Donald Trump’s Day From Hell
Donald Trump has had a number of bad days since he took office. Between his crushing unpopularity, his exploding scandals, his revolving door of a staff, and his total lack of accomplishments, one could argue that most of Trump’s days in office have been bad days – and it would be near impossible to point to a good day for him. But Trump may have finally reached new ground by having his worst day in office yet on Monday. Here’s a look at Donald Trump’s day from Hell.
Trump’s ultimate bad day was officially on Monday, but it got off to the worst start possible on late Sunday night. The Washington Post reported that he’d been trying to build Trump Tower Moscow during the election, more or less proving that every denial he’d ever offered about his Russia scandal was a straight up lie. Trump woke up this morning and tweeted nothing, a sign that he had become little more than a deer in the headlights of his own scandal. But then he went and made things worse.
During a press conference with the President of Finland, Trump spent the entire time trying and failing to hide the fact that he didn’t know the name of the President of Finland. Then he thought two different reporters sitting next to each other were both the same reporter (link). Then he bragged that he got big ratings by announcing his unpopular pardon of Joe Arpaio during Hurricane Harvey, in one of his most incoherently indefensible remarks to date. But then things got worse.
Suddenly it was all about Trump Tower Moscow again, with the New York Times and the Washington Post trading bombshells about just how knee-deep Donald Trump was in the project. He signed a letter of intent to build it. His attorney reached out to Vladimir Putin for help in trying to get it built. And oh, by the way, Trump’s attorney – who has had to hire an attorney of his own – has apparently been selling him out to Congressional investigators by giving up key details.
And that’s how Monday truly ended up being Donald Trump’s ultimate day from Hell. By the end of the day it had become clear that even his closest and most trusted of longtime advisers are so afraid of being taken down by his Russia scandal that they’re willing to give up bits and pieces of information just to keep the target off themselves. Those bits and pieces are what investigators are ultimately able to use to piece the entire scandal together. And so now even Trump’s own people are selling him out, one desperate day at a time. It’s every scoundrel for himself. If you find Palmer Report valuable, make a donation.
