Scathing Wall Street Journal editorial compares Trump to 'a drunk' clinging to 'an empty gin bottle'

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Wall Street Journal compares Trump to 'a drunk' clinging to 'an empty gin bottle' in scathing editorial
The words of President Donald Trump and his White House staff are, in no small way, a matter of national security and credibility, and all of those things have entered the danger zone, a Wall Street Journal editorial argued on Tuesday night.

• The conservative-leaning editorial board pointed to Trump's ongoing, now-debunked claim that domestic and international entities colluded with the Obama administration to spy on Trump's campaign during the 2016 election.
• Trump and his staffers have not backed away from the false allegation, despite having been rebuked publicly by FBI Director James Comey and NSA Director Mike Rogers during congressional testimony on Monday.
• The Journal painted a stark image of Trump's refusal to back down: "Yet the President clings to his assertion like a drunk to an empty gin bottle, rolling out his press spokesman to make more dubious claims."
• An example of that came last week when White House press secretary Sean Spicer cited commentary from a now-suspended Fox News commentator, who claimed that US intelligence sources told him that the Obama administration recruited Britain's Global Communications Headquarters for the nonexistent Trump wiretapping operation.
• All parties mentioned by the Trump White House in its attempts to establish Trump's wiretapping claims have categorically denied the allegations.
• Still, Trump and his White House have persisted, and The Journal wrote that the gravity of Trump's headstrong motivations carry potentially devastating consequences.
• The editorial board concluded: "If he doesn't show more respect for the truth, most Americans may conclude he's a fake president."

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Gin? He acts more like he's drinking one (or more) of these:

Night Train, for example, "is all business when it pulls into the station. All aboard to nowhere - woo wooo! The night train runs only one route: sober to stupid with no roundtrip tickets available, and a strong liklihood of a train wreck along the way."
http://bumwine.com/nighttrain.html

Thunderbird is another good prospect. "As you drink on, the bird soars higher while you sink lower."
http://bumwine.com/tbird.html

Or maybe he ignored the warning on Mad Dog 20/20: "beware; this dog has a bite to back up its bark." But at least it's "the best of the bum wines at making you feel warm inside."
http://bumwine.com/md2020.html

Then there's Wild Irish Rose, "the thorn in your hangover" that "definitely has some secret additives that go straight to the cranium. It's called 'wild' for a good reason, and bystanders should beware. Wild Irish Rose is sure to light a fire of drunken rage in your soul." There's also a theory "that this foul beverage is a conspiracy by the Republicans to kill the homeless."
http://bumwine.com/wildirishrose.html

Personally, I would put money on Cisco, "known as 'liquid crack,' for its reputation for wreaking more mental havoc than the cheapest tequila. Something in this syrupy hooch seems to have a synapse-blasting effect not unlike low-grade cocaine. Tales of Cisco-induced semi-psychotic fits are common. Often, people on a Cisco binge end up curled into a fetal ball, shuddering and muttering paranoid rants. Nudity and violence may well be involved too. Everyone who drinks this feels great at first, and claims, 'It's not bad at all, I like it.' But, you really do not want to mess around with this one, because they all sing a different tune a few minutes later. And by tune, I mean the psychotic ramblings of a raging naked bum. We must also note that Cisco is the best of all 5 bum wines at putting the darkest and puffiest bags under your eyes. In 1991, Cisco's tendency to cause a temporary form of inebriated insanity led the Federal Trade Commission to require its bottlers to print a warning on the label."
http://bumwine.com/cisco.html