The Hilarious Mr. Trump


 
Sarah Sanders would not be good at poker. She has a prominent tell. Her jaw moves to the right and left whenever she is uncomfortable with what she is saying. It’s distracting. On Friday she unconsciously played facial ping-pong for the gathered press crowd.

I’m not going to validate a leak one way or the other out of an internal staff meeting.

Her concern for the fact of a leak supposedly overrode for her what seemed to unite the rest of the moral universe: the tasteless joke itself.

The controversy swirling over what was said inside the White House about Senator John McCain who is battling with brain cancer. McCain expressed strong reservations over the President’s CIA nominee. Well, now it’s been learned that, during a meeting at the White House, a staffer allegedly said of McCain’s opinion, “It doesn’t matter. He’s dying anyway.”

ABC’s Mary Bruce reported on the official White House reaction. There wasn’t any.

Tonight, no explanation, no acknowledgment, and no apology from the White House.

The judgment of News personalities and televised opinion makers was nearly unanimous. The laughing references to John McCain’s life-threatening condition was part of a larger pattern, flowing from the top. The very top. Only professional Trump apologists appeared on screen to offer a strained dissent.

It was all a carbon copy of the original: Donald Trump’s dismissal of John McCain’s heroism in the face of torture during his captivity in the Vietnam war.

He’s a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren’t captured, okay? I hate to tell ya.

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