elderly golfer is an incoherent mess on Meet the Press

promises are easy. policies are hard.

Donny Convict doesn’t have policies so much as he has applause lines. he realized long ago that by saying the most racist shit imaginable, he could bask in adulation from the worst people in the world.

so, in 2016 he would shout out crazy stuff like BUILD THE WALL — and the cultists would roar with approval. never mind that when it came time to actually build a wall, he only managed to cobble together a few miles of a shoddy barrier that’s already collapsing. that wasn’t the important part. the important part was that Donny got to be the center of attention.

this election, the rallying cry was DEPORT THE IMMIGRANTS. it sounds good on paper, and it makes the cultists cheer — but implementing it? that’s going to be another story.

yesterday, Donny sat for an interview on Meet the Press, and once again demonstrated that he has no fucking clue what he’s talking about.

watch in the space of three minutes as Donny contradicts the shit out of himself on forced deportations.

in the first clip, Donny confirms that he plans to deport US citizens who have undocumented parents.

KRISTEN WELKER: “Let me ask you about another group of people, the estimated 4 million families in America who have mixed immigration status. So I’m talking about parents who might be here illegally but the kids are here legally. Your Border Czar Tom Homan said they can be deported together. Is that the plan?”

TRUMP: “Well, that way you keep the — well, I don’t want to be breaking up families, so the only way you don’t break up the family is you keep them together and you have to send them all back.”

WELKER: “Even kids who are here legally?”

TRUMP: “Well, what you’ve got to do if they want to stay with their father — look, we have to have rules and regulations. You can always find something out like, you know, ‘This doesn’t work. That doesn’t work.’ I’ll tell you what’s going to be horrible, when we take a wonderful young woman who’s with a criminal. And they show the woman, and she could stay by the law, but they show the woman being taken out. Or they want her out and your cameras are focused on her as she’s crying as she’s being taken out of our country. And then the public turns against us. But we have to do our job.”

how lovely. our Sociopath-in-Chief is more concerned about the optics of families being torn apart on TV than, you know, families being torn apart.

so, if you’re an undocumented immigrant, get the fuck on that bus. and family members who are US citizens — get the fuck on that bus, too.

so how does that work, deporting legal citizens? by magically shitcanning the Fourteenth Amendment, that’s how.

KRISTEN WELKER: “You promised to end birthright citizenship on day one.”

TRUMP: “Yeah. Absolutely.”

WELKER: “The 14th Amendment, though, says that, quote, ‘All persons born in the United States are citizens.’ Can you get around the 14th Amendment with an executive action?”

TRUMP: “Well, we’re going to have to get it changed. We’ll maybe have to go back to the people. But we have to end it. We’re the only country that has it, you know.”

WELKER: “Through an executive action? You’re going to —”

TRUMP: “You know we’re the only country that has it. Do you know if somebody sets a foot, just a foot, one foot, you don’t need two, on our land, ‘Congratulations you are now a citizen of the United States of America.’ Yes, we’re going to end that because it’s ridiculous.”

WELKER: “Through executive action?”

TRUMP: “Do you know — well, if we can, through executive action.”

pro tip: you fucking well can’t rewrite the Constitution through “executive action.” if you could, some Democratic president would have taken an axe to the Second Amendment long ago, and executive actioned assault weapons out of existence.

explain to me, what the fuck is this gibberish? “do you know if somebody sets a foot, just a foot, one foot, you don’t need two, on our land.”

birthright citizenship is conferred onto people who are born in the United States. so what is this “one foot” business? are there that many women giving birth right smack exactly on the border, so that the baby plops out with one foot in each country?

in what part of Donny’s worm-infested brain does he come up with this drek?

now, what about the “dreamers” — people who were brought to the US as children, and have lived here all there lives? according to Donny, they get to stay.

WELKER: “What about dreamers, sir? Dreamers, who were brought to this country illegally as children. You said once back in 2017 they, quote, ‘Shouldn’t be very worried about being deported.’ Should they be worried now?”

TRUMP: “The dreamers are going to come later, and we have to do something about the dreamers because these are people that have been brought here at a very young age. And many of these are middle-aged people now. They don’t even speak the language of their country. And yes, we’re going to do something about the dreamers. And —”

WELKER: “What does that mean? What are you going to do?”

TRUMP: “I will work with the Democrats on a plan. And if we can come up with a plan, but the Democrats have made it very, very difficult to do anything. Republicans are very open to the dreamers. The dreamers, we’re talking many years ago they were brought into this country. Many years ago. Some of them are no longer young people. And in many cases, they’ve become successful. They have great jobs. In some cases they have small businesses. Some cases they might have large businesses. And we’re going to have to do something with them. And —”

WELKER: “You want them to be able to stay, that’s what you’re saying?”

TRUMP: “I do. I want to be able to work something out.”

so, to recap:

undocumented immigrants — they have to get the fuck on that bus.
their family members who are US citizens — they have to get the fuck on that bus.
the dreamers — they get to stay.

why? why do dreamers get special treatment? Donny actually makes a compelling case for why they should stay: these people have lived here their whole lives. they don’t even speak the language of their [parents’] country.

but Donny — you could say the same thing about birthright citizens. they, too, have lived here their own lives. and they’re citizens, for fuck’s sake.

so why to they have to leave the country? because reasons, that’s why.

so, how is this going to happen? Donny’s going to “work on a plan” — with Democrats. and it’s going to be a great plan — possibly the greatest plan of all time. you’ll see.

it’s all pretty fucking incoherent — but I’m sorry, you want coherence from the guy with the impulse control of a coked-up squirrel? this guy has had eight years to figure out his healthcare policy, but apparently, an actual plan is still in the ‘concepts’ stage.

WELKER: “Sir, you said during the campaign you had concepts of a plan. Do you have an actual plan at this point for health care?”

TRUMP: “Yes. We have concepts of a plan that would be better. But —”

now listen to Donny blither about how he “saved” Obamacare.

TRUMP: “I am the one that saved Obamacare, I will say. And I did the right thing. I could’ve done the more political thing and killed it. And all I had to do is starve it to death.”

WELKER: “You did try to have your Justice Department effectively kill it, though, sir.”

TRUMP: “No, no. Kill it from a legal standpoint. But from a physical standpoint, I made it work.”

wait, what? Donny admits that he tried to kill Obamacare from a legal standpoint, but he saved it from a physical standpoint? what the fuck does that even mean?

do you have any idea how the media would have reacted if Kamala Harris had said anything that blitheringly stupid during her campaign?

of course you do.

HOW CAN YOU KILL AND SAVE SOMETHING AT THE SAME TIME, KAMALA? HOW CAN YOU KILL AND SAVE SOMETHING AT THE SAME TIME?

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we need much less of this bullshit, please.

why on God’s green Earth are some Democrats calling for Joe Biden to pardon Donny?

Jonathan Capehart: “do you think that President Biden should pardon Donald Trump, and if so, why?”

Democratic Congressman Jim Clyburn: “yes, I do think so, and I think he should pardon all of those people who have been accused and have been targeted — so that we can clean the slate.”

what. the. fuck. it’s bad enough that Donny has gotten away with every single crime he’s committed — including stealing nuclear war plans, and trying to overthrow his own government. why the fuck do we need to throw him this bone, too?

if the shoe were on the other foot, would Donny be pardoning his political opponents?

fuck no, he would not. in fact, during that Meet the Press interview, Donny couldn’t stop talking about how much he wants to see Liz Cheney — and the entire January 6th Committee — chucked into prison.

WELKER: “So you think Liz Cheney should go to jail?”

TRUMP: “For what they did —”

WELKER: “Everyone on the committee you think —”

TRUMP: “I think everybody —”

WELKER: “should go to jail?”

TRUMP: “anybody that voted in favor.”

so, no pardon from Donny for Liz Cheney, then?

it’s disgraceful enough that the Supreme Court has declared that Donny is A Very Special Boy who gets to crime all he wants. there’s no reason for Democrats to add insult to injury by giving Donny a pardon that he doesn’t need.

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