Let’s have some comic relief here as we look into what is or isn’t real within the weirdest reality show in American history. It ran for four years, then we had a blessed four-year intermission and now we’re back in the middle of this mess. Washington, D.C. is now an open air zoo and performance space. And no, not like the pantomimes who perform in the square outside of Notre Dame in Paris. No, we’re talking about a group of grifters masquerading as government officials and poised to run the government into the ground. And they’re not playacting, they do have the nuclear codes.
For a teaser, Donald Trump proposed a trade war with our three primary trade countries, China, Mexico and Canada. Mexico and Canada are also (or were also) our good neighbors to the north and south. Now, they’re outraged and letting Trump know in no uncertain terms that they’re not going to stand for his abuse on a whim.
Meanwhile, inside the castle, it’s the Keystone Kops crossed with Machiavelli — but is there one pure heart there? Is there someone who does love Trump and who Trump, dare we say, loves back? Before we look into that, let’s get to the conclusion first: the one character in this tragicomedy who does not care about the answer to that question one jot is Trump’s wife on paper, Melania.
Donald Trump took to Truth Social in the early hours of Tuesday to go on a lengthy rant about Maggie Haberman, likely set off by a recent article in The New York Times on his weird relationship with aide Natalie Harp.
Will the failing New York Times apologize to its readers for getting years of “Trump” coverage so wrong. They write such phony “junk,” knowing full well how incorrect it is, only meaning to demean.” Magot Hagerman, a third rate writer and fourth rate intellect, writes story after story, always terrible, and yet I almost never speak to her. They do no fact checking, because facts don’t matter to them. I don’t believe I’ve had a legitimately good story in the NYT for years, AND YET I WON, IN RECORD FASHION, THE MOST CONSEQUENTIAL PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION IN DECADES. WHERE IS THE APOLOGY?
The article, published Monday, detailed Harp’s questionable proximity to Trump since his 2020 presidential campaign. Known as the “human printer” by the rest of the Trump team, Harp has “established herself at the center of a fast-moving carousel of text messages, articles and tidbits directed at Mr. Trump,” the Times reported, which is apparently worrisome to other aides “at a moment when Mr. Trump appears more contemptuous than ever of attempts to manage or control him.” Haberman goes on to describe her as an “instant enabler of [Trump’s] impulses.” For every Truth Social rant or mean tweet, Harp is there.
Harp also freaked out the rest of Trump’s inner circle with steamy handwritten messages, writing, “you’re all that matters to me.… I’ll never let you down.” She also wrote to him that she wanted to reclaim the “synergy” they had. “We’d talk about everything and nothing.… I want to bring you joy,” Harp wrote. “To feel like we can get through a day without ever having to talk ‘work.’” And it isn’t particularly one-sided either. The Times, which viewed the letters, reported that Trump apparently commented that Harp was the only member of his team that truly cared about him.
The word synergy caught my eye. Synergy is the idea that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts, and can be achieved through cooperation or interaction. The word comes from the Attic Greek word synergia, which means “working together.” Now if there is one thing that Trump is emphatically not known for, it is the ability to work together.
Here’s a tune from a Broadway play which expounds upon this. The synergy concept is talked about at the 1:15 mark. I seriously doubt that anything that human or tender or even common sensical has been achieved by Trump. Listen and see what you think. La la la la la la lalala.
“Will the failing New York Times apologize to its readers for getting years of “Trump” coverage so wrong. They write such phony “junk,” knowing full well how incorrect it is, only meaning to demean.” Magot Hagerman, a third rate writer and fourth rate intellect, writes story after story, always terrible, and yet I almost never speak to her. They do no fact checking, because facts don’t matter to them.”
Sounds like Trump knows whereof he writes. He rage-posts plenty of “phony junk” (“knowing full well how incorrect it is”) and mostly “only meaning to demean.” And, honestly, it IS to laugh that he could write the line “They do no fact checking, because facts don’t matter to them” when HE was the one who got all in a snit at the idea that his debate with Joe Biden had *gasp* fact-checking and, every single time he’s ever confronted in an interview with FACTS, he refuses to acknowledge those facts and why do you suppose that is? Hmm. Could it be “because facts don’t matter to’ him? I think that is the answer.
When will the press start correcting the phony “land slide” remarks? They need to, once ALL the ballots are finally counted, show that the tyrant had one of the slimmest leads in popular votes in history, or if he has now LOST the popular vote, make the correction and announce it loudly and proudly! I know mainstream media is afraid of him but geez, at least get that part right! He has NO mandate!
“Magot Hagerman” aka Maggie Haberman, aka Maggie Duranty daughter of STALIN lover Walter Duranty who covered up Ukraine HOLOMODOR for STALIN.
SEE from Cit Journo http://www.citjourno.org/maggie1
(Note author @lincolnsbible is on BLUESKY)
LAST WEEK WAS HOLOMODOR MEMORIAL WEEK IN UKRAINE.
That piece is why I canceled my NYTIME subscription