Trump, May 2017: 100 days of [unintelligible]

the whole story of the republican party, from 1968 to now, is just an incredibly stupid story, and now with trump it's culminated in the dumbest way possible.

― Treeship,

We've been saying this here since at least 2002

tbf it would be impossible to say that before November 2016

http://www.aclumich.org/article/aclu-michigan-statement-trumps-refusal-turn-over-giuliani-memo-ordered-court

he White House has refused to release a memo from a commission established by Rudolph Giuliani that was created with the express purpose of creating a legal rationale for the Muslim Ban. Under a federal court order, the memo was to be produced on Friday, but the Trump administration objected late Friday night, claiming, among other things, that a federal court cannot require the President to release documents.

does anyone else think that it is somehow more surreal to see trump in an international context? there's something about seeing the process, the entertainment laid out for him, the dignity it seems to confer upon him, and so completely undeserved

throughout the entire spectacle he has come across like a naive beaming mars attacks! character

lol

he definitely looks like a doofus, but having it spill out physically onto the world stage feels deeply wrong, like a story we've been telling each for so long it's become mythical has spilled out onto the world stage, or shit, actually more like having someone else describe your dream to you. if we could get some booing or general protest footage it would make me feel better.

they still throw rotting produce in these countries, yes

the dignity it seems to confer upon him, and so completely undeserved

even moreso than "Oscar-winning director Mel Gibson"

Oscar winning directors aren't feted by Saudi Royals before signing arms agreements worth hundreds of billions.

Now who's being naive, Kay?

what part of the art of war is this from pic.twitter.com/Yg4EcM9U2c

— Inventor of Leftism (@ByYourLogic) May 21, 2017

steve bannon looks so uncomfortable here and it rules pic.twitter.com/GlPQJPUTts

— Ashley Feinberg (@ashleyfeinberg) May 21, 2017

http://i.imgur.com/muDJmCX.jpg

glad everyone's having fun on their big trip pic.twitter.com/1Cuqj05icM

— Ashley Feinberg (@ashleyfeinberg) May 20, 2017

feting by Saudi Royals before signing arms agreements worth hundreds of billions is false dignity, surely

a cheap holiday in other people's sovereignty

hard disagree that trump looks out of place on this trip - these countries have thousands of years' experience hosting foolish blowhard dignitaries from foreign lands, smiling with them, slapping their backs, serving their favorite dishes, flattering them etc. trump fits right in.

wh may block mueller from investigating kushner & manafort - http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN18F2KK

Tracer otm

Also, he is currently in one of the most conservative autocracies on Earth. He fits right in.

Isn't any block or misdirection of Mueller going to look suspicious in itself?

i think that horse left the stable some time ago stevo

xps thats not the art of war its war dogs

Every photo of Trump looks like an artist's​ rendering.

Specifically one of Richard Upton Pickman's renderings.

Neal Katyal, former US acting solicitor general who helped draft the special counsel regulations, talks with Rachel Maddow about the ways in which Donald Trump might seek to undermine or eliminate the Trump-Russia special investigation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SumqujeiAM

and addresses the idea of the Ethics Rule preventing Mueller from investigating the 2 former clients of his law firm. Think that's about 4 minutes in.
Says that it would possibly lead to a separate investigation into those 2 which would be unlikely.

Talks earlier about the idea of Sunlight meaning that any White House moves to prevent or undermine the investigation by the Special counsel would have to be visible and therefore recognised or something to that effect.

Rabbi Haskel Lookstein says he didn't give Ivanka Trump permission to fly on Shabbat. Tells @HerzogMK they haven't been in contact for weeks pic.twitter.com/YVzX8lWjwH

— Jacob Kornbluh (@jacobkornbluh) May 21, 2017

Lot of chandeliers in Riyadh

I think you get special dispensation if you're flying on Shabbat to Saudi Arabi ... oh, wait.

good [unintelligble]!

The attempt to block Mueller is odd on the face of it, as it's the WH suggesting that he'd go too easy on them.

Scary: During eulogy, Ailes's teenage son threatened Fox women who alleged harassment. "I’m coming after them...and hell is coming with me.”

— Gabriel Sherman (@gabrielsherman) May 21, 2017

like garbage like son

What a fuckin dork.

so trump's islam speech sounded (I only read early reports) disappointingly non godawful, was really hoping for a shitshow but it was about what you'd expect from an american politician on conservative bent speaking in an Islamic country about terrorism.

Apparently pretty anti Shi-ite or at least readable that way. & not sensitive to changes with recent election but does that parse as obvious from a conservative?
Got a new chant in 'kick them out'. Which will be abused innit.

Well yeah, that's the spin people like Richard Spencer are putting on white nationalism. "Do whatever it is you like, brown and black people. Just do it where you're from and not in America." Easy to read chunks of the Trump speech with that part implied.

Donald Trump: Talking Shi'ite

Some low energy speech

Apparently pretty anti Shi-ite

Who'd've thought?

if nothing else, we can be comforted that his non implosion during the trip will be forgotten about in days when the next russia coverup story breaks

he's still got time to implode on the other stops

http://cdn.lifezette.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-768x1024.jpg

Friends, Family Gather to Mourn and Honor Roger Ailes

look at those horrible faces, these are the worst faces i've ever seen

do some face exercises or something

Is the blonde woman casting a hex?

It seems kinda weird to me to have a flag covered casket for a civilian that never served in the military.

lots of stains on that flag, i don't even want to know. guessing roger kept it in his office.

at least four of those men have the same mouth and chin sag

is that li'l zachary ailes at the end? how does he already look 42?

he's literally been through hell