While the Garbage Fire in Chief wanders around his various golf courses, casually breaks federal laws under the presumption nobody will bother stopping him, and retweets conspiracy sites that flatter him, you may be wondering how the rest of Team Garbage Fire is doing at this whole keep-the-United-States-basically-functional-in-the-background thing.
You needn't wonder. They might get around to that eventually, but more pressing matters always seem to get in the way. For example, at the moment our secretary of state and the garbage fire's favorite offspring are engaged in an enormous catfight.
Multiple State Department officials, as well as a source close to the White House, have told CNN Tillerson's decision not to send senior State Department officials to this year's Global Entrepreneurship Summit, being held in India next week, is not related to his key project of slashing the Department's budget, and is more to do with the fact Ivanka Trump is leading the US delegation this year.
So the United States won't be sending a high-level delegation to the summit this year because, according to sources both in Rex Tillerson's office and the rubber room currently masquerading as a White House, oil-tycoon-turned-top-diplomat Rex is pouting about Donald listening to Ivanka more than he listens to Rex.
"Rex doesn't like the fact that he's supposed to be our nation's top diplomat, and Jared and now Ivanka have stepped all over Rex Tillerson for a long time," the source said. "So now, he's not sending senior people from the State Department to support this issue. He's not supporting Ivanka Trump."
Oh, good. You'll have to forgive us, entire rest of the world. We promise to get back to you eventually, but right now an administration staffed with rich self-important bastards is having a soap opera moment.
Well, several. Well, a few dozen, all at once, in every department. You'll have to forgive them, but these little shits haven't had to do an honest day's work in a very long time and they tend to have ... episodes.
And so we conclude our look at the Rex vs. Ivanka hissyfit, to be categorized somewhere below the Mulvaney vs. The Actual Rule Of Law hissyfit and above the Jared vs. Everyone Else In Government Hissy-O-Rama. The good news, still, is that the incompetence of Team Garbage Fire continues to slow many of their other efforts to damage the nation. God help us all if it had turned out one of Trump’s fellow billionaires and golfing buddies knew what the hell they were doing.