Trump, May 2017: 100 days of [unintelligible]

Sorry, 'sentient' may have been an overreach [SYNAPSE FIRES].

Trump literally thought he was being asked about "hiding" physically in the office. And he mentioned how open it was ie. The windows. He can't hide. But maybe he didn't need to hide, because, you know, nobody was ever out there when he looked.

Old Lunch and Tracer otm, he half-expected to see the Failing NY Times crouching on the lawn

i'm finding trump's whole 'no one knew the civil war could be so complicated!' bullshit particularly frustrating at the moment because it made me realise yet again how close he comes to realising something important but then getting lost in his own solipsism

the pattern goes:

1) someone tells trump something pretty much everyone knows but he doesn't
2) he talks about this in public like he's just singlehandedly discovered the ark of the covenant
3) he frames this earthshattering discovery as as something 'no-one knows' or 'no-one talks about'

but he never makes the logical half-step into realising that he wouldn't know about this unless someone told him therefore people must know about it and maybe there's a whole world of knowledge out there he could tap into and, y'know, learn something

what is it like to live life so content in your own ignorance? it must be fucking amazing, i wish i could do it

are all americans born into money as intellectually lazy as this asshole? because oh my god

all available evidence points to 'yes'

xxp That's the same feeling I get when I see all the comments on FB or on newspaper sites that say "The media doesn't talk about {my pet topic} or {this inflammatory thing}." Then you ask, "Well, then how do you know about it?" "Oh, I saw it on CNN."

Agreed. The lamestream media is burying this story! (links to Washington Post)

I would guess he thinks that a basic knowledge of the names and titles of other world leaders is also something special and unique to him. I.e. phrases like "I got a very nice call from Justin Trudeau, the prime minister of Canada."

what is it like to live life so content in your own ignorance? it must be fucking amazing, i wish i could do it

― adolf hitler, the moses hightower of national socialism (bizarro gazzara)

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with the possible exception of Poppy Bush, we've had our fill of moron GOP presidents blissful about what they don't know. I can hear Reagan speaking that Andrew Jackson sentence.

i'm expecting him to soon come out w/ Roger DeBris' "I never knew that the Third Reich meant Germany!"

The president of the United States basically has the same engagement with the world he lives in and the people in it that I do with a movie that I put on in the background while assembling a bookcase.

hey, I bet there's a bunch of rich-guy stuff we know nothing about. All kinds of golf tips.

tom buchanan is maybe a more accurate preview of donald than frank underwood?

only losers know history. if you come from a good family, your parents buy you a degree from one of the best schools while you polish your golf game, poonhounding around, living off of trusts / dividends before (sad!) dad dies and you take over the family business

And you don't even have to know anything about the family business, really. Run it into the ground a few times, have your accountant cook the books, voila.

the clip of him ending the interview after getting asked about wiretapping is also insane. like he literally retreats to his desk and starts sifting through a stack of (blank?) papers

They had stick figures with boobs tbf

btw I know this is a cheap joke but lmao @ 1:02-1:12

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3fp7aQ6kuM

our president on twitter this morning ~

“The reason for the plan negotiated between the Republicans and Democrats is that we need 60 votes in the Senate which are not there! We either elect more Republican Senators in 2018 or change the rules now to 51%. Our country needs a good ‘shutdown’ in September to fix mess!”

what an asshole

who doesn't love a good 'shutdown' every now and again

I'd wager more shit spews from that hemorrhoidal sphincter than from your average asshole.

his heart could use a good 'shutdown'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t08RN2yPJik

cool bro:

President Trump said on Tuesday that the United States needed “a good ‘shutdown’” this fall to force a partisan confrontation over federal spending, and suggested that he might move to reverse longstanding Senate rules that effectively require a supermajority to approve most major legislation.

The declarations, in a pair of posts on Twitter, appeared to defend a spending package that Congress is likely to clear this week, but that fails to accomplish many of Mr. Trump’s stated goals, including any money to build a wall on the southern border that was his most talked-about campaign promise.

His promotion of a shutdown isn't anything more than him trying to weasel out of the shockingly difficult work of being president. Why not just shut down for the next four years?

send all 50 states into breakout groups before coming back together again and share their new ideas

These are ideas that randomly pop into his head, he doesn't have the patience, focus, or know-how to make any of this happen. How long until the press realizes this and stops reporting on every vapid utterance as if it's something he's actually going to follow through on?

Imagining reince just convinces don that it's all shutdown, sends him in a global rally/golf tour for 3.5 yrs and we move on with pence.

when the ratings go down

xp

I still cannot fathom how he's going to make it through 3 3/4 more years of this

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C-0qe3vXgAMVRHc.jpg

i'd missed this one

Discussion just a bit upthread about that excerpt and his inability to recognize or process metaphor.

maybe just troll him with metaphors from now on

"Mr President, some say your Administration is headed over the cliff"

"there's truth to that. it's a tremendous cliff"

"You know, John, I've seen that cliff, it's a high one, extraordinary, really. Some people say it's treacherous. I don't. It's America, an American cliff, you know. And we're gonna make Mexico pay for it."

I've been saying this for a while. Interviewers should be setting him up for fall after fall. Ply him with metaphors, ask him questions that are complete nonsense (possibly including words and names invented from whole cloth), give him lots and lots of rope, teach him how to tie the knots and place it around his neck. Anything that doesn't seem like an overt attack, he will respond to as if he knows what he's talking about. This is such a glaring vulnerability to exploit that it's almost shocking to watch interviewers politely circumvent it over and over.

yay! a way around the filibuster! you go, "conservatives"! tax cuts pay for themselves; deficits don't matter : )

Senate Republicans could simply vote as a majority to extend the budget window beyond ten years (a decade simply being a convention). The budget window could be 20 or 30 years. Then they could pass a huge tax cut for affluent people that expires, but the expiration date would lie so far in the future that it might as well be permanent.

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/05/heres-the-republican-trick-to-make-their-tax-cuts-permanent.html

"Mr. President, today we've seen video of citizens in Hurwafistan burning you in effigy over your position on salination rights in the Pan-African Arctic Zone. How do you respond to these demonstrations, which some are calling mollicinent?"

I've been saying this for a while. Interviewers should be setting him up for fall after fall. Ply him with metaphors, ask him questions that are complete nonsense (possibly including words and names invented from whole cloth), give him lots and lots of rope, teach him how to tie the knots and place it around his neck. Anything that doesn't seem like an overt attack, he will respond to as if he knows what he's talking about. This is such a glaring vulnerability to exploit that it's almost shocking to watch interviewers politely circumvent it over and over.

^^^ this x 100, I'm surprised no one really figured it out during the campaign. I mean Republicans are obviously on board with his awful ideas but they always seem to try to distance themselves when he says something truly idiotic.

idk it seems like Dickerson figured it out

the dude was unflappable

Life continues to imitate The Simpsons.

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i'm truly exasperated by how fucked up the motherfucker is.

feel like we've reached a point where you could say that sentence in a crowd in any major city and everyone would know what you're talking about

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C-1PMktWsAQPDMm.jpg

O_O

http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-statements-on-gdp-growth-in-emerging-and-developed-economies-2017-5

Morning Joe straight up saying Trump has completely lost his mind, "my mother's had dementia for 10 years, that sounds like something she would say"