The insanity of it all...

THE CALLS ARE COMING FROM INSIDE THE WHITE HOUSE

By Bill Maher

History – if there is any – will reveal that we all missed the point with Trump. It isn’t about the hours (and hours) he spends watching TV. It’s the hours (and hours) (and hours) he spends on the phone.

Trump has spent most of his waking presidency on the blower, jawing at other grubby old chiselers. They stroke him and goad him to say tedious, repetitive golf course crap and wait for clues about whether he’s going to tank the market in the morning. Then they hang up and short Chinese steel, or French cheese, or whatever else he was on about.

Naturally, he looks for the same kind of sycophancy when he calls a foreign head of state. As The Washington Post reported:

“He pestered Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe for help in recommending him for a Nobel Prize… ‘People who could do things for him – he was nice to,’ said one former security official. ‘Leaders with trade deficits, strong female leaders, members of NATO, those tended to go badly.’”

On one call with Theresa May, Trump reportedly “disputed her intelligence community’s conclusion that Putin’s government had orchestrated the attempted murder of a former Russian spy on British soil… ‘A solid 10 minutes of the conversation is spent with May saying it’s highly likely and him saying he’s not sure.’”

So of course he goes ape when people attack his “perfect” call to Ukraine. We’ve found his Achilles bone spur. A place we can actually hurt his feelings: by dissing his phone skills. He thinks he’s the best there ever was at talking on the goddamn phone. Something a fifth-grader can do. And even they don’t do it anymore.