Trump's Not Divisive, You're Divisive!

 

The perpetually aggrieved and petulant Giant Toddler has torpedoed the annual meeting with the Nation's governors:

An annual meeting of the nation’s governors that has long served as a rare bipartisan gathering is unraveling after President Donald Trump excluded Democratic governors from White House events.

The National Governors Association said it will no longer hold a formal meeting with Trump when governors are scheduled to convene in Washington later this month, after the White House planned to invite only Republican governors. On Tuesday, 18 Democratic governors also announced they would boycott a traditional dinner at the White House.  [Ed.:  after the Giant Toddler disinvited Govs. Wes Moore of Maryland and Jared Polis of Colorado!]

“If the reports are true that not all governors are invited to these events, which have historically been productive and bipartisan opportunities for collaboration, we will not be attending the White House dinner this year,” the Democrats wrote. “Democratic governors remain united and will never stop fighting to protect and make life better for people in our states.”

Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt, a Republican who chairs the NGA, told fellow governors in a letter on Monday that the White House intended to limit invitations to the association’s annual business meeting, scheduled for Feb. 20, to Republican governors only.

“Because NGA’s mission is to represent all 55 governors, the Association is no longer serving as the facilitator for that event, and it is no longer included in our official program,” Stitt wrote in the letter, which was obtained by The Associated Press.

The governors’ group, which is scheduled to meet from Feb. 19-21, is one of the few remaining venues where political leaders from both major parties gather to discuss the top issues facing their communities. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Tuesday that Trump has “discretion to invite anyone he wants to the White House.”

“It's the people's house,” she said. “It's also the president's home, so he can invite whomever he wants to dinners and events here at the White House.”

Representatives for Stitt and the NGA didn't comment on the letter. Brandon Tatum, the NGA's CEO, said in a statement last week that the White House meeting is an “important tradition” and said the organization was “disappointed in the administration's decision to make it a partisan occasion this year."...

No President in our history has ever put himself above the interests of our country to the extent this malignant narcissist has, not even Dick "Skinny Trump" Nixon in the end.  It's such strange and destructive behavior that even the Republican governor of deep red Oklahoma was compelled to speak out about it.

So, the next time you hear a MAGAt lying about how the Malignant Fascist is a "uniter," remember this most recent example of how risible that is.

(Image:  the Giant Toddler pedaling away from the NGA meeting.)