Another weird inappropriate thing for a president to do.

Congratulations to Nick Bosa on being picked number two in the NFL Draft. You will be a great player for years to come, maybe one of the best. Big Talent! San Francisco will embrace you but most importantly, always stay true to yourself. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 27, 2019

It doesn’t follow a tweet congratulating the guy who was picked number one. There is no such tweet.

Congrats #KylerMurray #1 draft pick pic.twitter.com/1tDWa3WL6h

— Diabolical_WordPlay (@heart_uf_a_king) April 27, 2019

Wait, maybe Nick Bosa is not white!

Nah.

If anyone wonders why Trump chose to congratulate the NUMBER TWO draft pick, let me break it down

You wanted to see Trump mocking asylum seekers? Here you go.

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Trump is ranting at the NRA convention, and Daniel Dale is tweeting it.

Trump now off script: "They tried for a coup, it didn't work out so well. And I didn't need a gun for that one, did I? All was taking place at the highest levels in Washington, DC. You've been watching, you've been seeing."

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 26, 2019

Trump: "Spying, surveillance. Trying for an overthrow. And we caught 'em. We caught 'em. Why would have thought in our country?" Nobody was "trying for an overthrow."

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 26, 2019

Trump does his now-regular mocking of asylum seekers, acting out one dishonestly reading a statement saying he is afraid. He says that they're

This again.

Trump tries to defend his Charlottesville response by praising Robert E. Lee.

He claims the 'very fine people' remark was about people who "felt very strongly about the monument to Robert E. Lee. A great general, whether you like it or not."
Via Politico pic.twitter.com/01W4IwGx8y

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) April 26, 2019

Oh I’ve answered that question,  and if you look at what I said you will see that that question was answered perfectly.

He said, with his usual air of ineffable conceit.

 

And I was talking about people that went because they felt very strongly about the monument to Robert E. Lee, a great general – whether you like it or not, he was one

But Trump is getting his state visit to the UK at last.

Mrs May said June’s state visit was an “opportunity to strengthen our already close relationship in areas such as trade, investment, security and defence, and to discuss how we can build on these ties in the years ahead”.

But shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry voiced concerns about the visit, saying: “It beggars belief that on the very same day Donald Trump is threatening to veto a United Nations resolution against the use of rape as a weapon of war, Theresa May is pressing ahead with her plans to honour him with a state visit to the UK.”

It’s possible he won’t have a very good time.

A spokeswoman

Trump teetering on the ledge.

“Former CIA analyst Larry Johnson accuses United Kingdom Intelligence of helping Obama Administration Spy on the 2016 Trump Presidential Campaign.” @OANN WOW! It is now just a question of time before the truth comes out, and when it does, it will be a beauty!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 24, 2019

The American people deserve to know who is in this Country. Yesterday, the Supreme Court took up the Census Citizenship question, a really big deal. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 24, 2019

A very big Caravan of over 20,000 people started up through Mexico. It has been reduced in size by Mexico but is still coming. Mexico must

Trump is tantruming because people took notes and the notes make him look bad and it’s all just so unfair.

But the fact that some of those notes became primary source material for Mueller to paint a vivid portrait of Trump’s efforts to derail the investigation angered the president, who was stewing over the media coverage as he decamped to Florida for the holiday weekend, according to people familiar with his thinking.

“Statements are made about me by certain people in the Crazy Mueller Report, in itself written by 18 Angry Democrat Trump Haters, which are fabricated & totally untrue,” the president tweeted Friday morning from his Mar-a-Lago Club. “Watch out for people that take so-called ‘notes,’ when the

Trump right now.

Statements are made about me by certain people in the Crazy Mueller Report, in itself written by 18 Angry Democrat Trump Haters, which are fabricated & totally untrue. Watch out for people that take so-called “notes,” when the notes never existed until needed. Because I never….

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 19, 2019

…agreed to testify, it was not necessary for me to respond to statements made in the “Report” about me, some of which are total bullshit & only given to make the other person look good (or me to look bad). This was an Illegally Started Hoax that never should have happened, a…

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 19, 2019

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Meanwhile the report is out.

The Guardian (like everyone else) is racing through it and sharing some highlights. Like the part where it’s less exculpatory than Barr told us it was:

In his introduction to the second part of his report, on obstruction of justice, Robert Mueller goes much further than attorney general Bill Barr has suggested and points to serious wrongdoing on Trump’s part that could amount to criminal activity.

Mueller states that had his team concluded that the president had committed no crime, they would have said so. Instead, Mueller writes:

Based on the facts and the applicable legal standards, however, we are unable to reach that judgment.

There’s more trouble for Trump in the

Trump is very very very mad about the subpoenas and the committees and the subpoenas and everything. Just fit to be tied.

The slew of demands from the House committees has infuriated Trump, who has told aides that he does not want to cooperate with the inquiries, according to people familiar with his thinking.

He is particularly angry about the efforts by the Ways and Means Committee to obtain his tax returns, telling aides he will fight that demand all the way to the Supreme Court and adding that, by then, the 2020 election will be over.

“You’re never going to see his tax returns,” Anthony Scaramucci, a former White House official and Trump adviser, said on MSNBC on Tuesday.

Trump says he can do whatever he wants:

President Donald Trump issued the second veto of his presidency Tuesday, stopping a congressional resolution that would have sought to end US involvement in the Saudi-led war in Yemen.

“This resolution is an unnecessary, dangerous attempt to weaken my constitutional authorities, endangering the lives of American citizens and brave service members, both today and in the future,” Trump wrote to the Senate Thursday.

His constitutional authority – as if it were personal to him as opposed to attaching (or not) to the office. I’m pretty sure normal presidents use the third person in statements of that kind – they talk of the executive branch or the president but not their personal … Read the rest

The BBC notices Trump’s targeting of Ilhan Omar:

On Monday Mr Trump stepped up his attacks against Ms Omar, calling her “out of control”.

He also said Mrs Pelosi “should look at the anti-Semitic, anti-Israel and ungrateful US HATE statements Omar has made” before defending her.

Says the guy who has made more racist sexist appearance-ist statements than anyone can keep track of.

Before Nancy, who has lost all control of Congress and is getting nothing done, decides to defend her leader, Rep. Omar, she should look at the anti-Semitic, anti-Israel and ungrateful U.S. HATE statements Omar has made. She is out of control, except for her control of Nancy!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 15, 2019

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Trump says “YOU’RE GOD DAMN RIGHT I AM!”

Due to the fact that Democrats are unwilling to change our very dangerous immigration laws, we are indeed, as reported, giving strong considerations to placing Illegal Immigrants in Sanctuary Cities only….

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 12, 2019

Only trouble is, his people were trying to deny it yesterday.

One reason White House officials often decline to speak on the record: POTUS will undercut any of them at any time. White House strenuously told Wash Post yesterday that the idea was not under consideration and that we’d be wrong to say it was. https://t.co/NPvmQ9Zl1e

— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) April 12, 2019

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Ugh, god.

This is beyond shocking. We have a President who acts like the President of only a portion of the United States, and an enemy to the rest. Heartbreaking. https://t.co/qNAL3vBsTb

— Neal Katyal (@neal_katyal) April 12, 2019

From the Post:

White House officials have tried to pressure U.S. immigration authorities to release detainees onto the streets of “sanctuary cities” to retaliate against President Trump’s political adversaries, according to Department of Homeland Security officials and email messages reviewed by The Washington Post.

Trump administration officials have proposed transporting detained immigrants to sanctuary cities at least twice in the past six months — once in November, as a migrant caravan approached the U.S. southern border, and again in February, amid