Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago disaster

| 3:19 am EDT April 17, 2018
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Donald Trump didn’t go on a golfing expedition to Mar-a-Lago this weekend due to the Friday night bombing raid in Syria, and he instead spent the weekend sitting in the White House while raging on Twitter. Now he’s quickly making up for lost time by heading to Mar-a-Lago for a weekday vacation. The trouble: this is shaping up to be a disaster for him already.

Just as Trump was settling in at Mar-a-Lago, he lost a major court battle over the communications the FBI seized between him and his supposed attorney Michael Cohen. If that weren’t bahd enough on its own, those same court proceedings revealed that Cohen is also the attorney for Fox News host Sean Hannity. This dragged Hannity into the middle of the Trump-Cohen scandal, and it also exposed that Hannity has been fraudulently reporting on the scandal by not disclosing that Cohen was his attorney. This all came after Trump had just finished melting down over the release of James Comey’s book.

Suffice it to say that Trump has got to be in a terrible headspace right now. So many things are going wrong for him this week, it’s difficult to keep track of them all. So maybe it’s a good thing that he’s down at Mar-a-Lago for the week, far removed from any presidential duties he can screw up. Except, no, wait, because Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is coming to Mar-a-Lago to meet with Trump. This is at a time when what’s left of Trump’s brain has fully turned into porridge.

In other words, Donald Trump’s weekday visit to Mar-a-Lago has all the makings of a disaster already. Trump will either be tweeting about Sean Hannity, or wishing he could be tweeting about Hannity, while he’s conducting a crucial meeting with the leader of a major U.S. ally. Trump would have screwed up this meeting even if he were in a comparatively relaxed headspace. He’ll blow it even worse now that he’s focused on the fear that he and his buddies are headed to prison.