Hat Tip To Digby for collecting Trump’s remarks at a presser on his trip overseas. If you can read all the way through without gagging or wanting to pound your head against the wall, well good luck. Here’s how it starts. It goes downhill from there.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Everybody okay? Everybody happy? Everybody healthy? Two more days -- no problem.
It's been a -- I think it's been a great trip. In certain ways, it's been very epic. I think things have happened that have been really amazing. Prime Minister Abe came up to me just at the end, and he said that since you left South Korea and Japan, that those two countries are now getting along much, much better. That's from Prime Minister Abe -- that there's been a real bonding between South Korea and Japan. So that was great.
And we had a time in China. You were there. Were most of you there? Jennifer?
Q We all were, sir.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: They say in the history of people coming to China, there's been nothing like that. And I believe it.
Did you see the show? Did most of you see the show or part of the show afterwards? It was incredible.
Q We saw the opera but not the —
PRESIDENT TRUMP: The opera was great too, but the following night -- that was the first time that theater has been used at the Forbidden City in over a hundred years. You know that. They prepared the theater for that -- the first time in over a hundred years.
No, it was an amazing -- we have an amazing feeling toward each other. And he's for China; I'm for USA. You know, it's one of those things. But we have a great feeling.
So it's been really very incredible. And then today was excellent. Today was a different kind of a thing. It's a conference.
Read The Whole Thing — if you can stand it. And then remember this is the guy who thinks he doesn’t need the State Department. You’ve probably seen bits and pieces of this already, but really — you need to see all of it to fully appreciate just how screwed we are. And ponder this: when did it become ‘normal’ to have a “very smart” president whose media arm repeatedly has to go around issuing statements that he didn’t mean what he actually said?
It’s going to take decades to clean up after him — if we make it that far. There’s an argument that it’s too soon to impeach Trump, because we really need to show beyond all shadow of a doubt just how bad he and his whole administration is, so that no one can deny it.
I’m not sure we can wait that long.