Okay, here's the deal with Trump and the chocolate cake thing:

[Tommy_Carcetti]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/04/12/president-trumps-throughly-confusing-fox-business-interview-annotated/?utm_term=.9e7cf1449c95

BARTIROMO: When you were with the president of China, you're launching these military strikes.

TRUMP: Yes.

BARTIROMO: Was that planned?

How did that come about that it's happening right then, because right there, you're saying a reminder, here's who the superpower in the world is, right?

TRUMP: You have no idea how many people want to hear the answer to this. I have had — I have watched speculation for three days now on what that was like (INAUDIBLE).

BARTIROMO: When did you tell him?

TRUMP: But I'll tell you (INAUDIBLE)...

BARTIROMO: Before dessert or what?

TRUMP: But I will tell you, only because you've treated me so good for so long, I have to (INAUDIBLE) right?

I was sitting at the table. We had finished dinner. We're now having dessert. And we had the most beautiful piece of chocolate cake that you've ever seen and President Xi was enjoying it.

And I was given the message from the generals that the ships are locked and loaded, what do you do?

And we made a determination to do it, so the missiles were on the way. And I said, Mr. President, let me explain something to you. This was during dessert.

We've just fired 59 missiles, all of which hit, by the way, unbelievable, from, you know, hundreds of miles away, all of which hit, amazing.

BARTIROMO: Unmanned?

Brilliant.

TRUMP: It's so incredible. It's brilliant. It's genius. Our technology, our equipment, is better than anybody by a factor of five. I mean look, we have, in terms of technology, nobody can even come close to competing.

Now we're going to start getting it, because, you know, the military has been cut back and depleted so badly by the past administration and by the war in Iraq, which was another disaster.

So what happens is I said we've just launched 59 missiles heading to Iraq and I wanted you to know this. And he was eating his cake. And he was silent.

BARTIROMO: (INAUDIBLE) to Syria?

TRUMP: Yes. Heading toward Syria. In other words, we've just launched 59 missiles heading toward Syria. And I want you to know that, because I didn't want him to go home. We were almost finished. It was a full day in Palm Beach. We're almost finished and I — what does he do, finish his dessert and go home and then they say, you know, the guy you just had dinner with just attacked a country?

BARTIROMO: How did he react?

TRUMP: So he paused for 10 seconds and then he asked the interpreter to please say it again. I didn't think that was a good sign.

The bottom line is this: Trump is as transparent as glass.

The way he's trying to frame what happened was is that President Xi is at his house, eating cake like a little kid, all while the Great and Powerful Donald Trump has launched airstrikes on Syria.

It's his not-so-subtle way of attempting to humiliate Xi, that he's a major mover and shaker in the world, and Xi is a nobody. He might as well said that Xi was wearing a bib to make sure he didn't get his clothes dirty from the cake.

Of course, he's framing the way he wants to frame it, so he's obviously neglecting the fact that he told Russia in advance of the strikes and Russia told Syria, who emptied out the base and the strikes were basically meaningless.

Also he misspeaks and claims he's striking Iraq, not Syria, and Bartiromo has to correct him on that.

This would all be rather hilarious except for the important fact that this is real life and real world politics, and major powers in the world typically don't take too kindly to being humiliated.

But to the Madman, it's all the Art of the Dill.

[mimi85]

1. Every friggin' day, hour, second,

he shows how much stupider he is than we even thought. I'll be lucky to make it through the next month, much less 4 years. I have teen grandkids that could do the job better, hands down.

I'm trying to remember where I saw the article about the time he hosted SNL last summer or fall and the cast members said he could barely read the script.

[jberryhill]

2. "Unmanned?"

Is anyone really that stupid.

It's tough to find good missile pilots these days. Good golly.

[Luciferous]

17. Lol

[MrPurple]

25. He might have seen a picture of Slim Pickens from Dr. Strangelove and assumed it was SOP

[nikibatts]

3. Missiles launched that were so great from the same military that 45 called "bad" "weak" and disaster

during his campaign? Or was that some other military led by those Generals that know less than he does about the military.

[bettyellen]

4. He constantly negates his own message. The best tech because they have decrepit outdated equipment.

[BSdetect]

5. Another clue he's demented - Iraq mentioned instead of Syria!

Good grief.

Just a slip or is he planning to strike Iraq next?

We wait in trepidation.

[0rganism]

6. fkn idiot

i guess he's making his idiot supporters very proud, every gd day with his stupid arrogant shit

cos "i was having this cake with the president of China, and decided to throw some bombs at another country, and then had some more cake" sounds really fkn fantastic, right? this is like cartoon villainy scaled up and inflicted on reality.

the next dipshit the Republicans crap into the whitehouse is going to have to work really hard to lower the bar from where it is now, cos Trump is transcendentally bad

[SammyWinstonJack]

7. He makes my head hurt. Geez, what a simpleton he is.

[Achilleaze]

8. the republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief is a clear and present danger

[Mz Pip]

9. What a show off.

What an appalling little man.

[rurallib]

10. Sounds just like a scene out of a very bad movie

Bet Donny watches movies in his head all day long where he is the big star and everyone kisses his - um - ring.

[tblue37]

11. The Art of the Dull(ard). nt

[dmr]

12. While Trump was creaming his jeans, Xi was unimpressed by

what a little man Trump truly is. He really enjoyed that, didn't he?

Small mind, no heart, tiny hands. He's a big dick, but it's got no use at all.

Good night Mary, what a freaking embarrassment! He's going to get us all killed!

[Ilsa]

13. I suspect bartitomo was batting her eyelashes at him.

I don't understand how a woman as smart as bartiromo could stand to listen to his drivel.

[Hekate]

14. Braggart, boaster, liar. And Xi is thinking: What a freaking idiot, and what terrible food.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

15. Here's a picture of the "most beautiful cake".

[machoneman]

16. The idiot is also assuming only the USA.....

has accurate crusie missiles! Whattadope!

The Brits learned decades ago the French made Exocet missiles fire by the Argentinians (see: Falkland War) in 1982 (!) could and did take out even some of the most sophisticated Royal Navy warships of the era.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exocet

[uponit7771]

28. +1

[flags]

18. dessert

So I guess this was "dessert" storm.

[bora13]

20. right on

nailed it

[bora13]

19. traitor

he is no doubt handing over intel to putey as fast as he can say "bigly."

[NBachers]

21. "Mr. president, we've just launched 59 missiles at China."

"Oh, wait, no, I meant Iraq."

"No, wait a minute it was Syria."

[Freethinker65]

22. I think he was hoping for good press

Like Obama got for being so calm and in control at the correspondents dinner the night Bin Ladin was killed.

[DK504]

23. "I was given the msg by the generals."

"And I was given the message from the generals that the ships are locked and loaded, what do you do? "

Does this moron even know the name of the Chiefs of Staff, or the Secretary of the Navy is, or maybe even the Defense Sec.??

Sweet mother.

Does this asshole even realize you can't have a chit chat with a foreign leader about military actions before they have happened, especially a hostile foreign government.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

24. He doesn't even know the name of the country he's attacking.

If you read the interview right.

[Duppers]

26. Substitute Obama's name for Trump's and

read this to any uninformed Republican and stand back for the ensuing fireworks.

Trump is the most intellectually challenged person ever sitting in the Oval Office. He's a great shame for this country and is hated around the world.

Congrats, assholes, you got exactly what you voted for. He's all yours.

[barbtries]

27. i realized that he doesn't look at poll numbers

except as ratings. he's just going for ratings.

i still shake my head. he's the president. how bad does it have to get before it's over.

[Charles Bukowski]

29. Good luck justifying an increase in military spending

now that you've admitted that our technology is light-years ahead of our nearest competitor.

Trump = dumbest elected leader in the history of Western civilization. Maybe the world.

[Amaryllis]

30. Okay, so I thought this was satire (having just posted the latest Borowitz column, which

of course is satire), and had to read your comments after the quotes to find out they were indeed quotes, and not satire. So reality and satire have become very blurred with this regime.

[mzteaze]

31. Why...

Why has no one questioned why the PRESIDENT was casually talking about a US Military action against another country with a foreign leader who was NOT involved in said action?

Isn't our general military action considered classified until after official acknowledgment of the action?

[Fritz Walter]

32. "Trump is as transparent as glass."

I beg to differ with that metaphor.
The Shitgibbon is as transparent as a soap bubble. Much more fragile than glass, and -- with any luck -- much more likely to go poof. Preferably sooner rather than later!