Yeah, scandium, yttrium, lanthanum, cerium, praseodymium, neodymium, promethium, samarium, europium, gadolinium, terbium, dysprosium, holmium, erbium, thulium, ytterbium, and lutetium are real blabber mouths, and The Great One is listening. And talking, though the New York Times sounds skeptical, to say the least—Trump Touts ‘Fantastic Trade Deals’ With China, but Details Are Scarce. But when has Donald Trump ever lied to you?
It’s a (very) good bet that China won’t be buying nearly as much from the U.S. as the Donald claims, unless he’s willing to give away Taiwan—and a lot of people think he will—but, hey, whatever gets you through the next election, amirite?
Over at the Free Press, which I’m too cheap to subscribe to, the tart-tongued Nellie Bowles writes, in a post tartly headlined “TGIF: Sort of a Fat Slob”, that the Trumpinator was “there with Elon Musk and Tim Cook and 15 other major American business leaders this week, firmly establishing China as the official Other Great World Power and probably giving away Taiwan (at this point, fine, just make sure the knockoff furniture I ordered from Shenzhen comes in the right colors, and in two days). China is officially Mar-a-Lago of the East.”
Nellie, who is married to Free Press founder and CBS news honcho Bari Weiss, has never been half the Trump gal that Bari has become, though I don’t know where Bari is with Donnie these days. A lot of American Likudists like Bari were convinced—or, rather, convinced themselves—that Donnie luved Israel and would defend her always. How anyone can believe that Donald Trump could love anything or anyone other than himself is beyond me. One can unkindly wonder exactly when and how the scales will fall from our home-grown Likudists' eyes, and how they will deal with that unfortunate event when it occurs.
