TGIF 7/20/18

I know the weeks are only seven days long, but sometimes they seem way longer, don't they?

Like this one.  "Take this week - please!"

I mean, we had

• #HELLinHELSINKI2018 and then we had the 
• #ligthsoff thing at the meeting when the president tried to explain himself and then we had the 
• #whatthesniff reaction with the would/wouldn't thing, and then we had the
• #maybemaybenot part about letting Putin interrogate a former ambassador and then we had
• #WWIIIwithlovefromMontenegro and then we had
• #caughtoffguard at the security summit with the announcement that we might be
• #Putinonairs in the fall if the Russian president decides to come here, and of course that assumes
• #nocollusiondoesntmeannoindictment but we'll just have to wait and see, I guess.

What else happened this week?

Sean Spicer's back in the news. He's not hiding in the bushes, not this time: he's out with his book, The Briefing: Politics, The Press, and The President. The book includes passages like this one:

I don't think we will ever again see a candidate like Donald Trump. His high-wire act is one that few could ever follow. He is a unicorn, riding a unicorn over a rainbow. 

Uh... I guess this next part explains the whole unicorn upon a unicorn thing:

His verbal bluntness involves risks that few candidates would dare take. His ability to pivot from a seemingly career-ending moment to a furious assault on his opponents is a talent few politicians can muster.

That last part is true, even if the whole unicorn thing is sort of like a Sean Spicer press conference.

TGIF, folks.