By Michael Woyton
We’ve known for a long time that President Donald J. Felon was not one of Wharton’s brightest, but lately the evidence keeps piling up — and it seems to continue to infect the rest of the administration.
How we laughed during the COVID crisis when the first-term Oval Office occupant suggested injecting bleach or inserting light into the body as a cure.
To this day, I look forward to my morning cup of covfefe and remain ever grateful I no longer have to flush the toilet 15 times.
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Recently though I’ve wondered what goes through the minds of foreign leaders and the people who help prep them for meetings with the mayor of MaraTACO.
For example, Liberian President Joseph Boakai met with the convicted felon Wednesday in the White House, the New York Times reported, with the occasion being lunch in the State Dining Room with leaders of five African nations.
It was then that the golfer-in-chief heard Boakai speak.
“Mr. Trump was impressed by what he heard,” the Times said. ” ‘Such good English,’ he remarked after Mr. Boakai spoke.”
The Florida man went on to ask the Liberian president where he learned to speak so beautifully and where he was educated.
America’s representative to the world — yes, I’m still talking about the guy in the orange makeup — was unaware that English is the official language of the nation of Liberia.
It has been reported that the man with his fingers on the nuclear button does not read his daily briefings on any regular basis.
Can we assume he doesn’t bother with any briefing notes presented to him prior to meetings? I think that’s a safe assumption.
It’s also a safe assumption that Trump’s lack of intelligence is why there won’t be any MacArthur genius grant nominees coming from his administration’s general population.
Consider that Jeanine Pirro, Pete Hegseth, Sean Duffy, Tulsi Gabbard, Mike Huckabee, Tom Homan are among the 20 or so Fox News employees or contributors who were called to work in the administration.
Duffy, who apparently is doing such a bang up job as transportation secretary, has been tapped by Trump to be interim NASA chief.
Is it because Elon Musk wasn’t blowing up enough rockets lately?
The opening to be filled is because of Musk. Jared Isaacman’s nomination was rescinded after the Tesla genius and Trump had a public falling out.
Speaking of Musk, he and his chainsaw-like DOGE staffers laid waste to employees at the Social Security Administration.
So no one should be surprised that the agency, which services 73 million retirees, cannot keep up with customer service.
Now, according to the Washington Post, the SSA is temporarily reassigning around 1,000 customer service reps from field offices to work the overburdened, understaffed toll-free phone line.
Forbes is reporting that red tape put in place by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem delayed Federal Emergency Management Agency’s response to the horrific flooding disaster in Texas.
Deployment of federal search and rescue crews was delayed by 72 hours due to a requirement that Noem herself must sign off on any spending request more than $100,000.
Was she too busy cosplaying as an ICE agent somewhere with bad phone service?
And we’ll end this latest episode of “Name the Stupid” with Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Mr. “I Never Met a Childhood Disease I Didn’t Love” continues to deny the efficacy of vaccines, as measles cases reach a 33-year record high.
The man in charge of the United States’ healthcare — who believes that healthier diets are key — steps in it again by promoting a food company that makes ultraprocessed meals that are delivered to Medicaid and Medicare enrollees.
A review of Mom’s Meals showed that their $7 meals “are the type of heat-and-eat, ultraprocessed foods that Kennedy routinely criticizes for making people sick.”
It’s been said before and I’ll say it again, this administration is going to kill us.
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