photo credit: Susan Walsh/AP, taken at the White House yesterday
... and all I can say is the tweets may be scary, and they are, but this picture is scarier. Donald looks wretched: vacant and sleep deprived, bright red and sheepish, childishly disengaged from whatever is going on around him. Even after two years it's hard for me to believe that this man is the president of the United States.
Click here to read Robinson's column.
And one more thing: He's incapable of coherent speech. This is from his interview yesterday with the New York Times:
Update on Sunday afternoon. In an article titled "In the Pale of Winter, Trump's Tan Remains a State Secret," the New York Times ponders Donald's other-worldly glow:
WASHINGTON — The trees in the capital are barren, spindly things. The temperature has dipped, requiring puffy coats. With the government open — for now — President Trump has left the frigidity of governing for a weekend in Palm Beach.
But in a town where not even the longtime operation of the federal government seems certain, Mr. Trump has adhered to one constant: a conspicuously sun-kissed glow, one that has shone like a stoplight against Washington’s graying backdrop. Much like Warhol’s shock of white hair or Big Bird’s saffron plumage, the president’s vibrant hue is so consistently present and meticulously maintained that it was a culturally embedded representation of him long before he entered politics.
...The official line from the White House, as with other matters surrounding the president’s physical health and appearance, is that Mr. Trump’s glow is the result of “good genes,” according to a senior administration official who would speak only on the condition of anonymity.
And, O.K., a little powder — a translucent one, not a bronzer — which the president applies himself before television appearances, the official said.
... Certainly Mr. Trump, who has long taken antibiotics to treat rosacea, a condition that can make the skin appear rosy and ruddy, is attentive to how he looks on television. He has complained that his skin and hair appear too yellow or orange on the screen, according to one person familiar with his views.
As a result, events in the White House are now more dimly lit than in previous administrations. The president has also become a fan of natural light, like the setting of the White House Rose Garden, where Mr. Trump chose to announce the end of the government shutdown in 40-degree weather.
... Mr. Trump has repeatedly documented the act of self-styling his coif, a process he has not strayed from in decades. His system includes a Head & Shoulders shampoo and an hourlong air-drying of the strands while he peruses newspapers or watches television. And tweets.
“I’ve combed it the same way for years,” Mr. Trump told Rolling Stone in 2011. “Same thing, every time.”
In the White House residence, where Mr. Trump enjoys giving tours to his supporters, there exists an array of hair sprays on a shelf in his remodeled bathroom. According to several people who have visited the residence, there is not an ounce of a self-tanning product. Or at least it is not in sight. (Read the article here.)
Update #2 on Monday morning. On top of everything else, Donald doesn't work very hard:
We already knew that President Donald Trump was fond of his “Executive Time,” that euphemism that John Kelly came up with when he was chief of staff to describe the unstructured time that the commander in chief uses to do everything from tweet, watch TV, and make phone calls, among other things. But schedules that were leaked to Axios show just how much those two words define the president’s day. Over the past three months, around 60 percent of the president’s time has been spent on “Executive Time.”
Axios retyped all the schedules, which cover almost every working day since the midterms, and posted them online. They reveal that out of the 502 hours and 55 minutes that were scheduled, 297 hours and 15 minutes were dedicated to “Executive Time.” Even the schedules may be a bit misleading though. For example, the schedules show that Trump, who gets up early, spends the first five hours of each day in “Executive Time.” But while the schedules say that Trump’s 8-to-11 a.m. “Executive Time” is spent in the Oval Office, sources say he is never there at the time. In reality, Trump is in the residence, “watching TV, reading the papers, and responding to what he sees and reads by phoning aides, members of Congress, friends, administration officials and informal advisers.” Trump’s first meeting of the day is usually at 11 or 11:30 a.m. (From an article at Slate, read it here.)
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