Cont: The Trump Presidency: Part 19

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Captain_Swoop said:
Trump Retweeted

Jennifer Jacobs
@JenniferJJacobs
Trump gave remarks at the Daytona 500 pre-race ceremony, stood on the track for the national anthem and prayer, and gave the command for drivers to start their engines.
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I think this is the first retweet of his I've seen where it doesn't explicitly compliment him repeatedly. It just describes what he did. That's pretty tame.

Today is the first day Trump is becoming a real President.
 
Captain_Swoop said:
Trump Tweets

HAPPY PRESIDENT’S DAY!

“They tried to Impeach the President eight times before this last Impeachment trial that we went through. In Arizona, people are tired of their obstruction, their investigations, and their Impeachments. They want them to get to work.” @SenMcSallyAZ @foxandfriends
hanks Martha
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....does he think the Presidents Day holiday is to celebrate the current president, or the office in general? He's old enough to remember it used to be Washington's birthday. Right? He's not so egotistical that he thinks it's about him....oh hell, he is and does. He's firmly past the "where are the Burns-O's" line.
 
Captain_Swoop said:
Trump Retweeted

Jennifer Jacobs
@JenniferJJacobs
Trump gave remarks at the Daytona 500 pre-race ceremony, stood on the track for the national anthem and prayer, and gave the command for drivers to start their engines.
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He has to retweet that now? :rolleyes: Because otherwise no one would have known.
 
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I just finished "A Very Stable Genius". Nothing to surprise about Trump. A couple of people seem to have tried to rehabilitate themselves. Kirstjen Nielsen comes off a bit better though some of that is likely her and John Kelly's doing. Chris Christy looks a bit less of a lap dog than he did during the campaign, turning down the chief of staff job.

What really comes across is that the president feels vulnerable on immigration and angry at why he can't do what he wants. I did get a bit of a chuckle in the conclusion where comes clear the Trump is suffering every day from anger, confusion and frustration. It's small consolation but I still laugh every time I see Trump suffering.
 
Bob001 said:
What's most depressing is that Trump is stupid, ignorant, crude, mean, corrupt, dishonest, disordered and concerned only about himself. And yet he has the support of 40+% of Americans. Imagine what somebody smarter, smoother, slicker and more charismatic could do to promote an equally poisonous agenda, or worse.
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I wouldn't conflate approval rating and votes. Approval ratings are important but just because people approve of the job he's doing doesn't mean they will vote for Trump. Trumps definitely will/won't numbers are 36 will and 46 won't, 35 in just the key swing states. Clearly there's a margin of people in that approval rating who approve but aren't comfortable with all aspects of Trump.
 
Captain_Swoop said:
Trump Tweets

HAPPY PRESIDENT’S DAY!

“They tried to Impeach the President eight times before this last Impeachment trial that we went through. In Arizona, people are tired of their obstruction, their investigations, and their Impeachments. They want them to get to work.” @SenMcSallyAZ @foxandfriends
hanks Martha
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Interesting choice by Trump as "President's" indicates the day honors one president.
Either "Presidents'" or "Presidents" refers to all presidents.

ETA: ninja'd by Tragic Monkey!
 
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plague311 said:
I think this is the first retweet of his I've seen where it doesn't explicitly compliment him repeatedly. It just describes what he did. That's pretty tame.

Today is the first day Trump is becoming a real President.
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...If he was back on his plane before the race even started, though, it counts as pointedly misleading.
 
Craig4 said:
I just finished "A Very Stable Genius". Nothing to surprise about Trump. A couple of people seem to have tried to rehabilitate themselves. Kirstjen Nielsen comes off a bit better though some of that is likely her and John Kelly's doing. Chris Christy looks a bit less of a lap dog than he did during the campaign, turning down the chief of staff job.

What really comes across is that the president feels vulnerable on immigration and angry at why he can't do what he wants. I did get a bit of a chuckle in the conclusion where comes clear the Trump is suffering every day from anger, confusion and frustration. It's small consolation but I still laugh every time I see Trump suffering.
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Stables, of course, tend to be full of *********.
 
Segnosaur said:
Anyone know anything more about this story? I believe Trump's plane did make a flyby over Datona. Could they just have selected the wrong pic? Or did Air Force One never get that low today?
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Not sure about a flyover.

But as to that 2004 photo, Daytona International Airport and the track are smack up against one another:

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The photo is certainly of Air Force One taking off normally, the perspective foreshortened by a telephoto lens.

As far as Trump outrages go, this incident barely moves my “outrage needle”. Had it been another President doing exactly the same thing, I don’t think we’d be obsessing over it in quite the same way.
 
Fast Eddie B said:
As far as Trump outrages go, this incident barely moves my “outrage needle”. Had it been another President doing exactly the same thing, I don’t think we’d be obsessing over it in quite the same way.
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I see it as less "outrage" and more "example #8,675,309 of a half-assed administration that doesn't know what it's doing and has no competent people working in it."
 
Armitage72 said:
I see it as less "outrage" and more "example #8,675,309 of a half-assed administration that doesn't know what it's doing and has no competent people working in it."
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Well, if it had been any other president, it would have been a (perhaps silly) gimmick, but we know why Trump does it.

Hans
 
Fast Eddie B said:
As far as Trump outrages go, this incident barely moves my “outrage needle”. Had it been another President doing exactly the same thing, I don’t think we’d be obsessing over it in quite the same way.
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Does it happen with any regularity during other administrations? I'm not saying it's outrage worthy, because I agree it really doesn't even matter to me. I hate NASCAR, and the POTUS. That being said, I've seen people use variations of the "if it were a different POTUS we wouldn't care" and I always find myself asking, "Would another POTUS even do it?"
 
TragicMonkey said:
....does he think the Presidents Day holiday is to celebrate the current president, or the office in general? He's old enough to remember it used to be Washington's birthday. Right? He's not so egotistical that he thinks it's about him....oh hell, he is and does. He's firmly past the "where are the Burns-O's" line.
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Bill Bramhall's editorial cartoon for Monday, Feb. 17, 2020, celebrating President's Day.

https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion...-7ctvclbkyng5nl3ocyeet2cax4-photogallery.html
 
  • Jim Acosta: President Trump, some people have said you are the greatest president ever, do you think it's possible you could be honored on Mt. Rushmore?
  • Trump: Yeah why not? Honest Abe? Gimmee a break. What was his net worth? Zero? Washington? A loser! He had wooden teeth. He musta been real popular with the ladies. Fuhgeddaboudit! The other two clowns? I don't even know who they are.
 
Fast Eddie B said:
History may not repeat itself, but sometimes it rhymes!

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As much as I enjoy the visual comparison, it would be dishonest to forget that, at the Nuremberg rallies, the people were there explicitly to see Hitler. At Daytona, they were there to see the race. I doubt few, if any, came just because Trump was going to be there.
 
Stacyhs said:
As much as I enjoy the visual comparison, it would be dishonest to forget that, at the Nuremberg rallies, the people were there explicitly to see Hitler. At Daytona, they were there to see the race. I doubt few, if any, came just because Trump was going to be there.
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A lot of people watch NASCAR secretly hoping to see a wreck.
 
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