Trump, May 2017: 100 days of [unintelligible]

this crew couldn't do a coup if you gave em help from old Pinochet guys

True!

But timing is everything doc

lmao

Cryin' Chuck Schumer stated recently, "I do not have confidence in him (James Comey) any longer." Then acts so indignant. #draintheswamp

— President Trump (@POTUS) May 10, 2017

Oy

Weird to see someone who knows the word "indignant" copying Trump's style

Genuine q - how so? Given you have a p good inside take on all this crap.

I won't disagree with any of the bleakness but it's sloppy and, like, get one editor please

i'm almost getting sick of all this winning

When you've lost Joe Morning...

Senate Republicans should not confirm any Trump pick for FBI Director until an independent prosecutor is appointed on Russia.

— Joe Scarborough (@JoeNBC) May 10, 2017

Atonin' Joe

Kasich is making hay

Gov. John Kasich statement on James Comey pic.twitter.com/Wrwj6sGqnz

— John Kasich (@JohnKasich) May 10, 2017

Yes this is definitely a moment when "both parties" should be called out equally

Tomorrow's NYT. pic.twitter.com/dAdR6WtiiB

— Jake Silverstein (@jakesilverstein) May 10, 2017

so the "while i greatly appreciate you informing me, on three separate occasions, that i am not under investigation" part is trump's way of passive-aggressively (and very publicly, like a fucking moron) retaliating against comey once he learned that the fbi is investigating trump directly, i guess?

Paper of Record Gets One More Chance to Put "Clinton Email Case" above Fold

Meanwhile:

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - New South Korean leader says he's willing to visit rival Pyongyang under right conditions

— Josh Lederman (@joshledermanAP) May 10, 2017

fbi director chris christie

Karl: yes of course it is

http://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2017/05/quick-note-comey-firing

Wtf is this denying the investigation "3 times" st peter bullshit?

If you ask the FBI director if he's investigating you 3 times he has to tell the truth.

He had grown enraged by the Russia investigation, two advisers said, frustrated by his inability to control the mushrooming narrative around Russia. He repeatedly asked aides why the Russia investigation wouldn’t disappear and demanded they speak out for him. He would sometimes scream at television clips about the probe, one adviser said.

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/10/comey-firing-trump-russia-238192

o m g

Like any of that is a surprise.

This to me is the more telling/true bit:

By Tuesday evening, the president was watching the coverage of his decision and frustrated no one was on TV defending him, a White House official said. He wanted surrogates out there beating the drum.

Instead, advisers were attacking each other for not realizing the gravity of the situation as events blew up. "How are you not defending your position for three solid hours on TV?" the White House aide said.

Two White House officials said there was little communications strategy in handling the firing, and that staffers were given talking points late Tuesday for hastily arranged media appearances. Aides soon circulated previous quotes from Schumer hitting Comey. After Schumer called for a special prosecutor, the White House huddled in press secretary Sean Spicer's office to devise a strategy and sent "fresh faces" to TV, one White House official said.

hey friends i just want to say yall are a bunch of swell folks and also

motherfuck this worthless cumstain, i hope he trips on his own shoes and falls face first into a pit of vipers.

right back atcha, and him

btw to clarify, i do not mind if the vipers are snakes or the dodge sports cars, either one would inflict large amounts of pain

Can we wait for the millions of spider eggs to hatch inside his skull first?

only if those spider eggs are full of vipers

trump: what is this itching inside my brain?
*little huevitos jostle around inside his big dumb head*
trump: of fuck its those spider eggs, i bet im gonna have a lot of spiders runnin around in my head now. sad!
*eggs crack open*
vipers: sike dickhead its us

I'm still hoping he strokes out while shitting and tweeting. That's the eternal memory that Trump deserves.

...his unarmored Android falling to the floor as he musters the words "Pussy Grab" with his final breaths...

elvis comeback special indeed

I think the only way Trump can truly win back the trust of the nation is a ride in an open-topped limousine past the book depository in Dallas

[joeks, newly-rogue-FBI]

it will encourage a lot of people to give him at least one shot, maybe two or three.

idk guys theres no magic bullet

https://scontent.flhr4-2.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t31.0-8/18359464_10154451128741406_6358186934874264248_o.jpg?oh=bbc4a03a75bd51970c614a9042e4ce1f&oe=59BCF095

lol

Personally, I have this fantasy where McMaster begins to really meditate on the title of his book and how it could apply to him in the context of history and the level of access he currently enjoys and the state of our government and the proximity between the White House Drain-O and the president's Tab supply.

boy, this Susan Huckabee Sanders is s piece of work.

I'm starting to think if there's no special prosecutor then we're probably done here.

Will try to put that out of my head somewhere between here and my job, I guess.

Until life starts to suck for GOP House and Senate, they'll stonewall.

Funny that Trump was so quick to push his 'good' press from last week out of the headlines

"President Trump is awake!" @foxandfriends host just announced, before reading his morning tweets

— Sarah Boxer (@Sarah_Boxer) May 10, 2017

joeks, newly-rogue-FBI

'newly' is a joek alright

responding to today's WSJ story:

@tinyrevolution
I find it totally plausible that Trump just got mad that Comey was on TV a lot and he doesn't like the competition

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaHRGX5abDw&feature

Well yeah listen to what he says here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaHRGX5abDw

Q from @mitchellreports: Does Comey's firing cast a shadow over talks?

Russian FM jokes: “Was he fired? You are kidding! You are kidding!” pic.twitter.com/EqzHWjoken

— Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) May 10, 2017

good [unintelligible]!

i'm still of the mind that the russia stuff is largely a nothingburger. i think at most an investigation would reveal that trump was a useful idiot -- i'm not convinced he really had any personal involvement/knowledge of possible collusion

and i kinda think firing comey is just his way of making sure that the director of the FBI is one of his guys. like, the very fact that there ~could~ be an investigation of him---the president!---was threatening, so they found an excuse to ditch him. the substance of the investigation wasn't the issue, it was its very existence

that the optics/timing is bad might prove irrelevant. trump has played against traditional norms for his entire campaign/presidency and hasn't been too hampered by that strategy. his base loves it when he does the exact wrong thing, and the republicans fall in line, and the dems are ineffectual