Trump Incompetence

Sunday morning, update #3: Trump recaps his moment of paper towel-throwing, and wow, that's some serious ass-kissing from Mike Huckabee:

Here is the actual full transcript of Trump applauding his throwing of "very good towels" to Puerto Ricans: pic.twitter.com/oxr7vCFtbM

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) October 8, 2017

Thursday morning, update #2: A provocative comment from CBS reporter Bob Schieffer:

"This wasn’t a news conference this was more like a hostage tape ... The word is he'll be gone by Christmas" @bobschieffer on Tillerson pic.twitter.com/4eZDcHL6kp

— Norah O'Donnell🇺🇸 (@NorahODonnell) October 5, 2017

Update #1: In a hastily-scheduled news conference this morning, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was asked if he had called the president a moron. His answer: "I'm not going to deal with petty stuff like that." Which isn't the same thing as "No."

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It's been an interesting 24 hours in Trump World. The Secretary of State thinks the president is a moron:

NBC Exclusive: Sec. of State Rex Tillerson was on the verge of quitting over the summer, called Trump a 'moron:' https://t.co/Awk4Y2ogCV pic.twitter.com/rK4ws97iN8

— MSNBC (@MSNBC) October 4, 2017

Ivanka and Don Jr. were close to being indicted for felony fraud a few years ago:

Ivanka and Donald Trump Jr. were close to being charged with felony fraud https://t.co/vqjJOxWLtO

— Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior) October 4, 2017

The president tossed paper towels to Puerto Ricans as if he was playing a backyard pickup game:

Trump tosses paper towels to hurricane survivors in Puerto Rico pic.twitter.com/ACQCaCv7oW

— TIME (@TIME) October 3, 2017

His visit to PR, as described by Stephen Collinson at CNN, was not, to put it mildly, a success:

Meeting local officials, Trump made a jarring joke about the island putting the federal budget "a little out of whack." He noted that the preliminary death toll of 16 on the island did not measure up to that of a "real catastrophe" like Hurricane Katrina in 2005. He also boasted about his administration's response to Hurricane Harvey in Texas and touted his achievement in cutting the cost of the F-35 fighter jet, issues that are hardly relevant to Puerto Rico's plight.

And now he's headed to Las Vegas...