The Republican tax bill is legitimately but expectedly evil. These two tidbits are surprisingly evil.
/Two things happened yesterday that make it seem as if the Trump administration is trying hard to appear as evil as possible.
Almost as if they are auditioning for the role of the next Bond villain.
And no, it's not the Republican's deeply unpopular tax bill that will cut taxes on the ultra wealthy, raise taxes on millions of middle class Americans, and increase the deficit by enormous amounts. That's admittedly evil but almost any standard, including and especially by the standards of Jesus Christ, who the Republicans constantly profess to love.
But we knew this was coming. It's straight out of the Republican playbook.
And no, it's not the additional tax cuts that Republicans have added to the bill for (no joke) golf course and private jet owners. These cuts are also unbelievably evil, especially when you consider that more than one-quarter of all American children are food insecure on a daily basis.
But Republicans have been doing this kind of thing forever.
No, yesterday the Trump administration decided to allow hunters to bring trophies of elephants they killed in Zimbabwe and Zambia back to the United States, reversing a ban put in place by the Obama administration in 2014.
Trump has gone out of his way to take the side of elephant killers.
Can't imagine why they might decide to further threaten this already endangered species...
Meanwhile, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and his wife Louise Linton, who is famous for being born into enormous wealth, marrying into enormous wealth, and insulting Americans for not being rich enough, visited the Bureau of Engraving and Printing in order to take one of the most tone deaf photos of all time:
It's takes a special breed of narcissism and/or stupidity to look at this photo (and the photo of Donald Trump Jr.) and think, "Yes. Perfect. That's the one we want America to see."
Stupid, evil narcissists running the country and not even trying to hide it anymore.