The Swedish Chef

Once again, President Trump has provoked a media firestorm by a brief comment.  Speaking at a rally in Florida on Saturday morning, he remarked about a Friday night FoxNews piece on the causal effect between Muslim immigration and surging crime rates in Sweden.  “You look at what’s happening last night in Sweden,” Trump said. “Sweden. Who would believe this? Sweden. They took in large numbers. They’re having problems like they never thought possible.”
Trump’s reference was confusing to those who had not seen the Tucker Carlson show the night before.  Liberal media (who likely are not followers of Carlson’s hugely successful primetime FoxNews program) seized on the chance to misinterpret the remark, reporting that Trump was either inventing, or hallucinating about, a Friday night terror event in Sweden (no such thing happened).  As if on command, left-wingers online exploded in frenzied attacks on Trump, like a swarm of piranha after a swimmer.
Today, the internet roils in struggling to find the truth about the Muslim-related crime rates in Sweden, even inside Sweden itself, where the PC government cautiously downplays the subject, yet a career police officer’s post that it’s actually out of control went instantly viral.
To clear everything up, we offer this quote from the Muppets’ Swedish Chef: “Gersh gurndy morn-dee burn-dee, burn-dee, flip-flip-flip-flip-flip-flip-flip-flip-flip.”

This year on President’s Day 2017, we have many things to take note of that have never before been associated with a U.S. President.  A time of notable precedents, indeed.

Donald Trump, number 45 on the presidential hit parade, sets a series of first-evers, ie.:

1. At 70, he is the oldest incoming President.
2. A multi-billionaire, he is the wealthiest President ever. (Tax returns?)
3. His wife, Melania, is the first FLOTUS to have posed nude.  (Publically, that is.)
4. He is the first President to have his own line of “super premium” vodka.  (And he doesn’t drink!)
5. The first president to have owned a professional football team.  (Okay, USFL, but still…)
6. He owns the tallest residential building in the world. (Trump Tower @ 90 stories)
7. He was the producer and star of a TV reality show – The Apprentice (earning $375,000 per episode!)
8. No president has ever been threatened with impeachment before being sworn in. (And continues to be.)
9. No sitting President has been married three times.
10. He has his own luxury jumbo jet, helicopter, and golf courses.

Number One

There is little doubt that we have yet to see the last of the firsts with this man, who is by far the most “precedential” Chief Executive to occupy the oval office to date.

Next year’s list should be longer.