In other news, Texas Governor Greg Abbott has called for a special session of the legislature to pass an anti-transgender bathroom bill to tackle the non-existent, made-up threat of transgender bathroom assaults. The special discrimination session will begin on July 18th.
Meanwhile, White House legislative affairs director Marc Short says Congress should raise debt ceiling asap. But... Mick Mulvaney says they should cut spending first. Which is it?
Finally, the Pentagon praised and thanked Qatar today, hours after Trump made a major foreign policy decision with a stupid tweet.
U.S. officials had said on Monday that the United States would quietly try to calm the waters between Saudi Arabia and Qatar, arguing that the small Gulf state was too important to U.S. military and diplomatic interests to be isolated.
But Trump, wading into the worst split between powerful Arab states in decades, said on Tuesday his trip to the Middle East was "already paying off" with leaders there taking a hard new line in accusing Qatar of funding of militant groups.
During my recent trip to the Middle East I stated that there can no longer be funding of Radical Ideology. Leaders pointed to Qatar - look!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 6, 2017
So good to see the Saudi Arabia visit with the King and 50 countries already paying off. They said they would take a hard line on funding...
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 6, 2017
...extremism, and all reference was pointing to Qatar. Perhaps this will be the beginning of the end to the horror of terrorism!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 6, 2017
Qatar was not included in Trump's Muslim ban.
Over 10,000 US troops are stationed in Qatar.
The Saudis think Trump is a giant moron, and they're right. They're playing him.