x Very little discussion of all the purposely false and defamatory stories put out this week by the Fake News Media. They are out of control - correct reporting means nothing to them. Major lies written, then forced to be withdrawn after they are exposed...a stain on America! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 10, 2017

x CNNÃ¢ÂÂS slogan is CNN, THE MOST TRUSTED NAME IN NEWS. Everyone knows this is not true, that this could, in fact, be a fraud on the American Public. There are many outlets that are far more trusted than Fake News CNN. Their slogan should be CNN, THE LEAST TRUSTED NAME IN NEWS! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 9, 2017

And so forth. Oh, and calling for a specific, named Washington Post reporter to be fired for a mistaken tweet that was quickly deleted and apologized-for.

x .@DaveWeigel @WashingtonPost put out a phony photo of an empty arena hours before I arrived @ the venue, w/ thousands of people outside, on their way in. Real photos now shown as I spoke. Packed house, many people unable to get in. Demand apology & retraction from FAKE NEWS WaPo! pic.twitter.com/XAblFGh1ob — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 9, 2017

x .@daveweigel of the Washington Post just admitted that his picture was a FAKE (fraud?) showing an almost empty arena last night for my speech in Pensacola when, in fact, he knew the arena was packed (as shown also on T.V.). FAKE NEWS, he should be fired. — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 9, 2017

So what happened here is that reporter Dave Weigel tweeted pictures of an emptyish arena mistakenly believing that they were from during the time Donald Garbage Fire was talking. When he learned that he was mistaken he deleted the tweet, explained his error, and apologized.

Donald Trump then took to Twitter to demand that someone who misrepresented Donald Trump's crowd size be summarily fired.

Donald Trump's tweet demanding this was retweeted by ex-Trump press secretary Sean Spicer, whose very first turn behind the White House podium was to push the Trump-ordered claim that Donald Trump's inauguration crowd was far bigger than the reports, the many many pictures, the police estimates and the park estimates all agreed upon. It was a flagrant lie, and would remain Sean Spicer's signature lie even long after he had reduced the White House press briefing to a farcical mockery of itself.

As an aside, you may remember that at various points before White House press secretary Sean Spicer's career collapsed, due to the man's daily willingness to lie about everything, all the time, whether or not everyone else in America knew it to be a lie or not, Sean Spicer's friends and acquaintances tried very hard to convince us that Sean Spicer was a decent human being. Ship: sailed.

As for Weigel, the presidential demand that he lose his job for getting a fact wrong was met with widespread public and professional derision, because Donald Trump is a garbage fire who cannot get through a single speech without intentionally lying, much less an entire weekend, and because the White House has never once either corrected itself after promoting false information. There was a concerted effort to get Americans to buy Dave Weigel's book, and general mockery of the notion that Donald Trump even has the mental capacity to distinguish between an accidental mistake and crooked bullshitting from a serial liar.

x Wait... didn't Trump retweet a false narrative around a video from Denmark---claiming it showed a Muslim immigrant attacking a Danish boy when it was not---like last week? https://t.co/WFqiLtSmtd — Kate Starbird (@katestarbird) December 10, 2017

x A great reporter, @daveweigel, retweeted a photo, deleted it when he found it created confusion and apologized.



A lousy president, @realDonaldTrump, promotes scorching lies about crowd sizes, never clarifies, never apologizes.



Weigel wins this one -- hands down. https://t.co/wwNIEgDcrt — John Nichols (@NicholsUprising) December 10, 2017

The remainder of the Donald Trump tweeting weekend was, as usual, an assortment of self-aggrandizing posts claiming to have the best such-and-such, or whatever, and of course endorsing a child molester over someone from the Not Donald Trump Party because Donald Trump is a fucking garbage fire in every possible way.

x A big contingent of very enthusiastic Roy Moore fans at the rally last night. We canÃ¢ÂÂt have a Pelosi/Schumer Liberal Democrat, Jones, in that important Alabama Senate seat. Need your vote to Make America Great Again! Jones will always vote against what we must do for our Country. — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 9, 2017

Again, this has been your weekly reminder that it is not that Donald Trump is somehow "bad" or "unusual" at his presidential duties: He is unfit for office. He is forever attacking specific named Americans, and companies, and institutions, who have committed the egregious crime of momentarily pissing him off, while demanding that the nation act as his enforcers for punishing anyone who makes Donald Trump feel bad. He represents a concrete danger to his targets; he chooses his targets solely based on personal spite. He lies constantly, about everything; he is not merely dishonest, but to all appearances, delusional. He is unfit for office. He continually makes executive decisions about the direction of the country based on whims, lies, misinformation, or personal self-promotion. He is an embarrassment to the nation. He is a danger to the nation. He is a garbage fire.

By the time Trump leaves office, it will be widely accepted by the majority of experts that he was unfit for the job to begin with, and we will debate for decades, at least those of us not incinerated in whichever war he eventually starts, on just what ought to have been done to better defend the nation from an obvious halfwit. Many of the questions will be directed towards Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell, the two people in the nation who could have at any point stood up to demand their president adhere to at least basic standards of decency. They'd do well to have their staffers and speechwriters start preparing those answers in advance.