President Cheeto von Trump, today, thanked Vladimir Putin for expelling 755 diplomats from the US diplomatic mission, in Russia. The expulsion, as you may remember, is in response to tougher sanctions signed into law by our golfer-in-chief.
Some people would argue that Trump signing the sanctions is proof that there was no Russian collaboration to help him win the election, but, we must remember that Trump was placed in a position where he could not refuse to sign the sanctions. Had he vetoed the legislation, overwhelming bipartisan support in both houses of Congress would have made it very likely that Lord Cheeto’s veto would have been overridden by a Congressional vote. A loss like that would have been even more damaging to his Presidency than, well, he is himself. Still, the legislation was not signed until negotiations between the Executive Branch and the Legislature weakened the sanctions somewhat.
But, his response to the expulsions is what I am here to discuss.
Trump thanked Putin for expelling the diplomats, stating that it will save the US a lot of money on payroll. Now, this can be read many ways.
- This response can be seen as both flip and calculating. A move that an expert in the art of political brinkmanship would use to show an opponent that we will not be cowed or forced to play our cards before we are ready. Yeah… no. I hope you had a good laugh at this one. I did.
- Trump plans on actually removing these diplomats from the payroll, thus putting more Americans out of work. (Remember all those manufacturing jobs that Trump “negotiated” for that are being off=shored now anyway?)
- Trump, who has time and time again shown how little he knows (or cares) about the inner workings of the Federal Government, actually believes that these people were just fired from their jobs by Putin. This is the one that I am voting for, honestly.
The only calculation that I believe is going on in Cheeto’s minuscule brain is to see how long all this will take people’s minds off of the investigation into his campaign’s collaboration with Russia to affect the outcome of our last Presidential election.
Not long enough, Donny… not long enough.
Though, you have already shown that your backup plan seems to be complete nuclear annihilation of the planet, resulting from your little dick wagging contest with Kim Jong Un, and North Korea. War takes people’s minds off of scandal, doesn’t it, Donny boy?
But, that is a post for another day.