EXPRESS LINES
He lies about the living and he lies about the dead. He is incapable of telling the truth even when asked a simple question. Hell, he can’t even make a condolence call without lying about it and turning it into a fight.
And it’s becoming increasingly clear each day that he can’t run a country without running it into the ground, and lying about that, too.
And once again, thanks to the storm that is Donald Trump, he’s turned a tragedy into a national embarrassment, an embarrassment into a fight, a fight into a more lies, and more lies into a story — yes — about him.
Take the latest, breathtakingly unforgivable lie to and with the family of a fallen soldier.
I mean, who fights with Gold Star families? Oh right. The draftdodger President, that’s who.
The newest fiasco began with a reporter’s question about why he hadn’t spoken about the slain American soldiers in Niger. Instead, President Trump went on a crazy-man tirade against President Obama and other Presidents, saying they didn’t often call the family of slain soldiers. What?
He followed that lie with another on Fox News Radio, saying he’d contacted the families of “virtually everybody” who’d been killed since his inauguration, which was another giant lie.
The AP called families and found out half had never heard from the President.
The hideous cadre of loonies who surround President Unhinged knew he was lying about it and emails prove they knew it. He lies and they swear to it.
To show his “compassion” to the fallen, Trump phoned Myeshia Johnson, the pregnant widow of slain a Green Beret, Sgt. La David Johnson, who was traveling to meet his body with his family and a family friend, Rep. Frederica Wilson.
Even though the President had been coached on how to sound empathetic, he told Mrs. Johnson, “He knew what he signed up for, but I guess it still hurts.” He guesses? Wilson called the conversation disrespectful, Trump called her a “wacky” liar, forcing La David’s grief-stricken mother Cowanda Jones-Johnson, to take time from mourning her son to defend Wilson, calling the conversation “crazy.”
Into the filthy mess stepped the President’s White House Chief of Staff, John Kelly, a Gold Star father himself. Instead of calming the situation, Kelly criticized them, and smeared Wilson with another lie.
We’re talking about dead soldiers here — men who died on their watch — and they even turned that tragedy into an episode of the Real Housewives of the White House.
Kelly said he was shocked that the President’s call had been placed on speakerphone, because “I thought at least that was sacred.”
But he and others had also been listening to that call.
Kelly, who was supposed to be the voice of reason in an unreasonable administration full of liars and loonies, added that Wilson’s remarks stunned and broke his heart. Oh, please.
“When I was a kid growing up,” he said, “a lot of things were sacred in our country. Women were sacred and looked upon with great honor.”
Hello? It’s 2017, We don’t want to be sacred. We want to be respected.
Kelly then showed neither honor nor respect to Frederica Wilson, calling her an “empty barrel.”
Bottom line: This story should never have been about THEM. It should have been about La David Johnson, Staff Sgt. Bryan Black, Staff Sgt. Jeremiah Johnson and Staff Sgt. Dustin Wright. These men died for us — and for THEM. It’s their names that should be sacred. Paul Ryan at the Al Smith Dinner on what he has in common with Sarah Palin: “Given the current investigation, I, too, can see Russia from the House.” … What shape is our country in when George W. Bush looks statesmanlike? He came out of his painting studio last week to criticize President Trump — not by name — saying “our politics seems more vulnerable to conspiracy theories and outright fabrication.” This from the man who brought us the longest war in U.S. history plus conspiracy theories and outright fabrication called WMDs … Every time the President gets involved in yet another mess, he runs a diversionary pass around it. Russia? No, the NFL. Niger? No, the release of the classified JFK files. That should keep the conspiracy theorists off his back for a year, at least.