One of the funny things with pundits being alarmed about Biden being old and not making decisions is that it implicitly suggests that when Trump was president he was looking over dossiers and intelligence briefings and not just watching old episodes of Baywatch
Aide: Mr President, we need a decision about the crisis in Peru
Trump: yes of course, I was just entranced by the trenchant insights of this months Economist
Idk seems like either decisions are being made by some rando lib thinktank guy or Stephen Miller. Won’t pretend to be excited about either one but I know which one is worse.
How it actually got done:
Adviser: "Here is a picture of contestants from the recent Ms. Peru contest. The swimsuit event. You can help these young women by signing this paper."
Trump: "Quick man, where's my big pen?"
remember when he was in walter reed with covid and they showed pics of him “working” and he was just writing his name real big with a sharpie on a blank piece of paper
They really loved blank pieces of paper. Didn’t they have some giant health plan that was a thousand pages or something and when a person opened it up it was blank paper like some Lionel Hutz scam
Just before he was inaugurated he had a press conference with binders of all the documents about the trust he was putting his business into and they were all clearly blank paper taken directly out of the wrapper and stuck in folders
Reminds me of the whole "Mussolini leaves the lights on in his office overnight so people can look up from the piazza and think he's working for them at all hours" bit.
Oh, sure. The guy who had to have his Daily Briefings condensed down into a handful of bullet-points on a few pages was *totally* making good, informed decisions.
There's a powerful donor <-> opportunistic dem politician <-> Trumpworld source <-> national journalist feedback loop that implicitly grants Trump permission to be checked out from his former job and incoherently dissemble whenever he speaks.
Most national journalists on this app are stuck in it.
All the people who worked closely with trump (who arent held back by a desire to remain active in republican politics) have all uniformly and repeatedly explained that trump has a small child's understanding of the world and lacks the capacity to learn enough to make well-informed decisions
Can’t find it now but around the time of the Gorilla Channel thing, someone wrote a bit on Dump’s “ant farm”, which was imaginary but everyone was forced to play along…
So good a satire that you knew it couldn’t be real I mean - it WASN’T REAL WAS IT
