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Supreme Court Announcement Scheduled Just Like The World's Worst Game Show

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President Donald Trump (screencap via White House YouTube feed)

Say what you will of Ronald Reagan’s presidency, the guy only brought his movie star history into the office in the most superficial of ways. There were some cute “win one for the ‘Gipper'” jokes and some staged photo ops of him pretending to be a real cowboy, but the business of actually governing was conducted with a sense of decorum befitting the office.

On the other hand, reality television star Donald Trump fails to see how the business of governing could possibly be handled differently than his business of manipulating the media in the spirit of ceaseless self-aggrandizement while every objective measure of his business worth plummets down the toilet. Trump’s “billionaire” myth was on the rocks, with no one on the Street but Deutsche Bank — at the direction Justice Kennedy’s son — willing to front him money, when he stumbled into a competition show where he could tell other C-List celebrities that they were “Fired.” He’d finally found a business where he could succeed without having to declare bankruptcy.

So it’s little surprise that when approaching the solemn duty of appointing a Supreme Court justice, Trump has opted to schedule his announcement in advance, informing the world that we’ll finally meet the person who will ensure we “Make American Antebellum Again” for decades to come on July 9.

Bring your popcorn.

Trump, who the American voters rejected to the tune of several million votes, will cement his legacy for upwards of a half century a week from Monday when he unveils the winner of the five-way race that he’s entirely intentionally leaked to the media to guarantee the next week never features a minute of mainstream bandwidth on the continuing humanitarian crisis at the border or the increasingly dire economic news his hare-brained tariffs have unleashed.

Will it be D.C. Circuit Judge Brett Kavanaugh? The Seventh Circuit’s Amy Coney Barrett? The Third Circuit’s Thomas Hardiman? Or one of the pair of Sixth Circuit judges on the list: Raymond Kethledge or Amul Thapar? Barrett and Thapar are both under 50! Tune in to find out who the Federalist Society Trump will pick!

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President Donald Trump says he will pick Supreme Court justice on July 9 [USA Today]

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