The reporter who asked TrumPutin if he had second thoughts about the tariffs on China had to have been kidding.

The notion that TrumPutin gave any thoughts to the tariffs is at odds with everything we know about the child who now rides shotgun in his official Marine helicopter.

It would be nice if the Orange One gave second thoughts to the tariffs, which would be his first thoughts on the subject. 

Alas, it turns out that he has given no second thoughts to the tariffs. Not only that, but according to his press secretary (herself not one given to overthinking anything), he doesn't even understand the question. 

And according to both the Secretary of the Treasury, a person skilled in the intricacies of sycophancy, and TrumPutin's chief economic advisor, a charlatan who understands that expensive clothes and multiple wives are essential qualifications to the emperor's counselors, their fearless leader did not hear the question. He answered it three times, but heard it nary a time. 

The country obviously is in skilled hands, but is at the whims of deficient ears. 

¡Baboso!  ¡¡Babosonazo!!

Reading the transcript of TrumPutin's answers to press questions is proof that Professor Irwin Corey is a consultant to the GOP's leader.

As he rambles, evades, lies, hallucinates, and embarrasses the nation in front of his official helicopter, idling in the background to waste fuel as a metaphor for the regime, TrumPutin is an astounding duplication of the Irwin Corey answers that we once thought were a comic escape.

The only proof that we are not listening to the redoubtable Professor is that Irwin Corey dresses better and is in much better physical shape. The shambles of TrumPutin's hair is the only physical resemblance between the two. 

Evading and backsliding on background checks, refusing to state if he understood why his mentor was evicted from the G8 and instead rambling on about Obama, fabricating economic mythology that explains his tariffs and the Fed's interest rates, and providing so much other drivel, so effortlessly, TrumPutin is clearly pleased with himself, as only a reality TV star can be.

He refuses to acknowledge reality or his own failings, and rambles on with the sole intent to avoid responsibility for any of his idiotic ideas.
 
The only thing missing to make the scene a complete farce, but accurate in its depiction of the current Republican slimefest, is the absence of the Pence bobblehead in the background, silently but obediently reinforcing the idiocy of    each statement. 

MASS - Make America Stupid! Stupid!

Some have asked if it's time to invoke the 25th Amendment and remove TrumPutin for lack of mental stability.

That's a justifiable claim, but it has been justifiable since before Putin got him installed as president. Descending the escalator in all the majesty he was able to summon, his first words as a candidate proved he was mentally and morally unfit for the job. Everything he has done since has been a reinforcement of those initial inadequacies.  

The only change is that now he has dragged the entire Republican party into the slime that is his worldview. Tax cuts are all that selfish and greedy conservatives needed to secure their souls, and federal judges who will carry out their sharia is all that the evangelicals needed to affix their imprimatur. And the autocrats and despots world-wide have paid their insincere tribute to the once and future real estate king.

The 25th Amendment is called for, but unless it can be applied to an entire party, it's not nearly comprehensive enough.

TrumPutin's dalliance with civility lasted almost a day, before he reverted to the insulting liar he can't help being: he told Beto O'Rourke to be quiet; he insulted the mayor of Dayton and senator from Ohio for not toadying sufficiently; and screamed at Joe Biden for telling the world about TrumPutin's vile rhetoric.

Of course, Beto won't be quiet, the mayor and senator won't toady, and Biden won't recant.

Unfortunately, TrumPutin also mentioned his willingness to consider universal background checks. Then the NRA told him to "Be Quiet".

Dutifully, TrumPutin will now shut up. He will make more references to mental health, assuming as always that his own mental health is beyond question. Or he will change his story, claiming that he never was in favor of universal background checks, or anything else so blatantly socialist.

He will fight the technology companies, arguing that any attempt to disallow him from spewing his racist filth, or any attempt to hold him to the truth or civil discourse is un-American. But gun control? No, there is no appetite for gun control, according to the dictator wanna-be with the large appetite.

Yes, for God's sake, TrumPutin, be quiet.

TrumPutin's "condemnation" of white supremacy is, typically, too little, too late, reluctantly spoken, and not what he really thinks. 

It is a speech that whoever currently controls his small mind told him to make to make him seem more like a person and less like Mussolini. 

He managed to make, inadvertently, one statement that defined himself perfectly: Hatred warps the mind, ravages the heart and devours the soul. 

Anyone watching him preen and stoke the mob at one of his rallies can see the hatred, ravaged hearts, and devoured souls by the thousands, all applauding the hater-in-chief who personifies his description of the problem.

Calls for unity after the fact are TrumPutin's favorite tactic. Now, all we have to do is wait for the "good persons on both sides" remark. It's coming, as surely as the next lie.