Cont: The Trump Presidency IX: Nein, Nein!

[gregthehammer]

Trump Tweets

"The Woodward book is a scam. I don’t talk the way I am quoted. If I did I would not have been elected President. These quotes were made up. The author uses every trick in the book to demean and belittle. I wish the people could see the real facts - and our country is doing GREAT!"

Am I missing something? I thought the book didn't come out until next week?
How can Trump know what is all in it, other than the few excerpts that were released?

 

[C_Felix]

Am I missing something? I thought the book didn't come out until next week?
How can Trump know what is all in it, other than the few excerpts that were released?

Remember who we are talking about here.

 

[alfaniner]

I've already seen a few tweets about "flannel shirt guy" -- the guy with the (negatively) expressive face standing right behind Trump during that speech. I guess I missed most of the better reactions. No doubt Jeannie Moos will have a montage prepared for us later on today.

Apparently he and some other "supporters" not looking sufficiently giddy were replaced before the end of the rally.

ETA - found a link to a Tweet that shows it. I wish I'd seen the whole thing!

https://twitter.com/NikkisBubble/status/1037884818275688449/video/1

 

[Andy_Ross]

Trump Tweets

"What was Nike thinking?"

 

[TheSupermeerkat]

Made me chuckle!

 

[Squeegee Beckenheim]

Trump Tweets

"What was Nike thinking?"

I saw someone else on twitter pointing out that it's a sorry state of affairs when to some people a shoe advert is more controversial than a school shooting.

 

[phunk]

He is defending in the manner he thinks is best. As commander in chief, he is the only one who can review his own decision making on that.

If he *participated* in what he is sworn to protect against, then that certainly would not be his prerogative.

 

[Squeegee Beckenheim]

https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1038098346320293888

Barack Obama: "Just a glance at recent headlines should tell you that this moment really is different, the stakes really are higher, the consequences of any of us sitting on the sidelines are more dire."

https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1038099639826874369

Obama: "Every one of us as citizens of the U.S. need to determine just who it is that we are ... As a fellow citizen, not as an ex-president, but as a citizen, I'm here to deliver simple message and that is that you need to vote because our democracy depends on it." (via ABC)

https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1038100849908764677

Barack Obama: "It did not start with Donald Trump. He is a symptom, not the cause. He's just capitalizing on resentments that politicians have been fanning for years, a fear and anger that’s rooted in our past but also borne of the tremendous upheavals that have taken place."

https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1038102799538704384

Barack Obama: "Let’s just remember when this recovery started ... When you hear about this economic miracle that's been going on ... suddenly Republicans are saying, 'It's a miracle!', I kind of have to remind them that those job numbers are the same as they were in 2015, 2016."

https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1038103362321952768

Obama: "When there's a vacuum in our democracy, when we don't vote, when we take our basic rights and freedoms for granted, when we turn away and stop paying attention and stop engaging and stop believing ... the politics of fear and resentment and retrenchment takes hold."

https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1038105162659897345

Barack Obama: "Demagogues promise simple fixes to complex problems. No promise to fight for the little guy even as they cater to the wealthiest and most powerful."

https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1038106192797736960

Barack Obama: "What happened to the Republican Party? Its central organizing principle in foreign policy was the fight against Communism, and now they're cozying up to the former head of the KGB." (via ABC)

https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1038106672345083909

Barack Obama: "The claim that everything will turn out OK because there are people inside the White House who aren't following the president's orders, that is not a check. I'm being serious. That's not how democracy is supposed to work."

https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1038107164122992642

Barack Obama: "How hard can that be, saying that Nazis are bad?"

https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1038107703791550464

Barack Obama: "It should not be a partisan issue to say that we do not pressure the attorney general or the FBI to use the criminal justice system as a cudgel to punish our political opponents." (via ABC)

https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1038108840502468608

Barack Obama on Republicans who refuse to criticize Trump: "That's not civility. That's abdicating your responsibilities."

https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1038109280564637696

Barack Obama: "I complained plenty about Fox News. But you never heard me threaten to shut them down. Or call them enemies of the people."

https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1038109710497579008

Barack Obama: "We need more women in charge."

https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1038110283317895169

Barack Obama: "One of those functions [of government] is making sure 3,000 Americans don't die during a hurricane and in its aftermath."

https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1038112654567645185

Barack Obama: "The biggest threat to our democracy is indifference. The biggest threat to our democracy is cynicism."

Videos embedded in many of the tweets.

 

[dudalb]

Again, this is the correct option to take, assuming the senate will actually conduct a reasonable hearing and remove him permanently if he is so impaired (which he is, as has been plain from the start).

Unfortunately, since the Senate GOP has failed the country repeatedly in the recent past, they will do no such thing.

I don't know if the GOP in Congress will ever have the guts to do that, though.
But I agree the "Captain Queeg" option might be the only way to avoid catastrophe.

 

[dudalb]

Trump Tweets

"What was Nike thinking?"

Change "Nike" to "Trump" and I think that every day..and often five or six times a day.

 

[Giordano]

Trump Tweets

"The Woodward book is a scam. I don’t talk the way I am quoted. If I did I would not have been elected President. These quotes were made up. The author uses every trick in the book to demean and belittle. I wish the people could see the real facts - and our country is doing GREAT!"

This is funny because this tweet isn't the way Trump talks or tweets. It has complete sentences, nouns and verbs, subjects and objects. No spelling or grammatical errors. Clearly written or edited by someone else.

 

[dudalb]

Now night be a good time to re-watch Seven Days in May.

Will the admirals be with us?

Seriously I think invoking the 25th is a lot more like what happened to Captain Queeg in "The Caine Mutiny" (Trump would not be kicked out of office, just relieved of duties) but it ironic that John Frankenheimer directed both "Seven Days In May" and "THe Manchurian Candidate",another film often mentioned in connection with Trump.

 

[dudalb]

This is funny because this tweet isn't the way Trump talks or tweets. It has complete sentences, nouns and verbs, subjects and objects. No spelling or grammatical errors. Clearly written or edited by someone else.

I have not read the book..it does not come out until next week. (though I have it preordered for my Kindle) but I would not be surprised if Woodward has to do a bit of editing and cleaning up Trump's prose to make it comprehensible.

 

[Babbylonian]

This is funny because this tweet isn't the way Trump talks or tweets. It has complete sentences, nouns and verbs, subjects and objects. No spelling or grammatical errors. Clearly written or edited by someone else.

Seriously. He not only talks like a crazy stupid person but he usually can't clean it up in text...something a smart person would be used to doing.

 

[Armitage72]

I don't know if the GOP in Congress will ever have the guts to do that, though.
But I agree the "Captain Queeg" option might be the only way to avoid catastrophe.

I recently watched the unaired final episodes of "Powerless", a sitcom set in the DC Comics universe. In the final episode, aliens invaded Earth and President Luthor Tweeted "WE WILL BUILD A SPACE WALL!! AND THE ALIENS WILL PAY FOR IT!!" One character commented that he couldn't believe they had elected a President who Tweeted in all caps.
At the end of the episode, after it was revealed that President Luthor had engineered the invasion to destroy the Earth, a news broadcast announced that the GOP-controlled Congress had decided not to impeach him.

 

[The Great Zaganza]

I recently watched the unaired final episodes of "Powerless", a sitcom set in the DC Comics universe. In the final episode, aliens invaded Earth and President Luthor Tweeted "WE WILL BUILD A SPACE WALL!! AND THE ALIENS WILL PAY FOR IT!!" One character commented that he couldn't believe they had elected a President who Tweeted in all caps.
At the end of the episode, after it was revealed that President Luthor had engineered the invasion to destroy the Earth, a news broadcast announced that the GOP-controlled Congress had decided not to impeach him.

Great episode - but not as good as "No Consequence Day" or "Emily Dates a Henchman".

 

[dudalb]

In the face of Trump's basically approving violence against jounrliast in Montana from now On I will consider Trump defenders to be basically fascists who want a authoritarian dictatorhip unless they prove differently.

 

[Mumbles]

I recently watched the unaired final episodes of "Powerless", a sitcom set in the DC Comics universe. In the final episode, aliens invaded Earth and President Luthor Tweeted "WE WILL BUILD A SPACE WALL!! AND THE ALIENS WILL PAY FOR IT!!" One character commented that he couldn't believe they had elected a President who Tweeted in all caps.
At the end of the episode, after it was revealed that President Luthor had engineered the invasion to destroy the Earth, a news broadcast announced that the GOP-controlled Congress had decided not to impeach him.

I didn't see that, but I do remember when Luthor became president in other formats, and sold off his shares of Lexcorp to avoid any appearance of conflict of interest.

Dolt 45 is still invested in his crappy resorts.

Just saying.

 

[dudalb]

I didn't see that, but I do remember when Luthor became president in other formats, and sold off his shares of Lexcorp to avoid any appearance of conflict of interest.

Dolt 45 is still invested in his crappy resorts.

Just saying.

I always loved that in the President Luthor storyline ,Superman was unwilling to do the dirty work necessary to force Luthor out of office. It was Batman who was willing to hack into Luthor's computers and do what needed to be done.

 

[The Big Dog]

In the face of Trump's basically approving violence against jounrliast in Montana from now On I will consider Trump defenders to be basically fascists who want a authoritarian dictatorhip unless they prove differently.

Bummer for them...