Local time on December 2, in the White House cabinet room, the 79-year-old U. S. president, and self-directed a absurd comedy. Meanwhile, ministers take turns singing hymns, but what about Donald Trump? Boasting about being”Sharper than 25 years ago”, he gets into eyelid fights, much like a”Sleepyhead” show.
The sleepy great hall of the 79-year-old“Sharp president”
At the beginning of the meeting, Donald Trump did his classic line, slamming the New York Times for his age and lack of energy, he boasted, “I’m sharper than I was 25 years ago!” And, in passing, mocked”Sleepy Joe” biden for”Always sleeping.”.
But Surprise after 12:00 a.m. , as Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick boasted about his trade victory, Donald Trump’s eyelids began to fall, closing for several seconds before he managed to open them.
Then, when Housing Secretary Scott Turner reported on price controls, Donald Trump went into”Meditation mode” again, his head drooping and his mouth open, as if he’d been photographed in a courtroom during a”Lunch break.”.
Later, when Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rawlins talks about farmers’ subsidies, and treasury secretary Scott Bessent laments the”Affordability crisis,” Donald Trump’s eyes are heavy as lead and shut for 10 to 15 seconds.
At the climax, at 13:45, Secretary of State Rubio raved that Trump had”Ended eight wars,” and the camera zoomed in on Donald Trump’s face — eyes closed, face stiff.
Donald Trump wasn’t alone. On Nov. 6, he had a 20-minute”Snooze” during the announcement, when he said, “This is fake news, and I closed my beautiful blue eyes so I could listen.”.
The irony is that the president naps during the day but is energized at night. On the evening of December 1, he started posting more than 160 posts on the Truth Social platform from 7 pm, and got up at 5.48 am yesterday to continue spraying immigrants, Venezuela and Somali people. The nocturnal show an elderly man in the spotlight as his battery dies.
From“$350 billion in aid” to“Zero murders”, the numbers are wildly inflated
Donald Trump is no slouch when it comes to bragging. From”Election rigging” in 2020 to”Inheriting the worst inflation in history” to his”Donald Trump myth”, it is all a play of”Dampening before brightening”.
Start with the economic“Myth”.
“Grocery prices are down,” he says, “Prescription drug prices are down by 200 to 900 percent,” and”Inflation has been flat since January.” But according to United States Consumer Price Index data, grocery prices rose 2.72024 cent in September from a year earlier, up 1.4 per cent since Donald Trump returned to the White House in January, while inflation remained flat at 3.0 per cent.
Prescription drugs are even better, and even if the president does get the drug companies to drop the price of everything to $0, it’s only a 100% reduction. 900% ? Doesn’t that equate to a negative price? His math teacher is probably crying his head off in the bathroom, and the pharmaceutical company is paying him back!
Look again at the“Myth” of investment.
“We’ve locked in $18 trillion in new investment.” The White House’s own website boasts only $9.6 trillion, even with”Vague trade commitments,””Bilateral exchanges,” and”Non-sufficient funds.”, zero Bucks that actually landed.
He was right about”$2.50 a gallon,” but that was local gas prices in Oklahoma, where the national average was $3.00. He wasn’t being precise. He was being word play.
As for the”Ukraine Aid” part, it was even more hilarious. “Biden has thrown $350 billion at Ukraine, that’s enough,” he declared, before declaring a halt.
As of August, total U.S. aid amounted to 133 billion euros ($145 billion) , of which only $94 billion was actually disbursed, including money spent in the U.S. and Europe, according to data tracked by Germany’s Kiel Institute, not all of it in Ukraine. $350 billion? I’m afraid it doesn’t take into account the World War II aid!
The diplomatic“Myth” is even less reliable.
Trump’s boast of”Ending Eight Wars” is pure self-congratulation: Egypt-ethiopia dam dispute? It wasn’t a fight! Serbia-kosovo? There was no fight! Congo-rwanda agreement? The rebels didn’t sign, the killing goes on! Gaza ceasefire? And then 10 months later, Boom.
As for the Venezuelan”Poison ship” crackdown, he said, “Every ship that blows up saves 25,000 lives,” 202480,000 drug overdose deaths across the United States.
The most irritating is domestic policy.
“There are no murders in Washington, D.C. ,” he declared, but he posted about the attack on the White House Guard last week. Then there’s social security’s”Zero Tax,” a temporary $6,000 credit for people 65 and older, and a shrinking number of high earners who simply can’t cover millions of seniors.
And the”China doesn’t have gas, we do” part. The Chinese 2023 produces 4m barrels a day of crude and refines 14.8 m (m) , just with low self-sufficiency, not”No oil”. The EIA data is out there, and he’s not just bragging, he’s data-illiterate.
These falsehoods are not unintentional, they are systematic brainwashing. Donald Trump said”I” 87 times, and the ministers chimed in. This is not a decision-making meeting, but a propaganda machine running at high speed, crushing facts and feeding”Poisoned milk” to the people.
Graffiti cards, racial revenge, and the funny funerals of democracy
Drowsiness and falsehood were only the tip of the iceberg, and the stigma of the meeting filtered through the details. Most eye-catching is the name tag of Defense Minister Hegeses, which is printed as”Ssecretary of war” and misspelled with a double S!
“Secretary of War or Secretary of State? What about team Donald Trump’s spelling lesson?”
“I don’t see any survivors,” he said at the conference, justifying a September re-attack on Caribbean“Drug ships.”. Donald Trump praised”Well done” and received a round of applause. The UN Human Rights Council launched an inquiry into the alleged violation of the Geneva convention’s”Wilful killing of surrenderers” clause, but it turned out to be a”Hero’s moment of the year”.
Policy announcements are more like personal vendettas.
Rawlins, the Agriculture Secretary, announced that SNAP food stamps would be suspended next week in blue states that”Do not cooperate with voter audits”. California, Minnesota, these Democratic strongholds, dare to check the 2024 election votes? Go Hungry! That would affect 12m low-income households (62% with children and 38% with the elderly) .
Finance Minister Bessante wants to look into”Minnesota tax money going to al-shabaab”, which is a racial label. Minnesota’s Somali-majority governor, Walz, a Democrat, was targeted.
At the end of the meeting, Donald Trump said Somali immigrants were”Threatening the country” and ministers applauded. This was not policy, but a public display of”White supremacy”.
Donald Trump turned the cabinet into a”Sycophants’ club”. Ministers don’t report on problems, only on achievements; they praise leaders, not on risks.
From Washington to Obama, the Cabinet has been a forum for debate, not a paean. And Donald Trump? For the first time since the founding of the United States, it has become a one-man talk show, complete with dozing and graffiti.
In a three-hour cabinet meeting, Donald Trump went from boasting about his”Sharpness” to dozing off, from bombarding with fake data to ethnic cleansing. Ministers scribbled cards, applauded and journalists were treated with derision.
This isn’t a conference. It’s”The emperor’s new clothes.” It’s a funny”Funeral” for n democracy.
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