![]() Good morning everybody. Hope you’re all having a memorable Memorial Day weekend. Spent a good bit of Saturday morning driving to three different cemeteries in three different counties to place flowers on the graves of honored ancestors (we like to spread out). Other than that, it was pretty quiet around The Compound. Cousin Fred has undertaken a new project. Saturday afternoon he came up to the main house and asked if he could use the piano. I honestly never knew Cousin Fred could play piano. He can’t. He was here for nearly four hours just plinking away at the keys. Admittedly, toward the end of the four hours my critical ear began to hear fragments of a melody beginning to form. By that time, it was all the Wife could stand. She stood a few feet away and flicked a still-lit unfiltered Pall-Malls at Cousin Fred. When he didn’t seem to respond, she began lighting and flicking cigarettes one after another. I think he sensed that soon it would be empty Old Crow bottles being hurled if he didn’t wrap things up. He left without any explanation as to what he is up to but thanked me profusely for time on the piano. I whispered to him that the Wife is leaving on another of her fabulous vacations this week and he is welcome to come back after she’s gone. He told me that he has already ordered an electronic keyboard that will be delivered on Wednesday. He said, he had a moment of inspiration that day and wanted to try something. Again, no mention as to what that might be. I would have pursued the matter further but decided to let it go. At any rate, he latest White House drama is far more entertaining. In a bizarre twist of irony (this White House is dripping with the stuff) wherein someone is leaking leaks about leaks, it was revealed recently that White House staffers are beginning to rat out their colleagues. I tell you, The Trump’s administration is so leaky no amount of Flex-Tape (As Seen on TV!) could keep the listing ship of Trump afloat (ahoy!). You may recall communication aide Kelly Sadler’s snarky comment about John McCain’s opposition to Gina Haspel’s nomination as Director, CIA not being relevant because McCain is “dying anyway.” Soon after that little tidbit was leaked, The Trump called a meeting of just about everyone in the WH Communications Office to discuss the leak and get to the bottom of things. Right out of the chute, The Trump announced that Sadler would not be fired, but then turned his sights on the leak that started the brouhaha. Sadler, in the meeting, then pointed to her boss, Mercedes Schlapp (pictured above at CPAP 2017 and hereafter known as Schlappstick) and said Schlappstick is responsible for most of the leaks in the WH. Well! Schlappstick, of course, began immediately defending herself to The Trump who reportedly seemed to take some glee in seeing his staff acting like a bunch of third graders (“Bobby did it! Nuh uh, it was Suzy!”). He reportedly stopped just short of handing out switchblade knives and having staffers to at it. The wild thing about all of this is that Schlappstick had vigorously (with vigor, I’m telling you!) defended Sadler following the McCain debacle, as did Schlappstick’s husband who heads the Conservative Union (they’re a fun bunch to hang with), calling Sadler a victim. Really? The additional irony in all of this (the place is dripping in it, I’m telling you) is that we only learned about this latest WH drama because SOMEONE LEAKED IT. There was an additional leak over the weekend that heads will roll this week (can’t wait!). The Trump wants to stop the leaking and figures to do so by firing mid-level and junior people in the Communications Office. There was also a report over the weekend that The Trump was swinging (Twitterly) at The New York Times for erroneously reporting something from a leaking source, only to find out that the leaking source was a still-unnamed WH official who made the comment in front of several other reporters (which in an even weirder twist of irony takes it from leak to official statement – see how this works?). It will be interesting to keep track this week of which of The Trump’s traits bob to the surface more…his narcissism or his paranoia. I’ve got $10 on the nose of paranoia in the fifth at Belmont. That is all! Comments are closed.
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