Trump Presser Redux

It's exhausting

Trump is appealing to the Supreme Court to stop his sentencing on Friday in the NYC hush-money case. His request for a stay was denied by in appellate court by Judge Ellen Gesmer. If the Supreme Court declines to consider, he has 30 days to appeal the sentencing, and then the conviction is absolutely final. He will still be a convict on inauguration day.

The Justice Deptartment is to hold off releasing the report on Trump’s documents case. But the Department indicated that it would release a separate report about Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election as soon as possible. Trump’s role in the portion that is not being released has ended, but the case of two of his co-defendents, Walt Nauta and Carlos De Oliveira, is still active. That’s why the report is not being released. Trump may pardon those two (I bet he will) and then that will end it. The portion of Jack Smith’s report that is not being released now would never be seen.

In yet another strange, rambling press conference yesterday, reminiscent of his pressers during the pandemic, he continues to falsely claim he “won by a landslide” and that “there are still places that they are counting votes, can you believe it? What a horrible, horrible place. We are going to make it so votes are counted by 10 o’clock.” And, of course, “Jack Smith is a deranged individual, and “we did nothing wrong on everything,” “I’m under a gag order, can you believe it? A former president, and a very successful one, we had the greatest economy, we had borders that were sealed and beautiful, we had everything, we had no wars, we defeated Isis.” “We’re going to have a lot of fun making America great again, it’s already happening. Since we won the election, the whole world is different. People from other countries are calling me and saying ‘thank you, thank you.’ The whole world is different.” And, “If the hostages are not back before my inauguration, all hell will break lose in the Middle East.”

Trump “suggested using force against China as well as U.S. allies Denmark, Panama, Mexico, and Canada, which would destabilize the globe by rejecting the central principle of the United Nations that countries must respect each other’s sovereignty. He wildly suggested that the Iran-backed Lebanese paramilitary group Hezbollah was part of the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.” He pronounced that “we” are going to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, and that it sounded better. He campaigned on America first, and in his mind this is all to benefit America. But it is agressive and contrary to who we are as a Democracy and ally.

I really don’t want to draw Trump auymore. Every time I consider it, I just can’t. But then an image came to mind I did something above.

More tomorrow. Today is the official opening of the exhibit I curated on New Yorker cartoons and covers! I really want to tell you all about it. I promise tomorrow I will properly write about it and send photos of the show, all installed and beautiful.

Happy Wednesday, see you tomorrow.