I thought the never-ending Stormy Daniels news cycle hit rock bottom earlier this month when she appeared on “Saturday Night Live” to deliver cringeworthy, Resistance-inspired one-liners to a bad impersonation of President Trump.
I was wrong. It gets dumber.
West Hollywood, Calif., is set to award the former adult actress with a key to the city to “honor her legal battle against President Donald Trump,” according to ABC7.
The city also declared Wednesday “Stormy Daniels Day.”
Daniels alleges she had an affair with President Trump in 2006, one year after he married his current wife, Melania. Daniels also alleges Trump’s people were able to purchase her silence before the 2016 presidential election with $130,000 and a nondisclosure agreement.
She is now suing Trump, who continues to deny the affair, and his personal attorney, Michael Cohen, in a bid to get out of her NDA, which she claims the president didn’t sign personally.
“In these politically tumultuous times, Daniels has proven herself to be a profile in courage by speaking truth to power even under threats to her safety and extreme intimidation,” West Hollywood officials said in a statement.
Just so we’re all on the same page: Her supposed struggle is that she wants to speak freely about the one time she claims to have slept with an infamous adulterer, who, by the way, appears to have paid her six figures to keep quiet about their alleged tryst.
Talk about defining down heroism.
“Trump administration has been a direct threat to the people of the city of West Hollywood – our LGBTQ community, our immigrant community, women here in this community — so Stormy Daniels has really showed up as the woman to save the Republic,” said West Hollywood Mayor John Duran.
These West Hollywood officials are obviously not playing with a full deck, but how are they not angrier that this supposed resistance warrior kept silent during the actual election, when there was still a chance to avoid this “direct threat” to their city?
Did any of these people stop to ask themselves how things might have turned out had she used her supposed courage to talk about this when it really mattered, and not after he had already won the White House? When “too little, too late” is sufficient enough to earn a person the key to the city, one has to wonder whether it’s an honor even worth accepting.
At any rate, I’m sure she’s pleased with the continued attention. Cable news darling Michael Avenatti, who also represents Daniels, certainly is.
“We should all thank Stormy for her courage and fortitude through this process!” he tweeted this week.
Surely, this is rock bottom. Surely, it doesn’t get dumber than this.
How could it?
