Trump Tweets He's Not Watching TV After Watching Reporter On TV Say He's Watching A Lot Of TV

At 9:09 AM this morning on MSNBC, the Washington Post's Philip Rucker reported that President Trump has been watching a lot of TV news the last few days to take in scandal coverage.

At 9:39 AM, Trump tweeted this:

The W.H. is functioning perfectly, focused on HealthCare, Tax Cuts/Reform & many other things. I have very little time for watching T.V.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 12, 2017

But he's not watching TV...

Right.

The best part about this tweet is that Trump heard on TV that he was watching too much TV https://t.co/MXaU2nP3ol

— Dan Pfeiffer (@danpfeiffer) July 12, 2017

Trump actually SAW this being discussed on TV which is why he's tweeting about it now. The irony 😂

— Paul Wilson (@pwgolfer) July 12, 2017

Six Fireflies Beeping Randomly In A Jar

When a conservative columnist compares the current president's thinking to "six fireflies beeping randomly in a jar."

From David Brooks for The New York Times:

His inability to focus his attention makes it hard for him to learn and master facts. He is ill informed about his own policies and tramples his own talking points. It makes it hard to control his mouth. On an impulse, he will promise a tax reform when his staff has done little of the actual work.

“In a short period of time I understood everything there was to know about health care,” he told Time. “A lot of the people have said that, some people said it was the single best speech ever made in that chamber,” he told The Associated Press, referring to his joint session speech.

By Trump’s own account, he knows more about aircraft carrier technology than the Navy. According to his interview with The Economist, he invented the phrase “priming the pump” (even though it was famous by 1933). Trump is not only trying to deceive others. His falsehoods are attempts to build a world in which he can feel good for an instant and comfortably deceive himself.

He is thus the all-time record-holder of the Dunning-Kruger effect, the phenomenon in which the incompetent person is too incompetent to understand his own incompetence. Trump thought he’d be celebrated for firing James Comey. He thought his press coverage would grow wildly positive once he won the nomination. He is perpetually surprised because reality does not comport with his fantasies.

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We’ve got this perverse situation in which the vast analytic powers of the entire world are being spent trying to understand a guy whose thoughts are often just six fireflies beeping randomly in a jar.

I encourage you to read the full essay.

Trump Announces Pennsylvania Rally To Compete With White House Correspondents Dinner

Donald Trump shared via Twitter (where else?) that he will hold a rally in Pennsylvania next Saturday, April 29.

That just happens to be the same night as the White House Correspondents Dinner that Trump has previously announced he will not be attending.

Next Saturday night I will be holding a BIG rally in Pennsylvania. Look forward to it!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 22, 2017

From The Hollywood Reporter:

"I am not a hypocrite. And I haven't been treated properly, and that's OK, that's fine," Trump previously said of his historic decision. White House staff announced last month they will also be skipping the dinner "out of solidarity."

But the president isn't the only one who will be offering counter programming on April 29. TBS' Samantha Bee, whose Full Frontal has been skewering Trump since the 2016 election, will also be holding her own event, "Not the White House Correspondents’ Dinner," at the Willard Hotel in the Washington. The event will raise funds to support the Committee to Protect Journalists.

Trump will be the first president to miss the annual dinner, which raises money for journalism scholarships, since President Ronald Reagan.

Of course, Reagan had an excellent reason for skipping the event in that he was recuperating from having been shot by a mad man.

Donald Trump Responds To Huffington Post

Responding to the announcement that all coverage of his "campaign" will now be located on the Entertainment section of the Huffington Post, Donald Trump comes back with an "I'm rubber, you're glue, whatever you say bounces off me and sticks to you" kind of statement.

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More popcorn!