Cont: The Trump Presidency IX: Nein, Nein!

[Craig4]

Okay, this is embarrassing. Trump's two biggest humiliations have come from foreigners, the baby blimp in London and the UN today. We cannot allow this; we cannot allow overseas competition to out humiliate our president. Canada, hold our beer; we've got work to do.

 

[CapelDodger]

Pastor of @firstdallas, best-selling author of "A Place Called Heaven," and host of Pathway To Victory, a national radio and television ministry.

It's laughing-stocks all the way down, isn't it?

 

[CapelDodger]

Okay, this is embarrassing. Trump's two biggest humiliations have come from foreigners, the baby blimp in London and the UN today. We cannot allow this; we cannot allow overseas competition to out humiliate our president. Canada, hold our beer; we've got work to do.

Here's your problem : you don't do irony very well at all. There, I've said it.

 

[Craig4]

Here's your problem : you don't do irony very well at all. There, I've said it.

It's not a particularly American form of humor I'll admit.

 

[CapelDodger]

Trump still winning

China on Monday denied a United States Navy permission request for a port visit next month to Hong Kong, The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.

China also canceled an upcoming meeting between top naval officers from the two countries, the Journal also reported.

https://thehill.com/policy/defense/408247-china-blocks-us-navy-ships-port-visit-in-hong-kong-report

The South China Sea thing is fraught with dangers, and Trump has just exhorted China to take a patriotic approach to it.

This kind of history you have to live in to believe.

 

[CapelDodger]

It's not a particularly American form of humor I'll admit.

New Yorkers show some flair, but New York is an exceptional place, of course.

Anyhoo, a culture which can produce Mark Twain and Tom Lehrer is OK with me.

 

[Skeptic Ginger]

UN audience laughs when Trump boasts of achievements.

Audience members then began chuckling and the laughs grew louder when Trump said "so true."


https://thehill.com/homenews/admini...ence-laughs-when-trump-boasts-of-achievements

Angry tweets ahoy!

That whole speech was disgusting, Mr Piggy telling the world we don't need you and don't count on us.

Contrasted with H.E. Ms. María Fernanda Espinosa Garcés, President of the 73rd Session of the General Assembly's unity speech, Trump looked like a chump.

 

[Skeptic Ginger]

Okay, this is embarrassing. Trump's two biggest humiliations have come from foreigners, the baby blimp in London and the UN today. We cannot allow this; we cannot allow overseas competition to out humiliate our president. Canada, hold our beer; we've got work to do.

I wanted a Congressional rebuttal speech telling the UN, Trump doesn't speak for us. Except we still have a useless Congress.

 

[Stacyhs]

Trump is now claiming that he meant for the UN audience to laugh.

Sure you did. That's why, immediately after they laughed, you said "I didn't expect that reaction".

What a maroon.

 

[Magrat]

Trump is now claiming that he meant for the UN audience to laugh.

Sure you did. That's why, immediately after they laughed, you said "I didn't expect that reaction".

What a maroon.

So...he made a joke of his own presidency? By intending "I am the best president" as a joke?

Either way, he is an idiot.

Reminds me of all those kids movies where everybody laughs at the bully and then he runs away and cries.

 

[Trebuchet]

Dear Donald: They weren't laughing with you, they were laughing at you.

 

[dmaker]

DJT does not think on his feet very well. His first instinct is almost always wrong.

 

[kellyb]

He did have a curious look on his face, like he was testing the waters, to see if "the crowd" would go for it, or maybe boo. "Ego games" are kind of his obsession.

 

[Skeptic Ginger]

But how can the U.N. be laughing at him?
...

What's really bad, from his reaction, I'm not sure Trump knew why they were laughing at him.

 

[Skeptic Ginger]

Dear Donald: They weren't laughing with you, they were laughing at you.

It really wasn't clear, was it. He'll find out soon enough and then he'll get mad.

 

[Skeptic Ginger]

Trump is now claiming that he meant for the UN audience to laugh.

Sure you did. That's why, immediately after they laughed, you said "I didn't expect that reaction".

What a maroon.

That's a typical Trump coverup.

Not one of your rallies, Trump, where the audience is selected from among your cult followers. And not a speech to Congress where the GOP is afraid to speak up. Nope, it's an actual sampling of what people really think of your ignorant and patently false boasts.

 

[dmaker]

When you spend your life surrounded by psychophants, and everyone in the room is laughing, you probably don't understand.

 

[dmaker]

Looking forward to the war on cocoa.

Just say no.

Not sure how Hersheys will take it


https://ca.news.yahoo.com/trump-moc...nt-dont-declare-war-swiss-miss-152927527.html

 

[kellyb]

I think he spent so much time in the professional wrestling world, and ran as a heel to Hillary's modern, internationalist liberalism, he was halfway expecting to get booed, and prepared to switch into tough guy "Of course you don't like me" mode.

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The whole world is a big old reality TV show to him. He never stops acting.

 

[SezMe]

US Census counts non-citizens? Huh.

From the Constitution (Article I Section 2 Clause 3):

Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons.2 The actual Enumeration shall be made within three Years after the first Meeting of the Congress of the United States, and within every subsequent Term of ten Years, in such Manner as they shall by Law direct. The Number of Representatives shall not exceed one for every thirty Thousand, but each State shall have at Least one Representative; ...