Donald Trump's Splendiferously Bad Week

     Everyone outside the Koolaid-swilling MAGAverse would find it impossible to find anything that reflected well on Donald Trump this past week. Let's start with the G7 summit in Canada, a nation that Donald still wants to make the 51st state.

     First off, the Canadian government had to waive the usual rules just to let Trump into their airspace much less land on Canadian soil. As a 34 time convicted felon, Donald Trump should have been forbidden from entering Canada because convicted felons can't enter Canada, according to Canadian law. 

     Secondly, as he does at every G7, Trump began pissing and moaning that the G7 won't allow Putin and Russia in on account of his two illegal invasions of Ukraine. He kvetches about it every year and the other world leaders politely nod and ignore him.

     Thirdly, Trump left early, as he's wont to do when he doesn't get his way. It's not the first G7 in which he left early, the first time being after finding out that Trudeau, Boris Johnson and Macron laughed at him over drinks on a hot mic.

     Fourthly, just before he left, ostensibly to take care of the Israel-Iran war, he held a press conference with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer. He opened the folder and, like the bumbling idiot he is, let most of the papers fall out of the folder. He helplessly looked at the papers and made Starmer pick them up because, apparently, he lacks the ability to bend his knees and kneel down (and, with his frontotemporal demented forward tilt, that's probably exactly the case).

     After, predictably, blaming the wind (even though it wasn't a windy day), Trump haphazardly stuffed the important documents in the binder so it looked like something a third grader with no organizational skills would take to school. Call me a nitpicker but I don't recall any other US president who ever let that happen.

     Then, a couple of days later, there was The Parade on June 14th.

     This $45,000,000 boondoggle was supposed to honor the 250th anniversary of the founding of the US Army as well as to commemorate Flag Day. But that was all just a coincidence to Trump, who secretly wishes his birthday was a national holiday, like Washington's or Lincoln's. Donnie, the Autocrat Who Couldn't, obviously expected a military parade like you see in nations with autocratic rulers, like the razor-sharp formations and impeccable marching and drilling like you'd see in China or North Korea.

     What he got instead was what we used to call in the military a soup sandwich, in which even the weather wouldn't cooperate. It started with the death of an innocent woman, Sierra Nichole Smith, who was dragged by a transport for several blocks in DC before getting hit by an SUV. 

      Yes, there were tanks, whose squeaky tracks could be heard all the way at the Pentagon, there were tanks, some even older than Trump, there were drones, always an exciting addition to fascistic displays in cock-wanding. But the real highlight of the day was the precision marching and drilling of our troops.

      Just kidding. It was more like a leisurely stroll through the park, with the troops marching not in formation or even in step. Everyone in the military knows how to march and drill. Take it from someone who's been in the military (unlike Trump). It's easy to imagine the troops who were hogtied into this dog and pony show walking as easy as you please past the "Commander in Chief" and defense secretary as a way of saying, "Fuck you."

 

     Trump's enthusiasm was well-documented. Typically, Stephen "Oddjob" Cheung lied about the attendance, claiming that a quarter of a million people showed up when video evidence plainly showed it was about 8,500, if that. In fact, when Trump began speaking, the few who were there began streaming out. 

     The spectacle was so sad and pathetic, Trump is said to have reamed out Hegseth.

     In the middle of all this, Trump all but decided he was going to get us involved in the war going on between Israel and Iran. Remember, one of the planks in his 2024 campaign platform was a promise to keep us out of foreign wars. This one issue alone has split MAGA neatly in half. Half of it wants regime change, the other half (like Tucker Carlson and Steve Bannon) have no taste for it. So, Trump decided he was going to kick the can down the road for a couple of weeks and to give Iran that time to suspend its nuclear weapons program that DNI Tulsi Gabbard told Congress last March simply didn't exist.

     Oh, and he demanded Iran's unconditional surrender, which made Iran laugh.

     Then Juneteenth came and, like the true cross burner he is, Trump said this:

 

     This is coming from the guy who's spent literally 22% of his "presidency" golfing and siphoning about $25,000,000 from the Treasury to that end and blew about $45,000,000 more on a bad birthday party that cost an innocent woman her life.