The above is a pic, released by the White House, of President Trump "working the phone" yesterday afternoon during the government shutdown. I'm going to offer up a crazy opinion: it looks staged. To me, the hat is a little too much, and the clean desk is a lot too little. Team Trump has this problem with "doing things" to respond to the president's critics that prove the critics to be right. A bestseller claims everyone who works for him thinks he's a dope, so they let the tv cameras roll while he conducts business and almost gives away the store to the Democrats before a Republican congressman steers him back to the wing-nut reservation. Think he's lazy and unengaged? You'll come around after checking out this picture of an empty shirt posing at an empty desk!
So far, the worst thing about the shutdown is that it has pushed from the news columns Stormy Davis, the porn star Trump was diddling back in 2006 when Melania had just given birth to little what's his name. According to the Wall Street Journal, Stormy was paid, about a month before the 2016 election, 130k by a Delaware limited liability company controlled by a Trump lawyer. She's not talking now, but back in the day when she was 130k poorer Stormy divulged some details of her Donald days to In Touch magazine, including that she suffers from a latex intolerance that did not deter this hero of Christian conservatives. I think it must have been this nugget, which I heard about on the same day that Trump addressed the right-to-life marchers in D.C., that this morning caused me to fall into a nightmarish reverie wherein to save my live I had to win at a game of Over-Under. The number was 20. The question was the number of abortions that Trump has paid for after receiving unwelcome news from an extra-curricular acquaintance. I went with "under," out of respect for the office he now holds, but before I came to I was pretty nervous about it.
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