First this:
Trump asks if ‘SNL’ is legal day after skit that imagines Clinton won U.S. election
Then this:
Turkey says Trump working on extraditing wanted cleric Gulen
followed by this:
Trump did not tell Erdogan he would extradite Gulen: WH official
So here's a President who wonders if parodying him is legal, and asks to test it in court. If he did not offer to send a persecuted intellectual back to an autocratic regime, who would put it past him?
Hurray for freedom of speech and freedom of expression! Hurray for democracy!
The first case is less alarming than just plain pathetic. Here's what he wrote:
"A REAL scandal is the one sided coverage, hour by hour, of networks like NBC & Democrat spin machines like Saturday Night Live. It is all nothing less than unfair news coverage and Dem commercials. Should be tested in courts, can’t be legal? Only defame & belittle! Collusion?"Yes, by all means, let's test this one in the courts! Let Brett Kavenaugh be the one to explain to him how the First Amendment works.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 16, 2018
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.http://constitutionus.com/ (emphasis added).
There you go, you could even fit it in a Tweet!
Doubtless he'll claim he was only joking. Hardy Har. I suppose it's the Libtards who can't take a joke. Well, it's a privilege of being President that you are the permanent butt of ridicule, a price you pay for the power to end all life on the planet. You will excuse us if we think perhaps such power ought not to be subject to temper tantrums, and not joke around with the freedoms he's sworn to uphold. .I expect all the free-speech warriors will come full out on this one, and all the loudmouth Trumpeters to confront their Cry-Baby-in-Chief, and tell him to stop being such a fucking snowflake. Imagine a President so thin-skinned, so weak and insecure, so infantile and immature, and so bloody fucking clueless about his own Constitution that he would muse aloud about such a thing. I would expect from Mohammad Bin Salman or Recep Erdogen . . .
Oh, yeah.
So, according to Al Jazeera, Trump is not actually planning on extraditing Fethulha Gulen back to Turkey, as was initially reported by Reuters (and which I heard on CBC). Why do I not feel reassured? Could it be because it's entirely in-line with his character? That it would be entirely consistent with his fan-boy adulation of autocrats and dictators, Putin and Erogen and Duarte? Even while he has no time at all for democratically elected leaders? Who insulted my Prime Minister over cheese tariffs but won't condemn the Saudi Clown Prince for the slaughter of Jamal Khashoggi? Who has shown himself so far completely bereft of higher principles, utterly lacking in common decency, absolutely devoid of wisdom, humility, kindness, or the slightest sense of civic duty. An empty, hollow, soulless cipher for greed, selfishness, pettiness, vanity, narcissism, prejudice and all else that corrupts and poisons the human soul.
So yeah, I was taken in. Sue me.
