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Last week my neighbors brought me an envelope with a \u201cMAGA priorities survey\u201d enclosed. A solicitation for money disguised as a survey, it opened with a four-page cover letter from Trump. <\/p>\n

Read more The smackdown of a very incompetent Trump lawyer is delicious<\/a><\/p>\n

The survey drills down on \u2018Biden\u2019s sky-high mortgage rates,\u2019 and \u2018reckless spending binge\u2019 even though we\u2019re 1.5 years into Trump 2.0. It blames Biden for \u2018today\u2019s affordability squeeze,\u2019 despite Trump\u2019s idiotic tariffs, his $94 billion war in Iran, and vanity projects projected into the billions. Trump, who still thinks exporters pay tariffs, single handedly triggered global inflation, turbo-charged the price of energy, and tanked consumer confidence at the same time, all while demanding that Americans disbelieve their lyin\u2019 eyes.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s cover letter begins, \u201cDear America First Patriot, I put THREE LIVE POSTAGE STAMPS (all caps) on the enclosed Rush Return Envelope because I had to get your immediate attention\u2026 And because I need you to respond to me right away!\u201d Four pages later, Trump urges True Patriots to make a True Patriotic donation of $2,026\u2026. Or even just $47, by rushing back the MAGA survey using the enclosed TRIPLE-STAMPED Rush Return Envelope TODAY. (Combining all caps with bold, a triple-dog-dare-you maneuver that conveys urgency.) <\/p>\n

The kicker is that the \u201ctriple stamped rush envelope\u201d was the pre-marked, pre-paid, \u201cNo postage necessary if mailed in the United States\u201d kind. Adding extra postage stamps to a prepaid postage envelope, according to the USPS, means Trump just wasted money (USPS bold, not mine). Trump, in one mailing, spent extra on an agency he accuses of waste, demonstrated his fiscal illiteracy, and declared his donors stupid. Another masterclass in Trump\u2019s trifecta of incompetence.<\/p>\n

Demanding respect without cause<\/p>\n

While Trump\u2019s ineptitude at home often skews absurd, it\u2019s less funny on the world stage. Pitbull comms director Steven Cheung recently told Mike Pompeo to \u201cshut his stupid mouth\u201d on Iran because Pompeo had \u201cno idea what the f\u2014 he\u2019s talking about.\u201d Cheung was telling a Harvard top-of-class West Point alum, a military officer who served with distinction and as Trump\u2019s Secretary of State, that he lacked proper credentials to weigh in on Trump\u2019s defeat in Iran. As Trump did a victory dance on Fox News for creating a far more dangerous Iran under an objectively worse deal than the one he tore up in 2018 due to personal jealousy, Cheung told Pompeo with a straight face he \u201cshould shut his stupid mouth and leave the real work to the professionals.\u201d<\/p>\n

With foreign policy professionals like these, who needs insurgents? Trump managed, unaided, to upgrade Iran\u2019s asymmetric fighting capabilities, strengthen Iran\u2019s financial and geopolitical position, and alienate NATO and other U.S. allies who reminded Trump this was his war\u2014not theirs\u2014 and refused to bail him out. Trump\u2019s staggering incompetence has not only strengthened one of the world\u2019s most dangerous regimes, it looks like they\u2019ll be left in possession of some 10 tons of low-enriched uranium.<\/p>\n

Even if Pompeo wanted to leave Trump\u2019s Iranian quagmire to the professionals, there aren\u2019t any. In a childish \u2018up yours\u2019 to the world, Trump handpicked the biggest bloviators he could find to serve in his cabinet, an assembly critics call one of the least qualified and most inappropriately vetted in modern U.S. history. The only mandatory credential was a quick facility with Dear Leader sycophancy, a skill relentlessly paraded during televised meetings by a cabinet that functions more like an occupation force. <\/p>\n

Read more The Strange Case of Mark Niemoeller<\/a><\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s incompetence is (relatively) safer at home <\/p>\n

Trump wants to be regarded as omni powerful and untouchable. Targeting critics who criticize him, threatening punishment for their \u201cseditious behavior\u201d\u2026 \u201cpunishable by death,\u201d Trump oozes Godfather mob boss because he lives in a delusional reality TV, alternative facts universe. But, even in our darkest hour, most Americans don\u2019t fear incompetence. They ridicule it ala Jeff Tiedrich, as do our adversaries.<\/p>\n

Iran has been trolling the US from the beginning with pop-culture driven critiques of a nation that would elect a moron like Trump. Other adversaries, including China, are watching. In the EU, where accuracy in the news is largely required, resentment and disbelief has morphed into outright condemnation. But, here at home, where maga-aligned corporate interests rule most media, the gaslighting continues. <\/p>\n

House Speaker Mike Johnson, praising Trump\u2019s loss in Iran, declared last week, \u201cPresident Trump is the only one who could have gotten Iran, the world\u2019s largest state sponsor of terrorism, to the negotiating table\u2026 Under President Trump\u2019s leadership, our nation is stronger, more respected on the global stage, and safer than ever before.\u201d Never mind that Trump\u2019s war was pointless to begin with; never mind the uranium, the poor results, or the global condemnation. If Trump\u2019s shenanigans in Iran aren\u2019t an arsonist demanding praise for calling the fire department, nothing is. <\/p>\n

Trump has received no Iran war approval whatsoever from Congress, which possesses the sole constitutional authority to declare war. It is the most significant military action ever undertaken in US history without some form of congressional assent. Although Trump keeps bragging that his war in Iran has been shorter than WWII and Vietnam, he fails to grasp that those wars were justified, Congressionally authorized and funded, and at least understood by the American public. Only an imbecile would equate them with Iran.<\/p>\n

As Trump plans his upcoming Idiocracy-forward, lowest-common-denominator cage fight at the White House, and his IndyCar street race past landmarks like the Washington Monument and the U.S. Capitol, we should all hold our nose and breathe a collective sigh of relief. Trump focusing his genius on tacky tasteless pageantry may rightly inspire ridicule, but it is far safer than letting him continue to meddle with terror states. Even if we pulled out of Iran tomorrow, how long the U.S. will be exposed to heightened national security and terrorism risk after this idiot expires is anyone\u2019s guess.<\/p>\n

Sabrina Haake is a political analyst and 25+ year federal trial attorney specializing in 1st and 14th A defense. She writes the free Substack, The Haake Take.<\/em><\/p>\n

Read more \u2018We\u2019ve had enough\u2019: Battered Trump voters vow to \u2018break rank\u2019 with GOP<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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