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We can all remember the days when something was made in America, it was of high quality and good value for the money. Our educational systems were among the best in the world and our overall achievements were admired by the whole globe as being standards of excellence. When Congress put together a Bill, it was well thought out and written; when our judicial system reached a conclusion... it was likewise well thought out and written.
Now, it seems that nobody cares. It doesn't matter whether or not your company makes the best product or provides the best service; all we care about is the bottom line and whether or not the cost of producing our goods or services is within the statistical average of what everybody else is doing. Bills are not passed until deadlines loom, legislation is poorly written and ill-considered, our educational systems are way less than stellar and our judicial system sucks.
It's kind of like going to the state fair: you no longer care whether or not you get a blue ribbon... all you really want is a ribbon for participation.
So it is that we're prepared accept a half-baked ObamaCare "update" called the American Health Care Act and commonly referred to as "RyanCare." It's better than nothing, we rationalize. It's okay; it'll do. No blue ribbon, of course, but we will get a participation award.
Somehow, it's a little less-than-stellar to me; it lacks a lot of luster... this new lack of excellence.
That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.
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This country is sick and tired of the political games being played in Washington. For decades now, we have watched our country... our economy, our sovereignty, our status among nations and our individual rights and liberties... fade away under a government that has become corrupt, elitist and non-responsive to the needs and wants of its people. We have watched as Congress has trashed the concept of "consent of the governed."
Although exacerbated under the Obama dynasty, those unwelcome changes in our government started many decades ago and they've snowballed over those years. We, the people, finally got fed up and you saw a change in the dynamics during the 2016 election cycle. Or, were we simply just bamboozled? The Republicans did everything in their power to resist the changes we were insisting upon, but they eventually saw the light and caved in... or did they?
Now that they've managed to retain their cushy jobs, are they just giving us lip-service to the idea that things are actually going to change? Or, is the song-and-dance, smoke-and-mirror game in full swing?
They promised to repeal and change ObamaCare; now they plan to just "put lipstick on the pig." They promised to go ahead and deal with illegal immigration and to build that border wall; now, they say "maybe" they'll do it later. Those two tenets of the 2016 Republican campaign became the linchpins of their ultimate win, but it certainly appears that they are now planning to practice the age-old political strategy of "all talk and no walk."
That simply is not acceptable. It's not acceptable to me and it's not acceptable to the Americans who voted for those charlatans, and our disgust and anger is going to manifest itself in the 2018 elections and I promise you... the day of reckoning not only will come, but it will come in a thunderous roar.
That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.
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It is indeed a sad day in America.
Giving into pressure from Berkeley's Mayor and the University of California system, the Young America Foundation has withdrawn its support and invitation for conservative Ann Coulter to speak at the U.C. Berkeley campus tonight; everyone cited threats of riots and violence as the reasons for telling Coulter to sit down and shut up.
If Berkeley's radical left-wing extremist Mayor was refusing to flood the streets with cops, why wasn't the National Guard called in?
The right to free speech in this country is not only being infringed, it is being obliterated and no one is doing anything about it.
What's next... armed insurrection?
That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.
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Let's face it: America is in trouble... deep trouble.
We've come to expect riots in the streets of our major cities over anything and everything, and those riots are being fueled by George Soros and other left-wing radicals who foment anarchy and appear to be advocating for the overthrow of our government. We have liberal Democrats, media and others doing everything they can to hide the truth, to aid and abet the revolutionaries and to lead complacent Americans like sheep to the slaughter.
We'd better wake up and we'd better come to grips with the fact that we need to stand up now... and I mean now... to put a stop to it. Otherwise, we are doomed to follow in the footsteps of Iran, North Korea, the Soviet Union and Communist China.
If this sounds like a dire warning, my friend, it is... and those bastards are doing everything to prevent me and others from having the freedom to say it.
That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.
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We all remember the bankruptcies of Detroit and Orange County. But, more major U.S. cities are precariously close to going down, mostly due to the fact that their pension obligations now coming due far exceed their revenues. Take Dallas, for instance: they paid out $283 million in pension payments in 2015 and only had $115 million in pension contributions. Houston has the fourth worst pension debt of any city in the country; there, not even a booming economy and a rising population of workers has made up for poor planning and bad financial decisions.
It was common practice for cities that were strapped for cash and facing union negotiations to cave in with larger pension programs in order to avoid giving large cash raises. That was purely the epitome of "kicking the can down the road."
Now, the ducks are coming home to collect.
The plain truth is that our entire country, across all segments of our economy, is on the verge of disaster. Our only hope seems to be jump-staring the economy and getting tax and pension revenues up.
That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.
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The news floating out of The Hill over the weekend was that the House is about to come back from vacation and pass a new health care bill; it's been a huge rush since their last attempt failed but, by golly, they're going to get it done this time.
Well, I hope they get it right, because... if they don't get it right this time, they're all going to be toast.
When you go out to buy a new car, you don't buy the first one you see simply because you need a new car. You know it's going to be one huge investment that has to last along time, and you are careful to research, look, try, and even to talk about cars with your family, neighbors or friends. You consider such things as cosmetics, horsepower, mileage, toys, insurance costs, payments and where you're going to park it. You would certainly spend more time on this decision that the House spent on the last health care bill under the less-than-stellar leadership of Paul Ryan.
Around 80% of Americans said that the last attempt sucked big-time. From what I've heard over the weekend, the House has made a few "tweaks" to that bill and they're going to put it on the table again. Once again, just like the last time, they're not doing what we want; we want a new car, not a used one with with a crappy paint job.
If that is indeed what they come back with, if they have the temerity to do that number on the American people, there's going to be an uprising and outright rebellion in this country the likes of which has not been seen since the Civil War.
That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.
Bill O'Reilly was just fired from FOX NEWS under allegations of sexual misconduct. From what I've heard on the networks, I didn't hear anything so pernicious that it would give rise to termination of employment. There were certainly remarks made by him that were distasteful, but not crude or overtly suggestive in my opinion.
Yet, the media and those on the ever blue-nosed left caused a huge ruckus over the allegations. Indeed, advertisers left his show in droves, signalling to the vacillating FOX NEWS management that they'd better damned-well make a change.
Where were all of these goody-two-shoes when Bill Clinton... then President of the United States Bill Clinton... was dallying around with a young intern on the Oval Office carpet? Remember the daily tidbits of information that used to slither out of the White House about a President who swore under oath that he did not... did not, mind you... have sexual relations with that woman? Remember how the same left-wing media and political elitists defended Clinton on the basis that his private sex life was none of America's business? Plainly speaking, Clinton somehow actually got admired in the process.
On the other hand, I've heard no allegations that O'Reilly, who was not the president, actually sacked anybody. I've heard no woman claim that he forced himself upon her, but I did hear from several women who alleged that Clinton forced himself on them.
So, why do we tolerate the double standard?
That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.
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A recent Gallup poll shows that Conservatives outnumber liberals in all but four states: Vermont, New York, Massachusetts and Connecticut.
So, regardless of the fact that they whine, yell, scream, jump up and down, and resort to gang violence in order to be heard and have their way... they really should have no say-so at all.
It's up to us conservatives to make them shut up, sit down and behave or to make them get out of the country.
That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.
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Thanks to Barack Obama's gross mishandling of America's foreign affairs and national security interests, we now find ourselves squarely in the center of another cold war with Russia. Putin, having read Obama as being the biggest wimp in our history, has been running rampant around the globe... in the Ukraine, Middle East and in Europe in general. Puffed up with the successes of his unchecked incursions, Putin is not about to bend one inch for any Donald Trump.
Putin is displaying cold-war tactics with bomber flights perilously close to Alaska's coast. He's allowed Assad to move Syrian fighter jets to a Russian airfield so that they are protected against another U.S. Tomahawk strike; this would indicate to most people that Assad intends to use chemical weapons again and with Russia's blessing. In short, Putin is flipping the bird... a huge big bird... to the U.S. and communications have virtually come to a standstill.
Where is Ronald Reagan when you need him? Stay tuned.
That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.
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Thank you presidents Clinton, Bush and Obama for allowing North Korea to bring us to this point in time. All three of them bear some responsibility for not coming to grips with the growing nuclear threat on the Korean peninsula and as a result, not only does North Korea now have nukes, they also have missiles and they are perilously close to marrying the two. Of course, we all realize that over the years of growth of their unchecked, unchallenged nuclear growth, they have become vastly more belligerent and bellicose.
One has to presume, and it is probably correct to say, that the reluctance of these presidents to step up to the plate and put a stop to all of it is directly attributable to fear of the Chinese. Is that to say that China is superior to the United States? Is that what we're putting on the table here? Or, is it because the issue seemed to be too thorny, too complex and too confrontational to deal with?
I've heard it said that we just can't contemplate taking any military action against North Korea, let alone consider deployment of a tactical nuke or two. Perhaps, it is suggested with a wring of the hands, we'll just have to trust the Chinese to handle it, or maybe we can "talk" to North Korea. I know that most of us wouldn't be too upset if a North Korean nuke struck the liberal hotbeds of San Francisco or Los Angeles, but how about Portland or San Diego?
Trump is the first President to come forward and look the problem straight in the eye without flinching. While I'm certain he does not want to get us into a war, we will surely be in one if North Korea decides to fire off some missiles at South Korea, to invade that country, or to torpedo a U.S. ship. And frankly, things have become so ominous with the sawed-off little runt in North Korea that we can't rule those possibilities out.
One thing is for sure... we're in a tough situation, but we need to get used to the idea that if there is going to be a war... better there than here.
That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.
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I just released mine... to the IRS.
That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.
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I'm sure you've heard about the "Deep State," the unofficial alliance of political progressives in our government and the multitudes of government employees who are committed to bringing down the Trump Presidency and destroying our Constitution. On the one hand, we have government leaders such as Paul Ryan who are covertly trying to destroy Trump; Ryan deliberately, I think, sabotaged Trump's attempt to redo health care and is now saying he will not allow federal money to be used to build the border wall that we, the people, voted for when we put Trump in office.
How does he hold onto his job? Could it be, as it most likely is, that other anti-Trump Representatives stand in the way of his removal?
Secondly, there are some 3.4 million employees in the government, (including the military). I would venture a guess that 2.4 million of them feel that it is they who run the government and not the elected members of Congress or the President... or even the Supreme Court for that matter. As a result, Trump is in their way and that is why you see selective leaks of information designed to make him look bad. These are the people who will flauntingly obfuscate or circumvent any plans on the part of elected officials that are contrary to their own agendas. The government is infested with people who do little or no work and who use their spare time to plot and plan against anything and everything that doesn't serve their own selfish interests... and we are paying them.
The government has gotten so large and powerful that it has evolved from being the servant of the people into becoming the dictator of the people. And as long as we dummy up and keep our mouths shut, it is only going to get worse.
Our government needs a major overhaul... or should I say... the people in our government need major shock treatment. It is up to us to heal this cancer that has invaded our personal lives, our rights and our liberties, and we have to start today. No president, not even Trump, can accomplish this task without the full engagement and support of the people.
That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.
Since I don't have anything good to say about anybody, I'll keep my mouth shut.
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To this date and over many years and several presidents, China has been less than prone to help the United States keep North Korea in line. As a result of their hesitancy, North Korea now has nuclear weapons and is well-along in the process of miniaturizing them to fit on ICBMs.
Given Trump's recent attack on a Syrian air base while Chinese President Xi was meeting with him at Mar-A-Lago, it appears that China agrees that having the U.S. going into North Korea and blowing their nuclear facilities to smithereens, thereby spreading nuclear radiation all over the area including China... is not a good idea. So, they've agreed to help us deal with the bombastic, deranged North Korean midget-in-charge.
What form that help might take remains to be seen. It is somewhat ominous that 150,000 Chinese troops have taken up positions at their North Korean border. One would hope that the midget would come to his senses, but he is more likely to fire off a nuke at China or at our offshore flotilla than he is to back off. It is also possible that China will quit buying North Korean coal, putting that country into an economic tailspin.
Wherever this all leads, one thing is certain: the days of the midget despot's international belligerence is going to end... soon.
That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.
Hot after the defeat of their ridiculous new health care plan which was seen by most as nothing more than a glorified version of ObamaCare, the GOP leadership is now prepared to block funding of Trump's proposed border wall solely on the basis that the Democrats don't want it.
House Speaker Paul Ryan seems
to concede that border wall funding will not be included in the GOP
budget, saying the funds could come at a later date. Rep. Will Hurd (R-TX) and Rep. Martha McSally (R-AZ) are two
Republican lawmakers teaming with Democrats to stop the funding of the
border wall, despite both representing districts that share a border
with Mexico.
The Republican House under speaker Ryan has become even far more worthless than teats on a boar hog.
That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.
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News broke yesterday that Obama and his regime knew all about Assad's continued stockpiling... and use... of chemical weapons and lied to the American public about it.
This is just the tip of the iceberg regarding what Barack Hussein did to this country and the world during his eight years in office.
That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.
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Hillary Clinton says she will never run for office again. Bashar al-Assad says he doesn't have any more chemical weapons. Iran's Ayatollah Khamenei says his country is no longer pursuing nuclear weapons as per our "agreement." Susan Rice says there was no unauthorized surveillance of the Trump team and no political motives for the "incidental" collection of information. Paul Ryan says he has enough votes to pass the health care replacement for ObamaCare. The North Korean midget-in-charge says he is not afraid of the United States and is prepared to nuke South Korea if we try anything. George Manson says he never killed anyone. Barack Obama says he doesn't have the slightest idea of what really happened in Benghazi. George Carlin said that just because you got the monkey off your back doesn't mean the circus left town.
Who do you believe?
That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.
Short Shots is not all about Kim Jong-un, as you might suspect. Every now and then, there is so much in the news to chew on that I put together a post containing a whole gamut of incredible, sarcastic wit.
The question on everyone's mind is, of course, what North Korea's midget-in-charge thinks about Trump and the United States today. And what do you suppose China's president Xi is going to have to say to the midget after spending a night with the Trumps while the Syrian attack took place? Well, I do understand that they just ordered a few extra rolls of toilet paper to the royal palace in Pyongyang.
As for Assad, he seems to be one ticked-off dictator. Word has it that he was on the landline complaining and whining to his Uncle Vladimir about the audacity of Trump. Once he heard that Uncle Vlad had advance warning of the attack and didn't say anything, Assad must have really been hopping mad. The amazing thing here is that Assad's chemical stockpiles had been removed from Syria altogether, according to Barack Obama, Uncle Vlad, Susan Rice and Bashar himself. And then... POOF! Assad had them back.
Uncle Vlad responded by sending a Russian warship into the eastern Mediterranean to go and monitor our warships that fired off the Tomahawks. With more of our warships in decent proximity, what do you suppose the Russian ship is going to do? Obviously, this is all a going to be a courtesy call.
Thursday night, most of the Dems came out and said they supported Trump's move, but by the time the Senate Majority Leader had shoved Neil Gorsuch through his confirmation vote, it dawned on the Dems that they had said something nice and they all huddled in the Senate basement, eventually coming out with a "What Trump did was okay, but he should have asked Congress first." Maybe we should have waited until Assad gassed some more people?
The left-wing media, which includes the vast majority of newspapers and broadcast/cable companies in the nation, has been vocally claiming that what Trump did was unlawful and done only for the purpose of detracting from the ongoing investigation into the Trump-Russian connection. How sick can these people get? Never mind; don't bother to answer.
In the meanwhile, it seems that Susan Rice has an insatiable crush on President Trump. Word started to ooze out yesterday that she amassed a huge trove of informational nuggets on the Prez and his team. Since we all know that she would never pass her information on to Hillary or Barack, the only apparent motive for her collection is that she is madly in love with the man.
California's Guv Moon Beam just signed a 12 cent-per-gallon tax increase... the largest in history. The $52 billion being raised as a result is supposedly going to go to "transportation infrastructure," which is code for spending more money on the California monorail that everyone is against. Maybe the extra money will enable construction to get past the 25 mile-long mark.
Word on the underground news network these days is that now that Trump has shown he's willing to attack Syrians, the next thing we know he's going to be killing gays. Will someone please explain to me what one has to do with the other? Oh... really?
That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.
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The illustrious, spiteful, mean-spirited Democrats, evidently deciding that their camp was already seriously smoldering, decided to go down in a huge bonfire of defeat this week when they ordered all Democrat members of the Senate to filibuster Neil Gorsuch... or else. Even recognizing that they would very likely lose many more seats in Congress during the next election, they determined to martyr themselves by falling on their own swords of stupidity.
Even as Congressional employees were preparing to wheel in the baby bassinets to accommodate the inevitable crying and whining, the Dems were jumping up and down and shouting like Chicken Little that the world was about to come to an end. And Chuck Schumer was playing his role to the hilt, leading the Dems in the Senate... like sheep to the slaughter; you could hear the sounds of bleating all of the way to the far western shores of Hawaii.
And although the Republicans offered opportunity after opportunity for the cesspool of Democrat idiots to alter their course and redeem themselves by coming to the table and acting like adult representatives of their constituents, the filibuster went ahead as predicted yesterday. Now, this self-inflicted wound to the future of the Democrat Party was not about the qualifications of the nominee, Gorsuch; indeed, the vast majority of Democrats have admitted that Gorsuch is eminently well-qualified. Instead, it is all about getting even, showing the Republicans how angry they are that we, the people, had the audacity to elect Trump instead of crooked Hillary... showing the Senate Republicans that they are demons for having the temerity to stop the Garland nomination.
After all, the Democrats would have us all know, it is they who are still in charge of the country; not the Republicans and certainly not we, the people.
So, the nuclear bomb was rolled out of its cellar and into the Senate chamber. Republican technicians wired the bomb up and connected it to the detonator. Today, they will certainly turn the switch.
It will be interesting to see who is still left standing after the dust settles and the bleating stops.
That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.
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We have the midget despot in North Korea flipping the big one at Trump while going about the business of putting a nuke on an intercontinental ballistic missile. Then there's the Ayatollah in Iran, flying airplanes over our ships. And there's China, daring the U.S. to do anything about its illegal military takeover now in progress in the South China Sea. And how about George Soros, doing everything he can to unseat Trump or thwart his presidency and destroy American democracy?
Trump is surely being tested. They all want to find out what his limits are and just how he's going to react when he gets there. Somehow, I think it's going to be sooner rather than later.
Remember way back when, in April of 1986, Libya's Gaddafi was behind the bombings of civilian airliners and was strutting around the Middle East like a peacock? One day, a U.S. cruise missile showed up in his living room compliments of Ronald Reagan, killing two of his sons. Not only did that tone Gaddafi down, but it also had a chilling effect on Middle Eastern terrorism for years to come.
Perhaps we should put a cruise missile down the North Korean midget's fireplace chimney? Maybe that would send the right message to everyone? Just one missile, and we don't have to kill anybody in the process. We'd just be sending a message that we're serious... know what I mean?
That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.
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Regardless of the left-wing media's attempt to cover it up or to not report on it at all, this story about the intelligence community peering into the Trump team... even before Trump won the Republican nomination... is gaining momentum every hour.
Way back when, I said there was much more to the Benghazi story than we were being told. And I say to you today, the Benghazi story has not yet been told. There is more there... much, much more and it's nasty. Perhaps it has something to do with illegal, reprehensible gun-running? Could it be that Ambassador Stephens had stumbled onto something and that he had to be silenced?
Now, I'm going to say it again. There's something with this bugging of Trump that smells like dead fish. And the Democrats, along with their complicit press and media, are pulling out all of the stops to put a lid on it. The major networks are not reporting on it and the Dems are doing everything they can to sabotage Devin Nunes. The fact that they are spending more time trying to coral this issue than they are spending trying to derail the Gorsuch nomination speaks volumes.
Whatever it is, we have to insist that there be a deep and thorough investigation. Contrary to what has been reported, I do not believe this intelligence gathering and leak of names was incidental to some other investigation; I believe it was an ongoing, deliberate attempt to gather sufficient information about the Trump organization to enable the Clinton campaign to have a political advantage and to win the presidential election. I further believe that the Trump team was aware of the surveillance before the election and that they used that knowledge to plant false information and to thwart the Obama-Clinton agenda.
And when the Obama-Clinton Mafia discovered that they had been had... when Trump won anyway... they were livid beyond description. Hence... the vitriol we have today.
This story is far from over.
That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.
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Three teenage boys broke into a house in Tulsa, Oklahoma for the purpose of theft. The three were shot dead by the 23-year-old son of the homeowner who was home at the time. Now, the grandfather of one of the dead teens is complaining that the boys were shot by an AR-15 and that their shooting was therefore unjustified because the bandits had only brass knuckles and a knife.
What in hell has this country come to?
Let me be clear: If someone breaks into my house, I likely do not know what they are armed with or what their intentions are. They have invaded MY space in a threatening manner and I certainly must be afraid for my life. If they were afraid for their lives, they wouldn't be breaking into my house. So, I'm going to reach for my gun and I'm going to be yelling that I have a gun at the same time. If the intruders don't immediately high-tail it out the door, they're going to get shot.
And if that offends somebody, that's just too damned bad.
That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.
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President Trump has made his first very serious, and possibly fatal, mistake.
Faced with a stinging loss over the new health care plan, Trump lashed out at the House Freedom Caucus last week, essentially declaring war on them. Many Americans, including me, were very relieved when the new bill failed; simply put, it stunk. Had the bill passed and the Senate gone along with it, the nation would have been saddled with an extenuation of a bad law, albeit with a few new curtains and windows. The country would have come unglued and Trump's ship would have been totally torpedoed.
Yet, he does not thank them; instead, he chastises them and threatens consequences.
One can only therefore presume that Trump was sold on the rotten bill and determined to shove it down our throats. How can that be if he promised to listen to the will of the American people?
Suddenly, the door of mistrust in our president has been thrown wide open.
That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.
Late yesterday evening, long after news outlets had gone home for the weekend, former president Barack Obama issued a statement through his communications staff in which he acknowledged authorizing the gathering of covert intelligence on the Trump presidential campaign and staff. Obama stated that the purpose of the surveillance was to ascertain whether or not Melania Trump was an undercover operative for the Russian government.
"Information was presented to me by our own intelligence sources which indicated that Mrs. Trump had taken training in Russian intelligence procedures shortly after dropping out of the University of Ljubljana in Yugoslavia. She speaks fluent English, French, Italian, German, Serbo-Croatian, and her native Slovene and was therefore an ideal candidate for service in the KGB.
"I felt that it was essential for our intel people to determine whether or not the future First Lady was in fact a spy," Obama said. "In no way were we looking at Mr. Trump himself; he obviously was subjected to and passed a rigorous background investigation as soon as he won the Republican nomination. I therefore personally and most sincerely apologize to him for any inference that our intelligence surveillance was directed at him personally."
April Fools.
That's MY AMERICAN FUN DAY, jestingly submitted.
