Early this month, in a now infamous interview on "Hardball," counsel to the president, Kellyanne Conway, used the "Bowling Green Massacre" as supporting evidence for President Trump's travel ban on seven Muslim-majority countries. Now, with a new executive order to supersede the disastrous roll out of the old one on the way and our President looking to the 2020 campaign three years early, we've been given two more fake massacres in Atlanta and Sweden.
Truly, it's been a busy month for the administration which spent its time issuing executive orders that are alternatively unenforceable or unconstitutional and which has been rocked by scandal after scandal- seemingly culminating in the resignation of Michael Flynn, the now former National Security Advisor, who misled the Vice President about talks he had with the Russian Ambassador.
One might think that the real casualty of this first month is the integrity of America. You would not be wrong. To quote a tweet from Carl Blidt, a former Prime Minister of Sweden, about Trump: "What has he been smoking?" I tend to find that when that question is being directed at your head of state, you are in a bad place. It's a shame that a President who has been so obsessed with the place in the world that America occupies has, in such a fast order, turned the country into a punchline.
Although, I would like to meet Trump's dealer.
