I told my wife 45 years ago I would do almost anything for her but carry the hand bag in the mall when she goes to the bathroom. I don't have much pride left but that indeed is a bad look.
Wait, you don't use a man purse? I thought men carried bags and called them things like tactical cargo backpacks. Maybe that's just by me. I couldn't leave the house without a pile of belongings, though. How you all exist without tissues, lip balm, postage stamps, and breath mints in a bag is beyond me.
Years ago I was told by a doctor that keeping my wallet in my back pants pocket was screwing up my spinal alignment when sitting on it all day in the office. So I got a mini hiking pack of sorts that attaches around my waist. It holds my wallet, smart phone and a few pens. It works fine.
I also have no qualms about holding my wife's purse when she is in the restroom. Perhaps I'm too old to care what people think.
I just leave my bag, and its a small one, parked by my husband and politely ask watch that please. He's got a fat wallet. He knows better than to have me watch it. It might get a little lighter.
I am willing to carry my wife’s bag anywhere & anytime, unless it clashes with my outfit - which 99.9% of the time is: shorts, T-Shirt & sneakers (living in PHX has some benefits). But still, a man has to have standards. The purse must contain some sugarless gum and real folding money. To quote the J Geils Band : “If the purse is fat, that’s where it’s at”!
News here in Europe is that a bunch of Gulf Nation leaders met with Pakistani representatives in Islamabad and hammered something out last weekend. They said they were working out a peace deal between the US and Iran despite the fact that no Iranian or USian representatives were present. They know very well that The Old Man is a hot mess and non compos mentos. They're straightening out their part of the world on their own. They'll present the plan to Iran and Witkoff and they'll sign. We cannot let Trump claim victory, though. He screwed us all. And he needs to pay for it. I think we should hand him over to the Iranians. What say you?
As much as I'd like to see Trumpty Dumpty deposited into the middle of an Iranian desert, he reminds me of those barges of NYC trash that roamed the oceans in search of a port that would accept the trash, only to be turned away everywhere. No one wants him, and everyone enjoys watching him destroy America in the meantime.
No one is enjoying America's very real destruction by Trump and his cronies. We are all sick watching this dumpster fire. Sick contemplating the likely sexual, physical and psychological abuse of ICE prisoners. Sick watching Ukraine thrown to the curb, sick watching your people lose the pitiful access to health care they had, sick watching the plundering of the national treasury, the debt, the market manipulations, sick seeing the damage done by tariffs and threats, sick listening to the arrogant ramblings of a fool and probable pedophile high on his own supply. Sick. Not enjoying.
I'm not sure other countries want to see the US destroyed, except of course for Russia and maybe China. But maybe not China which has lots of customers in the US. The world order has been dominated by the US for so long that other countries leaders will have to spend considerable time and energy figuring out new alliances and trade deals.
I'm gonna hope for #1 for the sake of the civilians. But god, he disgusts me. I HATE how he always gets away with it. He's been a loser his entire life but someone always cleaned up his mess.
Believe me, I want that too. I want the deaths over, and the world to resume shipping. I live in so much fear over how much starvation will occur due to the disruption of fertilizer shipments.
It IS mass murder. Undeniably, and in a nation utterly dependent on desalination for every drop. Behind the bombing of that structure is the spectre of babies, children, animals, everything dying of thirst. It is not a nice way to go, it is evil to even contemplate doing such a thing, and is an UNDENIABLE WAR CRIME they have openly confessed to.
Good grief. Even Hitler and his Nazi ghouls tried to hide what they were doing...
That's the thing Mike, he doesn't even know. It just depends on whatever rando whispered in his miraculously saved ear last. And if he's had a recent diaper change.
One thing for sure, he hates that his poll numbers are in the golden toilet. That's news his fluffers, toadies, and Faux Nooz can't shield him from.
No need to hand him over. All the Pakistani's need to do is say that Iran gave up, he won the prestigious (gold colored) Persian Gulf Peace award and he needs to go to Tehran to accept it.
This is really F'd up that I'm actually posting something like this, right? We actually don't have a POTUS where this would be believable enough to be funny, right?
Yeah. I feel like I'm living beyond the looking glass myself. I mean, I write fiction, and none of the stuff that's happened this year would work in fiction because it's just not believable. A football association gave the president a peace award?!?! No audience would believe it!
Bill: "And if that wasn’t enough of a tell, Trump seemed to all but confirm the reporting this morning when he posted that other countries were going to have to figure out how to get oil through the strait themselves. “[T]he U.S.A won’t be there to help you anymore,” he added."
< Tim starts laughing hysterically >
In 2024, Never Trumpers tried (in vain) to tell the voters that Trump only cared about himself. When you view what Bill describes above through that lens, Trump's behavior shouldn't surprise anyone who understands the man and his psyche. He doesn't give a fuck about the long term consequences of his actions. Someone else can deal with that just as someone else has always had to pick up the pieces for the past 80 years.
god bless you!!!! I have been "mouth agape" for a month now, i just can't believe that no one stopped him!!! this explains everything... absolutely everything!!! thanks
As an Iowa resident, I suspect that, here more than elsewhere, Rob Sand's approach to reform from inside the system is a good sell. We're not revolutionaries, we want good governance, and our recent rightward lurch was related to fretting about religious and racial identity more than anything else. I think we can go purple again, given the right middle-of-the-road message here in middle America.
My husband saw a televised ad yesterday for one of the leading contenders in the GOP governor’s primary race: no plans for Iowans were uttered in the ad, just promises to stick with trump all the way. Yeah, stick with that, you GOP moron.
Meanwhile, if anyone has a few coins to throw towards Rob Sands campaign before the latest filing deadline closes tonight at midnight, here’s a link:
Garvin - I think this is correct. There seems to be wide awareness that the national political class lives in a different world where rules that apply to us citizens mean little. Insider trading, largess to 'campaign funds' that enhances their lifestyles, friends with jets & playoff tickets, lovely destinations where a 10-minute appearance provides a weekend stay... "all this and more can be yours if The Price Is Right!" And a congressional seat is that winning ticket. Can't use "drain the swamp" since Trump has poisoned the phrase but the concept can be retooled for candidates in either party, just gotta show how you're differentiated from the elite that's exploiting their position
Every Democrat who's on "break" needs to go do something visibly CHARITABLE. Help at a veteran's organization, a soup kitchen, a homeless shelter, hell, even the local animal shelter. JUST DO SOMETHING TO SHOW THE VOTERS THAT YOU'RE NOT AT DISNEY WORLD!
Mary - Dems can actually show their faces around constituents - something none of my Republican senators or Rep do while on their monthly vacations... of course they probably don't come back 'home' to Indiana for those anyway, they're waaay above us mere Hoosiers
And thank you to the reps and governors who turned out for No Kings instead of Disney. More politicians are showing up. It's good to see. Lots of candidates and state reps also showed up, so many I couldn't begin to list them.
Thing is, Iran gets a say at the table too, and I don't know if it'll be so easy to walk away from this thing if they continue to bomb our forces in the region with drones and missiles.
Know who else gets a say in this thing? Israel and Saudi Arabia. One of the reasons Marquito is so keen on not naming who in Iran they're negotiating with is because he knows that if Israel finds out who those negotiators are they will immediately move to kill those people. Can't negotiate and end to a conflict if the negotiators keep dying.
Spot on. I really wonder what future generations will say when they see Trump talking about how hard it is to negotiate with Iran because we keep killing the people in charge.
We've become so numb to his bullshix...that it truly doesn't strike us as batshix crazy as it truly is.
Yeah, the *only* way that Trump can "head for the exits" from the Iran war is by closing all the US bases in the Gulf, so that American forces are no longer being targeted by drone & missile strikes.
My prediction is that Bill is wrong about this, and that Trump is only threatening to "head for the exits" as a way of pressuring the UK, France & other NATO members to contribute troops & naval vessels for the Iran war.
Trump has been fixated on seizing Kharg Island since the 1980s, and I predict that he is going to act on this fixation, and the Marines will be landing on the Island within the next few weeks.
It has occurred to me that Trump & Co. and his echo chamber have latched onto this idea that Iran has been at war with us for 47 years because... uh, you know, Trump is.... #47. It seems utterly ridiculous to even type that out, but everything about this regime falls under "You can't make this stuff up".
Creating a global economic crisis and then walking away from it would be entirely in keeping with Donald Trump's entire adult life, throughout which he has bankrupted businesses and wrecked government institutions and then skated away, taking advantage of the enormous latitude we give to rich white men with unearned confidence.
Between the USAID cuts and the coming starvation when crop yields are hurt by the impacts on fertilizer shipping, Trump will be one of history's biggest mass murderers.
I friggin' HATE that our country is very much appearing like it started and carried out the most poorly conceived "military action" in modern history that has greatly and negatively impacted the entire world and now we are about to slink away leaving a pile of shix for everyone else to figure out!
Are you kidding me? We need to get this MF out of office NOW!!!
Lindsey Graham pretending to be a princess at Disney World while goading on an unnecessary foreign war seems to be a perfect representation of his personality.
“What’s the best word for what Trump is doing here? Retreat? Surrender?”
The only valid descriptor is “insanity”.
Whatever images flit through his brain while he is issuing his commands are divorced from reality. To be called a retreat or surrender, the commander would have to be cognizant of what
/whom is being retreated from or surrendering to. tRumpy Dumpty understands neither.
Yesterday I phoned my 3 GOP stooges in Congress and asked them, “trump is insane; what’s your excuse?”
The aides in Grassley’s and Miller-Meeks’ offices told me they’d get back to me on that.
I don't think that in his current stage of mental deterioration, Trump ever "plans" anything. He can change his mind three times in the same rant or "Truth" post.
The truth is that he already has a large swath of supporters and media types who work 24/7 to normalize/cover/backfill/obfuscate, etc. anything he says.
It sure seems like most everyone is lined up on their political side of the aisle at this point and it's scary to me to think about where this all has to go for Trump to lose the majority of those still supporting him in 2026. They are clinging on because it's too embarrassing to admit he's batshix crazy at this point.
I can do what I want
What's a war crime to me
I'll do what I say
And then all will see
When I yell out "Jump"
My Army will go
Unless I revert to
Donald J. Taco
John Lithgow had a special "Trumpty Dumpty" poem in honor of No Kings Day this past weekend: https://substack.com/@wethepeopleactnow/note/c-234917505
Thanks. 🍻
It s right there with his poem saluting Colbert's last days and his depiction of Rudy Giuliani!
I'm seeing this picture of The Cat in the Hat from Dr. Suess spouting those lines.
Dave, I like your "like" and the literary analogy; not sure about the comparison of the speaker to the writer, though...😉
Lithgow's poem is the best! For some reason The cat in the hat came To my mind . Don't know why. It must be my peculiar way of looking at things!
I agree that I can not hold a candle to that one, and am grateful for the link that let me find it.
Same here! I didn't know he wrote a whole of poems about DJT.
I'm not sure that Lindsey holding the bubble wand for a "little girl" is a great look...
I told my wife 45 years ago I would do almost anything for her but carry the hand bag in the mall when she goes to the bathroom. I don't have much pride left but that indeed is a bad look.
Wait, you don't use a man purse? I thought men carried bags and called them things like tactical cargo backpacks. Maybe that's just by me. I couldn't leave the house without a pile of belongings, though. How you all exist without tissues, lip balm, postage stamps, and breath mints in a bag is beyond me.
Years ago I was told by a doctor that keeping my wallet in my back pants pocket was screwing up my spinal alignment when sitting on it all day in the office. So I got a mini hiking pack of sorts that attaches around my waist. It holds my wallet, smart phone and a few pens. It works fine.
I also have no qualms about holding my wife's purse when she is in the restroom. Perhaps I'm too old to care what people think.
As Seinfeld said, "It's not a purse, it's European!" To the cop, "the black leather thing with a strap".
Right?
I just leave my bag, and its a small one, parked by my husband and politely ask watch that please. He's got a fat wallet. He knows better than to have me watch it. It might get a little lighter.
JK!!!
Oh lordy, you and my wife are twins. I just jump in the car and what will be will be ! 🙄
And I would do anything for love!
Oh I would do anything for love!
Oh I would do anything for love!
But I won't do that!
No I won't do that!
I would do anything for love
Anything you've been dreaming of
But I just won't do that...
(Meat Loaf)
I am willing to carry my wife’s bag anywhere & anytime, unless it clashes with my outfit - which 99.9% of the time is: shorts, T-Shirt & sneakers (living in PHX has some benefits). But still, a man has to have standards. The purse must contain some sugarless gum and real folding money. To quote the J Geils Band : “If the purse is fat, that’s where it’s at”!
I'm such an epic grime ball that no one would take me for being light footed. 😁
I'm the same age as you bro, I held my wife's handbag and if anyone wanted to eff with me it would have been a mistake !
T Miller did NOT say it, but I did, he went there to stare at young children, maybe the
boys AND the girls. trumpy , also, will soon be taking credit for Artemis and soon to
come rescuing Cuba, ahem
Exactly because otherwise LG at Disney? So what! Don’t we have bigger problems to worry about?
Who's 'little girl'?
"Let it go. Let it go. Let it go. Let it go"!
News here in Europe is that a bunch of Gulf Nation leaders met with Pakistani representatives in Islamabad and hammered something out last weekend. They said they were working out a peace deal between the US and Iran despite the fact that no Iranian or USian representatives were present. They know very well that The Old Man is a hot mess and non compos mentos. They're straightening out their part of the world on their own. They'll present the plan to Iran and Witkoff and they'll sign. We cannot let Trump claim victory, though. He screwed us all. And he needs to pay for it. I think we should hand him over to the Iranians. What say you?
As much as I'd like to see Trumpty Dumpty deposited into the middle of an Iranian desert, he reminds me of those barges of NYC trash that roamed the oceans in search of a port that would accept the trash, only to be turned away everywhere. No one wants him, and everyone enjoys watching him destroy America in the meantime.
No one is enjoying America's very real destruction by Trump and his cronies. We are all sick watching this dumpster fire. Sick contemplating the likely sexual, physical and psychological abuse of ICE prisoners. Sick watching Ukraine thrown to the curb, sick watching your people lose the pitiful access to health care they had, sick watching the plundering of the national treasury, the debt, the market manipulations, sick seeing the damage done by tariffs and threats, sick listening to the arrogant ramblings of a fool and probable pedophile high on his own supply. Sick. Not enjoying.
I'm not sure other countries want to see the US destroyed, except of course for Russia and maybe China. But maybe not China which has lots of customers in the US. The world order has been dominated by the US for so long that other countries leaders will have to spend considerable time and energy figuring out new alliances and trade deals.
I say that this effort can only have two outcomes.
1. It works and the World's Greatest Deal Maker (tm) claims full credit and crows even louder about the Nobel Peace Prize.
2. The World's Greatest Deal Maker (tm) feels sligated and immediately starts bombing more civilians. "It was a bad deal "
I'm gonna hope for #1 for the sake of the civilians. But god, he disgusts me. I HATE how he always gets away with it. He's been a loser his entire life but someone always cleaned up his mess.
Believe me, I want that too. I want the deaths over, and the world to resume shipping. I live in so much fear over how much starvation will occur due to the disruption of fertilizer shipments.
And the loss of desalination plants. That was criminal.
Akin to mass murder.
It IS mass murder. Undeniably, and in a nation utterly dependent on desalination for every drop. Behind the bombing of that structure is the spectre of babies, children, animals, everything dying of thirst. It is not a nice way to go, it is evil to even contemplate doing such a thing, and is an UNDENIABLE WAR CRIME they have openly confessed to.
Good grief. Even Hitler and his Nazi ghouls tried to hide what they were doing...
The Global South screwed again. Those poor people.
Let's hand the guy who started it over to the Revolutionary Guard. I'm certain that will fix everything.
It'd make me feel better.
Same.
Mike - I learn new stuff on these Comment boards every day so yes, I admit I googled 'sligated' 😁
Google is correct when you look up that word. 😀
Sorry for the crumby typing.
No problem...I don't believe any of us feel sligated in the least...
That's the thing Mike, he doesn't even know. It just depends on whatever rando whispered in his miraculously saved ear last. And if he's had a recent diaper change.
One thing for sure, he hates that his poll numbers are in the golden toilet. That's news his fluffers, toadies, and Faux Nooz can't shield him from.
No need to hand him over. All the Pakistani's need to do is say that Iran gave up, he won the prestigious (gold colored) Persian Gulf Peace award and he needs to go to Tehran to accept it.
This is really F'd up that I'm actually posting something like this, right? We actually don't have a POTUS where this would be believable enough to be funny, right?
Ingenious idea, Jeff! Just brilliant.
Yeah. I feel like I'm living beyond the looking glass myself. I mean, I write fiction, and none of the stuff that's happened this year would work in fiction because it's just not believable. A football association gave the president a peace award?!?! No audience would believe it!
Bill: "And if that wasn’t enough of a tell, Trump seemed to all but confirm the reporting this morning when he posted that other countries were going to have to figure out how to get oil through the strait themselves. “[T]he U.S.A won’t be there to help you anymore,” he added."
< Tim starts laughing hysterically >
In 2024, Never Trumpers tried (in vain) to tell the voters that Trump only cared about himself. When you view what Bill describes above through that lens, Trump's behavior shouldn't surprise anyone who understands the man and his psyche. He doesn't give a fuck about the long term consequences of his actions. Someone else can deal with that just as someone else has always had to pick up the pieces for the past 80 years.
For your amusement.
https://x.com/fan_fintwit/status/2038359107107967232
Not sure if that was awesome satire or actual footage from Mar-a-lago.
Nah, Trump was way too self aware and intelligent, it must be a parody!
Not enough gold geegaws to be M-a-L
That curtained off situation room in the compound is sort of bunker like, just not underground.
Who can say.
Both
Speaking of amusement, I just saw this article. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/technology/android-users-calling-white-house-saw-epstein-island-google-said-someone-edited-the-map-listing/ar-AA1ZFNpZ
This makes my heart glad.
god bless you!!!! I have been "mouth agape" for a month now, i just can't believe that no one stopped him!!! this explains everything... absolutely everything!!! thanks
Perfecto video.
That was great!
That was brilliant.
Mirror, mirror on the wall, what's best for trump is best for all.
Thank you Tim!
This past month has been one bad news day after another. We need a hearty laugh break.
I live to serve.
That video clearly calls into question the scope of the validity of Godwin's Law.
"What’s the best word for what Trump is doing here? Retreat? Surrender? Discuss in the comments."
All I know is that calling the president of the United States "The Leader of the Free World" won't pass the laugh test anymore.
How about Trumpitulation?
We need Dan Savage to work his magic with "Trumpitulation" just as he did with "Santorum"!!!
...adding to Trumpflation, Trump Slump, Trumpocalypse...
Trumponomics
YES... with its sub-reddit application to stock picking and oil futures trading: the Trump'n'Dump
Love that!
Trumpitation? But what foreign power would be silly enough to do that and end this Clown Car on Fire Fiasco?
They are all eating popcorn
Brilliant!
Leader of the ret**ded world
or the sniff test
Lindsay Graham, you have just been dog walked by Bibi Netanyahu into destroying the world’s economy. What are you going to do next?
Graham: I’m going to Disney World!!!
As an Iowa resident, I suspect that, here more than elsewhere, Rob Sand's approach to reform from inside the system is a good sell. We're not revolutionaries, we want good governance, and our recent rightward lurch was related to fretting about religious and racial identity more than anything else. I think we can go purple again, given the right middle-of-the-road message here in middle America.
My husband saw a televised ad yesterday for one of the leading contenders in the GOP governor’s primary race: no plans for Iowans were uttered in the ad, just promises to stick with trump all the way. Yeah, stick with that, you GOP moron.
Meanwhile, if anyone has a few coins to throw towards Rob Sands campaign before the latest filing deadline closes tonight at midnight, here’s a link:
https://robsand.com/
Garvin - I think this is correct. There seems to be wide awareness that the national political class lives in a different world where rules that apply to us citizens mean little. Insider trading, largess to 'campaign funds' that enhances their lifestyles, friends with jets & playoff tickets, lovely destinations where a 10-minute appearance provides a weekend stay... "all this and more can be yours if The Price Is Right!" And a congressional seat is that winning ticket. Can't use "drain the swamp" since Trump has poisoned the phrase but the concept can be retooled for candidates in either party, just gotta show how you're differentiated from the elite that's exploiting their position
Every Democrat who's on "break" needs to go do something visibly CHARITABLE. Help at a veteran's organization, a soup kitchen, a homeless shelter, hell, even the local animal shelter. JUST DO SOMETHING TO SHOW THE VOTERS THAT YOU'RE NOT AT DISNEY WORLD!
Mary - Dems can actually show their faces around constituents - something none of my Republican senators or Rep do while on their monthly vacations... of course they probably don't come back 'home' to Indiana for those anyway, they're waaay above us mere Hoosiers
And thank you to the reps and governors who turned out for No Kings instead of Disney. More politicians are showing up. It's good to see. Lots of candidates and state reps also showed up, so many I couldn't begin to list them.
Thing is, Iran gets a say at the table too, and I don't know if it'll be so easy to walk away from this thing if they continue to bomb our forces in the region with drones and missiles.
Know who else gets a say in this thing? Israel and Saudi Arabia. One of the reasons Marquito is so keen on not naming who in Iran they're negotiating with is because he knows that if Israel finds out who those negotiators are they will immediately move to kill those people. Can't negotiate and end to a conflict if the negotiators keep dying.
Spot on. I really wonder what future generations will say when they see Trump talking about how hard it is to negotiate with Iran because we keep killing the people in charge.
We've become so numb to his bullshix...that it truly doesn't strike us as batshix crazy as it truly is.
Yeah, the *only* way that Trump can "head for the exits" from the Iran war is by closing all the US bases in the Gulf, so that American forces are no longer being targeted by drone & missile strikes.
My prediction is that Bill is wrong about this, and that Trump is only threatening to "head for the exits" as a way of pressuring the UK, France & other NATO members to contribute troops & naval vessels for the Iran war.
Trump has been fixated on seizing Kharg Island since the 1980s, and I predict that he is going to act on this fixation, and the Marines will be landing on the Island within the next few weeks.
They're not going after just US bases, they're going for the jugular (tech companies):
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5809104-iran-irgc-apple-microsoft-google-hp-meta-tesla/
It has occurred to me that Trump & Co. and his echo chamber have latched onto this idea that Iran has been at war with us for 47 years because... uh, you know, Trump is.... #47. It seems utterly ridiculous to even type that out, but everything about this regime falls under "You can't make this stuff up".
Serendipitous I think. The taking of the hostages was in 1979...47 years ago. Until then most Americans couldn't tell you where Iran was.
Creating a global economic crisis and then walking away from it would be entirely in keeping with Donald Trump's entire adult life, throughout which he has bankrupted businesses and wrecked government institutions and then skated away, taking advantage of the enormous latitude we give to rich white men with unearned confidence.
Between the USAID cuts and the coming starvation when crop yields are hurt by the impacts on fertilizer shipping, Trump will be one of history's biggest mass murderers.
Already is based on the unreal mismanagement of Covid
I friggin' HATE that our country is very much appearing like it started and carried out the most poorly conceived "military action" in modern history that has greatly and negatively impacted the entire world and now we are about to slink away leaving a pile of shix for everyone else to figure out!
Are you kidding me? We need to get this MF out of office NOW!!!
Sorry...but I'm out of F's to give this morning.
Lindsey Graham pretending to be a princess at Disney World while goading on an unnecessary foreign war seems to be a perfect representation of his personality.
We need Will Saletan to do a sequel to "The Corruption of Lindsey Graham" or at the very least an afterward.
Tra la.
If only we had a reliable, non-partisan pollster in Iowa a la Ann Selzer.
Ouch.
Too soon?
I suspect Ann was right all along. But the rigging...
“What’s the best word for what Trump is doing here? Retreat? Surrender?”
The only valid descriptor is “insanity”.
Whatever images flit through his brain while he is issuing his commands are divorced from reality. To be called a retreat or surrender, the commander would have to be cognizant of what
/whom is being retreated from or surrendering to. tRumpy Dumpty understands neither.
Yesterday I phoned my 3 GOP stooges in Congress and asked them, “trump is insane; what’s your excuse?”
The aides in Grassley’s and Miller-Meeks’ offices told me they’d get back to me on that.
he is a CHILD
I don't think that in his current stage of mental deterioration, Trump ever "plans" anything. He can change his mind three times in the same rant or "Truth" post.
The truth is that he already has a large swath of supporters and media types who work 24/7 to normalize/cover/backfill/obfuscate, etc. anything he says.
It sure seems like most everyone is lined up on their political side of the aisle at this point and it's scary to me to think about where this all has to go for Trump to lose the majority of those still supporting him in 2026. They are clinging on because it's too embarrassing to admit he's batshix crazy at this point.
Jeff - as in 'Being There' - Chance makes a vague/confusing remark about plants, the spin machine turns it into a policy statement
Even more embarrassing is that there’s a fair percentage of the population who think he’s the greatest President who ever lived.