Today in Trumpton

[darmstadt]

Mega Gammonflake

It would have been better to leave it as it is in order to see the early morning snowflake tweets...

'Out of sight': White House reportedly steers USS John McCain away from Trump | US news | The Guardian

[Old Greg]

It would have been better to leave it as it is in order to see the early morning snowflake tweets...

'Out of sight': White House reportedly steers USS John McCain away from Trump | US news | The Guardian

Trump has a note from his doctor saying that seeing the ship's name would inflame his heel spurs.

He is like one of the more mentally unstable Roman emperors.

[BrilloPad]

Knitting is getting edgy these days: -

'White supremacy': popular knitting website Ravelry bans support for Trump | Life and style | The Guardian

[original PM]

[darmstadt]

Official or not? So far it's 70-30 official and if it turns out 100%, bloody hell...

[SimonMac]

Official or not? So far it's 70-30 official and if it turns out 100%, bloody hell...

Turkish president Erdogan 'threw Trump's Syria letter in bin' - BBC News

I'd say offical

[DoctorStrangelove]

And over the weekend, State and Energy Department officials were quietly reviewing plans for evacuating roughly 50 tactical nuclear weapons that the United States had long stored, under American control, at Incirlik Air Base in Turkey, about 250 miles from the Syrian border, according to two American officials.

Those weapons, one senior official said, were now essentially Erdogan’s hostages.

To fly them out of Incirlik would be to mark the de facto end of the Turkish-American alliance.

To keep them there, though, is to perpetuate a nuclear vulnerability that should have been eliminated years ago.

“I think this is a first — a country with U.S. nuclear weapons stationed in it literally firing artillery at US forces,” Jeffrey Lewis of the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies wrote last week.

For his part, Mr. Erdogan claims nuclear ambitions of his own: Only a month ago, speaking to supporters, he said he “cannot
accept” rules that keep Turkey from possessing nuclear weapons of its own.

“There is no developed nation in the world that doesn’t have them,” he said. (In fact, most do not.)

Oh this gets betterer and betterer.

The orange one needs a straitjacket, pronto.

[meridian]

Official or not? So far it's 70-30 official and if it turns out 100%, bloody hell...

[DaveB]

Have we done this one yet?

[AtW]

Great interview - surprised that fat POS did not walk out