Unraveling Donald Trump lashes out at John Kelly

| 4:14 pm EST January 18, 2018
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Considering that Donald Trump is a demented racist traitor, and his White House Chief of Staff John Kelly has turned out to be a lying racist himself, one might argue that the two of them deserve each other. But after Kelly met with Congress yesterday and made a desperate bid to fix Trump’s immigration mess, Trump got word of it – and now he’s lashing out at Kelly in particularly ugly, and surreal, fashion.

Kelly acknowledged to lawmakers that Trump’s “wall” was never really going to happen, and that it was really more of a metaphor for increased border security. This set Trump off. This morning he tweeted “The Wall is the Wall, it has never changed or evolved from the first day I conceived of it. Parts will be, of necessity, see through and it was never intended to be built in areas where there is natural protection such as mountains, wastelands or tough rivers or water.”

So let’s see if we can parse this. Trump is lying, as his own definition of the “wall” has changed since he took office; he’s acknowledged in interviews that parts of his “wall” will actually be something else. But now he’s talking about a “see through” wall. What is that? A fence? Is he planning on just pretending he built a wall and telling us it’s invisible?

Trump continued: “The Wall will be paid for, directly or indirectly, or through longer term reimbursement, by Mexico, which has a ridiculous $71 billion dollar trade surplus with the U.S. The $20 billion dollar Wall is ‘peanuts’ compared to what Mexico makes from the U.S. NAFTA is a bad joke!” All of this is false or misleading, and it demonstrates that Trump never did have any idea how to magically get Mexico to pay for his wall.

But the big upshot here is that most of all of the above is a direct rebuke of John Kelly. At this point Donald Trump is so unstable and out of control that he’s publicly attacking his own Chief of Staff for having dared to try to clean up Trump’s mess.