Over at The Atlantic columnist David A. Graham preserves for posterity a timeline of drump’s "Worst Week Ever" and it’s a doozy.
Beginning with his ill conceived Nuremberg Rally with the BSA in Virginia and culminating with his exhorting of Long Island cops to adopt Gestapo methods in dealing with suspects, last week was truly a tour de farce of crap-baggery, which only a sphincter of epic scale such as drumpf could have pooted out.
And he even made time to welcome McCain back from surgery for the ACA Repeal Vote (Bwah Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha….)
Mr. Graham:
“There hasn’t been a single smooth week in the Trump presidency, but last week was, by popular consensus, the worst of them so far. Given the struggles of this president, that’s no small statement. What was remarkable was the breadth of Trump’s troubles. His top legislative priority was, once again, knocked flat. He had to replace Reince Priebus, making Priebus the shortest-tenured chief of staff to serve in the heart of a term. He publicly feuded with Republican senators, saw his new messaging guru call a colleague a “fucking paranoid schizophrenic,” and went to war with his attorney general….”
Graham then lists all of drumpf’s pratfalls for the week, but only Monday through Friday, concluding:
“It’s an astonishing volume of important stories. Even more surprising is the fact that the Russia investigation, which has been at the heart of many of this administration’s worst moments, barely played a role. (Trump’s fury at Sessions is rooted in his recusal from Russia issues.) Kushner’s testimony was behind closed doors, and the flurry of other stories seemed to crowd out the space for any new Russia stories. That dog is unlikely to stay quiet indefinitely.”
Since Friday, of course, drumpf and Co. have added to this list of sterling accomplishment... the firing of Scaramucci, the revelation that drumpf himself fashioned the lie that Don Jr. put out regarding his meeting with the Russian lawyer — thus obstructing Justice — a food fight with Sen. Jeff Flake in the Press and a come to Jesus Meeting in which Sen. Orin Hatch told him that ACA Repeal had died on an agonizing death on the operating table.
Graham opines that drumpf will be hard pressed to top this week of infamy…
”The good news for Trump is that one imagines it will be hard to outdo last week’s chaos and destruction, at least in the immediate future. Kelly’s arrival might, at least for a time, help to calm matters in the West Wing. They won’t have Reince Priebus to leak about anymore. The bad news is that the common factor in each of these stories last week was not the chief of staff but the president. Trump is said to enjoy chaos and tension around him. If so, he must have had more fun last week than anyone else.”
But I have more faith in SCROTUS than David does; drumpf has been consistently under estimated in his ability to screw up and I predict much worst weeks to come…
Wait’ll you see Impeachment week, David.