(Putin Call) "Trump paused to ask his aides in an aside what the treaty was"

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Another example from yesterday about Der Trumpster's iron grip on the facts:

President Donald Trump was confused about the dollar: Was it a strong one that’s good for the economy? Or a weak one?

So he made a call - except not to any of the business leaders Trump brought into his administration or even to an old friend from his days in real estate. Instead, he called his national security adviser, retired Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn, according to two sources familiar with Flynn’s accounts of the incident.

Flynn has a long record in counterintelligence but not in macroeconomics. And he told Trump he didn’t know, that it wasn’t his area of expertise, that, perhaps, Trump should ask an economist instead.

Trump was not thrilled with that response - but that may have been a function of the time of day. Trump had placed the call at 3 a.m...

Okay, so this is HuffPo speaking, so I'd take it with a grain of salt. But man...

“I’ve been in this town for 26 years. I have never seen anything like this,” said Eliot Cohen, a senior State Department official under President George W. Bush and a member of his National Security Council.

“I genuinely do not think this is a mentally healthy president."

[$tevie]

Ombligo wrote:
I heard the White house groundskeeper had to remove all the squirrels. They were too distracting

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