By Michael Woyton
A prime-time speech by president donald j. felon* Wednesday night didn’t disappoint.
It was everything most of us expected.
He lied some and then lied some more, mispronouncing words along the way, like the word “battlefield,” saying “batterfield.”
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The orange grifter even said “We want to god bless” the Artemis II astronauts who are on their way to slingshot their way around the moon.
Once you get past the slow ambling to the podium, the verbal flubs and the low-energy, halting reading of the teleprompter — if Biden had said “batterfield” that would have been a week-long story in the mainstream media — there were the usual boasts and lies that we’ve come to expect from the adjudicated rapist.
Everything he sets his dementia-riddled mind to do is the bestest, biggest, most amazingest thing ever.
Each missile strike was something that no one’s ever seen before.
He mentioned his appearances at the dignified transfer ceremonies for service members killed in the illegal war and didn’t hesitate to lie that every one of grieving families begged him to finish the job in Iran, even saying that the families said, “Please, sir.”
However, he didn’t mention that he used a photo from one of the ceremonies in a fundraising email, offering donors “private national security briefings.”
The Associated Press chose not to call what the elderly golfer said was lies, preferring to say he “mischaracterized core elements of the U.S. economy and stretched the facts” about toppling the Iranian government.
He said the United States was “a dead and crippled country” because of the Biden administration, and now the U.S. is “the hottest country anywhere in the world by far, with no inflation.”
Have you seen the price of gas lately? Obviously, the country-club owner hasn’t.
The AP points out that in 2024, which was Biden’s last year in office, the economy was “far from weak,” with a gross domestic product that grew 2.8 percent, more than Trump’s 2.1 percent.
The president also once again trotted out the lie that President Barack Obama gave Iran $1.7 billion in cash. While the U.S. Treasury did the country around that amount, it was not a gift.
Rather it was money owed to the Iranians since the 1970s when military equipment was paid for but never delivered and was part of the deal to restrain the country’s nuclear development, which trump* tore up, which led to Iran starting their nuclear development program, rinse and repeat.
There is more that the president lied about, including “record-setting investments” coming to America, being totally independent of Middle East oil and Iran killing 45,000 protesters — lies.
What the speech did, the Los Angeles Times said, was little to make U.S. allies and world financial markets feel better about disruptions to the global oil supply.
The stock market dropped when it opened Thursday and crude oil prices jumped more than 10 percent to more that $110 a barrel.
The president said it was up to other countries who receive oil through the Strait of Hormuz to open it back up.
“They must cherish it. They must grab it and cherish it,” he said, as if he were referring to the Epstein files.
What he didn’t make clear was why the war is still ongoing when, as he said over and over, Iran was decimated.
His vagueness and unwillingness to stick to the same rationale isn’t going over well with the public.
And it’s showing in his poll numbers.
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Ding Dong, the witch is dead.
Attorney General Pam Blondi is outta here.
Couldn’t of happened to a nicer person, doncha think?
The wannabe king, of course, used his social media to make the announcement, saying she “did a tremendous job” and “will be transitioning to a much needed and important new job in the private sector, to be announced at a date in the near future.”
Bwhahahahaha.
Hey, Pam, get a lawyer that you trust. The Epstein files are not going away just because you finally got shitcanned by the mango Mussolini.
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* I’m following what the wannabe king declared on social media that he will only refer to the Supreme Court in lowercase because he has a complete lack of respect for them after the illegal tariffs ruling.
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Lead art: screen grab from C-Span.org.
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