After Donald Trump and/or his lawyer apparently admitted to obstruction of justice on the garbage fire's Twitter feed, it appeared that perhaps someone in close proximity to the great orange buffoon had finally gotten through to him that blurting out stream-of-consciousness insults and self-promotion via smartphone was, if he was not careful, going to land Hair Furor a federal indictment or two.
Whether that was the case or not, it lasted about a week. That's right: it's another weekend, and that means the emotionally unstable compulsive liar is back on Twitter again. So we're going to do a round up of his tweets, yet again, as further evidence that the man really does lack the basic capacity to do his actual job. He can't muster it. He can't not lie; he can't be presidential. He can't refrain from turning the office into a bully pulpit for attacking named, individual Americans he doesn't like, or named, individual companies he doesn't like, or named, specific news organizations for reporting facts about Donald Trump that makes Donald Trump, a corrosive lying narcissist incapable of focusing on any facts or information that does not revolve around himself, angry.
This time it's easy, as Donald Trump spent the entire weekend attacking the nation's free press. Because they made him sad. That's pretty much it, and once again let's all look at the Republican Party expectantly while they attempt to explain that no, this is perfectly fine, it wouldn't have been a problem at all if any other president in history had spent his every weekend hissing like a cornered possum at the things he saw on his television set:
And so forth. Oh, and calling for a specific, named Washington Post reporter to be fired for a mistaken tweet that was quickly deleted and apologized-for.
So what happened here is that reporter Dave Weigel tweeted pictures of an emptyish arena mistakenly believing that they were from during the time Donald Garbage Fire was talking. When he learned that he was mistaken he deleted the tweet, explained his error, and apologized.
Donald Trump then took to Twitter to demand that someone who misrepresented Donald Trump's crowd size be summarily fired.
Donald Trump's tweet demanding this was retweeted by ex-Trump press secretary Sean Spicer, whose very first turn behind the White House podium was to push the Trump-ordered claim that Donald Trump's inauguration crowd was far bigger than the reports, the many many pictures, the police estimates and the park estimates all agreed upon. It was a flagrant lie, and would remain Sean Spicer's signature lie even long after he had reduced the White House press briefing to a farcical mockery of itself.
As an aside, you may remember that at various points before White House press secretary Sean Spicer's career collapsed, due to the man's daily willingness to lie about everything, all the time, whether or not everyone else in America knew it to be a lie or not, Sean Spicer's friends and acquaintances tried very hard to convince us that Sean Spicer was a decent human being. Ship: sailed.
As for Weigel, the presidential demand that he lose his job for getting a fact wrong was met with widespread public and professional derision, because Donald Trump is a garbage fire who cannot get through a single speech without intentionally lying, much less an entire weekend, and because the White House has never once either corrected itself after promoting false information. There was a concerted effort to get Americans to buy Dave Weigel's book, and general mockery of the notion that Donald Trump even has the mental capacity to distinguish between an accidental mistake and crooked bullshitting from a serial liar.
The remainder of the Donald Trump tweeting weekend was, as usual, an assortment of self-aggrandizing posts claiming to have the best such-and-such, or whatever, and of course endorsing a child molester over someone from the Not Donald Trump Party because Donald Trump is a fucking garbage fire in every possible way.
Again, this has been your weekly reminder that it is not that Donald Trump is somehow "bad" or "unusual" at his presidential duties: He is unfit for office. He is forever attacking specific named Americans, and companies, and institutions, who have committed the egregious crime of momentarily pissing him off, while demanding that the nation act as his enforcers for punishing anyone who makes Donald Trump feel bad. He represents a concrete danger to his targets; he chooses his targets solely based on personal spite. He lies constantly, about everything; he is not merely dishonest, but to all appearances, delusional. He is unfit for office. He continually makes executive decisions about the direction of the country based on whims, lies, misinformation, or personal self-promotion. He is an embarrassment to the nation. He is a danger to the nation. He is a garbage fire.
By the time Trump leaves office, it will be widely accepted by the majority of experts that he was unfit for the job to begin with, and we will debate for decades, at least those of us not incinerated in whichever war he eventually starts, on just what ought to have been done to better defend the nation from an obvious halfwit. Many of the questions will be directed towards Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell, the two people in the nation who could have at any point stood up to demand their president adhere to at least basic standards of decency. They'd do well to have their staffers and speechwriters start preparing those answers in advance.