Forget what you’ve been reading about the utter chaos happening inside the White House and/or the “Winter White House” (a.k.a. Mar-a-Lago). According to Donald Trump, there’s nothing to see there. The “real story” are all the “illegal leaks” that seem to be happening under his watch, resulting in unfair gossip and rumors about him and his family.
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On Tuesday morning, the president tweeted:
The real story here is why are there so many illegal leaks coming out of Washington? Will these leaks be happening as I deal on N.Korea etc?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 14, 2017
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The “real story” is exactly what’s being reported: That (former) National Security Adviser, Michael Flynn, lied about potentially compromising discussions he had with a Russian ambassador back in December, that the White House may have known he lied and did nothing until the press got wind of the story over a month later, resulting in Flynn abruptly resigning from his job late last night, less than one month into the new administration.
Yet Trump would like us to believe the “real stories” are “fake news” and “illegal leaks” that he spends about as much time watching TV as he does doing his job, that his wife has zero interest in being First Lady or living in the White House, and that he frequently takes breaks throughout his workday to call up his old golfing buddies to shoot the sh*t.
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As for his “N.Korea etc?” reference in the tweet, those “illegal leaks” can be directly linked back to Donald’s meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at Mar-a-Lago last Saturday, when the guys chose to conduct highly sensitive official state business at a dinner table in full view of everyone else on the patio.
The Slot reports that Mar-a-Lago members got a front row seat to the guys learning that North Korea had launched a nuclear missile. Rather than, say, going inside to a more secure location, Donald chose to deal with the situation right there in front of everyone under the light of a cellphone whilst onlookers-turned-citjos snapped photos and posted them to social media:
Earlier in the evening, the onlooker also posted a picture and description of Rick the “football” guy. Rick carries around the nuclear codes everywhere the president goes:
Oh, and then there was this picture that began circulating on social media showing Donald carrying his prepared remarks about the first emergency foreign policy statement of his presidency, giving the entire world a sneak peek of what he was supposed to say but didn’t because, apparently, he’s incapable of reading even a single page statement without going completely off-script:
A news photog captured this shot of Trump's prepared remarks. Sure looks like they sent him out with something different than he delivered. pic.twitter.com/DHLhRlhp8M
— Rob Flaherty (@Rob_Flaherty) February 12, 2017
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CNN reports that after delivering his statement to the press, Trump abruptly left the podium… to drop by a wedding happening at Mar-a-Lago’s Grand Ballroom where he snapped photos with the bride and her bridesmaids then grabbed the microphone and said:
“I saw them out on the lawn today. I said to the Prime Minister of Japan, I said, ‘C’mon Shinzo, let’s go over and say hello.’ … They’ve been members of this club for a long time. They’ve paid me a fortune.”
Donald’s right about one thing. The “illegal leaks” coming out of Washington are definitely a “real story.” But perhaps the reason nobody else is telling it is because he seems to be doing a fine enough job himself.
1EqualityUSA
Cap’n Queeg: “Ahh, but the strawberries that’s…that’s where I had them. They laughed at me and made jokes but I proved beyond a shadow of a doubt and with…geometric logic…that a duplicate key to the wardroom icebox DID exist, and I’d have produced that key if they hadn’t have pulled the Caine out of action. I, I know now they were only trying to protect some fellow officers…”
Bob LaBlah
The real story here is who is going to succeed Trump, who will be gone before spring planting begins in a few weeks. I have my doubts that it will be ol’ Rev. Pence. His hands can’t be clean either.
Jack Meoff
I have been wondering the same thing and it certainly seems like the countdown is on.
Kangol
Pence is next in line, though he’s now lied–er, mis-stated key facts–several times to the public. I guess so long as he doesn’t do so under oath before a Congressional committee or to the FBI (as it seems Flynn may have), he’ll get to be president. The conclusive evidence of extensive Trump associate/staff ties to the Russians before the November 2016 election seems like it’s only going to snowball at this point, even with the do-little GOP in control.
dwes09
It must now be clear to anyone but the dullest and most dogmatic of people that Trump was never of presidential caliber. Anything that seems coherent or reasonable coming from him did not originate in his central nervous system. And hardly anything has been coherent or reasonable.
What must the Japanese who value protocol and decorum so highly think of him and the US? What must the world diplomatic and intelligence community be thinking of him and the US? And as for those who will say “who cares”; what world and what century are you living in anyway?
Bob LaBlah
How much are you willing to bet the military has issued orders to all commanders worldwide to ignore all orders coming from the White House?
ErikO
You’re certainly not living in 2017 that’s for sure.
Henrik
Maybe the leaks and all his acts were part of intentionally chaos so we could not focus on what is really going on behind all those mess.
GayEGO
This is just another example of how clueless Trumpa Dumpa is, but then, he is only interested in winning so he publicly spews forth his theatrics, hoping he can brainwash his supporters so he will win.
ErikO
GayEGO-This is fake news.