I decided that my apartment needed a bit of a refresher, so I spent a couple of hours today moving furniture, sweeping like crazy and spoiling my cat with his very own room. It was a rough week, but not a horrible day. So, I decided to sit down and watch some news.
That was my mistake.
And, of course, the moment I decide to clue myself into the events of the day, all of my news feeds are filled with update after update on the Trump press conference of 2/16/2017.
It only took one short clip of Tapper commenting on the conference to know that I needed to watch this conference.
And I gotta tell ya, I'm so, so angry about the stupid words that fall out of Trump's dumb mouth. And it happens so consistently that I seriously think someone needs to just give him an *ahem* light tapping every time he says something that is just ridiculous.
And before you get your undies in a wad, let me explain to you what I mean.
Take, for example, the answer Trump gave in response to a reporter asking if he would also include the Congressional Black Caucus in talks about helping inner cities: "Set up a meeting. I would love to meet with the Black Caucus. I think it's great, the Congressional Black Caucus. I think it's great."
"I think it's great?"
"I think it's great?"
Are you kidding me? He says it like the CBC is a cute high school club, made up of outcasts and loners who find their spirit together doing math or whatever.
The CBC isn't a group of awkward teens who don't quite understand themselves, but, hey, they're figuring it out! It's a highly dedicated group of minority leaders who fight for the needs of the people they represent. And saying "I think they're great" in response to the hard questions of how to fix inner cities is unacceptable.
Period.
Here's another example of just how much idiocy and mediocrity falls out of Agent Orange's big fat mouth. Jim Acosta of CNN reminded Trump that he agreed that there were leaks that were real. But he claimed that the news was fake. Trump then stumbled through his typical nonsense and then ended with this brilliance: "[The public] doesn't know if it's true or false, because they're not involved. I'm involved, I've been involved with this stuff all my life. But I'm involved."
I'm sorry - what? What exactly are you involved in? Politics? Scandals? Leaks? Leaking? Fight Club?
What the hell does that mean? Let me try to break that down.
I'm a little hazy on what he means when he says he has been involved with this stuff his whole life. What stuff? Are you saying you've been involved in leaks of information your whole life? Are you saying you've been involved in dirty dealings with Russia your whole life? Or have you, secretly, been involved in an underground sex group with a dark and twisted fetish for small, slightly orange hands?
I'm hoping for the latter.
And, further, he follows that trail of excellence with "So I know when you're telling the truth and when you're not."
Oh.
Okay, now it makes sense. You're some sort of demon cheddar cheese psychic who can also literally read people's minds and just somehow magically know if they're being honest?
You are not a Jedi. And the only force you have is, well, upon women and trust me, it's unwanted. And after claiming that the media's tone is full of "such hatred," he follows with the typical self-loving, ego-filled one-liner: "I do get good ratings, you have to admit that."
Sweet baby Buddha bacon.
This is not a reality show and we are not concerned with ratings. You're not waiting for the camera to switch to another one of your pathetically unattractive profiles while you hammer down the old "You're fired" line. You're the primary representative of this country and you speak like a fourth grader. You refer to important information as "stuff." You pick fights with people that don't like you. And, instead of worrying about the people's needs, you'd rather sit and put people down for coming at you hard.
And that's bullshit.
You cannot be the leader of 300+ million people and expect all of us to like you - and I realize, in your narcissistic mind, all people worship and adore your brilliance. But, in reality, more than half of us are embarrassed on a nearly daily basis for all the stupid things you say and do. And please spare me your crocodile tears about how unfair the media is to you.
You helped lead a crusade against the greatest leader this country ever had and you encouraged the perpetuation of racism by insinuating that our first African-American president was not a true citizen. You should be ashamed.
But you won't be. Your ego has no limits and your ignorance is even worse and you will fail. Not because the 65+ million of us who think you're a train wreck didn't believe in you. But, rather, because under all of that self-professed excellence and wealth resides a rather meek man who was ultimately blind to so much and understood even less.
It angers me that the leader of our country refers to minority organizations as "great," when really, he should have said: "Our CBC does not get the representation or table time they deserve and I will be happy to reach out to them to begin some conversations, as I believe their collaboration would bring a full-circle perspective of the issues at hand."
It's not just that Trump is a hateful moron, it's the actual content of what he says that just annoys me. Be professional man. Be presentable. Be diplomatic. Don't condescend a group of people that work very hard to represent the people that they know and understand. Don't cheapen someone else's work just because you're too damn lazy to understand what the hell the CBC even is.
I can tell that you didn't really want this job and hey, look at the bright side. Over 65 million of us didn't want you to have this job either. But we've all got work to do and in this day none of us can afford to have as many off days as you have had since you took this job.
So at least show up to work and do the damn job. Speak like you have a bit of sense about you. Treat people with dignity and respect - stop shouting down people when they ask you hard questions. Because, at the end of the day, what really makes a good leader is someone who can sit down and have the hard talks, relay the hard information and still have the respect of the other party.
And I can promise you this, for the 65+ million people who did not vote for you, you do not have our respect. And when you continue to let just stupid things continuously escape from your mouth, it only gives us more and more evidence against the idea of respecting you. Please try to learn a lesson that my mother taught me in like, the third grade: think before you speak. Give people intelligent, reasonable answers and take on the hard questions.
Do. Your. Job.