Friends or foes, the Don doesn’t let old grouses go under grass
Donald Trump, the all-in-chief knows a lot about lotta things. He is a great builder. He is very good at flagpoles. And he knows everything about grass. No, not the one you smoke, but the one that grows on his lawn.
So as the U.S. national debt climbed past a staggering $40 trillion and a victory in Iran remained elusive as ever, leaving weighty matters of state for a while, the POTUS took the press on an impromptu tour to show all that he is doing to make the White House great again.
At one point during the 40-minute diversion to see his new helipad, a “very proud” Trump boasted about the “flawless granite” he replaced the asphalt driveway with. “If you take a look at the stone, look how perfect the stone is,” he exclaimed.
At another stop, touting the fresh topsoil and grass, he said, “If you’re grass, you’re very happy.” The President who has previously claimed, “I know more about grass than any human being I think anywhere in the world,” then repeated his favorite line, “You know, grass has a life like humans have a life.”
Before signing off, Trump reminded the press pack that he had donated the two huge flag poles now flanking the White House. “This is a great pole,” Trump said. “This is the top of the line. It’s tapered. Great. I’m very good at flagpoles.”
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Trump’s favorite White House project — construction on his 90,000-square-foot $400 million ballroom — was not a stop on the tour, but the President still brought it up. He repeatedly downplayed any concerns that the Supreme court would rule against him and potentially halt construction, saying he “can’t imagine it happening.”
The friendly top court did oblige with chief justice John Roberts, who oversees emergency appeals of cases filed in the capital, allowing work on the ballroom to continue for now. The temporary order came hours before lower-court rulings would have forced a halt to aboveground construction of the project without congressional approval.
“When they say proceed, I think that’s a good thing. That’s a good thing,” said Trump thanking the court during a campaign event in South Carolina.
The National Trust for Historic Preservation have accused the White House of trying to “outrun the courts” by accelerating construction. While litigation plays out, the ballroom is going up quickly with crews working 20 hours a day, seven days a week, on the project.
Earlier, in a series of wild posts on Truth Social, Trump fantasised about showing off his new White House ballroom to George Washington and another of him with the nation’s first president, both on horseback, looking for a site to build the White House. Heaven forbid!
But the lower courts were not so friendly. A federal judge in New York struck down Trump’s ban on issuing visas to immigrants from 75 countries, saying the policy went beyond Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s legal authority.
An appeals court in Las Vegas ruled that a Trump-appointed U.S. attorney in Nevada can’t legally serve in the role beyond a 120-day limit set by federal law without Senate confirmation.
Yet another federal judge ordered Trump to follow through on a U.S. General Services Administration plan to move the FBI headquarters to Maryland despite Trump’ desire to keep it in Washington.
If only he could do unto these pesky judges what he is doing to the International Criminal Court! Trump, who had called it a “threat” to American sovereignty in his last term, imposed sanctions on the court’s president and senior trial lawyer in addition to its chief prosecutor and nine of its judges announced earlier.
Rubio has gone even further, announcing that the U.S. intends to dismantle the I.C.C. — “brick by brick, if necessary” — including by pressuring member states to leave the court. Within days of that announcement last month, Venezuela announced its exit, followed by Chad.
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Trump capped the week calling the strait of Hormuz “an American territory” amid a U.S. military blockade of Iran’s shipping and ports.
“We don’t even know if we won, because I view the strait of Hormuz as an American territory right now,” said Trump who had threatened to do so last week with a map labeling the waterway as a “new U.S. territory.”
Later Trump joked about bombing Iran. “It’s a Friday night. We have plenty of time,” Trump said before reciting ‘The Snake,’ a poem he frequently uses at campaign rallies to underscore his anti-immigrant policies. “What the hell do I have to do? Go back and bomb Iran a little bit more?”
Earlier, amid his frustrations over the Iran war Trump warned any nation friend or foe that supports Iran will face “ECONOMIC D-DAY.” Threatening to bomb Oman, a U.S. ally that has acted as a mediator with Iran, Trump also posted another map showing parts of Oman, the United Arab Emirates — another ally — and Iran as “NEW U.S. Territory.”
Then punishing Seoul for its refusal to join his war against Iran, he ordered the Pentagon to “substantially reduce” the annual U.S. joint military exercises with South Korea that have been conducted for 50 years.
Trump also divulged plans to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, with whom he gets along well, later this year saying his positive relationship with Kim is “a very good thing” and suggested that Kim could be managed as long as “we have a smart president.”
As Trump did not say during his excursion with the press “If you’re grass, you’re very happy!” to be trod upon — for lesser species it’s another matter!