Something really bad must be going on behind the scenes if Himself is dealing out this kind of penny-ante bullpucky. From The Washington Post:

"There will be plenty of movie and entertainment stars," Trump told the Times. "All the dress shops are sold out in Washington. It's hard to find a great dress for this inauguration." Hang on — is Trump actually saying that Washington's racks are bare of formal gowns? That there are scant "great" frocks left? Putting aside the old-timey reference to "dress shops" (ladies wear all manner of clothing these days, including pants), we wondered if it was possible that the city's shops actually had been cleared out of ball-worthy wear. Definitely not, said Martha Slagle, vice president and general manager of the Neiman Marcus in Friendship Heights. If a ball attendee were to walk in today, "you have more than a thousand evening gowns to choose from," she said, noting that the store stocks up every four years in anticipation of inauguration demand.

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Who thinks like this?

Seriously, if you're going to make up an easily disprovable lie about how popular the idea of your being inaugurated is, why do you use ball gowns as a metric? Also, too, "dress shops"? Does one of the Cratchit daughters work there?

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