In case you haven’t felt it by now, you might need at the very least heard about it: President Donald Trump’s plan was at all times to “flood the zone,” within the phrases of former adviser Steve Bannon.
The president’s aim is to overload the media and its readers with government orders, outlandish soundbites, and outright false statements in order that the general public feels exhausted and despondent. (And for that objective, it’s working.)
Listed here are some key occasions, underreported moments, and straight-up bonkers issues coming from the White Home’s previous week that will help you make sense of Trump’s onslaught.
One among Trump’s greatest media-grabbers this previous week was throughout his press convention with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The over-tanned blondie instructed reporters that he envisioned the U.S. taking management of the Gaza Strip.
At first, Trump performed round with the thought of deploying U.S. troops, however on Thursday, he instructed the press that the Gaza Strip would “be turned over to the United States by Israel at the conclusion of fighting.”
Issues have snowballed from there on the worldwide entrance.
Whereas Trump’s tariff conflict with Canada and Mexico has to date turned out to be a large fats break-even for the U.S., Trump remains to be butting heads with China, who principally instructed us to kick rocks.
On a weirder word again residence, the convicted felon determined to collect as many younger women as he might to signal an government order concentrating on transgender athletes—one thing these little women probably didn’t know something about.
But it surely wouldn’t be per week within the White Home with out a little conspiracy as effectively.
In Trump vogue, the 78-year-old flexed his incapacity to spell whereas incorrectly accusing the U.S. authorities of paying off the corporate that oversees Politico.
On Thursday, the president wrote on his Reality Social platform:
LOOKS LIKE BILLIONS OF DOLLARS HAVE BEEN STOLLEN [stolen] AT USAID, AND OTHER AGENCIES, MUCH OF IT GOING TO THE FAKE NEWS MEDIA AS A “PAYOFF” FOR CREATING GOOD STORIES ABOUT THE DEMOCRATS. THE LEFT WING “RAG,” KNOWN AS “POLITICO,” SEEMS TO HAVE RECEIVED $8,000,000. Did the New York Instances obtain cash??? Who else did??? THIS COULD BE THE BIGGEST SCANDAL OF THEM ALL, PERHAPS THE BIGGEST IN HISTORY! THE DEMOCRATS CAN’T HIDE FROM THIS ONE. TOO BIG, TOO DIRTY!
After all, the president is definitely what the total federal authorities spent on Politico Professional subscriptions—however you’ll be able to learn extra from Every day Kos about his misunderstanding right here.
As Trump moans about supposed left-wing media brainwashing the lots, he additionally took to the Nationwide Prayer Breakfast on Thursday to instruct newly minted Lawyer Normal Pam Bondi to start out a process power to root out “anti-Christian bias.”
In keeping with Trump, Bondi will “fully prosecute anti-Christian violence and vandalism in our society and to move heaven and earth to defend the rights of Christians and religious believers nationwide.”
And what’s the godliest factor of all that Trump can provide? Apparently, him working for a third time period.
