White House columnist Brian Karem confessed he "stifled a laugh" as President Donald Trump's team announced in a news release, “On Earth Day, we finally have a president who follows science.”
It's one of many things Karem said Trump uttered in recent days to brag about himself and an administration suffering under several scandals.
Writing for Salon, Karem criticized the administration's pro-science claim.
He provided a list of presidents from the Founding Fathers onward, who "took actions that supported science." Trump's team also added an attack on former President Joe Biden, claiming he "wasted billions" in "ineffective grifts." They didn't name any examples.
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Then Trump made a huge announcement about his new, larger flagpoles.
"Wednesday morning, the president walked out of the White House to the North Lawn and told members of the press he’s paying out of his own pocket for two new flag poles at the White House," Karem wrote.
Not only would those poles be larger, they'd also be better.
“We're putting up a beautiful, almost 100-foot-tall American flag on this side and another one on the other side, two flags top of the line. And they needed flag poles for 200 years," said Trump. "It was something I've often said, you know, they don't have a flag pole per se. So, we're putting one right where you saw us, and we're putting another one on the other side, on top of the mounds. It's going to be two beautiful poles."
The current flag poles at the White House are 75 feet, Karem said. They "apparently don't count," he quipped.
A former Republican member of Congress asked him, “You don’t think he’s overcompensating, do you? He probably needs something that looks patriotic to sit on.”
Another laughable moment occurred when White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt stated that everyone at the Pentagon was to meet with Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. She accused those close to him of being "leakers" and disloyal to the president.
"It’s hard to be taken seriously when the 'entire' Pentagon considers Hegseth a cable news clown with bad tattoos who wants to install a makeup room in the Pentagon. Seriously, you can’t make this up," wrote Karem. He also said that there were dozens of defense and White House sources saying the search is on for another defense secretary.
"Pot, meet kettle," quipped Karem about the matter.
