By Michael Woyton
Way to control the conversation, President Donald J. Felon.
If there’s something he doesn’t want the press or the public to talk about, he should just tell us to not talk about it. And we’ll take it from there.
Case in point: via his “Truth” Social account, the golfer-in-chief reposted something written by Charlie Kirk, who is fresh off his ego-feeding by California Gov. Gavin Newsom.
Kirk wrote a piece entitled, “Shut Up About Egg Prices — Trump is Saving Consumers Millions.”
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In other words, everything’s fine. Yeah, prices are going up instead of down as promised, but America will be great again, but not for a while, and there will be some discomfort, but the billionaires in the administration won’t feel it, and we should be content with that.
As Ben Meiselas said, “Donald Trump wants you to shut up. Shut up about inflation. Shut up about egg prices. Shut up while he crashes the economy, slashes federal jobs, and golfs his days away at Mar-a-Lago, all on the taxpayer’s dime.”
The Atlanta Fed put out a prediction that the GDP will contract around -2.8 percent in the first quarter, which is a clear sign of a recession, and as Meiselas points out, even on Wall Street execs are warning that the on-again-off-again tariffs “could trigger a Great Depression-level economic collapse.”
And what do we get from the administration? It only will be a short-term disturbance and start laying your own chicken eggs.
Over at the New York Times, opinion columnist Nicholas Kristof wonders what, if anything, will be the adjudicated felon’s undoing.
Kristof leads off by saying that, if there are aliens looking at the United States at this moment, “they might be puzzling over the great Trump paradox.
“It’s that President Trump is doing immense long-term damage to the United States by undermining democratic norms, vandalizing the federal government and siding with alleged war criminals in the Kremlin, yet if support for him falls, I doubt it will have anything to do with all this. Rather it may be … egg prices.” (NOTE: the ellipses were included by Kristof; I didn’t leave anything out.)
I guess Kristof didn’t get the “Truth” socialer’s memo.
The Times columnist, of course, would rather the public be upset about the betrayal of Ukraine or the threats to NATO or the undermining of democracy.
“But I welcome indignation of any kind,” Kristof wrote. “Maybe we can be rescued from our nation’s disastrous course by chickens.”
With that, it’s time to concentrate on making Sunday brunch, which will undoubtedly include breaking a few more expensive eggs.
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There’s not a whole lot of “getting it done” getting done, Mr. Minority Leader, that we can see.
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