Yo Semite

On Tuesday, Donald Trump held a White House ceremony where he signed the bipartisan Great American Outdoors Act into law. Although they were instrumental and necessary in its passage, no Democratic members of Congress were invited to the event (details here).

Indeed, in his public statements, Trump made it sound like he and the Republicans alone were entirely responsible for the bill's passage. He even tried to compare himself with Teddy Roosevelt, notwithstanding neither he nor his administration had anything to do with the new law and even opposed it for much of the time Congress considered it.

And, one should not overlook all of the environmental endeavors that Trump has trashed during his presidency, from discarding pollution standards to making dirty industry far easier.

In reality, the Great American Outdoors Act was introduced into the House of Representatives by John Lewis, the revered congressman and civil rights leader who died last month. Trump, however, didn't even mention his name during the White House event, and when questioned about him later, was contemptuous because Lewis did not attend his inauguration.

Notwithstanding the above, Trump did manage to shit all over his own self-congratulatory event by publicly humiliating himself. In his public remarks, whilst reading aloud like a middle-schooler slogging through a book report, Trump twice badly mangled the name "Yosemite." He pronounced it as two words — "yo" and "Semite" as if he was trying to attract a Semite across the room.

Yosemite is America's second-oldest national park and always in the top five most visited park each year. It is known around the world.

How curious that the alleged greatest conservation President since Teddy Roosevelt couldn't even pronounce the name of one of America's most magnificent natural wonders. One might even think he'd never heard of the place until Tuesday.