He didn’t actually appear until close to 1:00 and then went on a crazy man rant for the next 75 minutes. Scolding the media (again). Talking about the election results (again). Belittling Hillary Clinton (again). And praising himself (again).
The differences this time… he did suggest his popularity would rise if he decided to blow the Russian ship, that’s sitting 30 miles off the US coast, out of the water. He also tried to shame a Jewish reporter over asking him an unfair question about anti-semitism. He claimed things in his team are running like “a well tuned machine”… while at the same time saying there are serious leaks coming out and those people will be found, and it’ll be serious consequences. And he asked a black reporter if she could set up a meeting between he and the Congressional Black Caucus because he figured she must know somebody there.
This last remark being pretty much the stupidest thing the President has said. It’s about the equivalent to me going to a Blue Jays baseball game… seeing a black fan in the stands… and asking him if he could set up a meeting between me and Marcus Stroman.
But really, if I were an American, my main takeaway from this press conference was that the President just wasted my time. It’s an hour of my day that would have been better served washing the floors, shovelling the driveway, or picking lint off my sweaters. I’d actually love to see the press rebel against the stupid. As soon as Trump would bring up the election or Hillary, just everybody stand up and walk out of the room.
Where an American should be embarrassed is from the press conference the day before. When Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu were answering questions. That’s where Trump showed how little he really knows while also showing how arrogant and unaware of his own stupidity he is. Telling Netanyahu to “take a break” from building communities. And claiming that he’s fine with any decision between Israel and Palestine just as long as they’re both happy with it.
At one point, Netanyahu looked at Trump and chuckled in a manner equivalent to asking “what the hell is this guy talking about?” So congratulations, America… You now have a president that makes the leaders from other nations completely unable to take you seriously anymore. I mean seriously, it became a news item that Justin Trudeau held his own against Trump in the simple act of shaking hands. This is the “greatest country in the world”… reduced to the equivalent of a game of thumb war.
So, other than Trump… I got out snowshoeing on three of my four days off. Funny thing is the one day I didn’t go was the best weather day of the four. But I just needed some rest after back to back treks through the woods and lots of shovelling of the driveway.
Between that shovelling and snowshoeing, my winters have suddenly switched from the time of year that I’d fatten up… to the time of year that I’m actually dropping pounds. Funny thing with the snowshoeing. It’s given me a new love of apples. Most years, I don’t even touch an apple until the fall. The rest of the year that just don’t taste as good. But I’ve gotten into the habit of bringing one with me to eat at the halfway point of my snowshoeing sessions. And I must say, an apple never tasted as good as while standing in the woods on a winter day. Who knew?
Not much else to discuss… and this talk of food makes me realize that it’s time to get some food in my belly.
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