Freak Out Friday – July 7, 2017

Well, Trump has been fairly quiet this week, but some things have been occurring around him that are, honestly, pretty damned funny.

1). When in the course of human stupidity…. Some years ago, a reporter sent around the script of “Casablanca” to a bevy of agents and producers to get their opinions without the title attached (I think he used the original title of “Everybody Comes to Ricks.”). While a handful recognized it for what it was, many were disparaging of it, relentlessly criticizing the script for the greatest film ever made and saying it simply wouldn’t be successful. Well, this week we had the chance to see American cluelessness at its most divine. NPR, as it does every year, had famous people assemble on July 4th to read the Declaration of Independence. They also tweeted it, line by line. And ignorant Trump supporters (or as we should more properly call them, Trump supporters) attacked. Without recognizing what they were reading, they declared that NPR was calling Trump a tyrant and demanding revolution. It was a delightful orgy of bone chilling ignorance watching dedicated Americans taking the words of Thomas Jefferson, written two and a half centuries ago, as an assault on Trump. Bad enough that William Shakespeare is being condemned for writing a play five hundred years ago that is being interpreted as a Trump attack, but our own country’s Declaration? Seriously, what the hell?

2). No room at the inn.. Donald Trump can’t get a hotel room at the G20 summit. Let me repeat that: the President of the United States can’t get a room. For some reason–either deliberate or incompetence–his staff failed to get him a reservation at his preferred hotel, and by the time they realized it, every other hotel was booked. Put aside that he’s the president; a guy whose business is running hotels couldn’t find a place to stay. How freaking hilarious is that?

Did he do anything right?. Any week where he does nothing is a good week.

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