Trump, May 2017: 100 days of [unintelligible]

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Watch as Stuart Jones, a high-level acting official in the State Dept, is asked why they criticize Iranian elections but never Saudi Arabia: pic.twitter.com/RLkKGn48Z7

— Alex Emmons (@AlexanderEmmons) May 30, 2017

:D

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C3HoBwhUoAA0sIV.jpg

Blue Xs: positions without Trump nominations.
Red Xs: resignations

The bureaucracy at State is overloaded and working without guidance, with 2-3 layers of acting civil servants missing.

We shouldn't be surprised that this has brought people with little experience spinning in real time to the fore.

xxpost The fuck? Was he waiting for updates to install?

draining that swamp!

Pareene noted that its possible he's never had to think of an answer to the question before, which is probably 100% accurate

plus he can't give an honest answer

Trump ‘gaining weight’ and ‘emotionally withdrawing’ as Russia probe swamps White House: report https://t.co/NPjEdBXo2Q pic.twitter.com/1srGrlern8

— Raw Story (@RawStory) May 30, 2017

Protestors should start sending Carvel cakes, because he won't be able to resist.

What even differentiates an emotionally-withdrawn Trump from everyday Trump?

He gonna asplode Dig Dug style

I guess the real question is: when (WHEN) this dude fully blows a gasket, how much collateral damage is there going to be?

depends on if he bothered to appoint someone to the post of nuclear football guy

I wanna see a photo of Trump at a beautiful dining table in the White House, slowly eating from a jar of Hellman's.

would make a wonderful Sharon Lockhart style single-channel video projection

Or a fetish vid

its super easy to gain a shit ton of weight if you work all the time and never exercise.

hence why I weigh 50 pounds more than I did half a lifetime ago

do you sit at a dining table eating Hellman's

it brings out the best iirc

Trump's face looks Papier-mâché in that Raw Story pic

don't really have an opinion either way about the kathy griffin thing other than that it's not/shouldn't be illegal

i agree, but also, Ms Griffin is not funny (clue: the gays love her)

its super easy to gain a shit ton of weight if you work all the time and never exercise.

― officer sonny bonds, lytton pd (mayor jingleberries), Tuesday, May 30, 2017 7:20 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

can confirm

I know from past experience working on trials. When you work a 16+ hour day the only pleasure you get is eating, and when meals come it's time to gorge. I imagine this is exascerbated by having the White House kitchen making you anything you want.

I wonder if he's had them reproduce KFC and McDonalds faves.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKD67oOuJx4

"This is a shark steak sandwich."

I like that movie and that scene, but it's a trifle misleading because presidents have to pay for their own personal food; they get a bill when they leave. Only state dinners are paid for from public coffers.

So the WH kitchen wouldn't just keep e.g. shark steaks around in case the prez asks for that specific unforeseeable thing. If that were so, imagine how much perfectly good food would spoil and get tossed, just because it wasn't the subject of a late-night potuswhim.

lol shark is the most common fish and chip shop seafood there is in aus, which renders that scene a lil odd.

Shark is super high in mercury, and fun to see on dives. Don't.

I imagine this is exascerbated by having the White House kitchen making you anything you want.

also by getting two scoops of ice cream when everyone else gets one, just so they remember that you're special

I remember reading about Nancy Reagan's shock that they were billed even for toothpaste.

It's rent-free housing, not a total free ride. Where else did Nancy ever live that provided her with free food and free toothpaste?

Frank Sinatra's house

Where else did Nancy ever live that provided her with free food and free toothpaste?

― A is for (Aimless), Tuesday, May 30, 2017 10:17 PM

Hollywood during the studio system

Nancy and Ronald should have stayed put. They didn't know when they were well off.

Sanpaku where did you get that pic? Was it in an article or some tumblr or what?

Probably this twitter comment:

Majority of State Dept has been fired and sits empty. Bannon and Miller now rule the country unchecked. Judges' orders ignored by DHS. pic.twitter.com/706oClSKRV

— Seth Abramovitch (@SethAbramovitch) January 30, 2017

God January feels so long ago. every Trump-month (Trumpth?) feels like a year

Oh yeah. Unlikely much has changed.

Zing feature request being drafted now re: image URL copying

This twitter post seem to be the original posting this.

It's a bit dated, for sure. I've seen it a couple of times reiterating State Dept. staff griping about their current working conditions given the utter failure of the Trump WH to fill vacancies.

Here's how things stood on April 4:

http://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/scalefit_720_noupscale/58e400c62c00006568ff2411.png

Are there "acting" ambassadors rn or what's the deal with that?

For less attractive assignments, most are filled with career civil servants (there goes my hope of making a late life political donation to become ambassador to Bhutan).

we'll all be Reavers soon

That said, the number of embassies with no acting US ambassador, particularly in Europe, is remarkable:

Amos, Micah, Ezekiel, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Jesus, and James

Europe: Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, EU, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, NATO, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, United Kingdom, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland

Asia-Pacific: Australia, India, Singapore, South Korea

Mideast: Afghanistan, Djibouti, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Yemen

Americas: Argentina, Belize, Canada, Cuba, Haiti, Paraguay, Trinidad, Venezuela

Africa: Congo (DR), Côte d'Ivoire, Mauritius, Tanzania

Oops, those SJW prophets and messiahs belong in another comment.

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