Day 664: What’s worse than Trump thinking you need an ID to buy cereal? Skipping honoring WWI vets because of messy hair potential.
Donald Trump — even by his own brooding standard — has been in a rotten mood for a week. Beginning with a blue wave of Democrats easily seizing control of the House of Representatives from Republicans, along with less than expected gains with a wildly GOP-friendly Senate map, and Trump can envision what the next two years are going to look like: scandals being investigated, his legislative agenda halted and a wall that’s never going to happen.
Showing continuing signs of unhinged behavior, in an interview with the Daily Caller, Trump made a number of wild and unfounded accusations. He continues to allege — without evidence — that voter fraud is rampant. Lamenting voter ID laws, Trump bizarrely and falsely claimed that people even need IDs to purchase cereal.
“If you buy a box of cereal — you have a voter ID,” Trump continued. “They try to shame everybody by calling them racist, or calling them something, anything they can think of, when you say you want voter ID. But voter ID is a very important thing.”
But what’s worse than Trump thinking you need a driver’s license to buy a box of Froot Loops is a Vanity Fair report that confirms what everyone already suspected: Trump’s skipped a ceremony — on Veterans Day weekend, no less — honoring American World War I heroes at the Battle of Belleau Wood because he didn’t want his hair messed up.
On Saturday morning, Trump skipped attending a rain-soaked ceremony at the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery to honor the Battle of Belleau Wood. When his absence became a scandal, the White House said the decision had been made because Marine One reportedly could not fly in the rain, and Secret Service did not want Trump traveling by motorcade. One Republican briefed on the internal discussions said the real reason Trump did not want to go was because there would be no tent to stand under. “He was worried his hair was going to get messed up in the rain,” the source said. “[John] Bolton and everyone was telling him this was a big mistake.” A former administration official said Trump hates being outside in wet conditions. “What I honestly think? He woke up and said, ‘It’s pouring rain. This is a joke and I’m not doing this.’”
While he tried to claim it was impossible to get to the site — and threw Secret Service under the bus in the process — there are always contingency plans available for things like weather. On top of that, French President Emmanuel Macron was with Trump earlier that day and managed to attend the event without any issues.
So while Trump proclaims that football players hate the military because they take a knee to protest social injustice issues, Trump sat on the sidelines of a ceremony honoring fallen American heroes so he didn’t have to blow dry and comb his hair again.
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