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…

Sigh, the Idiot-in-Chief™ decided to attempt to gut the ACA on Thursday…

Margot Sanger-Katz expressed doubts in her New York Times opinion piece on Friday about how successful this misguided attempt will actually be, while fellow columnist Timothy Egan laments the gutting of environmental protections by the very agency responsible for preserving – and arguably expanding – those protections!

…and lest we forget, a non-trivial portion of the nation continues to fret over the Bigot-in-Chief’s™ threats to withdraw relief from Puerto Rico!

Does this guy hate brown people, or what?

Anybody picked up on the Wall Street Journal’s shifting editorial bias back toward becoming the bastion of conservatism it once was? Yeah, pretty sad – on Thursday, columnist Peggy Noonan penned a self-congratulatory note claiming to have called out the Republican’s deal with the devil way back in March. I’m still trying to parse Daniel Henninger’s October 11th blather intimating we might see the Moron-in-Chief™ magically transform, (from an oratorical perspective), into James Madison.

…maybe. …someday.

James Hohmann nailed it in Friday’s Washington Post feature the Daily 202 by saying the Bomb-Lobber-in-Chief™ now owns the ACA. It’s his mess now!

Michael Gerson warns Republicans about the risks of their continued silence, off-the-record whispers, snickering in shadows, etc., etc. Simply stated, the Moron-in-Chief™ has to go.

Greg Sargent offers his thoughts on why Thursday’s political theater at the White House will hurt Republicans much more than Democrats.

…and Patrick Martin hastened to remind the nation that while the Moron-in-Chief™ whines about professional athletes “disrespecting the flag”, he blithely joked about a flag-related ceremony repeated every day at U.S. military installations, globally. Sad.

Link to .PDF version of ‘Wake Up’ poster here.

Link to a .PDF version of ‘Moron-in-Chief™’ poster here.