Trump runs for POTUS / Trumped Up! Part IV

[Tony Stark]

The media should start asking Donald and his crazy moron surrogates if he is still a birther.

 

[Fidelio]

The media should start asking Donald and his crazy moron surrogates if he is still a birther.

The answer would be something like "It was a joke. A sarcasm. Mostly. Geez you people have no sense of humor."

 

[Cleon]

The media should start asking Donald and his crazy moron surrogates if he is still a birther.

Given the way he's hopped into bed with the so-called "alt right," I'm curious as to what would happen if a reporter suddenly asked him, "Mr. Trump, did the Holocaust happen?"

 

[Tony Stark]

Given the way he's hopped into bed with the so-called "alt right," I'm curious as to what would happen if a reporter suddenly asked him, "Mr. Trump, did the Holocaust happen?"

Many people say that it didn't.

 

[plague311]

Cousin, not sister.

His tweet:

Yep, my fault. Glad I'm not on the campaign trail...

 

[Cain]

I'm surprised more is not being made of Trump's revised stance on immigration. The annoying political scientist Dan Drezner has an article in The Washington Post about Coulter's new book, where she writes, “there’s nothing Trump can do that won’t be forgiven. Except change his immigration policies.”

It feels like he could gun someone down in the middle of Fifth Avenue and his supporters wouldn't care. In fact, they'll applaud enthusiastically, include his African-Americans. He has the best African-Americans, you know.

 

[TubbaBlubba]

Given the way he's hopped into bed with the so-called "alt right," I'm curious as to what would happen if a reporter suddenly asked him, "Mr. Trump, did the Holocaust happen?"

"Here's what I hear a lot of people say, okay, you have this great war, tremendous war, and of course you have all these bombs - lots of bombs - and people die, you know, people die. And then they come to me and say, Donald, six mi- six million Jews, and I say, you know, it's war, but six million? I don't know and you hear all these people, six million, you tell me."

 

[Trebuchet]

A new candidate has emerged in the who posted that tweet to his account game. The crass, after his ghoulish delight in the event tweet, offering of condolences tweet came from an IPad. Now we have Android: Donald, IPhone: staff and IPad: Kellyanne(?).

A bit off-topic, but how does one tell from looking a tweet what sort of device it was sent from?

 

[Trebuchet]

The media should start asking Donald and his crazy moron surrogates if he is still a birther.

I'm actually surprised and disappointed that they haven't. It's a legitimate question but the MSM are afraid to ask it. Or something. CNN even had Sheriff Joe on this morning and pretty much threw him softballs.

 

[Stacko]

A bit off-topic, but how does one tell from looking a tweet what sort of device it was sent from?

Certain apps will display the device that tweets were posted from.

 

[Cl1mh4224rd]

A bit off-topic, but how does one tell from looking a tweet what sort of device it was sent from?

The Twitter API, on the Tweets object, returns a field named "source" that identifies what was used to make the given tweet.

ETA: Here's a text analysis of Trump's tweets.

 

[Minoosh]

He sprung his immigration speech on everybody. Seems like he's giving it in Iowa today.

Trump says law enforcement knows all the illegal immigrants, "the good ones and the bad ones"​

We're back to get them all out day one.

"On day one, I’m going to begin swiftly removing criminal illegal immigrants from this country,”

I could be wrong, but I think he is talking about illegal immigrants who have committed other crimes, not all illegal immigrants. What he seems to be calling for is already Obama's policy.

 

[Tony Stark]

I could be wrong, but I think he is talking about illegal immigrants who have committed other crimes, not all illegal immigrants.

So his policy is now the same as Obama's?

 

[JPK]

So his policy is now the same as Obama's?

Of course not. Obama didn't start with this policy until Trump suggested it. Same with Hillary and the TTP. Stole it from Trump.

 

[NoahFence]

Right...

 

[Minoosh]

So his policy is now the same as Obama's?

He's trying to have it both ways, I think. It's a double dog whistle. His base will think "criminal illegal immigrants" means all of them, while the good illegal immigrants will have some hope he's not talking about them.

 

[Mumbles]

He's trying to have it both ways, I think. It's a double dog whistle. His base will think "criminal illegal immigrants" means all of them, while the good illegal immigrants will have some hope he's not talking about them.

I care much less about "illegal immigrants" than I do "black communities", for entirely self-serving reasons.

But I don't think any different. No, he's still just trying to appeal to the same "I'm not a bigot, but..." voter.

 

[Tero]

Trump now addressing blacks and Latinos at rally in Iowa. Good plan.

 

[Amazer]

"Here's what I hear a lot of people say, okay, you have this great war, tremendous war, and of course you have all these bombs - lots of bombs - and people die, you know, people die. And then they come to me and say, Donald, six mi- six million Jews, and I say, you know, it's war, but six million? I don't know and you hear all these people, six million, you tell me."

are you Donald's speechwriter by any chance?

Sent from my Nexus 6P using Tapatalk

 

[Tony Stark]

Inside debate prep: Clinton’s careful case vs. Trump’s ‘WrestleMania’

Hillary Clinton is methodically preparing for the presidential debates as a veteran lawyer would approach her biggest trial. She pores over briefing books thick with policy arcana and opposition research. She internalizes tips from the most seasoned debate coaches in her party. And she rehearses, over and over again, to perfect the pacing and substance of her presentation.

Donald Trump is taking a different approach. He summons his informal band of counselors — including former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani, talk-radio host Laura Ingraham and ousted Fox News Channel chairman Roger Ailes — to his New Jersey golf course for Sunday chats. Over bacon cheeseburgers, hot dogs and glasses of Coca-Cola, they test out zingers and chew over ways to refine the Republican nominee’s pitch.

Trump’s aides have put together briefing books, not that the candidate is devoting much time to reading them. Trump is not holding any mock debates, proudly boasting that a performer with his talents does not need that sort of prepping. Should Trump submit to traditional rehearsals, some associates are talking about casting Ingraham, an adversarial chronicler of Clinton scandals, to play the Democratic nominee.

“Donald Trump is the unpredictable X-factor and Hillary Clinton is the scripted statist,” said Kellyanne Conway, Trump’s new campaign manager, in an interview. “I fully understand why Team Clinton feels the need to drown her in briefing books and Hollywood consulting."

Donald is going to get destroyed in the debates so badly. I cannot wait.