Hadn’t seen a Ben garrison cartoon in a while so decided to see what he was up to. As always has his finger on the pulse of current America and the problems we face.
Donald Trump has once again attacked Sadiq Khan, after the London mayor criticized the president for his handling of Hurricane Dorian.
Khan attended a ceremony in Poland this weekend to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Nazi invasion which began the second world war.
Trump skipped the ceremonies, ostensibly to focus on managing storm preparations. The president received briefings from federal agencies through the Labor Day weekend but he also spent time at one of his golf courses in Virginia.
“He’s clearly busy dealing with a hurricane out on the golf course,” Khan told Politico.
Khan also criticized Trump in a column for the Observer this weekend, calling him “the global poster-boy for white nationalism”.
Trump has repeatedly attacked Khan, a member of the Labour party who is the first Muslim mayor of a European capital city.
The president duly responded on Monday by attacking Khan as “incompetent” – misspelling the mayor’s first and last names in the process.
“The incompetent Mayor of London, Sadique Kahn [sic], was bothered that I played a very fast round of golf yesterday,” Trump wrote. “Many Pols exercise for hours, or travel for weeks. Me, I run through one of my courses (very inexpensive). President Obama would fly to Hawaii.
“Kahn should focus on ‘knife crime’ which is totally out of control in London. People are afraid to even walk the streets. He is a terrible mayor who should stay out of our business!”
Q: Mr. President, do you have a message for Poland on the 80th anniversary of the Second World War?
TRUMP: I do have a great message for Poland. And we have Mike Pence, our Vice President, is just about landing right now. And he is representing me. I look forward to being there soon.
But I just want to congratulate Poland. It’s a great country with great people. We also have many Polish people in our country; it could be 8 million. We love our Polish friends. And I will be there soon.
“Owswitz was the biggest greatest camp. Huge. Bigly. A lot of people say no other camp was as great. Poland should be proud of having the biggest camp. Nobody knows as much as me about camps.”
Could fool a lot of people I suspect, especially if you allowed it to put in a bunch of senseless line breaks and margins, bluffing at profundity.
But ultimately garbage, extended figurative language or poetry is one of last things the robot overlords will master, although at this point they cannot do much worse than most laureates.