Cont: The Trump Presidency X: 10-10 'til we do it again

Status
Not open for further replies.
Has this been posted yet?

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018...ffice-press-conference-with-donald-trump.html

Holy ****. It's been compared to SNL sketch.

The article involves Trump trying to convince a reporter that he's not going to fire Chief of Staff Kelly (and that this is a great administration with the best economy and so many accomplishments).

“Dumb luck” was the phrase one administration official used to explain Kelly’s endurance. The president can only focus his anger or frustrations for so long before he moves onto the next thing. Meaning, if someone is plotting to get rid of Kelly, convincing the president to concentrate on the idea that he’s a problem matters more than whether or not he actually is a problem. This is where Kelly is helped by the fact that his enemies are even more inept than they believe he is. “When the president says, I need you to leave, Kelly just ignores him,” the administration official said. “I think the president just doesn’t know who to call to fire him. Normally if the president wanted to fire somebody, he would call Kelly to do it. But there’s nobody else to call.”
Click to expand...

I would think he knows he could get Pence to do it.
 
Mumbles said:
And after this, Kanye West went on a tirade at a Georgetown Apple Store.
Click to expand...

Linked from that article was this one on TMZ about the hat that Kanye apparently made for Trump with the slogan 'Make America Great', becuase apparently the 'Again' part is offensive. (I have no idea if this is true, don't really care)

As part of that article, they included this great picture. Have you ever seen a bunch of people look less comfortable and natural while wearing a cap?
 
Belz... said:
Yeah I saw that a few minutes ago and stopped reading at that paragraph. "Declared war on women"? Yeah, that sounds completely like impartial reporting.
Click to expand...

/concur.
The "war on women, on workers, on people of color, on immigrants, on the poor and dispossessed, on organized labor. They have gone to war against everything that isn’t white and male and wealthy" is a little over the top.

The entire "war on X" hyperbole is daft and overused.
 
CapelDodger said:
Unkind. What Melania Trump has a right to feel resentful about is that she hasn't been provided with staff who'll prevent her making such gaffes. She didn't sign up for this role and scrutiny, and is no more stupid than any other trophy wife.
Click to expand...

Of course it's unkind. I've never made any pretense about obeying rules of civil discourse our decency with Trump or his supporters. They don't rate common decency. If she stayed apolitical I'd pay her no mind. She has however supported Trump's political positions so she's fair game.

I've never mentioned his two youngest children other than to say they should be off limits. One is 11 and the other is in school and doesn't appear to have a role in the campaign or the administration.
 
Stacyhs said:
But she doesn't speak the languages she claimed to speak other than her native Slovenian and English just like she didn't graduate from the uni she claimed she did...or any uni for that matter.
When she went to France and Italy, both languages she claimed to speak, she used some very basic, beginning level terms that you learn in the first semester of language classes. Hello, my name is...., what's your name, etc. is about as much as she said before switching to English. When Jackie Kennedy went to France, the papers in both France and the US were full of reports of her fluent French. ...
Click to expand...

How true.

When I apply for a job, the only foreign language I claim to know is English. Latin is of no use, and my 2 years of French came during those difficult years when teenagers are just urgh.

And yet, in my current job as a nurse in a geronto-psychiatric care facility, I have put my little bits of Italian conversation skills and even an assortment of Russian phrases to good use. Should we ever get a resident whose native language is French, Spanish or Dutch, I could accomodate them, too, with the simplest of small talk and make them a tiny bit more comfortable.
Do I speak six languages? Hell no!
 
CapelDodger said:
Unkind. What Melania Trump has a right to feel resentful about is that she hasn't been provided with staff who'll prevent her making such gaffes. She didn't sign up for this role and scrutiny, and is no more stupid than any other trophy wife.
Click to expand...
Actually she did sort of "sign up for the role". She made campaign appearances for Trump during the election. She could have opted out... Told Donald "run for pres if you want but i will have no part". But there she was at the republican convention trying to get support for Stubby McBonespurs.

As for not having staff to "protect" her from mistakes... Some of the things she has done were so obvious that even someone who was clueless should say "whoa... This looks bad". Like wearing the "don't care" jacket or starting an anti-bullying campaign while married to (and supporting) a man famous for name calling and personal insults.

Sent from my LG-K121 using Tapatalk
 
I wonder how many people who gush over Kanye West's endorsements of Trump are the same people vilifying Taylor Swift for encouraging her fans to research the candidates running for office and vote for who they feel most closely aligns with their values.
 
Squeegee Beckenheim said:
I wonder how many people who gush over Kanye West's endorsements of Trump are the same people vilifying Taylor Swift for encouraging her fans to research the candidates running for office and vote for who they feel most closely aligns with their values.
Click to expand...



The alt right scum bags have already started on TaySway - they no longer consider her to be an “aryan goddess”, and are now trying to trend accusations of her being a transexual.
 
Captain_Swoop said:
Thanks, never saw that one.

What's wrong with it? they are still worn by people on Safari holidays.
The US army still has a sun helmet ion it's kit.
Click to expand...

Well, the association with Empire is very strong, although in fairness it's due to the period when they were most popular rather than them being exclusively, or even predominantly, worn by the military.
 
Cain said:
Has this been posted yet?

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018...ffice-press-conference-with-donald-trump.html

Holy ****. It's been compared to SNL sketch.

The article involves Trump trying to convince a reporter that he's not going to fire Chief of Staff Kelly (and that this is a great administration with the best economy and so many accomplishments).

I would think he knows he could get Pence to do it.
Click to expand...

Kelly is the Chief of Staff and Pence doesn't have the authority to tell Kelly the directions to the men's room. In fact outside of showing up to break a tie vote in the Senate, the Vice President has no authority. They might as well put Pence in a glass box with a sign that says break glass in case of emergency.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.

Back
Top Bottom