Ah yes, character
This is not a joke, repeat, not a joke.
The White House issued a proclamation a couple of days ago because it’s “National Character Counts Week.” Thank fuck we have the president to remind us and inspire us.
Personal responsibility, integrity, and the other values which define our unique American spirit underpin our system of self-government…In looking to these examples of honor and virtue…From small acts of kindness to supreme selfless sacrifice…Individuals of integrity and principle lift us all to greater heights…selfless giving of time and assistance to people in need…social and cultural awareness, intellectual curiosity, and a sense of responsibility…how far decency and compassion can go in helping others…we recommit to being more kind, loving, understanding, and virtuous.
Signed, Donald Trump. Not a joke.
Source is Jake Tapper:
Of course it’s obvious he didn’t write it. No exclamation points. No losers. No sad. He probably didn’t know what it said. They handed him the sharpie and said “sign, sir”, and he signed because they called him sir.
At the moment of signing, either the proclamation, or Trump himself, should have burst into flame. Or, they should have anihilated each other, like matter and antimatter.
Heh, of course I never thought for a second that he wrote it…but he signed it. Signing kind of takes ownership – kind of implies he might as well have written it, or he could have written it if he had the time. But he couldn’t write it if you put him in a room with pen and paper for eternity. They shouldn’t be signing things they don’t mean and couldn’t possibly have written or said or thought of.
I think my favorite BAD MATCH is “From small acts of kindness to supreme selfless sacrifice” – he can’t even do small acts of kindness, let alone any selfless sacrifice.
Now, now Ophelia. Trump gave up so much (driving his own car, running his business, grabbing women by the pussy) so that he could be called Sir in his dreams.
Author was probably Michael Josephson, president of the Josephson institute of Ethics. He has a secular Character Counts program for schools and youth sports. He used to have a daily radio commentary called Character Counts. This proclamation is probably one of those routine things, like National Days of Prayer that are just hollow things on the calendar for DJT, but which give him an opportunity to sign his name on a pretty and official-looking paper.
I sort of wish the person who wrote this would have included the sentence “And, I, Donald Trump, am a fucking moron” in the middle of a paragraph…..
Selfless sacrifice? What does that mean, making sacrifices of other people? I guess you could call sending people off to fight a war without going yourself ‘selfless sacrifice’, but I wouldn’t call it virtuous. Whoever wrote that probably meant self sacrifice or selflessness, or simply doesn’t know the phrase or concept well enough to express it accurately. Flowery rhetoric most likely plagiarized from a 50’s Western.