I take my humor where I can find it in this valley of grief (and of automatic vehicles and sex robots). It's too bad that my sense of humor is unusual, because otherwise this would be the most popular site in the whole universe.
Anyway, after having spent several hours wading through the entirety of the redacted Mueller report I got a kick out of how many people interpreted the report without having read it.
It's a lot quicker that way, of course, and, as we have all learned in the last two decades, nobody is ever taken to task for being wrong in the political media. Besides that way gets you a much hourly wage rate per published piece. Which reminds me that I must ask for money sooner rather than later.
But the funniest reaction to the report came from Trump himself! The report tells us, in excruciating detail, how many times Trump's underlings saved him from even more blatant obstruction of justice by "forgetting" to carry out his orders and by general disobedience.
Rather than thank them for that service, Trump is very irate, because people might now think that he is not the autocrat he firmly believes to be:
"Nobody disobeys my orders," Trump said during a walkabout on the South Lawn for the annual Easter egg roll.
He was questioned by CNN's Kaitlan Collins about whether he was worried some of his staff were shrugging off his requests, as depicted by Mueller, whose full redacted report was made public last week.
The document contained anecdote after anecdote of aides refusing to carry out some of Trump's demands to short-circuit the special counsel's investigation. The trend was so marked the report's authors made note of it in their assessment.
The bolds are mine.
Trump's narcissistic mirror tells him that he is the most powerful man in the universe and that nobody dare disobey him. This, to him, is more important than whether he might be found guilty of obstruction of justice or not.