off location for 1.2 billion dollars. Bad deal. Wanted me to cut ribbon-NO!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 12, 2018

Oh yeah, that's it.

Not the possibility of being humiliated by the protesters and embarrassed by the British reporters.

Seriously?

Donald Trump's visit to the UK has been downgraded.

Courtesy of The Independent:  

Donald Trump’s planned state visit to the UK in 2018 has been downgraded to a “working visit”, likely forming part of a multi-country tour, it has been reported. 

It means the billionaire will not be a guest of the Queen, as was previously envisaged. 

Theresa May’s offer of a state visit to the first-term President was greeted with the threat of mass protests by opponents. 

Mr Trump’s visit will now take place without the glitz and pomp of a full state visit, the Evening Standard reported.

It seems only fair that this visit be downgraded.

After all thanks to Donald Trump the presidency has been downgraded as well. 

"Oh my God, it is Obama!" In Alaska?

"Oh my God, it is Obama": Alaska mom, baby meet ex-president https://t.co/hig00Hf1uQ pic.twitter.com/zKhxy7oWnw

— ABC News (@ABC) July 8, 2017

Courtesy of the Star Tribune:  

An Alaska mother is cherishing cellphone photos she snapped of her wide-eyed 6-month-old baby in the arms of former President Barack Obama. 

Jolene Jackinsky was at Anchorage International Airport on Monday looking for an airline when she ended up in a waiting area for private flights where a man she thought looked like Obama was sitting. 

"As I got closer, I thought: Oh my God, it is Obama," she recalled Friday from Newhalen, a small Alaska village where she's vacationing. 

Obama then walked up to her and asked "Who is this pretty girl?"

Oh man! If I would have known that the greatest President of my lifetime was in my state, I would have dropped everything and made a beeline for the airport.

You may not know it from our voting record but a lot of Alaskans admire Barack Obama, and his trip up here in 2015 really endeared to many Alaskans.

So I imagine if this visit had been made public there would have been quite a large crowd of admirers who would have joined me in welcoming this great man to our great state.

Donald Trump cancels his visit to the UK until they promise to be nicer to him.

Courtesy of Politico: 

U.S. President Donald Trump won’t visit the U.K. until he feels the British public would welcome him, he told U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May in a phone conversation in recent weeks, the Guardian reports. 

Trump didn’t want to spark public protests, he told May according to a Downing Street advisor quoted anonymously by the paper, potentially postponing the visit indefinitely. 

London Mayor Sadiq Khan earlier this week called for the visit to be cancelled over the president’s comments in the aftermath of the London terrorist attacks.

“I don’t think we should roll out the red carpet to the president of the U.S. in the circumstances where his policies go against everything we stand for,” Khan told Channel 4 News Monday evening.

Aww, did the little orange snowflake get his fee fees hurted?

Well he better get used to it because if the British papers are any indication, things are certainly not going to get better for him anytime soon.

Courtesy of The Guardian: 

Donald Trump is not a fit and proper person to hold the office of president of the United States. That is a view widely held in the US and among America’s European allies, by politicians and diplomats in government and by rank-and-file voters repelled by his gross egoism, narcissism and what Boris Johnson, the foreign secretary, has rightly termed his “stupefying ignorance”. It is a view we wholeheartedly share and have repeatedly expressed, before and after Trump’s narrow election victory last November. 

Trump is an habitual liar, as evidenced again in last week’s sworn congressional testimony by his sacked FBI director, James Comey. Trump is a bully, as Angela Merkel, Germany’s chancellor, among many others, can testify from personal experience. And Trump is a coward. When put on the spot, as over his authorisation of a disastrous special forces raid in Yemen in January or his bogus claim that Britain’s GCHQ bugged him, his craven instinct was to shift blame to others.

Since taking office, Trump’s dangerous, loutish and irresponsible behaviour has exceeded his critics’ worst nightmares. He has fuelled Islamist extremism by escalating US military involvement in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, at a rising cost in civilian lives. He has exacerbated divisions by his attempts to ban Muslims travelling to the US. He threatens war with Iran while cutting foreign aid and cosying up to autocrats and human rights abusers in Saudi Arabia, the Philippines and Turkey.

Yeah I don't see that red carpet in England rolling out for Trump anytime soon.

Here's an idea.

Perhaps if we ratchet up the criticisms here at home, we can irritate Trump enough so that he no longer feels welcome in America either.

Maybe we can piss him off so much that refuses to live here anymore and takes his traveling sideshow to somewhere that he feels more welcome.

Say Saudi Arabia for instance.

After all they let him touch their orb and gave him a bunch of expensive goodies.

Hey its worth a try, and I know I will certainly continue doing my part.

P.S. Apparently after this story broke Britain's soon to be replaced Prime Minister found out and they are now saying the visit is still on.

Okay, let's wait to see who's right.

The British have decided that there is no way that Donald Trump will be addressing Parliament during his visit.

You know what? I didn't want to talk to that stupid old Parliament anyhow.

Courtesy of The Guardian: 

The government has abandoned the idea of Donald Trump addressing the joint Houses of Parliament when he comes to Britain for a state visit later this year after objections by MPs led by the Commons Speaker John Bercow. 

The US president’s controversial visit is now expected to run from a Thursday to a Sunday in late summer or early autumn, with officials trying to ensure that Trump is not in London at a time when parliament is sitting, in order to avoid a formal snub.

According to Westminster sources, a weekend visit at the very end of August or in September is now under discussion between the government, Buckingham Palace and the White House. A source described such a plan as “the preferred option at our end”. Parliament will be in summer recess until 5 September and adjourns again for the party conferences on 15 September for nearly a month. 

Such an arrangement would mean that Trump would not be invited to address parliament at all. The approach follows Bercow’s statement this week that he would not give his consent either to a speech by the president in Westminster Hall or in the royal gallery, both of which have traditionally been used for addresses by visiting statesmen and women.

However this decision does NOT guarantee that Trump will not be met with protests.

Actually quite substantial protests:

Donald Trump’s state visit will be greeted by the biggest anti-racism protest in British history no matter where in the country the Government moves it to, campaigners have said. 

Local politicians and activists in Birmingham reacted with anger to suggestions that the trip could be relocated to their city – and pledged to flood the streets with protesters to greet the “hateful” President.

 Let's face it perhaps there are enough ignorant Americans to help Doanld Trump gain access to the White House, but the rest of the world is not so easily manipulated by the Russian government.

Sure there are some leaders who seem to like and respect him, but they, much like Benjamin Netanyahu, are invariably corrupt and ethically challenged as well.

Majority of Pope's speeches while visiting America will be in Spanish. Cue the Right Wing outrage.

Pope Francis consorting with the Anti-Christ.

Courtesy of the Guardian:  

Pope Francis will deliver most of his speeches in his native Spanish when he arrives in the US next week for his three-city tour, with just four speeches expected in English. 

Federico Lombardi, the Vatican’s chief spokesman, said on Tuesday that the Argentinian pontiff will deliver 14 speeches in Spanish – including a high-profile speech before the United Nations. Lombardi said that the pope finds it easier to communicate in Spanish. 

Indeed, if the past offers any clues to his upcoming tour of Cuba and the US, the pope has tended to make some of his most newsworthy comments in Spanish, especially when he departs from prepared remarks and speaks off the cuff. 

The papal visit comes amid a caustic debate in the US about immigration and the widespread use of Spanish.

So not only is the Pope speaking out against conservative economic policies,  speaking in favor of accepting non-religious people as equals, and calling for the acceptance of evolution, but now he dares to come to America and speak in the same language as the people illegally crossing the borders?

Boy THAT is going to make whatever that is on Donald Trump's head stand straight up.

After all as we know American is the greatest, most bestest language there is. And if this fraud, who has probably NEVER even been inside of a real honest to goodness fire and brimstone revival meeting, cannot be bothered to talk good American, then perhaps we Americans are better served getting our religious direction from tried and true sources like Pat Robertson, Franklin Graham, and Joel "Show me the money" Osteen.

Hmm I wonder how many GOP candidates are willing to get up close and personal with the Pope now?

President Obama on his Alaska trip, "I've got to come back here once I'm done being President."

You have not seen the last of me Alaska.

Okay so I don't want any credit for being clairvoyant or anything but I predicted yesterday that Alaska was going to get under Obama's skin, and it seems that it has done exactly that:

Right off the bat, I’ll note that I’ve got to come back here once I’m done being President. 

You just can’t see Alaska in three days. 

Well that's the understatement of the year.

Look I know that for many of the people in the lower forty eight Alaska's reputation has been forever besmirched by Sarah Palin. (Why do you think we all worked so hard to distance ourselves from her?)

But Alaska is truly a unique place, whose beauty transcends ideology or political differences.

Sure we have perhaps more than our fair share of lunatics and stupid people, but this is a VERY big state. Fd you don't want to see them, trust me you won't see them.

But if instead you want to meet the nicest, most giving people anywhere, well you really cannot avoid meeting them.

Because they are everywhere.

And the scenery?

Yeah, well you would be hard pressed top beat our scenery.

So of course President Obama is coming back. How could he not?

And just like he will not be able to forget us, we also will not be able to forget him.

Sadly for him however the portion of his trip that will be forever ingrained in our memories is the time the fish jizzed on his boots.

Because THAT was too damn funny!

Can't we just keep him?

Today marks the President's last day up here in Alaska.

And the guy has been having a blast, while also learning a lot of important information about how climate change is impacting our state.

Watch President Obama get behind the camera next to a glacier in Alaska's Kenai Fjords National Park to show you the serious impacts of climate change: http://go.wh.gov/GsxVga #ActOnClimate
Posted by The White House on Wednesday, September 2, 2015

Not only that but MOST of the people really like him up here.

And he's even made some new friends.

And it's not like he can't get things done while he's up here.

Not only that but the fish like him so much up here that one of them could not hold it together.

I'll tell you what, I will gladly trade our two Senators Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan, PLUS  Rep. Don Young, AND any two Palins of your choosing, if you all will just let the guy stay up here permanently.

I mean come on, that's a good trade.

Okay well not a good trade, but a reasonable trade?

No you're right, that trade sucks.

Well maybe, just maybe, once President Obama leaves office he will consider coming back for a longer visit.

I am sure he will always be welcome.

Despite what some on our lunatic fringe might want him to believe. 

Image of the day.

I am going to assume that none of you need to visit Snopes to find out how stupid this graphic is, but sadly there were a lot of folks that did.

And here I thought the post from Bristols blog was the most ignorant thing I would read today.

Somebody sent me this awesome Daily Show clip that really helps to illustrate what dicks the people of Ohio have been for these last several decades.

In more uplifting news here is Alaska Dispatch's coverage of President Obama on day two of his visit.

Just look at how traumatized this poor woman was when the President shook her hand.

Here he is photobombing some people just trying to get breakfast at the Snow City Cafe

Honestly this is about the biggest thing that has happened up here since the 1964 earthquake.

Only the shake up caused by Obama's visit is far more beneficial to the Alaskan people.

President Obama just renamed Alaska's tallest mountain.

Courtesy of ABC News:  

President Obama has changed the name of Alaska's Mt. McKinley to Denali, the White House announced Sunday, a day before the president is set to visit the state. 

"Denali" is the Alaskan Native name for the mountain, which is North America's tallest - and a site of cultural significance to Alaska's native population. 

U.S. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell signed the order renaming the mountain on Friday. Obama will officially rename the peak in Anchorage tomorrow, where he will kick off his presidential visit to the 49th state. 

The name change follows a longstanding effort to re-designate the mountain by its Athabascan name. In 1975 Alaska's governor formally requested that the secretary of the interior work to change the name, following a resolution from the Alaska State Legislature. 

"For centuries, Alaskans have known this majestic mountain as the 'Great One.' Today we are honored to be able to officially recognize the mountain as Denali," Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, wrote in a statement thanking the president.

Well I'm glad to see that Lisa Murkowski is supporting the name change, because true Alaskans have been  arguing for it for decades.

Denali was renamed Mt. McKinley by some white gold prospector and that became the official name back in 1917. And it has been pissing off the Alaska natives ever since.

The name Denali means "the great one" and if you have ever seen it you know that is the name it deserves.

Look, President Obama is already doing great things for Alaska, and he has not even landed here yet. One can only imagine how much he will accomplish in the three days that he is scheduled to be here.

Update: Oh and by the way fuck Ohio. That's right, I said it!

White House releases video ahead of President Obama's trip to Alaska. Hey, that's where I live!

Courtesy of Alaska Dispatch:  

President Barack Obama will use his trip to Alaska later this month as the backdrop of a message to the world about climate change, he announced in a video message today. 

Obama plans to take his trip beyond the streets of Anchorage and will be the first sitting U.S. president to visit Alaska's Arctic, a White House official said today. 

“In Alaska, glaciers are melting. The hunting and fishing upon which generations have depended -- for their way of life, and for their jobs -- are threatened. Storm surges once held at bay now endanger entire villages. As Alaskan permafrost melts, some homes are even sinking into the ground. The state’s God-given natural treasures are at risk,” Obama said in the video address. 

“When I’m there, I’ll meet with Americans who are dealing with climate change every day, and I’ll talk with other nations about how we can tackle this challenge together,” he said.

Oh boy Obama's coming to Alaska!

Hey look I don't want to alter any long standing plans or anything, but I DO have this empty bedroom in my house now that my daughter is working out of state. I'm just saying.

I mean it's nothing fancy, but it has cable, a private bath right next door, and a dog that will stare at you while you eat in an attempt to will you into dropping some food on the ground. (That's actually a little creepy.)

Not only that but you can talk to an honest to goodness liberal. The rarest of rarities.

And I would gladly bend the President's ear about ALL kinds of interesting things concerning my state, and those who have been placed in charge of it over the years, that he might otherwise never hear.

Just thought I'd put that out there.