As Stephen Colbert has well learned, any time the President heads abroad, it's an opportunity for embarrassment. In this case, the Great American Facepalm involved France's First Lady, Brigitte Macron, whom the President of the United States deemed in "such good shape" and then, just in case there was any confusion, added, "physical shape". (And they said chivalry was dead.) Colbert had some fun with that, but also with the joint press conference Trump held with Emmanuel Macron, in which Don the Elder was forced to defend his son's meeting with a Russian lawyer whom Don Junior knew was connected to the Kremlin, but was promising dirt on Hillary Clinton.Rico says assuming we have any allies left when Trump leaves office...
First, the President argued it was really quick collusion, so it doesn't really count:
"It's like a five second rule for your soul," Colbert sniped, as it dawned on all of us all over again that the President has no sense of morality that extends beyond whether there will be consequences for his behavior. That was actually just one of Trump's excuses, though. He also said "most people would have taken that meeting" ("to the FBI," Colbert snapped) and that Jared Kushner and Paul Manafort, like, weren't even paying attention, and that it was "not a Russian government lawyer". To that last point, though, that's exactly how she was billed to Junior by Rob Goldstone in that email, so Junior was more than willing to take information directly from the Russian government if it meant tarring Hillary Clinton. That Natalia Vesenitskaya turns out to be merely Kremlin-connected does not absolve that: the intent here appears to have been collusion.
But hey! Let President Smoothtalk do his thing; after all he's just trying to build alliances with our allies.
17 July 2017
Colbert on Trump again
Esquire has an article by Jack Holmes about Colbert's latest:
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