Water bottles with two handles
Trump went to East Palestine Ohio today and…handed out bottles of Trump-brand water. No word on whether he threw them or not.
In what one former GOP official told Politico was a “clear” political stunt, former President Donald Trump visited East Palestine on Wednesday, nearly three weeks after a catastrophic train derailment. The trip also comes one day ahead of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg’s own trip to the Ohio town.
And two years and six weeks after Trump tried to incite a mob to hand him the election he lost.
In his remarks, he seized the opportunity to bash Buttigieg, saying he “should’ve been here already,” and President Joe Biden, advising him: “Get over here.” The former president also said that he was bringing “thousands of bottle of water [sic]—Trump water, actually. Most of it. Some of it, we had to go to a much lesser quality water.”
Attaboy, flog that merch even during an disaster.
Asked about his administration’s rollback of rail regulations, including regular safety audits of railroads, Trump said he “had nothing to do with it,” according to WKBN.
He had nothing to do with his administration. Interesting.
To an extent, I’m just about willing to believe that Trump had very little to do with the legislation and such passed during his term. Not like he gave a shit about what effect it was having on people. Whoever kissed ass the best the day before got to put something in front of him, and he signed it.
And much as I hate to say it… he’s right about one thing. Petey definitely should’ve been on the damn bus to Ohio the day after things went down. It is, sadly, a pretty typical lapse for him.
He takes full credit for all the good things and none for the bad ones. Of course what is “good” and what is “bad” changes from moment to moment, from audience to audience, and question to question, meaning that the same thing can be “good” one instant and “bad” the next, flashing like a strobe light whose frequency is far beyond the abilities of human discernment. It’s like an infinitely elastic, perpetually triangulating, endlessly reiterative Schrodinger’s Cat, with the potential of a Multiverse’s worth of feline demises and resurrections, with Trump none the wiser, or embarassed by the whipsaw ethical and truth-value reversals being generated. Were the right (or wrong) questions to be asked simultaneously, where the same thing had to be both “good” and “bad” at the same time, we might see the edges of a new paradigm revealing themselves. There has to be some sort of overturning of fundamental principles, or damage to our shared reality, with the superposition of True and Untrue, Yes and No, Black and White compressed inside the perfect moral vacuum that is, in turn, confined within the infinitessimal space of Trump’s tiny mind.
He was too busy taking more vacations than any previous president in their first term to care or worry about railway regulations, despite promising on the campaign trail that he’d be “too busy working” to take vacation.
The people he seems to have most contempt for are the poor dumb MAGA suckers who fell for his con and voted him into office. In a fair election, because he came out the winner.
Not quite. After all, his administration did have time to roll back an existing, Obama-era regulation.