Bookmark this ludicrous parody of a news conference because you will want to refer to it over the next four years. Why? Because it is the paradigm for how things in this country will *work.* Here’s the template: 1. Trump, after a long hard day on the golf course, will walk through the motions of pretending to run the country; 2. He will do press conferences such as this one; 3. He will not be any more prepared than he is for this one; 4. The underlings who are actually *running* the country will continue to do so. 5. Trump will continue to parrot Putin talking points. 5. Rinse and repeat.

It’s all Zelensky’s fault. Zelensky should never have started the war. Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine in February of 2022 — except in Trump world. There, Zelensky invaded himself, apparently.

Don’t you love it how he goes out of his way to defend Russia at the very end of the clip? OMFG. That we have stooped to this. So that’s Trump selling out Ukraine, which has valiantly fought as a bastion of democracy these three long years. The American electorate let Zelensky, Ukraine and democracy down. I will be forever remorseful. But those of us who fought on the right side did what we could and now we will do what we can to get back in power and fight off this idiocy. Here’s where the news conference got pathetic, Trump talking about the people “over 200” getting Social Security checks.

And of course Trump was asked about DOGE, Musk, conflicts of interest, and that response was as asinine as you would suppose.

The key part there is “I’m just hearing about that now.” That’s the only believable part about any of this.

Let’s play along with this, just for the sake of argument. If Trump decides to rename the moon, Trump Bulb, does that make it “legal?” What law is Trump citing that allows him to change the name of a body of water? Or of anything, for that matter? And where does that begin or end? Can Trump only change the names of bodies of water within the United States or near the United States? Or he can rename the Persian Gulf the American Gulf if he is of a mind to? Or can he order his face on the side of Mt. Rushmore and then it becomes Mt. Trumpmore?

I think we need to get some legal precedent on this because as apeshit as Trump is, this doesn’t just exist in the realm of parody. He’ll do something crazy like this. Why shouldn’t he? So far he’s gotten away with everything, where’s the limit?

The one truthful statement made at this presser today was, “You’ve got a very corrupt government.” Oh yes, we have. That’s a statement of fact.

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  2. The funny thing about the Persian Gulf matter is that the Arabs usually call it the “Arabian Gulf” but, for those of us in the West, it’s been “Persian” for centuries. (The Arabs only seem to have started with the “Arabian Gulf” thing in the 1960s with increased use following the Yom Kippur War when Iran, under the Shah, supported Israel.)

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  3. Dear Donald:
    Quit while you’re ahead. A company with major contracts with NASA and the military should not have its owner running the government unofficially. And it has been the Gulf of Mexico for 400 years. Your having a temper tantrum doesn’t make it real.

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