Lies – Extreme Blonde Moments

trump_spicer I don’t envy the job of White House Press Secretary for this Administration. The job is never going to be a cake walk, especially in a 24 hour news cycle that changes by the minute, but Sean Spicer (who I am no fan of on a good day) has a particularly difficult job made more challenging by a non-compliant President who feeds the ravenous alligators tasty morsels via frequent tantalizing tweets that other Press Secretaries absolutely didn’t have to deal with.

Consider this scenario:

Inauguration day: Aerial drone photos are taken of the crowds gathering on the Mall. Side by side comparisons are made between the 2009 crowd and the 2017 crowd. The National Parks Service, using an established and accepted method to estimate the crowd size, gives their rough estimate of 250,000 on The Mall. Instead of accepting the side by side shots as fact and simply moving on, there are accusations of the media lying and subversive attempts by the White House to force the National Parks Service to doctor the photographs to make the crowds larger… The White House then send Spicer out to face the press with lies that he was told to read to them as the official statement. He looked like an idiot and it was only made worse when Presidential Adviser, Kellyanne Conway, made the now infamous gaffe when she referred to Spicer’s statement as, “alternative facts.”

You kind of have to admire the daily linguistic gymnastics he does trying to:

Justify the flow of controversial Executive Orders;
Address the latest protest, march or threatened march against the increasingly unpopular President;
Address why POTUS has spent 3 out of his first 4 weekends in office, at great taxpayer expense, hosting dignitaries and Cabinet replacement hopefuls, at the very technologically insecure Trump owned resort in Florida, where he holds meetings in front of other club members, instead of at the White House;
Address the latest rumors, leaks and beltway gossip flying;
Address the rapidly falling (and conflicting) approval polls;
Address questions from the press as to why POTUS is out speaking at campaign type rallies instead of taking care of business in Washington, D.C.;
Make sense of the lies and made up world events spoken and tweeted out by POTUS;
Creatively spin the questionable pasts of some of Trump’s more controversial nominees and appointees (when they aren’t resigning or being walked out by White House Security for failing FBI background checks); while at the same time
Begging the media to be nicer to the overly popularity conscious POTUS,

Let’s face it. Sean Spicer’s job sucks and he has a really shitty boss. Saturday Night Live parodies him, by having Melissa McCarthy hilariously play him, to HUGE ratings, and he gets derided by his boss because a woman played him. Yeah. It sucks to be Sean Spicer.

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Trump Presidency Day 6: It’s a good thing I ate a light breakfast this morning, because these headlines made me want to throw up.

“President Trump intends to move forward with a major investigation of voter fraud that he says cost him the popular vote, White House officials said Wednesday, despite bipartisan condemnation of his allegations and the conclusion of Mr. Trump’s own lawyers that the election was ‘not tainted.'” The New York Times

Part of that investigation is to include weeding out and punishing those who are registered, and supposedly voted, in multiple states. Do you think he can comprehend that most of his cabinet, his son-in-law, and his youngest daughter are registered in 2 states?

We all remember how appalled Trump was that Secretary Clinton used a private email server, right? Remember the chants of, “Lock her up!”? Take a look at this verified headline: Trump White House Senior Staff Have Private Email Server Um, Pot Meet Kettle!

First he pisses off the scientific community by “disagreeing” with their lifes’ works, then he erases all mentions of global warming/climate change from the White House and other government websites, he freezes all grants and contracts to the scientific community AND imposes a gag order on all employees of the National Parks, EPA, USDA, US Department of Health and Human Services, and other agencies so that they cannot Tweet, send Emails nor comment publicly in their capacity as government employees. In some cases, via a memo that’s circulating on The Hill, that gag order extends to restrictions on communicating with Congress! After pubic outcry the USDA lifted their ban on public communications, but as of today, all other departments are still gagged. Thank God for the rabble rousers over at the National Park Service who started non-government owned Twitter accounts that cannot be shut down! Other agencies quickly followed suit.

Donald Trump has proven that vengeance is his main focus, and this Biggest F You yet to “The Donald” could very well result in mass firings, but I applaud the efforts of those who refuse to be silenced by the Mad Man occupying the Oval Office!

Mass exodus from the State Department: “the emptying of leadership in the management bureaus” is “disruptive because those offices need to be led by people who know the department and have experience running its complicated bureaucracies.” And, of course, now #TeamTrump are using state run media (Fox News) 😉 to declare that he “Fired them.” Yeah, I call Bullshit. They needed them to teach the morons how to run things. UG!

A little levity for the morning

Since Donald Trump has a habit of using the songs of artists who absolutely don’t want their music associated with him, let’s pick one that actually fits him (as much as The Rolling Stones‘ “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” does)

Do you think the Trump administration’s theme song should be:

“Lies” by Thompson Twins; or
“Highway to Hell” by AC/DC?

Both are far more appropriate choices than “Hail to the Chief.” Hmmm

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