Day -57: Trump is the Thanksgiving Turkey

President-elect Donald Trump is bragging about working on Thanksgiving.

Let’s set aside that this fool is negotiating to have a single company stay in the U.S. for a moment. Let’s set aside there are thousands of things he’s currently eschewing — including intelligence briefings and vital transition meetings — to negotiate with one company.

Trump is bragging about working on Thanksgiving, as if the world and his responsibilities cease on American holidays. Not that it matters to him but his birthday, his anniversaries, American holidays, his income tax evasion day and a million other things should come secondary to the job of POTUS. At least in theory.

But this guy is bragging on Twitter about doing a job he ran for. Congrats.

Now, he thinks people are waiting with bated turkey breath whether a company chooses to leave the country? He’s treating this like it’s a monumental piece of information instead of the infinitesimally small piece of news it is.

He believes this is as big a story as whether he fired Arsenio Hall or Bret Michaels from Celebrity Apprentice.

Back to the underlying issue: Trump wanting to keep jobs from fleeing overseas is a noble, smart mission. No one doubts this. But negotiating one-by-one (with no bargaining power at all) is absurd.

Why doesn’t he ask Congress to put a bill on his desk in two months putting a severe exit tax on companies that leave the U.S.? Why not expertly outline his long-term corporate tax plan (that will disproportionately help businesses like his own, of course)?

Because he’s desperate for a short-term win when this company “chooses” to stay (read: they were never leaving). He’s “MAKING PROGRESS,” whatever that means other than his caps lock was momentarily stuck.

More clucking propaganda from Trump.

There’s more garbage in one 140-character tweet than the average Thanksgiving trash bag.

Happy Turkey Day.

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