Trump struggles with how time works

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There was a point last year at which Harley-Davidson announced plans to move some of its production overseas as a result of Donald Trump’s trade policies. The president. outraged, responded that customers were so angry with the developments that they’d pushed down Harley-Davidson’s sales numbers in 2017.

That, of course, didn’t make any sense. Consumers upset by developments in 2018 can’t affect sales in 2017. Trump was so eager to make a strange political point that he briefly seemed to forget how time works.

Yesterday, it happened again, when Trump signed the Women’s Suffrage Centennial Commemorative Coin Act, which directs the Treasury to issue a commemorative coin to honor the 100th anniversary of American women getting the right to vote. After signing the measure – which passed both the House and Senate unanimously – the president decided to take a moment to reflect on what he considered important: his own awesomeness.

“I am curious why wasn’t it done a long time ago and also, well, I guess the answer to that is because now I am president and we get things done.

“We get a lot of things done that nobody else got done.”

Well, if Trump is “curious” why other presidents didn’t sign the Women’s Suffrage Centennial Commemorative Coin Act, I can help. In this country, the women’s suffrage movement led to the passage of the 19th Amendment in 1919, and its ratification in 1920.

No one tried to honor the centennial of this because – and this is important – centennials mark the hundredth anniversary of things. In order to recognize the centennial of something that happened in 1920, we had to wait until around 2020, because THAT'S HOW TIME WORKS!!

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/centennial-coins-trump-struggles-how-time-works
 
One could, of course, argue that we might have legitimately celebrated the centennial of women's suffrage a few decades ago if not for Trump's ideological forebears.
 
Trump's inability to understand time is funny, although this story reminded me of something that was funny for similar reasons.

Over at Fox "news" Channel (Trump's favorite media outlet) they seem to struggle with understanding how time works as well.

Some years back Steve Doocy of Fox News claimed that the David Vitter prostitution scandal (which broke in the Summer of 2007) hurt the Republicans running for Congress in 2006.

Want me to repeat that?

Steve Doocy told his viewers that Republicans lost elections in November 2006 because of a sex scandal that wouldn't become public knowledge UNTIL 8 MONTHS LATER!!!

http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/14857.html

Maybe the inability to understand time isn't confined to just Trump. Maybe it's a systemic problem among contemporary Republicans.
 
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