No you didn’t
Mmmm not possible.
President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he feels “very badly” for the thousands of civil servants who have lost their jobs in recent weeks but that “many of them don’t work at all.”
He means he feels very bad. “Feeling badly” is a pseudo-refinement resorted to by illiterate boobs like Trump who don’t know how adverbs work. “Feeling badly”=he does a bad job of feeling – which of course is true, but it’s not the lie he was trying to tell the press.
Asked by NBC News whether he feels responsible for so many people losing their jobs, Trump said: “Sure I do. I feel very badly … but many of them don’t work at all. Many of them never showed up to work.”
“When we cut, we want to cut, but we want to cut the people that aren’t working or … not doing a good job,” he told reporters at an Oval Office meeting with Irish Prime Minister Micheál Martin. “We’re keeping the best people.”
No they’re not. We know they’re not. How do we know they’re not? Because they’re dumping boatloads of people all at the same time, five minutes into this nightmare of a regime. They have no idea who is doing a good job and who isn’t; they haven’t paused for a single second to find out. It’s like taking a machete to a rose garden and then saying you were just plucking the wilted blooms.
So why the fuck is he still there? There’s office furniture and potted plants that would do a better job of presidenting than Trump ever will.
The cause of Trump Derangement Syndrome is the fact that Trump is deranged.
If they are not showing up to work, there are procedures to deal with that. You can’t convince me that thousands and thousands of government employees aren’t showing up to work and are still drawing paychecks. It isn’t happening. The only ones who can get away with that for any length of time are the people at the top…the ones not being fired.
Not sure why, but I hear the “feeling badly” thing more from Brits than Americans. Maybe it’s because they’re more likely to say, “feeling well,” which they misinterpret as adverbial.
Perhaps Trump says he’s “feeling badly” because his self-knowledge and openness are sufficient that he can share his lack of empathy with us. He is not feeling the way he should about the fired federal workers, because he feels badly.
Whenever anyone asks me “How are you feeling?” I say “I’m feeling trapped in a grammatical no-win situation.”
Meanwhile, your education secretary fired about FIFTY PERCENT of the department’s staff. “Administration bloat” apparently.