This is the first he's heard of it

Fox News will now air something about it for him.

And on China?  Whatever the voices in his head say at any given moment.



And...he's back on the golf course.  It's been a golfing weekend for him.



Yesterday:

Donald Trump – who cancelled on his Polish hosts at the last-minute last week, citing concerns over a hurricane barrelling towards Florida – was due to spend the day at his golf club in Virginia.

[...]

Yesterday it emerged that Trump, who had given the impression he would spend the day at Camp David with experts to monitor Dorian’s progress, had in fact flown by helicopter from Camp David to his Virginia golf club.

  The Guardian

Also yesterday:



Jesus wept.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

Rise and whine*

We're shifting to  "Corrupt News" then?



So, still "Fake News".  Ok.  Got it.













...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

*h/t pourmecoffee

Happy Labor Day

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

I's Sunday

Amen.

This is your president

In his upcoming memoir, newly appointed Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie G. Bunch III describes the private tour he gave President Trump of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, recalling that Trump’s reaction to the Dutch role in the global slave trade was, “You know, they love me in the Netherlands.”

[...]

Bunch writes, "All I could say was let’s continue walking.”

“There is little I remember about the rest of the hour we spent together. I was so disappointed in his response to one of the greatest crimes against humanity in history,” he continues. “Here was a chance to broaden the views and the understanding of the incoming president and I had been less successful than I had expected.”

  WaPo

I can't even imagine having to pretend this man is a normal human being.

Trump greeted [Bunch] warmly and expressed his wife’s enjoyment of a tour she had with Sara Netanyahu, wife of the Israeli prime minister, according to Bunch.

WTF?

The incoming president wanted to come on the holiday commemorating the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., according to the memoir. The administration also asked that the museum be closed to the public during the visit. “The notion that we could shut out visitors on the first King holiday since the opening of the museum was not something I could accept,” Bunch writes. Another day was chosen.

Arrogance, entitlement like you've never seen before.  I'm surprised he didn't refuse to go then.  Perhaps his aides made up some acceptable reason he couldn't go that day.  Any guesses what it would have been?

Before the president-elect arrived, his aides told Bunch that Trump “was in a foul mood and that he did not want to see anything ‘difficult,’ ” Bunch writes. Nevertheless, Bunch started the tour in the history galleries, which begin with the global slave trade.

He's in an African-American museum and he doesn't want to see anything "difficult".

“It was not my job to make the rough edges of history smooth, even for the president,” he writes.

Kudos Mr. Bunch. Prepare for some nasty tweets.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

More farmers who don't love the president any more

And it's not just the farmers...

Per the New York Times, the move changes the rules of trade in ways that have no recent historic precedent. "This is the first time U.S. consumers will see the costs quite directly, right as we head into the busiest shopping time of the year," Western Washington University economics professor Edward Alden told the Washington Post. China has introduced retaliatory taxes, the first phase of which came into effect Sunday.

[...]

American consumers can now expect higher prices on consumer items like "clothing, toys, home goods, and electronics," per the Retail Industry Leaders Association.

J.P. Morgan estimates the tariffs will cost the average American household $1,000 a year.

  Axios

That's okay. At least we can say Merry Christmas again.

Trade wars are good and easy to win.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

Another shoe drops on Madeleine Westerhout's firing

That could explain his "warning" tweet.  Of course, he may have assumed she signed one.

Ms. Westerhout attended the dinner with Hogan Gidley, a White House spokesman. After he left, she began to tell reporters about Mr. Trump’s eating habits; his youngest son, Barron Trump; and his thoughts about the weight and appearance of his daughter Tiffany Trump, according to a group of current and former administration officials who were told what happened.

[...]

[I]t took over a week for the information to reach the president. It was delivered to him by Mick Mulvaney, the president’s acting chief of staff, who said Ms. Westerhout had indiscreetly discussed details of his family with reporters.

An ambivalent Mr. Trump had to be persuaded throughout the day Thursday that Ms. Westerhout, who was on vacation in California, needed to resign, which she did that night.

[...]

As he left Washington for Camp David on Friday afternoon, soon after details of Ms. Westerhout’s comments were first reported by Politico, Mr. Trump said Ms. Westerhout had been drinking when she “said things about my children” to reporters. He praised Ms. Westerhout’s work in the White House and admonished reporters for breaking an off-the-record agreement.

“But still, you don’t say things like she said,” the president added of Ms. Westerhout, “which were just a little bit hurtful to some people.”

[...]

In recent months, Ms. Westerhout had become more interested in traveling with the president, and in Bedminster, it was noticed at a campaign briefing that she was seated closer to Mr. Trump than was his chief of staff.

  NYT

He liked her.

Ms. Westerhout’s main responsibilities were answering the phone and providing clerical help to the president. But her role was tailored to Mr. Trump’s particular eccentricities. Whenever he held an event at the White House, it fell to Ms. Westerhout to make sure that it was well attended, according to one White House official.

[...]

If there was any question that the room appeared [less than] full, Ms. Westerhout would make sure to find staff members or interns to send to it to avoid Mr. Trump’s anger at lackluster attendance.

[...]

The president had grown to trust her and had grown fond of her. According to Mr. Alberta’s book, Mr. Trump would refer to Ms. Westerhout as “my beautiful beauty.” She was often at his side on trips to Mar-a-Lago, his Palm Beach, Fla., resort, where she would accept gifts on behalf of Mr. Trump and trade business cards with his supporters. Some of them knew that if they wanted to reach the president by phone, they could bypass his other gatekeepers and go directly to her.

But she also had a fairly large coterie of enemies, including some in the East Wing — the purview of the first lady, Melania Trump — which viewed her with suspicion.

[...]

[C]urrent and former officials also expressed alarm about what information Ms. Westerhout could share down the road, not just about the president, but about her colleagues.

Adding to the concern was the fact that, unlike most other officials, Ms. Westerhout was not thought to have signed a nondisclosure agreement.

[...]

At least one publishing house on Friday had discussions about trying to approach Ms. Westerhout for a book, according to one person familiar with the discussions.

Madeleine is going to get rich.

Will we have to wait until she gets that book deal to know what she said about Trump's eating habits and Barron, or will somebody leak it before she gets the chance?

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

Ding Dong

That's bullshit.  Him or the reporter?

Flashback one year ago...

 Florence was a category 4.  If the report is correct, he's either not paying attention when the hurricane preparedness people are talking, or he's completely clueless. Well, both, I suppose.



It would be noteworthy if it were any other president.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

UPDATE:







ALL his hurricanes are the biggest.

UPDATE:

Speaking of WWII

The far right is on the rise again in Germany.  (Same as many places in Europe, and in the US.)

Five million Germans are eligible to vote on Sunday in Saxony and Brandenburg in election battles that could have a resounding impact on the federal government in Berlin and have been fuelled by debates on the success and failures of German reunification, with the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall coming this autumn.

The anti-immigrant Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) faces its first real electoral test in the region. At the last state election, five years ago, the party was just a year old and lacking clout.

Today, two years after entering the national parliament for the first time, buoyed by its opposition to the arrival in Germany of almost 1 million refugees during the crisis of 2015, it has made sizeable gains.

[...]

[In Saxony] it is expected to take half or a third of seats from the CDU, which in 2014 secured 59 out of 60 constituencies.

[...]

The parties that have uninterruptedly dominated the region’s politics since reunification in 1990 – the Christian Democrats (CDU) in Saxony and the Social Democrats (SPD) in Brandenburg – are braced for heavy losses.

[...]

Analysts agree that if the AfD tops the polls it will represent the biggest political earthquake for Germany since the end of the cold war, marking the first time a rightwing populist force has taken control in postwar Germany.

[...]

“The AfD is not the cause of the upset we’re seeing, neither is it dividing society,” said Andreas Kalbitz, the AfD’s leading candidate in Brandenburg, fresh from an election rally. “The AfD is the consequence of the failure of others.”

[...]

His contacts with far-right sympathisers have made repeated headlines in Germany in recent months as he positions himself to oust Dietmar Woidke, who has been Brandenburg’s state premier since 2013. Those headlines continued last week when he admitted he had attended a neo-Nazi rally in 2007 in the Greek capital, Athens.

[...]

All parties have ruled out going into coalition with the AfD, meaning that tense negotiations almost certainly lie ahead.

  

Germany's new Hitler: Andreas Kalbitz, leading AfD candidate:

I'm sure he and Trump will become fast friends.

WWII declared: 80th anniversary

And this is the way to "celebrate":

The German president vowed his country would never forget the atrocities of the Nazi period on Sunday as he asked forgiveness from Poland during a series of commemorative events to mark the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of the second world war.

“In no other square in Europe do I find it more difficult to speak, and to address you in my native language of German ... I ask for forgiveness for Germany’s historical guilt and I recognise our enduring responsibility,” Frank-Walter Steinmeier said at a ceremony in Piłsudski Square in Warsaw.

Steinmeier and the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, joined a number of heads of state at the ceremony.

  The Guardian

And, here's how not to...

“It is hard to imagine that cataclysm of history today, the armed conflict which brought the most disastrous consequences in the history of mankind. We have to remember, and therefore we are gathered here today,” the Polish president, Andrzej Duda, said at the Warsaw ceremony.

Poland’s nationalist government had hoped that the US president, Donald Trump, would be the guest of honour, but he cancelled at the last minute and sent his vice-president, Mike Pence, in his place.

[...]

Pence used his speech to talk as much about Soviet atrocities as Nazi crimes, paying tribute to Polish bravery and quoting the Russian writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn. The main problem of the 20th century was that men had forgotten God, he said.

Yes, that's the answer for everything.

Surely you can understand why Trump didn't go himself. After all, a categroy 5 hurricane is barrelling down on our southeastern states. He'll be working round the clock with a team to monitor and prepare.

Donald Trump – who cancelled on his Polish hosts at the last-minute last week, citing concerns over a hurricane barrelling towards Florida – was due to spend the day at his golf club in Virginia.

[...]

Yesterday it emerged that Trump, who had given the impression he would spend the day at Camp David with experts to monitor Dorian’s progress, had in fact flown by helicopter from Camp David to his Virginia golf club.

  The Guardian

Right.

Shortly after Trump cancelled, [German chancellor Angela] Merkel made a last-minute announcement that she would attend.