The level of embarrassment that Donald Trump causes is constantly growing. I keep thinking that we've reached the upper limits of how embarrassed that we as a nation can feel, and then, invariably, he says something else that's so absolutely and totally idiotic that it boggles the mind. Hell, he's redefining what a political gaffe even is.

Like today, he spoke before the Values Voter Summit. They're an extremely anti-LGBT group that literally today gave out advertisements for a book called the "Health Hazards of Homosexuality" that argues homosexuality has caused a public health crisis. In the real world, a politician who promised repeatedly to be a friend of the LGBT community even speaking to this group would be considered a gaffe. But with Donald Trump it's not. In fact, him becoming the first sitting president to address the group is sort of par for the course. How about calling them the "Value Voters Summit" instead of the correct, "Values Voter Summit." In the past, that would have been the kind of Joe Biden-y gaffe that opponents would have jumped on despite it being dumb. "How does he not know the proper name of the group he's addressing?!" pundits would scream, but now? Who cares?

No, now the bar for what a "gaffe" is, has been raised incredibly high, and yet today Donald Trump pole vaulted over it with no problem. While addressing the hateful VVS today, Trump talked about the hurricanes that devastated Texas and Florida and Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, but like everything surrounding these hurricanes, he found a way to bungle this too. He claimed to have spoken to the President of the Virgin Islands...

The problem with that is that Donald Trump is the President of the Virgin Islands. So unless he was talking about a very strange conversation he had with a mirror, it seems likely that Donald Trump had no idea that he is in charge of the Virgin Islands too. It's not surprising, but it sure is embarrassing.

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