Partying Like There's No Government

With a Government shutdown approaching today, there's one person who seems perfectly willing to abdicate his duties: shithole and pathological liar Donald "Rump" Trump. Rump is jetting off to his tacky residence Mar-a-Lago this weekend to mark last year's inauguration with a dinner bash with tickets starting at $100,000 per couple (our populist man of the people!). Partying with the donors that he rewarded with last year's Wealthfare tax bill is apparently more important than keeping the Government open. (Late word is, he may "delay" his weekend junket by a few hours, awaiting a continuing resolution.)

It's not as though Rump was an innocent, passive observer in the dumpster fire over the budget: he's been an active saboteur. His incoherent messages on DACA, the Children's Health Insurance Program, and whether he would even sign a continuing resolution have left Congressional Rethuglicans mystified as to his positions. After welcoming bipartisan efforts on a DACA bill on January 9, two days later he scuttled it in a shithole tirade, fueled by malicious staffers and lying weasels Sens. Tom Cotton and David Perdue.

The linked Bloomberg report has a telling substory. The Mar-a-Lago event will benefit the Rethuglican National Committee, whose chair, Ronna Romney McDaniel, sent out the invitations with her middle name removed. We know that Rump has manhood issues with McDaniel's uncle, Willard "Mittens" Romney, who has been at odds with Rump over the past couple of years. In the Trumpist world, you have to submit to having your family name purged to please the insecure, authoritarian sociopath in the White (Supremacist) House.