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The Trump Presidency

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The Great Zaganza said:
Anyone else noticed that Republicans have stopped using the term "Founding Fathers"?
Under Obama, no day would go bye without someone claiming to know what they would or wouldn't have done in the current situation.

Most likely because they know as well as we do what they would have to say about Trump.
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"That's the worst wig I've ever seen."
 
Trump is going to give a speech on Islam in Saudi Arabia. Big potential for being a huge trainwreck.
 
Tony Stark said:
Trump is going to give a speech on Islam in Saudi Arabia. Big potential for being a huge trainwreck.
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Now think of The Don's theory about Trump changing the news cycle so that no one story gains traction...

I'm not saying that this would be a way of getting Russia off the front pages... but it would be a way of getting Russia off the front pages.


Hope that cheers you up.
 
You aren't thinking in Trumpian, to help me I use a random generator and the stories of the week so put me down for him mentioning Colburt!
 
Aridas said:
I don't buy the if-then relationship there, but I wouldn't be against Comey's findings on Hillary being rechecked.
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Why? You don't think a dozen Benghazi hearings, a gazillion accusations about pay to play where no evidence was ever found, a handful of misclassified emails out of more than 30,000 found on a server that no hack of was ever found (unlike the State Dept system that had been hacked), and Comey's admitted belief he was sure there was something in the first 3 months of Clinton's emails that were not recoverable despite finding absolutely nothing in the subsequent 4 years of emails was enough?:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes: ... :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes: ... :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:


Or did I miss your sarcasm?
 
Skeptic Ginger said:
Why? You don't think a dozen Benghazi hearings, a gazillion accusations about pay to play where no evidence was ever found, a handful of misclassified emails out of more than 30,000 found on a server that no hack of was ever found (unlike the State Dept system that had been hacked), and Comey's admitted belief he was sure there was something in the first 3 months of Clinton's emails that were not recoverable despite finding absolutely nothing in the subsequent 4 years of emails was enough?:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes: ... :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes: ... :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:


Or did I miss your sarcasm?
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It wasn't quite sarcasm, but... quite frankly, I don't set the bar extremely high regarding whether something's worthy of investigation in the first place or for a special investigator if there's very partisan concerns in play. While I consider it a waste of time and resources, I recognize that it's an investigation that a lot of people still want to see happen and I can't help but draw comparisons to the Trump-Russia investigations, which a sadly remarkable number of people want to dismiss out of hand. Frequently for WTF reasons, like that of a friend of mine who tried to dismiss the whole thing with "Talking to russian ambassadors is a part of the job of a senator." I also somewhat regard it as a fine potential opportunity to pointedly "smear a pie" in their face while giving them exactly what they asked for.
 
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Ouch.

There is a fear among some of Mr. Trump’s senior advisers about leaving him alone in meetings with foreign leaders out of concern he might speak out of turn. General McMaster, in particular, has tried to insert caveats or gentle corrections into conversations when he believes the president is straying off topic or onto boggy diplomatic ground.

This has, at times, chafed the president, according to two officials with knowledge of the situation. Mr. Trump, who still openly laments having to dismiss his first national security adviser, Michael T. Flynn, has groused that General McMaster talks too much in meetings, and the president has referred to him as “a pain,” according to one of the officials.

In private, three administration officials conceded that they could not publicly articulate their most compelling — and honest — defense of the president: that Mr. Trump, a hasty and indifferent reader of printed briefing materials, simply did not possess the interest or knowledge of the granular details of intelligence gathering to leak specific sources and methods of intelligence gathering that would do harm to United States allies.
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Tony Stark said:
Trump is going to give a speech on Islam in Saudi Arabia. Big potential for being a huge trainwreck.
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That seems incredibly stupid, no matter what he says. How can he possibly give a speech about Islam that doesn't piss off either Islam or his base?
 
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