As White House resident Trump jets off to Mar-a-Lago-of-course to meet with the Chinese president, he sounds about as prepared as you might expect. President Donald Trump said Thursday morning that “nobody really knows” what will happen at his…
As White House resident Trump jets off to Mar-a-Lago-of-course to meet with the Chinese president, he sounds about as prepared as you might expect. President Donald Trump said Thursday morning that “nobody really knows” what will happen at his meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping, where he said issues surrounding trade and North Korea’s recent missile test are expected to be on the table.
One tic of Donald Trump’s various pronouncements you should be aware of, by now: When Donald Trump says “nobody knows” a thing, that means Donald Trump, personally, does not know the thing. When Donald Trump says “everybody knows” a thing, that means Donald Trump had a dream last night roughly approximating the thing and, he presumes, that must mean that everybody else had that same dream too. “Well, it’s going to be very interesting. Nobody really knows,” Trump told Fox News’ Pete Hegseth in an impromptu interview on “Fox & Friends,” the president’s preferred morning news show.
From this sentence we have learned two things. First, that Donald Trump doesn’t know what will be happening in the meeting he is currently on his way toward. Second, that Donald Trump is a fan of the Fox News program tailored specifically toward stupid people and stay-at-home pets. We have often referred to Fox & Friends as the lead paint of news ; it stands to reason that Trump would prefer licking that particular windowsill, rather than any of the others.
