Trump just squeezes every bit of living out of long summer weekends.  None of what I’m listing below is new, but all of these events were from one week end.

A dizzying array of political incompetence and mental illness. As I mentioned in an earlier post if he were my dad, I’d hug him and seek out the best possible institutional care for him.

This was a weekend when new GDP numbers were released on Friday. Any sane and competent campaign would have spent the weekend hammering Obama and Hillary for slow economic growth. Not the Trump campaign. Not a word.

Instead, these were the headlines emanating from the Trump campaign.

He Picks a Fight with the Khans and Has His Ass Handed to Him

Everyone by now knows about the Khans. What’s amazing is that if Trump had any discipline, he could have just stayed quiet, and the story would have faded away after a couple of days.  Instead, he goes after a Gold Star mother and father, and they don’t back down. Man, he picked the wrong Pakistani-Muslim, Gold Star parents to mess with.

Thanks to Trump, they’ve been all over the media all weekend and into this Monday morning, speaking with a dignity and restraint that Trump likely can’t even recognize. I sure that Trump’s asking his lawyers if he can sue them for libel and make them spend $50k in legal fees.

Perhaps, we should thank Trump for making the Khans the face of Islam in America.

Gives a Sarah-Palin Level Disastrous Interview with George Stephanopoulos

Take a coffee break and watch the entire thing.  The link is below. In twenty-two minutes, in addition to ripping the Khans as noted above, he:

Lies about helping to build the Vietnam veterans memorial in NYC.

Lies about not having any relationship with Mike Bloomberg, despite the fact that the media this morning is displaying photos of him playing golf with Bloomberg, attending baseball games with him, showing up at other public events with him.

He says that Russia should be allowed to keep the Crimea.

He says Russia is not going to move into the Ukraine. Stephanopoulos says, “aren’t they already there?” And then he does go all Palin-incoherent.

He says that he’s never met Putin even though the media this morning can play multiple clips where he brags about his relationship with Putin.

Most disturbingly, he keeps talking about how Putin has been “nice” to him.  “Nice?”  I didn’t Google “Putin, nice”, but I’m pretty sure that the results would be meager. The Trump Russia policy is best summed up by a quote from Frank Burns in season 3 of MASH when he’s flustered by a pretty nurse, “It’s nice . . . to be nice . . . to the nice.”

Oh, yeah, he also lied about the NFL sending him a letter asking him to move the presidential debates so that they don’t conflict with NFL games.  And he lied about the Koch brothers asking him for a meeting. These were just palette cleanser lies between the weekend barbecue main course lies.

Here’s the entire Stephanopoulos interview.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWdQD0SANgY