Two Weeks. One Fartnight.
We’re back in “two-week” territory!
Whenever Donald Trump is caught by his own bullshit and trapped without a coherent plan, he resorts to his specious “two week” formulation. Something mysterious but wonderful and definitive is going to happen in two weeks, but he can’t quite address it yet because. It is as though he thinks the public is similarly senescent, limited by a 14-day memory window. That we’ll forget and he can move on to the next lie.
Here is an excellent video compendium of Trump’s past two-week deadlines, compiled by NBC News.
Not since the Bay of Pigs has the United States seen a president look as epically stupid and trapped and outplayed and overmatched as Trump looks to be now. Even the most rabid of the right-wing public asswipes are now saying Trump is nuts and hinting that he might need to be straitjacketed and deposed: Tucker Carlson, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Joe Rogan, Candace Owens … even noted lunatic Alex Jones.
But wait…. maybe everything will look better in two weeks!
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Added late: In today’s newsletter, the great and indefatigable Robert Reich lays out just how badly Trump has been played by Iran. And others.
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That’s all for now. I am exhausted by this guy. Aren’t we all?
Good.
I’m too exhausted to ask for financial support now in some clever, jaunty way. I’ll just throw this button at you. Take it or leave it. But I’m giving you a two-week deadline, after which, if you don’t pony up, I will annihilate you and your entire culture.