Trump, May 2017: 100 days of [unintelligible]

fuck coffee, ted crux was 100% taking a sip of campbell's chunky soup when he said that

Xp yeah a part of that interview was me thinking no way has this child ever been allowed to run a functional business

shouldn't have used child as an insult, I like children and most of them are curious and multicompetent

"Just... living in the circus."

circus clown ridicules sole source of income

the civil war thing, the douglass thing, the steam thing, it's just unreal

there was a book once called "ronald reagan's reign of error" with quotes from ronnie that were either boneheaded or factually incorrect - they'd footnote each one to enlighten you - imagining such a book for trump is both too easy and impossible

i'd say these assholes all deserve each other except we are among the assholes

it is a circus tho, i heard someone filibustered by reading green eggs and ham for hours on end once

there was a book once called "ronald reagan's reign of error" with quotes from ronnie that were either boneheaded or factually incorrect - they'd footnote each one to enlighten you - imagining such a book for trump is both too easy and impossible

that trump error collection in full

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02850/library_2850120c.jpg

Ever the bold stance taker

Rubio doesn't rule out special prosecutor but says after Intel acts. "Maybe that will eventually happen. Maybe not." https://t.co/sBa2pmSOPK

— Manu Raju (@mkraju) May 11, 2017

xpost Was literally just about to say that I'm pretty sure I don't have the shelf space for the Trump trip-up encyclopedia.

rubio lining up the classic 'schrodinger's cat' response there

quantum politics, built for the needs of the 21st-century slippery shitbag

^^Best Bad Religion song

Hm hm hm

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/11/rosenstein-seeks-meeting-with-senate-intelligence-leaders-238268

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein has requested to meet with the Senate Intelligence Committee, including committee chairman Richard Burr (R-N.C.) and vice-chairman Mark Warner (D-Va.), sources told POLITICO.

Rosenstein was seen walking into the Senate Intelligence Committee space as the panel was holding a hearing on worldwide threats.

...

It’s unclear whether Rosenstein made the request to the committee unilaterally, or took his request through officials channels at the Department of Justice. He arrived with a security detail.

lmk when the Doctors' Plot begins

http://i.redd.it/h6mmntxppqwy.gif

Oops!

WH did not consult with NSA before letting Russian state media org TASS into Oval Office, per NSA Director Rogers

— Jessica Schulberg (@jessicaschulb) May 11, 2017

lmao

Rubio doesn't rule out special prosecutor but says after Intel acts. "Maybe that will eventually happen. Maybe not."

maybe fuck yourself, Marco!

"Good afternoon, Mr. American President. Please, accept normal microwave."

lol

Rubio doesn't rule out special prosecutor but says after Intel acts. "Maybe that will eventually happen. Maybe not."

awwww yeah I hadn't seen evidence of the Plankton with a Hairpiece's existence in months!

FBI staffed by grunge/alt-rock revival bands:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/05/10/new-fbi-boss-could-be-more-controversial-than-comey

It’s unclear if McCabe will be able to say anything to comfort FBI agents. One veteran agent in the FBI’s criminal division responded to a message from The Daily Beast this way: “Who cares, nothing matters, no one knows anything, everything sucks.”

*power chord*

.@POTUS is slated to meet with the Belgian prime minister & King of Belgium during his visit to Brussels later this month, per source

— Jeremy Diamond (@JDiamond1) May 11, 2017

"You shake his hand first."

"No, you."

Over/under on the likelihood that the Oval Office is now bugged or that one of yesterday's visitors secured classified intel that was just lying around between like some takeout menus or that they swapped out Trump's phone with a replica that gives Russia a direct video feed of Trump's toilet tweeting seshes.

It’s unclear if McCabe will be able to say anything to comfort FBI agents. One veteran agent in the FBI’s criminal division responded to a message from The Daily Beast this way: “Crawling in my skin; these wounds, they will not heal.”

It’s unclear if McCabe will be able to say anything to comfort FBI agents. One veteran agent in the FBI’s criminal division responded to a message from The Daily Beast this way: http://33.media.tumblr.com/853c30dd79f1204b4bb071f414ea2649/tumblr_nnelqzIjOJ1qc3ju8o6_400.gif

Update on that earlier bit:

Meeting now in the Senate SCIF: Burr and Warner with ROSENTEIN and DANA BOENTE

— Manu Raju (@mkraju) May 11, 2017

(Boente being the temporary deputy AG handling Russian probe matters until Rosenstein arrived, and presumably still involved.)

SCIF referring to

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensitive_Compartmented_Information_Facility

learned that from one of the last episodes of the americans!

Surely it's about time Jack Bauer had a crack at the top job

McCabe stated for the record today that they will not be updating the WH on the investigation. he'll probably get fired now

live look in at the senate SCIF

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/94/Get_Smart-Cone-of-silence.jpg

the lack of sophistication on display in that economist interview is really something. he's even worse when he's pretending to know what he's talking about.

Maybe they're meeting about John Schindler and Rick Wilson's dump?

his insistence that he be recognized for using the phrase "priming the pump", like what a clever boy he is. i mean really...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gettysburg_Address#Contemporary_sources_and_reaction

In a letter to Lincoln written the following day, Everett praised the President for his eloquent and concise speech, saying, "I should be glad if I could flatter myself that I came as near to the central idea of the occasion, in two hours, as you did in two minutes."[61] Lincoln replied that he was glad to know the speech was not a "total failure"

https://theintercept.com/2017/05/11/nyu-accidentally-exposed-military-code-breaking-computer-project-to-entire-internet/

This reminded me about Tombot mentioning the need for air-gapping systems

h'ray for me alma mater

Surely it's about time Jack Bauer had a crack at the top job

too left-wing iirc

Any guesses?

NBC News says it will break into programming with a special report in a few minutes, based on interview with POTUS.

— Alex Weprin (@alexweprin) May 11, 2017

Ah, here we go

Lester Holt breaking: Trump says he'd decided to fire Comey before he met with Rosenstein and Comey, contradicting the official explanation.

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) May 11, 2017

Trump on Comey: "He's a showboat, he's a grandstander." (The principled policy explanation is totally out the window.)

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) May 11, 2017

Trump: "Regardless of (the) recommendation, I was going to fire Comey."

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) May 11, 2017

The big thing here: Trump is not even *pretending* that his own written lie, repeated over and over by his administration, is the truth.

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) May 11, 2017

Also fun

"I know that I’m not under investigation. Me personally -- I’m not talking about campaigns," @realDonaldTrump tells @LesterHoltNBC today.

— Jeff Zeleny (@jeffzeleny) May 11, 2017

NEW: Pres. Trump tells @LesterHoltNBC he specifically asked former FBI Dir. Comey if he was under investigation during a phone call

— Monica Alba (@albamonica) May 11, 2017

Waive that privilege you dumb fuck xp

There's no point in firing a guy to show your dominance and intimidate others if you can't claim credit for firing him! Hence, today.

— Christopher Hayes (@chrislhayes) May 11, 2017

Guess the 'showboat' line basically confirms comey got shitcanned because trump was jealous of comey's screen time

jesus wept

reality has turned into the world's hackiest political satire

Some video!

BREAKING: I was going to fire Comey anyway, Pres. Trump tells @LesterHoltNBC in exclusive interview at White House https://t.co/MAmo1PE1RL

— NBC Nightly News (@NBCNightlyNews) May 11, 2017

this decision probably weighed as much on him as one of these:

https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/800/1*8ha75MedBgIMIHgD16Rvjw.gif