Erik Prince is on Fox, explaining that the best solution for Syria is for the U.S. to pull out all its troops, and then for the Kurds to hire private security contractors to come in and protect them.
Yes, Fox News thinks the Kurds should hire military contractors because our military is run by incompetent generals living in an echo chamber, who have turned America's military into what Erik Prince described as a "self-licking ice cream cone."
"Cops love Trump Trump loves cops," Trump announces at his rally. Raucous cheering.
"The Washington Post," loud angry boos, "ran an article 19 minutes after I gave the oath of office, and the headline was, 'The Campaign to Impeach Trump Has Begun.'"
Trump is putting on a one-man play of a love scene between Peter Strzok and Lisa Page.
He used different different voices for Strzok and Page while reenacting how, um, excited they were to eventually impeach him.
This is the day Donald Trump became president.
This is the day Donald Trump became president.
"Democrats are on a crusade to destroy our democracy. We will defeat them." The crowd loves it.
"Is there any place we could have more fun than at a Trump rally?", then segues into a story about how some Nascar guy is going to get the medal of freedom soon.
"I love you, red shirts," Trump tells his crowd of fans in red "cops for Trump" shirts.
I choose to take this as a Star Trek reference rather than a Mussolini reference.
I choose to take this as a Star Trek reference rather than a Mussolini reference.
Trump is now putting on a one-man play of a conversation between Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden.
"Biden was only a good Vice President because he knew how to kiss Barrack Obama's ass." Crowd goes wild.
Trump looks more alive and... well, Trumpy tonight, than he's seemed in a little while. In recent speeches and press appearances, he's bounced between barely awake and lashing out in a frustrated rage. This is old Trump, only with the creepy factor dialed up a notch.
Trump puts on a one-man play of him being questioned about what the toughest country to deal with is. Trump answer, it's the United States. You won't believe how corrupt and deranged it is.
"I lose billions being president, but if someone from Saudi rents a hotel room for, say, two months, they say emoluments. No one even heard of the word before!"
"Congresswoman Omar is an America-hating socialist, who minimized the 9-11 attacks, ... Rep. Omar has a history of launching virulent anti-Semitic screeds."
Trump announces that Ilhan Omar is lying about her name, and that she married her brother.
"What AOC did with all that campaign money for herself is worse, and it's not fair."
"Hispanics understand borders better than anyone, better than we do."
Trump describes his election as "one of the greatest nights of TV in the history of our country."
And now for a rant about Jay-Z using the F-word.
And another shout out to how his election was the the greatest night of TV ratings ever.
Trump is going into a weird rant about how parents love their adult children, including their daughters, and how the media will probably call him terrible for saying that about daughters.
Trump speeches are always weird, but this one is setting records for weirdness. It's like watching one of Trump's dream sequences.
"They brought in refugees like Ilhan from... Somalia." Loud boos.
"Since coming in, I have reduced refugee resettlement by 85%." Loud cheers.
"Since coming in, I have reduced refugee resettlement by 85%." Loud cheers.
"You should have the right to decide who comes in to your neighborhoods. ... In the Trump administration we will always protect American families first, and that's not been done in Minnesota." tweet tweet on that dog whistle.
"To protect our citizens from those who would do harm to us, ... I instituted a travel ban on some of the world's most dangerous countries."
Trump complains about a reporter who said that Trump "lost on the travel ban," saying that he won at the Supreme Court and we have the travel ban now. "These are very dishonest people."
Uninterrupted stream of racism and ethno-nationalism for the past five minutes. Now time for some bragging about his "patchwork of financing" for his beautiful wall which is "largely 30 feet tall, which is the tallest they wanted."
Trump describes how they brought in pro climbers to test out walls, and they chose the one that was the hardest to climb. "The wall that worked was the most expensive, but we got it for the right price. It's a thing of beauty."
