Today in too much to ask:

Is it too much to ask that the President stop acting like such a garbage human all the time? And to be clear, I'm not likening him to America's sanitation workers, they're great.

No really, municipal trash removal is one of those things
that separates civilization from chaos. I'm dead serious.

Um, that's a portrait of Andrew 'Trail of
Tears' Jackson back there, you know,
just to set the bar for the proceedings...

What I'm trying to get at is why can't our technicality President stop spewing hateful, ignorant garbage all the time? Like, all the time.  Did you see this thing today? Here, I'll explain. The President was honoring some Navajo WWII veterans at an event today and of course his comments were a shitshow of rudeness and insensitivity.

"I just want to thank you, because you're very very special people."

-Donald Trump, arbiter of specialness

Buckle up guys, it's about
to get racist in there.

Ok, not so bad. Idiotic sure, and I'd imagine fairly insulting but so far not as jaw-droopingly racist as I'm sure you can predict it's going to get. The President continued:

"You were here long before any of us were here..."

-The President, right around 

the time his handlers started to

clench up, knowing what's coming

He's talking out of his absolute
something, but it's not his heart.

"...although we have a representative in Congress who they say was here a long time ago. They call her Pocahontas, but you know what? I like you, because you are special. You are special people, you are really incredible people, and uh, from the heart, from the absolute heart we appreciate what you've done, how you've done it, the bravery you've displayed and the love you have for your country..."

-The President of America

Remember when we weren't constantly
embarrassed by our President? Good times...

Oh for fuck's sake. Does he not get that he's the only one calling her Pocahontas? The Pocahontas in question here is Senator Elizabeth Warren who says she is 1/32 Native American, which Trump insists is a lie. Warren admits that her claim is based on family lore and has produced no evidence, but apparently Trump fancies himself some kind of genealogical genius having previously insisted for years that President Obama is a secret Muslim from Kenya. 

You know, even for a guy who routinely makes wild, demonstrably false claims about things like inaugural turnout and illegal votes, and who is even now saying that that recording of him bragging about sexually assaulting women to Billy Bush is fake, it takes some chutzpah to demand that Warren take a DNA test to prove her Native American-ness to him. 

Above: a picture of a tax return for no particular reason.

Is it me, or does it seem like a lot
of this White House's policies can be
boiled down to calling women liars?

Anyway, he keeps calling Warren Pocahontas because he thinks racism is hilarious. Sorry, it's not racism, at least according to White House Spokesgoon Sarah Huckabee Sanders. When asked about why the President felt the need to shoehorn in an offensive dig against Senator Warren during an event that was supposed to honor Navajo code talkers, she replied:

"I think what most people find offensive is Senator Warren lying about her heritage to advance her career."

-Press Secretary Sanders, 

just going all in, all in

Really? Because I would have thought most people would find an entitled, rich white asshole setting himself up as an authority on racial identity more offensive, but them I'm not the Press Secretary. So then another reporter asked Sanders how she responds to the general sense among the American people that the President lacks decency, to which she stammered:

I know he has no decency, she knows
he has no decency, the whole room
knows it, but here she is, towing the
shit out of the line. God bless. 

"Look, I think the President uh, uh, certainly finds...ah, an extreme amount of value and respect for these individuals, that's why he brought'em and invited them to come to the White House and spent time with them recognizing them and honoring them today. So, I think he is constantly showing ways to honor those individuals and he invited them here to the White House today to meet with him and to also remind everybody about what the historic role that they played many years ago [sic, like all of that]."

-Sarah Huckabee Sanders, tap-dancing

I also kind of admire the reporters who ask
these things knowing full well the line of
preposterous balderdash they're in for.

Just to be clear, I'm not making fun of her rambling, barely coherent response that in no way answered the reporter's question. Calling bullshit on it, sure, but not making fun. In fact, I almost admire the way she consistently defends the President's behavior in the face of cold hard reality. Note that I said almost. I think she is a reasonable, intelligent person, but it's just that she's still someone who gets out of bed everyday and bullshits her way out from under a torrent of reasonable and valid questions we deserve answers to. 

Look, I don't know if Elizabeth Warren is 1/32nd anything and I don't care. What I do know is that an event set aside to recognize veterans isn't the time to get a cheap dig in on your political opponents. And I'm also pretty damn sure that it's like super easy to go through one's day without insulting entire swaths of the American public and I guess I just wish the President would try it. Even for a day. Just to see what it's like.

I kind of feel like these guys should get a whole n'other ceremony to recognize their
outstanding bravery in the face of the President's patronizing comments at today's event.