OK, so something serious happened last night, and we should all educate ourselves on the details.
In fact, our sister site LGBTQ Nation has an excellent post up about everything you need to know about Trump’s Supreme Court pick: Neil Gorsuch.
But there was also an element of the absurd to President Trump’s proceedings that warrants a mention. The President treated his announcement like an episode of his reality show The Apprentice, complete with multiple finalists guarded until the last moment, and the primetime TV bombshell treatment.
And since the President is going to treat matters of national import like pure theater, he’s going to have to deal with the critics.
How about we take this to the next level?
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One moment in particular rings especially ridiculous — his verbal soup just after he dropped the big name.
“Today I am keeping another promise to the American people by nominating Judge Neil Gorsuch, of the United States Supreme Court, to be of the United States Supreme Court.”
Watch, then re-watch to make sure you heard that correctly, below:
This will go down among the greatest lines of political rhetoric from this great nation.
Thomas
I saw it, heard it and wasn’t surprised… In his attempt to create political theater @POTUS once again shows his utter lack of respect for the institution, his emphasis on the wrong thing at the wrong time and sunk to a new low standard with his disappointing “performance”. His claims that he studied every case, read all of Gorsuch’s writings, absorbed his legal decisions and opinions was blatant example of #alternativefacts.
woodroad34
Well, he has an extremely large a*s…perhaps that’s where he stores all his knowledge–you know, a second server type of thing.
Kangol
Yeah, you just know he was poring through all those Gorsuch opinions, during Fox News Channel show commercial breaks! Does he ever stop lying? I mean, seriously?
NateOcean
“Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals”
or
“U.S. Supreme Court”
Easily confused, particularly so if you don’t know anything about the Constitution.
Po-ta-to po-tah-to.
BartmanLA
I guess now that he’s in office he doesn’t have enough time to schedule rehearsals for his on camera moments… Just reinforces the fact he’s a “staged” president, Bannon and crew are the ones pulling the strings on this puppet.
woodroad34
And Herr Drumpf had the temerity to criticize Schwarzenegger’s performance.
kehvan
Politics… smh.