Shocking News: Giant Orange Liar Lies

The Grift-o-Matic Propaganda Machine was on his best behavior last night. That ain't sayin' much. He stuck to his approved playbook to the point that, as the Washington Post noted, it sounded as if he’d been doused with a warm glass of milk. 
 
Still, he spoke of his first year’s “accomplishment,” the vile tax scam – the feed the rich/fuck the poor swindle – as though it was somehow beneficial to us all. Now that I think on it, for him, us poors don’t actually exist. To Trump “us all” means him and his fellow Richie Riches. It’s a wealthy, white male world where everything's gilt tipped and women are no more than armpiece pets you can fuck.

Using a gentle tone and tempered language, this President Trump struck a new note of bipartisan appeal: “We endured floods and fires and storms,” he said of his first year in office. “But through it all, we have seen the beauty of America’s soul and the steel in America’s spine.” (source)

WE endured floods and fires and storms? We? No dude, you've been golfing. Golfing while much of Puerto Rico is still devastated and without power. Just one of the California fires decimated an area 19 times the size of Manhattan. Where you been? Golfing. Oh yeah...and cheating at it too. That does seem to be his style, how he rolls, eh?

Pelosi, clearly thinking "I'd rather be home cleaning grout."

The Serial Liar in Chief's script was whopper-checked in another Post post.

It was a good night for strength metaphors, but not such a good night for facts.

He took credit for inflated and, mostly, imaginary gains but there’s no mention at all of the damage done by his (and his Republican Party’s) utterly rapacious machinations.

Like, fer instance, the four BILLION+ lost in tourism buckos, the shiv he's jammed into the growing, people-employing solar industry, the numerous blue collar worker bee employing factories who've moved outta this once great country (including at Carrier Corp. despite Mr. Art of the Deal’s ballyhooed intervention. Mister "Art-of-the-Deal" strikes AGAIN!).

Best of all, the ridiculous buffoon actually applauded himself! What's the deal on this? Does he think this is The Price is Right or that he's a high school JV cheerleader trying to whip up the crowd?

Richard Wolffe over at The Guardian has a brill column up. Def worth a full read. I would quote it all out if I could. Here's just a snippet

The only way Donald Trump could look unpresidential in a situation like this is if he spanked himself with a copy of Forbes magazine. The only way he could sound unpresidential is if he read out loud his hand-crafted tweets about Fox News. And the only way he could miss all the normal notes about E Pluribus Unum is if he honestly explained his nativist immigration policy.

And yet he still managed to speak from his teleprompter like he was either reading his speech for the first time, or trying to talk to a room full of six-year-olds.

FactCheck.org has a fabulous, comprehensive round up of last night's fictionalized spewings by President Darth Chaos. Go read but you may want to Irish up your coffee first.