In which the reptiles do the Donald ...

The pond rarely looks to the local reptiles for updates on the Donald …and the same goes for the ABC.

The pond happened to catch a recent ABC report on the Donald, still available online here, with transcript, and was struck by its paucity, and by the way it ended on an upbeat note, with Hank Sheinkopf plaintively pleading "What's the crime? I haven't figured out what the crime is yet."

In short, ending with dummkopf Sheinkopf tempted the pond to do a Polonius and give the ABC yet another bagging …

Last impressions are important. The report could have ended on a neutral note, but instead it ended on a whine, and the pond filed a note to avoid walking into a room where their ABC was playing ...

The pond usually relegates the Donald to the cartoon section, but even if YouTube is awash with clips of cable news brooding over the Donald, ignoring the reptiles doing the Donald seems to be unfair, especially when every so often Cameron Stewart reports in …

The reptiles, of course, have the difficult task of pretending that the Donald has the first clue about what he's doing …and so Stewart's opening gambit, that "Trump works to keep Kim on track," was a delight, with the assumption that anyone as erratic as Trump knew there was a track and, if he did, could stay on it …

The pond once went there as a child with that notion …

And so to the Tootle of American politics ...

His country would be very rich, his country would be very industrious? Once a snake oil salesman, always a snake oil salesman, though the way America's going, there's a new sort of oil in the shop …

There probably wasn't the time or the inclination to go into the Trump Indonesia, Chinese government "investment", ZTE, twitter affair,  the whole damn thing …but that's the way it goes with Tootle. Speak firmly about China, and then tweet about saving Chinese jobs and nobody will notice the switching of the tracks …

But if corruption isn's a reptile thing, just look at that line "I think Kim Jong-un is going to be very happy."

Is it possible to imagine what the Republicans would have said about a forelock-tugging, quisling Obama if he'd promised to make a homicidal, sociopathic dictator "very happy"?

Like as not there would have been all sorts of unflattering comparisons, though the Donald is so resolutely ignorant of history, they'd be water off a duck's back to him …

It seems only a moment ago that we were on our way to the Donald collecting a Nobel … and then …

Now it's the business of the reptiles to find a coherent strategy and a plan … beginning with Tootle finding tremendous potential for Kim Jong-un ...

That mention of the Nobel Peace Prize is typical of the Donald. He yearns to knock down every skerrick of Obama's legacy, and to beat Obama at everything. And so as Obama earned an undeserved Nobel, and never made the state of chaos and disarray in the Nobel Foundation the Donald must have one too …

It was like when the three US hostages returned and top of the Donald's minds was the rating ...

“I want to thank you all, it’s early in the morning. I think you probably broke the all-time in history television rating for 3 o’clock the morning!”

And so the reptiles must diligently press on, putting lipstick on a television and tweet addict …with the compulsions so easily near the surface that they're so very easily played …