Stupid people for Trump

Let me see if I’ve got this right. A little more than two months into the Trump “administration,” the same people who have spent the last nine years crucifying Hillary Clinton over her “emails,” led by the “president of peace,” who endlessly excoriated Joe Biden for “senile incompetence,” accidentally texted a Signal chat with a journalist from the Atlantic about top secret war plans for an attack on the Houthi armed group in Yemen, and Trump knows nothing about it except to say that the Atlantic is a “magazine that’s going out of business”? Did I get that right?
Holy crap. That’s what I call a ton of stupid. This Shit House — excuse me, White House — couldn’t be any worse if you wrote it into a Saturday Night Live skit. In fact, what is SNL or the Onion going to do for a living now that life has imitated art so completely there is no further need for comedy?
Of course, there is no more talk of the price of eggs specifically or groceries in general, now that prices for eggs specifically and groceries in general have gone through the roof. No more talk about inflation. Now that those topics served their purpose and helped Trump retake the presidency, you’ll never hear about THAT again.
And of course, there will be no more talk about no more wars, especially now that the Trump Clown Show accidentally exposed secret plans to bomb Yemen on an unclassified, commercially available app. And of course, now that Trump has threatened Canada, Mexico, Greenland and Panama with military action, it would be, oh I dunno, hypocrisy?, for Trump to say that he is still the “president of peace.”
These are the same people who for years clutched their pearls and shook with rage about Hillary Clinton putting military personnel and others at risk by taking her work home with her. They actually accidentally invited a JOURNALIST into a top secret Signal chat! How does one do that, anyway? How do you accidentally invite a journalist to a top secret meeting? “Let me see, Vice-President JD Vance? Check. The secretary of state Marco Rubio? Check. The national security adviser Mike Waltz? Check. Secretary of defense Pete Hegseth,? Check. The editor in chief of the Atlantic Jeffrey Goldber? Oh yes, we must remember to invite him!”
Unbelievable. When a White House is so stupid you don’t even know how they did it, you sit and marvel at the staggering stupidity, you know you’re no longer dealing with mere talented amateurs. These people are Michelangelo Effing Buonarrotis of the Stupidity World. They’re Wolfgang Amadeus Freaking Mozarts. They’re Albert Holy Shit Einsteins. Nobody will ever be able to touch them.
Of course, only they can outdo themselves. And believe you me, they will. Just give ‘em time. In another couple of months, or weeks, or hours, somebody in the Trump pirate ship, maybe Trump himself, will do something so unbelievably stupid as to make us rethink world records for stupid. Until then, this will have to do.

Robert Harrington is an American expat living in Britain. He is a portrait painter.