Tue
Mar 31 2026
12:32 pm
By: bizgrrl
Master of disaster?
At the on-camera Cabinet meeting on Thursday, Trump’s free-associative drivel, in the midst of a world crisis, ranged from the new White House ballroom: “The military wanted it more than anyone,” to the Kennedy Center: “It’s going to be beautiful when you add the name Trump,” to his favored Sharpie pens: “They do treat me well, Sharpie.” My historian friend Sir Simon Schama sent me a despairing text. “It was like a bit from One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. What was the 25th Amendment for, if not for this? The stroke-struck Woodrow Wilson was a combo of Jefferson, Lincoln, and FDR, compared to this oozing hulk of cognitive rot. HELP US, Obi-Wan, HELP US.”
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