Donald Trump continues to be unfit for office. Yesterday Trump held a closed-door meeting at FEMA headquarters, ostensibly a top-level scrum about hurricane preparedness. But the Washington Post obtained the audio of the meeting, and the blustering orange idiot could not muster any substantive focus on the actual topic at hand. Instead, it was the usual airing of self-praise and petty grievances.
President Trump had a lot else on his mind, turning the closed-door discussion into soliloquies on his prowess in negotiating airplane deals, his popularity, the effectiveness of his political endorsements, the Republican Party’s fortunes, the vagaries of Defense Department purchasing guidelines, his dislike of magnetized launch equipment on aircraft carriers, his unending love of coal and his breezy optimism about his planned Singapore summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
Yes, the administration called together the top preparedness officials in the nation for a hurricane summit, but instead Trump spent the time grumbling that aircraft carriers use magnets these days. And how he made a great deal on Air Force One. And the midterms. And ordering Rick Perry to hold a news conference promoting "clean coal." And, mostly, his own supposed genius.
This would be alarming if, say, the United States was expecting more actual hurricanes in the near future. Or if the United States had a very recent example of a hurricane that proved the administration's past responsiveness efforts to be severely lacking. Heaven help us if either of those things proved true.
But if Donald believes he can bluff his way through a nuclear disarmament summit without preparation, it stands to reason that he presumes he can skate through the 2018 hurricane season without having to pay much attention to the details. Perhaps he'll have more time after he works out his feelings about magnets?