Trump: "I run the country and the world."

No shame

Yesterday, Representative Hakeem Jeffries and Senator Cory Booker did a “sit-in” on the Capitol steps to protest and hold discussion for more than 12 hours in opposition to Republicans’ proposed budget plan. I love this idea, and think a rotating set of Congress members should do this on a regular basis. Heck, if I lived in DC, I would join them! I also heard that another protest day is set for country-wide gatherings on May 1st. I have to be working for this live-drawing job here in LA, so won’t be able to join that day.

The Guardian reports that ICE, in a nationwide operations, is seeking out unaccompanied immigrant children to detain or prosecute. The Ice document shows “ it’s not just about checking in on kids, making sure that they can account for them and that they’re not being exploited”, said Michelle Méndez, the director of legal resources and training for the National Immigration Project. “It shows they have other goals, and the goals are criminalization of the kid or criminalization of the sponsor. It’s backdoor family separation.” The publicly stated reason for this operation is that it is all about the safety of the children, and they accuse the Biden administration of allowing such children to be placed with smugglers and sex trafficers. But some don’t believe their stated intentions; that rather it is a way to gather information on immigrants and their families. To me, this kind of ”operation” is decidely unAmerican.

I want to point you to a very interesting article in The Atlantic, in which Trump says,

“I run the country and the world.”

He is unhinged, not even trying to mask his narcisism and sheer delight in power.

The article details that the Atlantic interview was scheduled and the writers were to go to the White House, but then Trump angrily canceled it, posting negative things about the journalists on social media, calling one of them Crazy Left Wing Lunatic. But after a few weeks, the writers decided to see if he’d change his mind, and called him. He answered the unknown number. On that call, he said many things, but he told the journalists that the Atlantic might benefit from the interview, might become “hot.” He said the magazine is probably immune from needing to be hot because it is owned by Laurene Powell Jobs, which buffers it from commercial considerations. But, Trump said, they always give in, eventually. He meant media owners, but specifically Jeff Besos, owner of the Washington Post. I am certain the Atlantic and The New Yorker, Politico, The Guardian and other similar outlets will not give in. We can’t.

Thanks for being here! I am still in LA for the week, drawing for Apple TV, will share all those drawings in a post later. I have put some on my instagram, if you are interested, and Apple will be sharing them all at some point.

Have a great Monday, if you can.