There were widespread marches and protests over the weekend. They were organized as the Tax March, on April 15th, which is traditionally Tax Day (although this year the file-extension day is today). Tens of thousands of people came out for Tax Marches around the country, all demanding that Donald Trump finally release his f–king tax returns. People really do care about his taxes, despite what the Bigly Administration claims. But this is how Emperor Bigly reacted to the marches:
I did what was an almost an impossible thing to do for a Republican-easily won the Electoral College! Now Tax Returns are brought up again?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 16, 2017
Someone should look into who paid for the small organized rallies yesterday. The election is over!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 16, 2017
I’m just so tired of this. I made an effort to have a politics-free Easter holiday but of course I’m expecting this week to be a chaotic mess, and these tweets just show us once again that Emperor Bigly is such a tantrum-prone, baby-fisted ass. Speaking of, did you know that Emperor Bigly’s much-dreaded trip to Great Britain has been pushed back yet again? They were talking about making the trip in the summer, but now the trip will probably be scheduled for the fall, maybe in October. And apparently our Emperor Orange wants something special for his visit: a ride in a golden carriage.
The Times of London reported Saturday that President Donald Trump wishes to proceed with a gold-plated carriage procession during his visit to London, currently planned for the second week in October, despite security concerns. When former president Barack Obama visited Queen Elizabeth at Buckingham Palace in 2011, he arrived in an armored motorcade, in a slight change of usual protocol, The Times noted. In 2015, Chinese President Xi Jinping, however, took the precaution of a closed, rather than open, carriage from the Royal Mews for his ceremonial ride with the Queen.
According to the Times, security sources have warned, however, that Trump’s procession will require a “monster” security operation, far greater than for any recent state visit. With tens of thousands of people expected to descend on the area to protest, senior police are already grappling with how to achieve a balance between Mr. Trump’s security and allowing the public’s right to protest.
A White House spokeswoman called the report “completely false.”
“We have not even begun working on details for this trip,” the spokeswoman said.
I know Emperor Bigly and his minions are lying liars who lie about every single thing, but I actually believe that they probably haven’t even started working out the details for this state visit. That doesn’t mean that some staffer – Steve Bannon or Jared Kushner??? – didn’t already request the gold carriage though.
Last thing: the White House will no longer release the names on the WH visitor logs. So we will have no idea who is visiting the Emperor and his minions in the People’s House. I’m sure it has something to do with Russia, but I would guess that all of these old dudes probably don’t want the world to know about the hookers too, probably.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
I hate Drumpf so much.
I know! It scares me how capable I am of having this much hatred and rage for another human being. He is disgusting and corrupt and incompetent and pure evil!!!
Yes, I absolutely loathe him.
It always amazes me that otherwise intelligent people would support him or believe the things they do about him. Yet yesterday at Easter dinner, my husband’s family started talking about politics. I bit my tongue as long as I could because I didn’t want to be belligerent at Easter dinner. However, when someone said Russia and North Korea are afraid of Trump, so he’s the best man for the job, I couldn’t hold my tongue anymore. Then when my husband’s aunt said Hillary needed to just go babysit her grandkids, all hell broke loose. What the everloving F!! It’s no wonder woman are paid 77 cents on the dollar in the US when another woman would say something like that!
Russia is afraid of Trump? Putin hasn’t been afraid of anyone yet. If Trump continues like that, Putin is the first one who’ll show Trump who’s the boss.
Holy hell, this is why I stuck to the weather at our Easter lunch yesterday. It’s almost painful for me to keep my mouth shut but I cannot confront a potential Trump supporter at my dining room table!
That is a lot of misogyny to have to stomach all at once! It’s truly insane what comes out of people’s mouths sometimes without any trace of irony… I am so sorry you had to endure such craziness. I wish I can give you some helpful words of encouragement but all I can muster during uncomfortable family situations is drink too much vino. I can’t wait for this nightmare to be over already!!
Lol easter… another family gathering where I keep my mouth shut and take frequent breaks to scream and cry away from them. They’re the trump supporters, but Republicans that have all at some point held goverment positions.
Anyway, we had fox news on and the theme was most certainly, trump is putting pressure on Russia and pressure on those countries indebted to us. I held my tongue to must of it, but not my giggles or facial expressions.
Yeap otherwise intelligent people fell for his sexism, racism and xenophobia. Today the Washington Post got a hold of the 2016 voter survey, analyzed it and the results show the overwhelming reason Trump voters voted for him vs. Republicans in the past was due to his stroking up of racist fears.
Racism motivated Trump voters more than authoritarianism
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2017/04/17/racism-motivated-trump-voters-more-than-authoritarianism-or-income-inequality/
Oh and heroin addiction amongst Whites is caused by those Brown people from Mexico so the war on Black and Brown people…oops ….war on drugs is back to rescue the poor addicted White victims in the Mid-West. Says our racist AG Mr. Sessions. You can’t make this stuff up.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/apr/17/war-drugs-racist-donald-trump-embracing-open-arms
@Original T. C. In reference to your last paragraph, this weekend’s On the Media episode was a VERY interesting expose of how the drug wars were race and politics based from the very beginning going back more than 100 years. It’s worth a listen.
“Racism motivated Trump voters more than authoritarianism.” No surprise there. It seems like you can’t even go on most sites to read a news story without the facebook Trump supporters finding some way to spin the story to support either their ‘evil dangerous brown and black people’ narrative or their “Trump and his supporters are so persecuted’ narrative. Or sometimes both in one story. And of course the cries of ‘fake news’ and ‘PC liberals’ when ever someone says something or points out FACTS they don’t want to hear. There just seems to be no reasoning with most of these people, which is why I’m not interested in the ‘liberals must coddle these vile, bigoted, insufferable brats with undeserved politeness and no partisan smears so they won’t vote for Trump again’ nonsense.
A woman on FB yesterday told me she didn’t care about Trump grabbing women and speaking about women the way he did, because “all men do that.” When I said the my father, my husband nor my sons have ever spoken that way, and that I was SAD! for her that she obviously thought that was normal so the men in her life must have spoken about women that way, she got really, really hostile and said she would pray for my cold, evil heart. LOL!!! Hypocrite!
@SusanneToo ……even further back , aka the Opium wars between China and the UK which culminated in 1839.
When will this jackass stop bragging about winning the Electoral College? He said if he won the election he would show his taxes. Definitely proves he thought there was no chance he’d win. What is he hiding?
His tax return would prove that he is not a billionaire, he is a sh$tty businessman, and he has vast ties to Russia. He would be completely unmasked as a fraud. And it’s really hard to call your own tax return fake news.
That was my guess. I’ve always assumed he didn’t want to release his tax returns because then it would be clear he’s not the billionaire businessman he tells everyone he is.
Indeed. The man couldn’t make a profit on a mobbed-up casino in Atlantic City that was being used to launder money (actual, not alternative, fact; they paid millions in fines). If you can’t make *that* profitable, you shouldn’t be managing any real businesses with actual operations. Trump is an exceptionally skilled grifter who is very good at enriching himself, not a gifted businessman who creates long-term value for other shareholders.
I made the mistake of reading some of the comments on Twitter on the thread about the neo-Nazi who punched a woman at the Berkley protest. Bad idea. Much misogyny.
Poor horses. I hate all those carriage rides anyway, but this one seems particularly cruel- forcing poor horses to pull his big fat ugly orange body 🙁
I think it’s just his face that’s orange. I imagine his body is pastey-white. Now I feel sick.
Easy, Giddy, I just ate my breakfast!
Pastey-white and totally muscle-free. OMG. That’s my dad!
I swear to Christ, I will lose my sh!t if you Brits give that orange blob a gold carriage ride. Send a old taxi spray painted gold to pick up his ass.
Lol , melly! Sounds appropriate. Spray painted gold and smelly on the inside.
Open carriage, closed casket
They should give him a poop shovel and tie him behind the horse.
And doctor the horses’ feed with Ex-Lax
So… if he has nothing to hide why not release the White House visitor logs? A person would think they were reading about some dictator ruling his country with fear and intimidation. Oh wait…
The level of corruption is truly mind blowing. I still can’t believe this is happening.
Because as far as he is concerned (encouraged by his sly babysitters) the WH now belongs to him, not the people.
He obviously has a lot to hide.
As he stated “my military.” My, my, my, me, me, me. Eat it up Deplorables. And, yeah, you Third Partiers also.
He said Gorsuch was “his judge.” He has “his Generals.” Everything he touches has to be the best. It is really pathological.
The latest nonsense was that the military has become “great, unbelievably great, in the last 8 weeks. Much better than it was the last 8 years.” Now, even forgetting that this is ridiculous, cause he has done nothing to improve the military except allow them to kill more civilians with impunity, his claim is horribly insulting to all those soldiers who have served with honor and those who gave their lives since 2001.
I can’t listen to his voice, or even to what he says because it brings up such anger and hatred in my heart, which is really bad for my soul. I find myself hoping he keeps eating his KFC buckets and extra McDonalds every day. Forgive me.
He should be put in a wagon with a set of prison bars so people can throw rotten veg at him. Let me tell you he’s gonna have a very rude awakening when he comes over here, we hate him.
Someone suggested they drive to the Tower of London and take care of the problem there.
Chuckle.
Other famous open-carriage rides include that of the Archduke Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary.
@Who Are These People, but that wasn’t a terrorist act or anything because Gavrilo Princip was Eastern Orthodox.
@Lightpurple ha, true. There’s assassination and then there’s terrorism and we should stop mixing them up! Also thanks for everything you do and for being so consistently outspoken. You inspire me and doubtless many more!
I’ll drink to that.
I hope you all give him hell. Sorry we’re inflicting him on you (and the world)!
Or perhaps he needs some lessons in French, particularly covering the fate of a certain queen, said queen’s family and associates, who all just absolutely lost their heads to incompetence. Because in his case, it couldn’t happen to a nicer guy. Ils sont complices!
God help us all if this guy will stay president for the next eight years.
It’s frightening that the White House won’t release the names of visitors. Everyday is something new and awful, when I think it can’t get any worse.
Extremely frightening and I don’t think it is legal.
Letting industry lobbyists write executive orders is frowned upon, so of course they need to conceal the visitor logs. There is no law that requires the White House to make the logs public, Obama did so voluntarily.
They’re public records.
@Lightpurple, the logs will be preserved for public records, but like most “public” records, they are not available to the public without a FOIA request. The government reserves the right to redact documents released under FOIA, so barring an act of Congress and/or Supreme Court decision, we are not going to see those logs until Trump is out of office.
People need to demand our leader show us who he’s meeting with. This is disgusting.
@Megan, I’m quite familiar with the public records laws, thank you. He has refused to release them to FOIA requests.
@Lightpurple I have not read about any FOIA requests as yet, but Trump will obviously refuse them and appeal all court decisions to release them, which is how this will end up at the Supreme Court.
Thought I read somewhere that if they are released after he is president it will still be 5 years before we see them. Any truth to this?
Since when has something being illegal stopped him or his cronies?? A$$wipes, all of them!
I participated in a tax rally on Saturday; where’s my check? And where’s my federal refund, Drumpf? I filed a month ago and already spent my state refund.
Today, they’re making a mess of the Easter Egg roll and lying about that too. I believe he is demanding the golden carriage and stupidly expects the way to the palace will be lined with cheering supporters.
I bet Barack and Michelle’s crowds were much bigger. Can’t wait to see the photos. They’ll be something like these inauguration photos. Hahaha!
http://twitter.com/aynrandpaulryan/status/853607290527662081
UPDATE: The WH has just announced that the Roll today will be smaller because previous(eg, BHO’s)Easter Egg Rolls were too crowded.🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣Yeah, that’s the reason. Got it.
The Queen and Prince Philip apparently loved Barack and Michelle, too. You just know they’re going to loathe Trump.
I’m picturing him trying to touch Queen Elizebeth and she smacks him with her purse.
I loved when she hugged Michelle. Queen Elizabeth is one heck of a woman but I’m betting she will be like MC Hammer with Drumplethinskin ‘Cant touch that’
They will find a way to cheapen if not screw up the egg roll event. Everything touched becomes tacky.
Spicey and Jeff Sessions reading to kids. If that’s not a terrifying image . . .
If he gets the gold coach, I hope the streets are overwhelmed with #The Resistance. That would be awesome.
Let’s hope they cover the carriage seat in plastic. Twitter had a field day with the golden carriage crap.
http://twitter.com/bitofacharacter/status/853204315388956674
I think there is a misunderstanding in interpretation of ‘gold-plate’ carriage reception. There are 2 very different coaches, one for welcoming presidents and various state occasions which has gold plated trimmings and another, the gold coronation coach, which is gold galore, and saying Trump insists on the gold carriage leads to the confusion of the two.
Sidenote: actually, the gold coronation coach is entirely Trump’s style, but it will not be brought out for him.
That said, there is background to this story.
Ever since Trump’s visit was announced, there has been a running commentary in the papers about what sort of welcome, if at all, he should be given.
At one point it was speculated that there wouldn’t be one at all and he would be received in the midlands rather than London.
I think these reports are returning the welcome to London, as all VIP guests are thus honoured, AND putting him in a coach procession. This type of procession is always called the golden carriage procession.
Saying that he wants a gold plated reception and carriage should be more clear that he wants the usual ‘honoured guest’ welcome with a coach procession which if granted will be in the coach below with all the trimmings:
http://i3.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article10234620.ece/ALTERNATES/s810/Britains-Queen-Elizabeth-and-the-President-of-China-Xi-Jinping-are-driven-by-carriage-along-The-Mal.jpg
NOT the actual gold coronation coach:
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/oPoq3qJk4pQ/maxresdefault.jpg
2 very different coaches, used in different ways and for different reasons.
I’m hoping that this trip never happens because we should remove him from office but Trump will have a temper tantrum if he doesn’t get the coronation coach because he believes he is king of everything. He is such an embarrassment.
The gold coronation coach is rarely used. Only a handful of times in HM’s reign, and usually to celebrate momentous celebrations eg coronations or Jubilees.
If memory serves, the only other person who has sat in it is Philip, usually accompanying HM.
The carraiges are both stunning, and of course we have nothing like them. So naturally he wants to ride in a carriage, not only because it suits his idea of himself as emperor, but because Obama rode in a limo. Trump is obsessed with outdoing Obama. I’d hate feeding his ego and I’m also afraid that the beautiful carriage would be damaged by all the garbage thrown at DT. What if people threw things like paint? Gah! I wouldn’t care if Trump was covered head to foot in paint and rotten veggies, but please protect that carriage!
The carriage they use for the procession is actually modern. It comes with air conditioning and everything.
Throwing rotten fruit at it won’t ruin it.
The gold coach is an antique. That one should be protected from any type of damage.
Well, he won’t be riding in any carriage if it is not bullet proof and bombproof like the cars they fly over for the president to keep them safe. Obama rode in one, and Trump is hated 1000 times more than Obama, so his Secret Service will insist on his protections.
@LAK People magazine got it wrong. The rest of the media is reporting he requested a royal coach, not a gold coach, which I believe is protocol for a state visit.
Why would the m’f****r request at all? Why not assume the British know how to do things, they’ve had a lot of practice. What an a$$hole.
Obama rode in an armoured limo during his state visit. I assume he did so at the recommendation of secret service. Trump may be publically overriding a secret service decision that he, too, ride in the limo. We all know Trump would never pass up the chance to ride in a royal coach. He would feel like such a bigly boy while pretending to drive the coach.
Obama did ride in the armoured limo and it was a sensible decision given the extra security requirements the US has over everybody else. It was the practical thing to do but also the courteous guest thing to do on Obama’s part.
The thing is, the big willy car got stuck on traffic bumps at one point and this was greeted with great public mirth in the Britisher piss-taking way.
My theory is that Trump wants the coach not the car because last time the car got laughed at. That would be exactly his thin-skinned kind of thinking, wouldn’t it?
That beast car thingy deserves to be laughed at. It takes up so much room and is entirely overkill.
Not to mention the traffic chaos.
Yes, but it’s safe from North Korean nukes, which soon as you’ll know it will be arriving with us in 45 seconds let alone 45 sexed-up minutes, and that’s what matters when you ride up the Mall, right?
If we must have a Trump visit, I think the least he could do would be to bring two Beasts to go one better than Obama.
He should probably use it at Mar el Whatevertheheckitis instead of a golf buggy. Now that WOULD be presidential.
Motherf**ker, there election had been over for years for Obama, but that didn’t stop you and evry other right wing screwhead from screaming about his birth certificate (even AFTER he supplied it), did you?
The problem is, YOU promised your returns and you LIED. While that is not a surprise, you don’t get to just say, Well, the election is over and I won, so I don’t have to fulfill that promise if I don’t want to and not get backlash for it. Not even if your most slavish devotees suddenly no longer care about presidential accountability.
As for the UK trip, I so hope this is true and I SO HOPE that they shut him down. Who has the final say over something like that? Please don’t let it be Theresa May, who has her head so far up 45’s ass it may be stuck there forever.
I hope Meghan and Harry announce their engagement the day before he comes, then do a pap stroll (or join the protestors?!) during his visit. Pull ALL the attention!!!
With this being the 20th anniversary of Diana’s passing, it would not surprise me if he tweets something tacky about how she could have been his number 3 wife.
@Brittney B I hope for Meghan and Harry do announce their engagement at anytime in October as a matter of a fact, I hope they got married the same day as that Orange Ass comes to the London visit.
I hope he is informed that his trip must be delayed indefinitely because of a royal wedding.
Have to agree that there is probably a parade of hookers servicing Cheeto Mussolini in the White House. I cringe at the thought of Emperor Bigly receiving golden showers in the Lincoln bedroom.
What is he, a spoiled 6-year-old girl playing princess? Does he want a pretty pony, too?
It’s been 5 months since the election, and I still wake up some mornings wondering what the f–k is going on.
I wake up pretty much every morning and wonder that. And then immediately check the news, thinking “Oh, Lord, what the f*** has the orange tweeto done now??”
I looked at Trump’s tweets yesterday and went into a spiral of despair that he is our POTUS. As many of those who replied to his petty and ignorant tweets said, don’t you have better things to do?!?! Apparently not. He’s fu%cking vile.
During Easter and Passover, no less.
And today he’s quoting Faux news, pitching a political book and back to attacking ‘fake media’.
The Fox News tweet wasn’t even quoting them. He was quoting himself on their show. And then saying, “so true.”
What a freaking idiot.
Quoting his own quote — wow. He also pitched a book that is a GAG book, with empty pages (no words). He claimed it was “a great book for your reading enjoyment”.
And yesterday, the Speaker of the House used an official government Twitter account to lecture us all on Christianity and how we all must suffer for redemption. And he tweeted this crap, not once, but three times. Apparently, he sees depriving women of healthcare as doing his part in their eventual redemption.
Highlight that next to the trailer for Handmaid’s Tale and things get mighty creepy.
Also, zero condemnation of Sean Spicer’s revolting comments about the Holocaust last week (that went beyond ignorance) from Ryan and McConnell confirms that the unholy alliance of far-right Christian extremists and crony capitalists has reached its apex in Washington, D.C.
Reminds me of that whole “Republicans want a government so small it can fit in a woman’s vagina” thing.
Also, the bizarro fake “Christianity” these ghouls are peddling makes me ill. Their ideology has nothing to do with Christ’s teachings.
What I don’t get is how people are okay with him running the country on business hours Mon – Fri (and sometimes not Friday) for 8 hours. The presidency is a 24/7, 365 day job. As far as the logs and taxes, it’s called transparency. Anyone or any gov’t funded institution should show it’s financials when requested and if they really want transparency, show without that request. We went through this several years ago with the school district that I worked in. What are you hiding if you refuse to show these types of things?
@swack
Oh his idiot supporters post how he’s working while he’s down there! and pays out of his pocket for his expenses there, not the taxpayers. I’ve given up, its hopeless.
@Esmom … I know how you feel. To me it seems as if the American government is now being run via Twitter.
And while I will never recognize Trump as my President (I don’t even acknowledge him as a President) it’s always bugged the bejeezus out of me that he tweets as Donald Trump and NOT as POTUS.
It is such an insult. It’s as if, Donald Trump, the individual, is greater than the Presidency, the American Administration, the White House and all its staff, the Oval Office and most importantly the American people themselves.
Irks me no end, but then I did say he’s no President so maybe I’m getting my knickers in a twist over nothing.
England, please don’t allow this monster into your beautiful country, but if you must, god forbid – no gold carriages please.
He actually tweets under both accounts. Most of the worst stuff goes on the “realdonaldtrump” account but he has tweeted some grossly inappropriate material on the POTUS account too. And he identifies himself as President on the “realdonaldtrump” account.
My favorite acknowledgements that he might be President are these:
“Super fragile callous racist sexist nazi POTUS”
and
“president (with a small p) Trump”
Let me fix that for you, North “president (with a small peni$) trump”
@North of Boston, “see him wave his baby fists, he’s bigly braggadocious!”
: D
And this morning, he’s promoting Fox & Friends again, attacking Obama’s foreign policy, and whining about the media. It’s not like he has a country to run or anything.
Seriously, Kid President — or any kid, really — could do a better job of running the country. I seriously just can’t anymore.
If he does the carriage ride, I’d enjoy watching if the horses gave him a golden shower
I’m hoping for a fairy tale ending with the carriage reverting to its pumpkin state and the horses turn into mice.
Good God, that was some mental image that even bleach won’t clean … lmao
Let’s also not forget the North Korea baiting, the flip flop on the Chinese as currency manipulators, and the bragging about our military. God help us.
Actually, Emperor Zero’s tax returns would show us nothing. It’s the financial disclosures I want; these are property and financial dealings with corps and individuals that would reveal much more about shady dealings, shell businesses, and possible money laundering.
On Kaiser’s last item above: they not only are keeping secret the names of individuals who enter the WH, but are trying to keep it secret for up to 5 years after EZ-D leaves office.
Can’t wait for the $hit sandwich to be over for all the people involved with this despicable administration.
I can’t wait, either. He is a colossal embarrassment, the pinnacle of incompetence and idiocy.
The Presidential Records Act says all presidential records are made public five years after the president leaves office. Some records can be held for 12 years.
Like he’ll follow those laws, Megan. He hasn’t followed any other.
@Rapunzel, it probably won’t matter whether he wants to be follow or not. I doubt he will be President in 2022.
I hope his fat a** won’t fit thru the door.
So he gets to keep his guest book private, but our browsing histories are wide open….?
The hypocrisy is real!
made me laugh 🙂
The orange loon is retweeting the Drudge report again. Cause I guess that’s real news? And he’s bragging about 50% approval rating. God help us if he keeps bombing shit to get to 60%.
@Rapunzel What approval rating? It has been low in the history of Presidential ratings ever.
He wants a golden carriage ? the Dossier is proving to be more true everyday!
I am curious as to who pushed up the visit to England, May or Casino. Was it done by May because they are reading about Casino and possibly not lasting long enough to have a visit. Or was it Casino because Parliament took to the floor to state that he is not welcomed and he being a petty teenager did the change to be a attention seeking brat.
Also, did you read about the Egg Roll that was done in FL at the resort. So, instead of doing his duty ( and both he and that waste of space wife getting a uptick in positive press), they did when he can charge money. He is so transparent he does not even need to wear clothing anymore.
If the White House Easter Egg Hunt is covered here tomorrow…the comments are going to be a lot more joyful than the First Family. They look like they rose from the dead and want to go back!
In other news, Sean Spicer is reading to children and that might be the scariest headline of all, and the President forgot to lift his hand during the national anthem. At least he was wearing a flag pin, right, Hillary?
*laughs*
*cries*
Well, except there is absolutely no reason for him or anyone who is not wearing a military or law enforcement uniform hat to raise one’s hand. Hand on heart for pledge, hands by side for anthem. So, Melania was wrong and then he was wrong when he did as directed.
To my best of knowledge, a court jester cannot demand anything!
Man-child Donald Trump apparently wants to ride in a carriage. Makes sense for the big baby that he is.
Mr. Golden Showers wants a golden carriage.
Too funny.
The usual top notch intro Kaiser. I get to the stage where my anger makes me incoherent, so it’s good to read that and the excellent comments! Melania looks lovely in that pic IMO. At least I’m assuming it’s her. That’s the only compliment a trump is getting this year.
And he stole a kid’s hat at the Egg Hunt. So presidential.
Well, if he doesn’t get it, he’ll probably make one that’s biggerer and betterer and goldener than the coronation coach to ride to the palace… and make us pay for it.
“on April 15th, which is traditionally Tax Day (although this year the file-extension day is today).”
NOPE!
The tax deadline is tomorrow. Today is the Emancipation holiday in Washington D.C., so the tax deadline is tomorrow, April 18th .
“We have not even begun working on details for this trip,”
A state trip to a major ally and they haven’t started work on the plans for the trip yet. Maybe that’s why the trip has been pushed back, the WH doesn’t realise that these things are not just about riding in carriages, they involve trade talks and military cooperation planning and so forth.