Ass Clown Special Achievement Award for January, 2020

Last Friday I awarded the Left-Cheek Ass Clown award for this month to White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham. That presentation was a toss-up, and my initial intent was to award the citation to a different person.

That was then, this is now.

Since I made that choice, new evidence has appeared that calls into question my decision to present the award to Ms Grisham ... evidence of behavior so disturbing, amoral, and un-American that I have decided to present a special out-of-cycle award - the first I have ever seen a need to present. Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you

The Ass Clown Special Achievement Award

for

January, 2020

which is presented to

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo

Mr Pompeo is a two-time previous winner of this award (December 2018 Right Cheek and November 2019 Left Cheek), but his most recent behavior outshines every previous qualification for this award. In the face of allegations that US Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch had been surveilled and possibly targeted, Mr Pompeo remained totally silent for more than 48 hours ... before finally making a statement in which he claimed he would investigate, but that “I suspect that much of what’s been reported will ultimately prove wrong."

Mr Pompeo is also notorious for his lack of support for US diplomatic personnel who have been attacked by Der Furor, preferring instead to support a chief executive who relentlessly undermines the State Department and its dedicated professionals, and obviously believes that he is the only part of the government that matters.

Ladies and Gentlemen, Dear Readers, I present an Ass Clown Special Achievement Award to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo - a man to whom history will not be kind for his miserable stewardship of America's diplomatic corps.

Have a good day. More thoughts coming.

Bilbo