President Donald Trump Credit: AP/Alex Brandon
Donald Trump said he was most thankful for himself on Thanksgiving as he spent the holiday weekend at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.
The president was on a phone call with members of the media and the military early Thursday morning when one reporter asked him what he was “most thankful for” this year.
“For having a great family and for having made a tremendous difference in this country,” Trump responded. “I made a tremendous difference in the country. This country is so much stronger now than it was when I took office that you won’t believe it.”
The president continued, adding, “And I mean, you see it, but so much stronger that people can’t even believe it. When I see foreign leaders, they say we cannot believe the difference in strength between the United States now and the United States two years ago. Made a lot of progress.”
His response contrasted sharply with that of his Oval Office predecessor, Barack Obama, who said on Wednesday that he was thankful […]
Two quotes I found from Louis XIV could have come from our own mad King Donald; “It is legal because I wish it and I am the State.[Fr., L’etat c’est moi.]”. It has only been two years and it seems many more with never ending chaos, cruelty and lies.
Perhaps we as a country deserve it. All the lead stories and lengthy commentary today regard “black Friday” interview/reporting thousands saving thousands buying more crap that they unlikely need. Then send off more crap to the dump and to storage. It is a mad world trapped in the capitalist, consumerist, entertainment, screen mediated reality that will come to a harsh end, so says the “profit of doom”.