we’re gonna need more rock

With Canada’s birthday successfully celebrated — modestly, of course — on Wednesday, we Canucks are looking southward and forward to tomorrow. Mainly because our soccer team is playing Morocco in a World Cup match in Houston, but also because we’re curious about how Trump’s holiday speech will be received.

It’s scheduled to start at 9:45 p.m. Aging Orange will have no problem bloviating until the fireworks start at 10:30 p.m. The hot air he’ll generate will only increase the torrid temperatures D.C. is experiencing. It’s so hellish in D.C. right now that the Fair has been closed down. And it’s supposed to be just as bad tomorrow.

I can’t see how the optics could possibly work well for The Donny. He’ll undoubtedly still be jaw-jacking as young families with cranky kids up well past their bedtime start filing out. But it will, yet again, be Biden’s fault.

Trump’s visit to North Dakota has allowed him to refresh his fantasy of being on Mount Rushmore. There’s plenty of rock left to fit him to the left of Washington or the right of Lincoln. But if he wants a symbol that accurately portrays his ego, he’ll have to use the Rocky Mountains.