Nearly every major news outlet ran stories over the weekend documenting Donald Trump's descent into madness over his leaky, Russian-riddled administration. But amid his rage-filled tweets and ridiculous illegal wire tap claims, Trump reportedly found solace in one thing: the fact that plans were moving ahead to again target Muslims and refugees for discrimination. So after accusing President Obama early Saturday of launching a "Nixon/Watergate"-like scheme to undermine his candidacy, Trump reveled Saturday night in being briefed on the newly conceived Muslim ban that would be issued Monday.
That night at Mar-a-Lago, Trump had dinner with Sessions, Bannon, Homeland Security Secretary John F. Kelly and White House senior policy adviser Stephen Miller, among others. They tried to put Trump in a better mood by going over their implementation plans for the travel ban, according to a White House official.
Trump was brighter Sunday morning as he read several newspapers, pleased that his allegations against Obama were the dominant story, the official said.
That really epitomizes our idiot pr*sident, lightened by the fact that newspapers were forced to acknowledge his delusional claims and excited by the prospect of his latest racist, xenophobic initiative, which may or may not be competently enough written to withstand legal scrutiny this time.
One other note about that Mar-a-Lago scene—anyone who had hoped Sec. Kelly might stand out as a voice of reason amid Trump's braintrust of white nationalists can now put that to rest. Kelly is a co-conspirator who will mitigate nothing. He's the guy who went to Mexico to promise "no mass deportations" even as ICE agents under his charge were conducting raids and his agency was ramping up plans to increase family detention by 550 percent—from about 3,500 beds to 20,000 beds.
Homeland Security is now an agency fully committed to white nationalist ideals, whether or not that actually makes us safer.