Hope It Was A Good One

It's a little trite, and it gets downright maudlin sometimes, but the tradition of counting our blessings and asking people who're gathered for the feast to express a few thoughts on what they're giving thanks for can be an interesting exercise in Accidental Truth.

Take our "president" for example.

WaPo:

Asked what he was most thankful for on this Thanksgiving Day — a question that for commanders in chief usually prompts praise of service members in harm’s way — Trump delivered a singularly Trumpian answer.

“I made a tremendous difference in our country,” he said, citing himself.


All a guy has to do is not shit the bed - for a lousy 2 or 3 minutes. No one expects great oratory - we just wanna know the president is thinking about us, and that'll help us think about others, and we'll start to think about how we're not alone in the world, and how maybe we should at least be thankful it's not fucking worse than it already is. Or something.

But - of course - 45* just can't help it. He's always going to make it worse, because the only way he feels OK is to make sure others feel like shit.

Beneath a gold ceiling, Trump told troops representing five branches in five countries overseas about “barbed wire plus . . . the ultimate” that was blocking migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border. Loquacious and hopping from topic to topic, he debated the merits of steam catapults vs. electromagnetic ones for aircraft carriers and whether the United States was being treated poorly on trade. On both occasions, perplexed officers on the other end of the phone seemed to disagree with his conclusions.

He blamed “the world” for the death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, disputing the analysis from the CIA that Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman was to blame. In fact, Trump said inexplicably, the crown prince hated the death even more than Trump did.

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Asked Thursday whether it was enough to call troops from his palatial resort and later visit officers at a nearby station, he retreated to a familiar boast.

“Nobody’s done more for the military than me,” Trump said.

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He complained at length that a new Navy ship was using electromagnetic catapults to propel planes off ships. He said steam was better and was incredulous the military would consider otherwise. “Would you go with steam or would you go with electromagnetic? Because steam is very reliable, and the electromagnetic, unfortunately, you have to be Albert Einstein to really work it properly,” he asked.

“You have to be Albert Einstein to run the nuclear power plants that we have here, as well. But we’re doing that very well. I would go, sir, with electromagnetic,” the officer responded.

It went on for more than an hour, including the Q & A with the press, and to no one's surprise, it didn't get better.

Fake lord deliver us from this misery.