The South Florida Sun Sentinel: The Endless Cycle of Trump Embarrassments

The specific list of embarrassments and alleged embarrassments really doesn't much matter. The title would be accurate even if all their examples were bad.

   Look, if things go true to form, it'll turn out that a lot of these are bullshit. The Kushner investment stuff will turn out to be ordinary and unobjectionable, or the guy they fired for boozing on the job will turn out to have actually been boozing on the job, or whatever. The TDS crowd just makes shit up about half the time. (Insert standard complaint here: if he's so bad, why do they have to make things up all the time?) The complaint about playing golf is just stupid as hell. No President does nor could work 24/7. Every out-of-power party complains about the President playing golf, complains about him spending the weekend at Camp David (or wherever), etc. That one's so stupid and common that I'm not even going to count it. (Of course taking excessive amounts of time off is another matter.)

   But...yeah, the embarrassments are part of the fatigue. Though I'm a lot more concerned about e.g. the Greenland fiasco and his spazzing out about NATO refusing to help with the Strait of Hormuz than I am about the fundraising picture. Yes, the hat is "banal" (they probably wanted to say gauche...like the gold...like the diet Cokes...)...no, his people shouldn't have used that picture (Trump himself almost certainly never saw the ad). Blah blah blah. But I'd rather focus on his lunatic 2 a.m. tweets and seemingly random assertions on the international stage...

   It's hard to believe that we're not even two years into his term. He's done a lot of great things. But damn, the dude is exhausting. 

   And if this war goes bad...well, I don't even want to think about that right now.