Showing posts with label tweeting the trump. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tweeting the trump. Show all posts
Tuesday, July 28, 2020
Sunday, October 20, 2019
Who? - Updated
Mark Esperanto, Secretary of Defense, “The ceasefire is holding up very nicely. There are some minor skirmishes that have ended quickly. New areas being resettled with the Kurds.” USA soldiers are not in combat or ceasefire zones. We have secured the Oil. Bringing soldiers home!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 20, 2019
The current secretary of defense is Dr. Mark T. Esper. Wouldn't it be cool to have a president who knows that? Yes, this is probably an autocorrect fail, but still. A fully-functioning president would have caught the change and corrected it before hitting "Send."
And one more thing. "We have secured the Oil." Huh?
Update: He fixed it, or to be more precise, he deleted the tweet and sent out a new version:
“The ceasefire is holding up very nicely. There are some minor skirmishes that have ended quickly. New areas being resettled with Kurds. U.S. soldiers are not in combat or ceasefire zone. We have secured the Oil.” Mark Esper, Secretary of Defense. Ending endless wars!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 20, 2019
Saturday, October 12, 2019
He Chocked
So funny to watch Steve Kerr grovel and pander when asked a simple question about China. He chocked, and looks weak and pathetic. Don’t want him at the White House!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 12, 2019
So far Donald hasn't corrected this tweet from last night. If I can find a relevant clip from Friends, I'll update this post.
Monday, October 7, 2019
In My Great And Unmatched Wisdom...
As I have stated strongly before, and just to reiterate, if Turkey does anything that I, in my great and unmatched wisdom, consider to be off limits, I will totally destroy and obliterate the Economy of Turkey (I’ve done before!). They must, with Europe and others, watch over...— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 7, 2019
....the captured ISIS fighters and families. The U.S. has done far more than anyone could have ever expected, including the capture of 100% of the ISIS Caliphate. It is time now for others in the region, some of great wealth, to protect their own territory. THE USA IS GREAT!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 7, 2019
Wednesday, October 2, 2019
It's Like A Cow's Opinion. It's Moo - Updated
I wonder what made me think of that?
Update: Moot Twitter was having way too much fun with this one. Donald deleted the tweet above and sent out a corrected version:
Who cares, right? It's moo:
Now the press is trying to sell the fact that I wanted a Moot stuffed with alligators and snakes, with an electrified fence and sharp spikes on top, at our Southern Border. I may be tough on Border Security, but not that tough. The press has gone Crazy. Fake News!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 2, 2019
Update: Moot Twitter was having way too much fun with this one. Donald deleted the tweet above and sent out a corrected version:
Now the press is trying to sell the fact that I wanted a Moat stuffed with alligators and snakes, with an electrified fence and sharp spikes on top, at our Southern Border. I may be tough on Border Security, but not that tough. The press has gone Crazy. Fake News!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 2, 2019
Who cares, right? It's moo:
Saturday, August 31, 2019
The Number One Shoe? - Updated
Is Sean Hannity the number one shoe on Cable Television? Donald thinks so:
As I've said here before, posting Donald's "tweets with typos" isn't as much fun as it used to be because there are so many of them. Every now and then, however, I just can't stop myself. Enjoy.
Update: Donald doesn't always correct his typos; this time he did:
Has anyone noticed that the top shows on @foxnews and cable ratings are those that are Fair (or great) to your favorite President, me! Congratulations to @seanhannity for being the number one shoe on Cable Television!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 31, 2019
As I've said here before, posting Donald's "tweets with typos" isn't as much fun as it used to be because there are so many of them. Every now and then, however, I just can't stop myself. Enjoy.
Update: Donald doesn't always correct his typos; this time he did:
Has anyone noticed that the top shows on @foxnews and cable ratings are those that are Fair (or great) to your favorite President, me! Congratulations to @seanhannity for being the number one show on Cable Television!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 31, 2019
Sunday, February 24, 2019
Fireworks On The 4th Of July - Updated
HOLD THE DATE! We will be having one of the biggest gatherings in the history of Washington, D.C., on July 4th. It will be called “A Salute To America” and will be held at the Lincoln Memorial. Major fireworks display, entertainment and an address by your favorite President, me!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 24, 2019
Pete Souza weighed in on Instagram:
... and the Twitter snark started right away:
Wow, gathering people on the National Mall on July 4th. I’ll try to remember that. https://t.co/c5bqBBjtvC— Seth Masket (@smotus) February 24, 2019
HOLD THE DATE! We will be having one of the biggest candy giveaways in history on October 31st. It will be called “Halloween” and will be held in every neighborhood. Major pumpkin displays.— Rory Cooper (@rorycooper) February 24, 2019
HOLD THE DATE! We will be having one of the biggest religious celebrations in the history of Christianity on Dec. 25th. It will be called “Christmas” and everybody will gets gifts! Thanks to your favorite president, me! https://t.co/iHlYAnRzOh— Ron Fournier (@ron_fournier) February 24, 2019
wait that’s the Fourth of July https://t.co/9ZOxlKWNcE— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) February 24, 2019
Did your staff not tell you there are fireworks and a concert on the Mall and a massive gathering *every* Fourth of July? https://t.co/5CwTUtCsIw— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) February 24, 2019
Perhaps as a follow-up act, you could — hear me out here — invent another new holiday to give thanks for everything we have. We could call it something like “A Salute to Thanks!” and it would be, I don’t know, perhaps the 4th Thursday of November? https://t.co/4INQ6qlcbQ— Brian Klaas (@brianklaas) February 24, 2019
If this goes well, I think we should follow it with a big party in Times Square the night before New Year’s Day. https://t.co/PiiNrcpIml— Rep. Eric Swalwell (@RepSwalwell) February 24, 2019
There were some serious reactions too. Apparently President Nixon tried something similar and it didn't go well:
As I noted in my book One Nation Under God, when Nixon was under fire in early 1970, he and his supporters planned a Fourth of July rally at the Lincoln Memorial which they called "Honor America Day."— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) February 12, 2019
Billy Graham and Bob Hope unveiled the plans this way: pic.twitter.com/lJuohBbJFY
This is right. His move is ridiculous...but it is also a political move right out of the authoritarian playbook. It is absurd...but also dangerous, and if he politicizes whatever idiocy he does that day, he should pay for it out of campaign funds. https://t.co/ChBIeb1Y1N— David Rothkopf (@djrothkopf) February 24, 2019
A lawmaker DM-ed me this after Trump announced (whatever he thinks he announced about the 4th of July) pic.twitter.com/UwP1ZhvIbU— Matt Laslo (@MattLaslo) February 24, 2019
Updated on Sunday night. Must add this:
.@realDonaldTrump Thank you & Melania for the invitation to your 7/04/2019 gathering.— Philippe Reines (@PhilippeReines) February 24, 2019
As it conflicts with America’s annual “Fourth of July” festivities celebrating our independence from tyranny, it is with regret I must decline.
Our Founders sent a SAVE THE DATE 243 years ago. https://t.co/0XfjD9Bhbw
Thursday, December 20, 2018
The Nothing - Updated
According to his Twitter header, Harold Pollack is a University of Chicago professor and fellow [at] the Century Foundation. Last night he shared some intriguing observations about Donald:
Pollack responded to a reply, which is where I got the title of this post:
And this is what Heffernan wrote, back in April, 2017:
THIS is what makes my head spin: The president is not a moral figure in any idiom, any land, any culture, any subculture. I’m not talking about the liberal enlightenment that would make him want the country to take care of the poor and sick. I mean he has no Republican values either. He has no honor among thieves, no cosa nostra loyalty, no Southern code against cheating or lying, none of the openness of New York, rectitude of Boston, expressiveness and kindness of California, no evangelical family values, no Protestant work ethic. No Catholic moral seriousness, no sense of contrition or gratitude. No Jewish moral and intellectual precision, sense of history. He doesn’t care about the life of the mind OR the life of the senses. He is not mandarin, not committed to inquiry or justice, not hospitable. He is not proper. He is not a bon vivant who loves to eat, drink, laugh.
There’s nothing he would die for — not American values, obviously, but not the land of Russia or his wife or young son. He has some hollow success creeds from Norman Vincent Peale, but Peale was obsessed with fair-dealing and a Presbyterian pastor; Trump has no fairness or piety. He’s not sentimental; no affection for dogs or babies. No love for mothers, “the common man,” veterans. He has no sense of military valor, and is openly a coward about war. He would have sorely lacked the pagan beauty and capacity to fight required in ancient Greece. He doesn’t care about his wife or wives; he is a philanderer but he’s not a romantic hero with great love for women and sex. He commands loyalty and labor from his children not because he loves them, even; he seems almost to hate them — and if one of them slipped it would be terrifying. He does no philanthropy.
He doesn’t — in a more secular key — even seem to have a sense of his enlightened self-interest enough to shake Angela Merkel’s hand. Doesn’t even affect a love for the arts, like most rich New Yorkers. He doesn’t live and die by aesthetics and health practices like some fascists; he’s very ugly and barely mammalian. Am I missing an obscure moral system to which he so much as nods? Also are there other people, living or dead, like him?
More than anything else I can remember reading, Pollack and Heffernan have captured the essence of Donald Trump. The emptiness, the vacuousness, the nothingness. There's just nothing there.
Saturday afternoon update. A heartwarming paragraph from an article at The Atlantic about Jim Mattis. What a contrast with the emptiness of Donald:
The story is told of Jim Mattis, when he was the commanding general at Quantico, relieving a young lance corporal on Christmas. The rest of that wintry day, those entering the front gate of the Marine base were startled to see that the sentry was a general, checking passes and waving cars through so that a young man could spend the holiday with his family. It is the kind of behavior animated by sentiments Donald Trump could not understand, and it reflected a kind of code by which he cannot live.
The NY AG suggests that the Trump Foundation is a comprehensive fraud. I fully believe this, but I am also truly puzzled. (thread). https://t.co/y6Bc9OZTxR— Harold Pollack (@haroldpollack) December 20, 2018
I'm not surprised that the Foundation is riddled with self-dealing, hidden favoratism, and tax scams. https://t.co/16NyROMrYd— Harold Pollack (@haroldpollack) December 20, 2018
I'm not surprised that the Foundation's main purpose other than these scams is to promote Trump himself. https://t.co/lr5hbKseth— Harold Pollack (@haroldpollack) December 20, 2018
None of that is surprising given who we are dealing with. I'm not surprised to see a billionaire use his foundation for unethical financial hijinks and to evade various niceties of estate taxation and corporate governance. https://t.co/NITTzxBIYg— Harold Pollack (@haroldpollack) December 20, 2018
Here's what does surprise me: There are literally no good works performed or even the President's obsessions or pet causes pursued by this Foundation at all. https://t.co/Kn0qGqBkRc— Harold Pollack (@haroldpollack) December 20, 2018
We researchers do various fund-raisers involving the top 0.01%. Some are saints. Some are jerks. Some are devotees of Gwyneth Paltrow's latest potion. Some are moved by world hunger. Others want their name on the dorm where they met their bae or whatever. https://t.co/inTpBR6oSQ— Harold Pollack (@haroldpollack) December 20, 2018
Every one of them has a genuine passion for something, even if that something seems pretty silly or frivolous to us. Maybe they're passionate about liver cancer because their wonderful nanny suffered from it. Maybe they want to give $50 million to the Pollack cat leukemia center.— Harold Pollack (@haroldpollack) December 20, 2018
President Trump doesn't show any of that, any genuine interest in anything outside of himself.— Harold Pollack (@haroldpollack) December 20, 2018
Trump's tone-deaf billionaire comportment weirdly reminds me of Rod Blagojevich. Old-style machine politics weren't always pretty, but there were niceties and rules. You didn't shake down the children's hospital for campaign cash. That's what the concrete contractor was for.— Harold Pollack (@haroldpollack) December 20, 2018
The Children's Hospital was why you did it all. That's what you genuinely felt good about, bragged about to the grandkids. Same deal for sharp-elbowed billionaires. Their philanthropy genuinely matters to them. It's how many wish to be remembered after they are gone.— Harold Pollack (@haroldpollack) December 20, 2018
Sure--you might use your foundation to skirt a few rules about estate taxes+corporate governance. But it's a real thing. You're proud of it. You enjoy it. You don't use it to pay your kid's $7 Boy Scout dues, or make your foundation an embarrassing joke. https://t.co/xSB8th0jFY— Harold Pollack (@haroldpollack) December 20, 2018
You support whatever moves you, even if they're your own eccentric or pet cause. That's part of what's so fun about that first billion. pic.twitter.com/McPRea0wUE— Harold Pollack (@haroldpollack) December 20, 2018
The President doesn't do any of that. For all his money, power, and supermodel romances, he's not someone I envy for a single second. He seems spiritually empty in some profound and sad way. What does it profit a man to win the whole world if he never locates his own soul.— Harold Pollack (@haroldpollack) December 20, 2018
Pollack responded to a reply, which is where I got the title of this post:
Yes, the nothing is what’s striking. https://t.co/T3PmizitMS— Harold Pollack (@haroldpollack) December 20, 2018
And this is what Heffernan wrote, back in April, 2017:
THIS is what makes my head spin: The president is not a moral figure in any idiom, any land, any culture, any subculture. I’m not talking about the liberal enlightenment that would make him want the country to take care of the poor and sick. I mean he has no Republican values either. He has no honor among thieves, no cosa nostra loyalty, no Southern code against cheating or lying, none of the openness of New York, rectitude of Boston, expressiveness and kindness of California, no evangelical family values, no Protestant work ethic. No Catholic moral seriousness, no sense of contrition or gratitude. No Jewish moral and intellectual precision, sense of history. He doesn’t care about the life of the mind OR the life of the senses. He is not mandarin, not committed to inquiry or justice, not hospitable. He is not proper. He is not a bon vivant who loves to eat, drink, laugh.
There’s nothing he would die for — not American values, obviously, but not the land of Russia or his wife or young son. He has some hollow success creeds from Norman Vincent Peale, but Peale was obsessed with fair-dealing and a Presbyterian pastor; Trump has no fairness or piety. He’s not sentimental; no affection for dogs or babies. No love for mothers, “the common man,” veterans. He has no sense of military valor, and is openly a coward about war. He would have sorely lacked the pagan beauty and capacity to fight required in ancient Greece. He doesn’t care about his wife or wives; he is a philanderer but he’s not a romantic hero with great love for women and sex. He commands loyalty and labor from his children not because he loves them, even; he seems almost to hate them — and if one of them slipped it would be terrifying. He does no philanthropy.
He doesn’t — in a more secular key — even seem to have a sense of his enlightened self-interest enough to shake Angela Merkel’s hand. Doesn’t even affect a love for the arts, like most rich New Yorkers. He doesn’t live and die by aesthetics and health practices like some fascists; he’s very ugly and barely mammalian. Am I missing an obscure moral system to which he so much as nods? Also are there other people, living or dead, like him?
More than anything else I can remember reading, Pollack and Heffernan have captured the essence of Donald Trump. The emptiness, the vacuousness, the nothingness. There's just nothing there.
Saturday afternoon update. A heartwarming paragraph from an article at The Atlantic about Jim Mattis. What a contrast with the emptiness of Donald:
The story is told of Jim Mattis, when he was the commanding general at Quantico, relieving a young lance corporal on Christmas. The rest of that wintry day, those entering the front gate of the Marine base were startled to see that the sentry was a general, checking passes and waving cars through so that a young man could spend the holiday with his family. It is the kind of behavior animated by sentiments Donald Trump could not understand, and it reflected a kind of code by which he cannot live.
I also like this: Success in government is often measured less by the brilliant things one does than by the stupidities one prevents. By that standard, Mattis’s tenure as secretary of defense was a success.
Read the article here.
And how pathetic is this picture, tweeted out by Donald last night? He was supposed to go to Florida yesterday for 2+ weeks of vacation at Mar-a-Lago over the holidays. Instead, Melania and Barron went without him, leaving him alone in the oval office signing paperwork, looking forlorn and slightly vacant. Nothing. There's nothing there.
Update #4, on Sunday December 30. Apparently Melania has returned to Florida to be with Barron over the New Year holiday, leaving Donald alone at the White House. Read the Daily Mail story here. According to the Palm Beach Post, some of the swells in Palm Beach are not happy:
A source who had planned to attend the Mar-a-Lago New Year’s Eve party said Friday Palm Beach was abuzz with members and guests talking about their own plans to bail on the Trump family’s annual gala.
It’s unclear whether Mar-a-Lago will let people wiggle out of their tickets at this late date. But evidently, some club members and guests have no interest in paying extra-high ticket prices if the president will not be in attendance. Read that article here.
Read the article here.
And how pathetic is this picture, tweeted out by Donald last night? He was supposed to go to Florida yesterday for 2+ weeks of vacation at Mar-a-Lago over the holidays. Instead, Melania and Barron went without him, leaving him alone in the oval office signing paperwork, looking forlorn and slightly vacant. Nothing. There's nothing there.
Sunday morning, update #2, a tweet from yesterday. Melania and Barron are coming back, probably not happily.Some of the many Bills that I am signing in the Oval Office right now. Cancelled my trip on Air Force One to Florida while we wait to see if the Democrats will help us to protect America’s Southern Border! pic.twitter.com/ws6LYhKcKl— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 21, 2018
Update #3, on Wednesday, December 26: I made the assumption that Barron would come back with his mother, but according to an article at the Daily Mail, he stayed in Florida with Ivanka and Don Jr. Read it here. And Harold Pollack has expanded his Twitter thoughts to an opinion column in the Washington Post. Read it here.New from @PressSec — “Due to the shutdown, President Trump will remain in Washington, D.C. and the First Lady will return from Florida so they can spend Christmas together.”— Seung Min Kim (@seungminkim) December 22, 2018
Update #4, on Sunday December 30. Apparently Melania has returned to Florida to be with Barron over the New Year holiday, leaving Donald alone at the White House. Read the Daily Mail story here. According to the Palm Beach Post, some of the swells in Palm Beach are not happy:
A source who had planned to attend the Mar-a-Lago New Year’s Eve party said Friday Palm Beach was abuzz with members and guests talking about their own plans to bail on the Trump family’s annual gala.
It’s unclear whether Mar-a-Lago will let people wiggle out of their tickets at this late date. But evidently, some club members and guests have no interest in paying extra-high ticket prices if the president will not be in attendance. Read that article here.
Monday, December 10, 2018
A Smocking Gun
“Democrats can’t find a Smocking Gun tying the Trump campaign to Russia after James Comey’s testimony. No Smocking Gun...No Collusion.” @FoxNews That’s because there was NO COLLUSION. So now the Dems go to a simple private transaction, wrongly call it a campaign contribution,...— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 10, 2018
Posting Donald's "tweets with typos" isn't as much fun as it used to be because there are so many of them. It's not new or novel anymore. Still, this one caught my eye, and it wasn't until I read it the second time that I realized he used the word "smocking" twice. Does he really not know that the expression he's trying for is smoking gun? Anyway, he followed with this:
....which it was not (but even if it was, it is only a CIVIL CASE, like Obama’s - but it was done correctly by a lawyer and there would not even be a fine. Lawyer’s liability if he made a mistake, not me). Cohen just trying to get his sentence reduced. WITCH HUNT!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 10, 2018
Former CIA Director John Brennan responded with this, which I agree with:
Whenever you send out such inane tweets, I take great solace in knowing that you realize how much trouble you are in & how impossible it will be for you to escape American justice. Mostly, I am relieved that you will never have the opportunity to run for public office again. https://t.co/JzB6YH8C6H— John O. Brennan (@JohnBrennan) December 10, 2018
Donald is freaking out.
Friday, December 7, 2018
Who's Dumb As A Rock? - Updated
So much for all that "Look how presidential Trump is" during the Bush funeral:
What set him off? Read about it here.
Friday afternoon update:
Mike Pompeo is doing a great job, I am very proud of him. His predecessor, Rex Tillerson, didn’t have the mental capacity needed. He was dumb as a rock and I couldn’t get rid of him fast enough. He was lazy as hell. Now it is a whole new ballgame, great spirit at State!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 7, 2018
What set him off? Read about it here.
Friday afternoon update:
Donald Trump on Rex Tillerson: a play in four acts. pic.twitter.com/Py6EPrLqCK— Brian Klaas (@brianklaas) December 7, 2018
Friday, November 30, 2018
Just A Few Random Tweets - Updated
This aged poorly https://t.co/BHAMb53mXf— Brian Klaas (@brianklaas) November 29, 2018
WSJ correction pic.twitter.com/SwBBEo678G— W.G. Dunlop (@wgdunlop) November 29, 2018
I would love to know whether Ivanka reported this on her security clearances applications, as legally required. Let’s find out @RepCummings , @RepAdamSchiff ? https://t.co/dYQnkDWrTh— Daniel Jacobson (@Dan_F_Jacobson) November 30, 2018
This day keeps getting better and better....and there’s still 4 hours left. https://t.co/LGr0iuuFYC— Ana Navarro (@ananavarro) November 30, 2018
Yes, the Cohen document is worth reading, but you really must watch #babycannon hitting the #easycheese. Another stroke of brilliance from @benjaminwittes https://t.co/qwbMrvI0Z3— Lara Flint (@Lara4DC) November 29, 2018
Two years ago this morning, almost to the minute. https://t.co/2TGmmkCY10— Philip Bump (@pbump) November 30, 2018
BREAKING: The Trump Organization planned to give a $50 million penthouse at Trump Tower Moscow to Vladimir Putin during the 2016 campaign.— BuzzFeed News (@BuzzFeedNews) November 29, 2018
Sources say that Michael Cohen, Trump's lawyer at the time, discussed it with a rep of Putin’s press secretary https://t.co/W7BMEfRApB
I agree with Alexey here. If this was truly offered to VVP, it exposes the amateurish ways of the Trump Organization team. But if true, it also exposes their illegal ways. This is called a bribe, a kickback, a payoff. Its illegal both in Russia and the US. And it's disgusting. https://t.co/uqaNT6xH5j— Michael McFaul (@McFaul) November 30, 2018
All too plausible that Russia has information that could end Trump's presidency at any time and that he knows this to be true. https://t.co/72tQgS1wpM— Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan) November 30, 2018
In light of Michael Cohen's guilty plea this morning, re-posting this clip from our 2016 interview with Paul Manafort about then-candidate Trump's potential business ties to Russia pic.twitter.com/pNwMtY49l6— Norah O'Donnell🇺🇸 (@NorahODonnell) November 29, 2018
The dolts who work for Trump are so busy doing Mafia Cosplay that they don't realize that calling Cohen a "rat" is admitting that Trump committed crimes on which he can "rat" https://t.co/6TS7a3OpWb— Dan Pfeiffer (@danpfeiffer) November 29, 2018
I’m convinced @RudyGiuliani needs to retain his own lawyer.— Renato Mariotti (@renato_mariotti) November 29, 2018
His view that attorney-client privilege covers the disclosure of confidential info from Mueller via Manafort’s attorneys is not only wrong, but is so unsophisticated that it’s clear he hasn’t considered this carefully. https://t.co/7mGmvXRT7i
CNN Senior Legal Analyst @JeffreyToobin: "Today is the first day I actually thought Donald Trump might not finish his term in office. I think this thing is enormous." https://t.co/argQDB2vI1 pic.twitter.com/6beYMQQEu9— Anderson Cooper 360° (@AC360) November 30, 2018
Even then, I thought this was a big moment for HRC in the second debate. She just laid out exactly how it was clear Russia was helping Trump. But guess what the NYT ignored completely in its main post-debate analysis? Not. A. Word. https://t.co/r5Ln2GF5eT https://t.co/ZIIYN766Of— TVMoJoe (@TVMoJoe) November 30, 2018
The iceberg of lies, deceit, corruption, & criminality is steadily but surely surfacing, despite the efforts of many in high places to keep it submerged. How large is the iceberg & who will be found clinging to it? The wheels of justice turn slowly, but grind exceedingly fine. https://t.co/yeMZiWTlVM— John O. Brennan (@JohnBrennan) November 30, 2018
This is really, really bad for Jr. https://t.co/ybPJOFPf0U— Susan Hennessey (@Susan_Hennessey) November 30, 2018
For now, at least, I'll end with this, from a couple of weeks ago. As far as I can tell, the Vice President is keeping his head down and doing his best to appear loyal in public, but when he's alone with his thoughts at the Naval Observatory... You know he's just slobbering at the possibility that Donald won't make it to January 20, 2021:
It’s finally dawning on him who has the biggest incentive to see him impeached. https://t.co/0uvuNZ0ue3— Lawrence O'Donnell (@Lawrence) November 16, 2018
Friday afternoon update. I can't resist posting this one:
2nd update, on Saturday afternoon. In his column yesterday, Jonathan Bernstein ponders Donald's weaknesses after the midterm elections and finishes with this:never forget pic.twitter.com/oRNbixkhd1— Adam Parkhomenko (@AdamParkhomenko) November 30, 2018
But it would surprise me if there aren’t quite a few congressional Republicans, and a fair number of party actors, who daydream about having a nice, reliable, normal president again. Perhaps some of them once believed that Mueller’s probe, which has now netted so many guilty pleas and indictments, was a witch hunt. Perhaps they believed Trump’s lawyers that Mueller would surely be wrapping things up by Thanksgiving, or New Year’s at the latest. (Oops — that was Thanksgiving 2017.)
Now, though, they surely understand that the Trump-Russia story and other scandals aren’t going away any time soon. Even in the best-case scenario, they will continue producing stories that Republicans don’t want in the headlines. And at the very worst … well, surely some Republicans are also having nightmares about just how bad the very worst could be.
I’m not predicting anything. Just noting some obvious facts. The incentives for supporting Trump that have held since his election have suddenly become a lot weaker. In mid-July of 1974, President Richard Nixon could still count on virtually every conservative Republican in Congress to oppose his impeachment and removal, even if they weren’t exactly thrilled with him. By early August, he had only a handful of supporters remaining. That’s not to say that Trump’s support will necessarily evaporate — just that if it does, it could happen extremely quickly, perhaps in days. And nice, reliable, normal Mike Pence will be sitting right there.
Like I said. Slobbering. (Is Mike Pence really nice, reliable and normal? That's a blog post for another day.)
Read Bernstein's column here.
Tuesday, September 25, 2018
Donald Isn't Having Fun - Updated
Getty Images photographer John Moore captures an unsettling picture of Donald at the United Nations. My first thought when I saw it was one I've had before, i.e., why does the president always look so weird? So awkward? So uncomfortable? I've also said before that he frequently looks old and tired, which he does here as well. Regarding this specific moment, apparently this picture was taken after Donald got laughed at by the General Assembly. Are his feelings hurt? Maybe he's thinking about his other problems, including his disgusting and unfit Supreme Court nominee, what to do about the Deputy Attorney General, not to mention the actual Attorney General, and of course, the Robert Mueller investigation.
Once again it looks like being president isn't as much fun as Donald thought it would be.
Wednesday morning update: The Washington Post website is using Moore's picture with the following caption: [The president] "prepares to address the 73rd session of the United Nations General Assembly on September 25, 2018 in New York City." Apparently Donald was feeling sad before the delegates laughed at him. The article accompanying the picture says this, referring to the laughter:
For Trump, the moment wasn't just embarrassing. It also punctured one of the core fabulist assertions of a president who has, according to Washington Post fact-checkers, made more than 5,000 false or misleading statements since taking office. (Read the article here.)
Sunday, August 19, 2018
Do You Know How To Spell "Counsel'?
The current president of the United States doesn't:
Actually, I should say the POTUS still doesn't. See previous examples here, here, here and here.
The fate of hundreds of millions of people lies with a man under criminal investigation who has tried, and failed, dozens of times to spell “Counsel.” https://t.co/bGdvVI2ORh— Brian Klaas (@brianklaas) August 19, 2018
Actually, I should say the POTUS still doesn't. See previous examples here, here, here and here.
Tuesday, August 14, 2018
Omarosa's Not A Dog
An actual tweet from the current president of the United States:
And a response from the former president's official photographer:
#ThrowShadeThenVote
When you give a crazed, crying lowlife a break, and give her a job at the White House, I guess it just didn’t work out. Good work by General Kelly for quickly firing that dog!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 14, 2018
And a response from the former president's official photographer:
#ThrowShadeThenVote
Monday, July 23, 2018
Attacking Iran "To Show How Tough He Is" - Updated
In old tweets from 2012 and 2013, Donald Trump had some thoughts about the possibility of a president attacking Iran for political reasons:
Now consider this, from last night and in all caps, no less:
They are: Donald Trump is in many ways a bad president—bad for the country, bad for conservatism, bad for the Republican party. His sway over party and policy should be limited as much as is feasible and his dominance of our politics not extended any longer than necessary.
And Brett Kavanaugh is a good pick and should be confirmed to the Supreme Court.
In this spirit, I would also say that one might have voted for Donald Trump. One might approve to some degree of his presidency so far. But that does not mean that one approves forever or automatically, or that one is impervious to evidence of unfitness.
Soon after the midterm elections, it will be worth a step back, a deep breath, and a hard look. It will be worth asking then—as Americans, as conservatives, as Republicans—do we want four more years of a Trump presidency? No need then to relitigate who was right about this or wrong about that in 2016 or 2017 or 2018. What will be needed is to be open-minded about the right course ahead.
As our greatest president put it: “As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.” Can’t we act in the spirit of Lincoln in the age of Trump? (Read the article here.)
Trump has repeatedly depicted war with Iran an something a president would do for domestic political gain.— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) July 23, 2018
Here are four examples 👇 pic.twitter.com/JdR1qM0BM8
Now consider this, from last night and in all caps, no less:
Update: As you would expect there's been a huge response to this tweet. I'm not going to post everything I see but I'll start with this:To Iranian President Rouhani: NEVER, EVER THREATEN THE UNITED STATES AGAIN OR YOU WILL SUFFER CONSEQUENCES THE LIKES OF WHICH FEW THROUGHOUT HISTORY HAVE EVER SUFFERED BEFORE. WE ARE NO LONGER A COUNTRY THAT WILL STAND FOR YOUR DEMENTED WORDS OF VIOLENCE & DEATH. BE CAUTIOUS!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 23, 2018
Trump must expect and fear, and indeed seems to be panicking about, forthcoming bad news in the Russia investigation. Are new indictments imminent—this time of Americans? What’s in the other Cohen tapes? Has Manafort flipped? https://t.co/ftqfi4sZJX— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) July 23, 2018
To say I disagree with Bill Kristol about almost everything is an understatement and it feels strange to be posting one of his tweets here in the blog. While I'm on a roll, however, I'll also post part of his new article at the Weekly Standard titled "A Case of the Mondays." He says some nice things about Brett Kavanaugh, which I don't agree with, then says this (and note, for the record, I did not vote for Donald Trump and I do not agree to any degree with his presidency:)
…like many other prosaic people, I can, in the spirit of The
Federalist, try to contain two thoughts in my mind at the same time.
They are: Donald Trump is in many ways a bad president—bad for the country, bad for conservatism, bad for the Republican party. His sway over party and policy should be limited as much as is feasible and his dominance of our politics not extended any longer than necessary.
And Brett Kavanaugh is a good pick and should be confirmed to the Supreme Court.
In this spirit, I would also say that one might have voted for Donald Trump. One might approve to some degree of his presidency so far. But that does not mean that one approves forever or automatically, or that one is impervious to evidence of unfitness.
Soon after the midterm elections, it will be worth a step back, a deep breath, and a hard look. It will be worth asking then—as Americans, as conservatives, as Republicans—do we want four more years of a Trump presidency? No need then to relitigate who was right about this or wrong about that in 2016 or 2017 or 2018. What will be needed is to be open-minded about the right course ahead.
As our greatest president put it: “As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.” Can’t we act in the spirit of Lincoln in the age of Trump? (Read the article here.)
Monday, June 11, 2018
Tweeting The Trump
The fact that I am having a meeting is a major loss for the U.S., say the haters & losers. We have our hostages, testing, research and all missle launches have stoped, and these pundits, who have called me wrong from the beginning, have nothing else they can say! We will be fine!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 11, 2018
It's a big day. With the time change, it's now Tuesday morning in Singapore and the big summit is about to start. POTUS still found time to tweet, however, and in the spirit of his administration's pathetically sloppy incompetence, he just couldn't get it right. The president meant to say that "missile launches have stopped."
He also made sure to let his staff know that their work doesn't matter:
He also made sure to let his staff know that their work doesn't matter:
Meetings between staffs and representatives are going well and quickly....but in the end, that doesn’t matter. We will all know soon whether or not a real deal, unlike those of the past, can happen!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 11, 2018
Monday, June 4, 2018
Now It's Really News - Updated
Image from CNN
The "Where Is Melania?' story appears to have hit a tipping point this morning:
At People: Melania Trump Skipping Summit with Husband but Expected to (Sort of) Show Her Face at Monday Event
At Talking Points Memo: MIA Melania Will Skip G7, North Korea Summits
At CNN: Melania Trump to attend her first public event since May 10
At Politico: Melania Trump to return to public eye Monday
There are two elements of the story here. One is that Melania is attending an event with the president this evening, although none of these headlines make clear that it will be a "no press" event, which means that we may not actually "see" the First Lady. The second interesting thing is that in spite of tonight's more-or-less return to the public, Melania is not going to Quebec for the G7 Summit this week or to Singapore for the big North Korea summit on June 12.
New York Magazine/Huff Post Reporter Yashar Ali gives us this:
Something lost about @FLOTUS in all of this Twitter talk...she is intensely private (yes, even though she's a Trump). People close to her have often told me of how stubborn she can be about things like this. A simple statement could end speculation but she refuses to give in.— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) June 3, 2018
I admit I'm hoping someone at the event tonight surreptitiously sneaks a few seconds of cell phone video of the First Lady.
Monday night update: She's been seen. The First Lady (or someone on her staff) tweeted out a few pictures from the event tonight and yes, she was there, sitting next to the president. Will this put an end to the story? We'll see. When will we see Melania in public again? Who knows. Not in Quebec and not in Singapore. The 4th of July? Maybe.
Monday night update: She's been seen. The First Lady (or someone on her staff) tweeted out a few pictures from the event tonight and yes, she was there, sitting next to the president. Will this put an end to the story? We'll see. When will we see Melania in public again? Who knows. Not in Quebec and not in Singapore. The 4th of July? Maybe.
Tonight @POTUS & I were honored to pay tribute to our fallen heroes. Thank you to the Gold Star families that joined us in celebration & remembrance. pic.twitter.com/6oSh1t88G7— Melania Trump (@FLOTUS) June 5, 2018
Here's a larger image of the top right photo:
Read my "Where Is Melania?" post, dated June 1, here.
Wednesday morning update: The president shares his thoughts about coverage of Melania's absence:
The Fake News Media has been so unfair, and vicious, to my wife and our great First Lady, Melania. During her recovery from surgery they reported everything from near death, to facelift, to left the W.H. (and me) for N.Y. or Virginia, to abuse. All Fake, she is doing really well!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 6, 2018
Here's Joe Scarborough's response:
I agree that it would be “vicious” and “unfair” to lie about a loved one having a facelift for the purpose of causing pain and embarrassment. Mr. President, can you imagine anyone would be so cruel to do such a thing? https://t.co/zfqjt1LKw2— Joe Scarborough (@JoeNBC) June 6, 2018
And this is what Joe is referring to:
I heard poorly rated @Morning_Joe speaks badly of me (don't watch anymore). Then how come low I.Q. Crazy Mika, along with Psycho Joe, came..— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 29, 2017
...to Mar-a-Lago 3 nights in a row around New Year's Eve, and insisted on joining me. She was bleeding badly from a face-lift. I said no!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 29, 2017
Wednesday, May 30, 2018
The Michael Moore Treatment?
I know Roseanne. And I know Trump. And they are about to rue the day they knew me... pic.twitter.com/vW81Gq7s1i— Michael Moore (@MMFlint) May 30, 2018
Is Donald Trump (or Roseanne) about to get the Michael Moore treatment? Looks like it.
Sunday, May 20, 2018
He's Losing It - Updated
Things are really getting ridiculous. The Failing and Crooked (but not as Crooked as Hillary Clinton) @nytimes has done a long & boring story indicating that the World’s most expensive Witch Hunt has found nothing on Russia & me so now they are looking at the rest of the World!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 20, 2018
....At what point does this soon to be $20,000,000 Witch Hunt, composed of 13 Angry and Heavily Conflicted Democrats and two people who have worked for Obama for 8 years, STOP! They have found no Collussion with Russia, No Obstruction, but they aren’t looking at the corruption...— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 20, 2018
...in the Hillary Clinton Campaign where she deleted 33,000 Emails, got $145,000,000 while Secretary of State, paid McCabes wife $700,000 (and got off the FBI hook along with Terry M) and so much more. Republicans and real Americans should start getting tough on this Scam.— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 20, 2018
Now that the Witch Hunt has given up on Russia and is looking at the rest of the World, they should easily be able to take it into the Mid-Term Elections where they can put some hurt on the Republican Party. Don’t worry about Dems FISA Abuse, missing Emails or Fraudulent Dossier!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 20, 2018
What ever happened to the Server, at the center of so much Corruption, that the Democratic National Committee REFUSED to hand over to the hard charging (except in the case of Democrats) FBI? They broke into homes & offices early in the morning, but were afraid to take the Server?— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 20, 2018
....and why hasn’t the Podesta brother been charged and arrested, like others, after being forced to close down his very large and successful firm? Is it because he is a VERY well connected Democrat working in the Swamp of Washington, D.C.?— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 20, 2018
Yes, this really is a tweet storm from the current President of the United States. (And yes, there's a typo. It's in the second tweet.) He really is losing it.
Update: He's also repeating himself. This tweet popped up almost immediately after I published this post, three hours after the last of the original six tweets above.
Update: He's also repeating himself. This tweet popped up almost immediately after I published this post, three hours after the last of the original six tweets above.
I'll just keep adding the tweets:The Witch Hunt finds no Collusion with Russia - so now they’re looking at the rest of the World. Oh’ great!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 20, 2018
I hereby demand, and will do so officially tomorrow, that the Department of Justice look into whether or not the FBI/DOJ infiltrated or surveilled the Trump Campaign for Political Purposes - and if any such demands or requests were made by people within the Obama Administration!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 20, 2018
Saturday, May 19, 2018
Melanie's Back - Updated
Sunday morning update: Thoughts from London School of Economics Fellow and author Brian Klaas about why the "Melanie" typo matters:
2. Trump, an unhinged, impulsive man who lies routinely and dabbles in conspiracy theories, is aiming to enter a summit with Kim Jong-un with basically no preparation. He often doesn’t listen to advisers. Trump rarely if ever reads briefings. He will likely shoot from the hip.— Brian Klaas (@brianklaas) May 20, 2018
4. It’s insane to have grown used to a president who is so careless with words & official statements that highlighting them seems petty. One mistake, ok. But there is a pattern of reckless indifference toward the truth, facts, words. Precision matters. This isn’t the Apprentice.— Brian Klaas (@brianklaas) May 20, 2018
6. So, no, I don’t care that Trump made a minor spelling mistake. I do care that presidential statements are treated as unimportant & disposable & unworthy of even the most basic checks, when foreign governments base their decisions off them. “Melanie” shows that carelessness.— Brian Klaas (@brianklaas) May 20, 2018
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