Trump Derangement Syndrome

Maga is tearing America’s offices apart

When a 29-year-old American woman was told by her closest colleague at work that he was off to vote “with my Maga hat and my big old flag”, she initially thought it was a joke.

“We’ve gone out with our other coworkers for happy hour, I invited him to my wedding next year, he confided in me about his mother’s health and overall we’ve built a great rapport. So I thought we saw eye-to-eye on everything,” she wrote on an internet forum.

Once she realised he was serious, she wasn’t sure how to continue the working relationship.

I think that woman needs psychiatric leave.

Is the second Trump Administration turning America into Maoist China? That was the New York Times’ assessment in “Many Chinese See a Cultural Revolution in America,” to judge from a piece by Li Yuan that appeared in the paper’s March 10 edition. Yuan made the very serious, if content-free, assertion that the President Donald Trump shares many parallels with China’s Communist revolutionary dictator Mao Zedong, who killed tens of millions of his own people. Apparently, she failed to notice, if that were the case, what a limb she would have been going out on to even write such an article in the regime of such a despot.

President Trump turned the White House lawn into a Tesla showroom and picked out a car for himself in a gesture of support for Elon Musk after protests against his car company and the collapse of its share price.

Trump admired a row of five electric vehicles on Tuesday afternoon while holding a handwritten list of prices. After careful examination, he announced he would purchase the cherry red Model S.

Trump used the display to condemn recent protest attacks on Tesla dealerships, saying such acts would be treated as “domestic terrorism”. “You do it to Tesla and you do it to any company, we’re going to catch you and you’re going to go through hell,” he said.

President Trump’s address to the Joint Session of Congress apparently went so well that the set of ABC News’s The View became a copium den during Wednesday’s episode. So desperate were they to find fault with Trump’s speech that Joy Behar stoked fear of Trump shaking hands with members of the Supreme Court. Meanwhile, moderator Whoopi Goldberg shouted down the one ounce of criticism lobbed at Democrats for their antics.

The Democratic ‘revolt’ against Trump’s Congress speech was next-level cringe.

Remember when the phrase ‘the Resistance’ would conjure up visions of sexy French youths in berets battling actual Nazis? Now all it brings to mind is ageing dullards in pink suits holding up signs saying ‘This is not normal’ while sporting the most turbo-smug look on their faces. As US president Donald Trump spoke to a joint session of Congress last night, ‘across the aisle the Resistance was stirring’, gushed the Guardian’s DC reporter. His piece was illustrated with a pic of some congresswoman in pearls and a balding Democrat looking aghast as Trump talked. Seriously, if this is ‘the Resistance’, the world’s tyrants can rest easy

On her way out the door, fired MSNBC host Joy Reid trashed Donald Trump for delivering “fascism” to America. She also attacked Elon Musk for bringing “apartheid” politics to the United States.

Over on CBS, 60 Minutes correspondent and ex-Evening News anchor Scott Pelley declared Trump was “in defiance of the Constitution.”

James Cameron leaving Trump’s U.S., calls it ‘horrifying’

Academy Award-winning film director James Cameron says his New Zealand citizenship is “imminent” and is hinting at plans to relocate to the country permanently to escape Donald Trump’s second term in the White House.

Cameron, a Canadian born in Kapuskasing, Ont., and well-known for his slate of blockbuster movies including Titanic and Avatar, told New Zealand news outlet Stuff that he intends to make his farm in South Wairarapa his family’s primary residence.