The title of this post is a reference to a now two-day-old Thomas L. Friedman opinion piece from the New York Times, titled “The Trump Doctrine”, wherein Mr. Friedman characterizes said philosophy as:

Obama built it. I broke it. You fix it.

with the “You” referencing Congress.

Yup, this clown – and to avoid any misunderstanding here – I am referring to the president*, not Friedman – can’t manage to emote the tiniest smidgen of empathy, even when communicating with family members of fallen soldiers. Case in point, deciding it was entirely acceptable to utter the following phrase during a telephone call with the widow of Sgt. La David T. Johnson, killed on October 4th in Niger:

…he knew what he signed up for.

Are you sh*tting me? Really?! Trump has proven – once again – what a complete sh*tbag he is.

Happily, Trump’s ethically-compromised FDA chief withdrew his name from further consideration.

…and yes, Congress is desperately trying to cobble together legislation to salvage ACA subsidies, while the Cheeto-in-Chief™ continues to lob verbal grenades in pretty much every direction…

Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank laments the dysfunctional souffle the White House continues to serve up, saying:

How long can this White House continue to serve slop before we accept that the chef is mad?

Meanwhile, the judiciary continues to inject a healthy dose of reality into the ongoing battle with the White House over the third attempt to enact a so-called “Muslim ban”.

I’ll close with a reference to a brief, but illuminating, opinion piece by David Ignatius featured in Tuesday’s Washington Post. He closes with the following line:

Trump likes creating chaos.

Yeah, he’s just a sad, twitchy little jerk who likes to dick people around…