THANK YOU, DAVE MILLER

 

I was going to do a post on Trump's speech to the American people last night. I'm getting ready to travel to New York for Christmas and a wedding (my son's) on Christmas Eve!!! Needless to say, I'm a bit harried with shopping, cooking, and preparations for two big events coming on December 24!

Dave Miller left this excellent analysis of Trump's lies speech, so thanks to him, here's a recap of it:

The speech...

Gas in $1.99 a gallon... Maybe somewhere. But the gold standard AAA survey says the average price of gas in the US is $2.99, so Trump is wrong, or lying.

Drug prices have been lowered 400, 500, 600%... Maybe the president skipped math in elementary school or at Wharton. You cannot lower prices more than 100% without people being paid when they get their medicines.

The check is in the mail... $1776.00 for our soldiers... The check is not in the mail. In fact, the Constitution says only Congress can appropriate money. So if the check is in fact in the mail, Trump has betrayed his oath, committed an illegal act and should be impeached and removed from office.

Inflation is lower than it has ever been... According to Trump's own White House, this is not true. Sorry MAGA, facts matter.

What can we do with all of this? Nothing at all. Look, I actually like giving our soldiers a Christmas bonus. But the White House, any White House, cannot, by law, just send $$$ to people. All expenditures like this must, according to the Constitution, must be approved by Congress. It's just as Schoolhouse Rock explained it back in the 70s.

But here's the larger issue and Grey touched on it. Trump is losing it. And before you "what about" folks start, I said the same about Biden. Any objective person can see Trump is nowhere near the campaigner, showman or communicator he was in the first term.

People at some blogs I am sure will write posts asking why Trump doesn't just better explain to the American what he is doing. If he does so they claim, America will understand all the great stuff he's trying to do.

Well, this was his chance. And he whiffed. His speech was full of lies, obfuscations and outright mistakes. The delivery was rushed, at times seemed shouted and almost comical.

And that's before we get to his Biden obsession. The MAGA crowd simultaneously sees Biden as both an evil genius and a dithering idiot during his time in office. Apparently, so does Trump as evidenced by his speech where everything is/was Biden's fault. MAGA folks lap this up.

But at some point they're going have to face facts... They elected Trump, he's hurting America, he's a liar and in their blind support of him, they have surrendered their ability in the future to credibly complain about presidents and candidates lying to the American people.

What a night.

So, Trump's giving our troops money that's already been allocated to them for housing and calling it a gift from his tariffs?

Really? Did he think no one would look into this?