Trump, May 2017: 100 days of [unintelligible]

I know T.'s not a smart or plan-making or calculating person, but every time he does some random macho stupid jingo shit, two things happen:

1. The media and professional classes gasp, scratch their heads, and clutch their collective pearls and say THIS IS NOT NORMAL.

2. A jillion redhatters cream in their pants and howl for more, because NOT NORMAL is exactly what they were voting for. Trumpism is Brawndo and it's what they crave.

He's no genius but we know he loves both of those results, so he keeps doing the behavior that delivers them. He's pretty easily understood to be a lab rat pushing the bar that releases the crack-pellet.

I kinda feel like the best he can hope for re: the end of his presidency is to die in office.

Pence insisting nobody leave him alone with red sweater lady

I kinda feel like the best he can hope for re: the end of his presidency is to die in office.

― Download this Man With Hamburder And Mug (Old Lunch), Thursday, May 11, 2017 1:07 PM (nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

From your lips...

Pence insisting nobody leave him alone with red sweater lady

I was going to make fun of how strange and unprepared to be photographed she appears to be, but then I thought what if she's a cancer patient and she's been deathly ill, and as a result of her illness she lost her job and had to move into a cheaper place and all her clothes have been in boxes until this morning and that's why they obviously don't fit her and are so wrinkled. And I felt almost bad for a brief fraction of a second. I'm over it though.

She's probably like some famous pro-life evangelical figurehead in which case nothing I could make up would be bad enough.

I kinda feel like the best he we can hope for re: the end of his presidency is to die in office.

@RichLowry I just picture Republicans holding a little Gorsuch doll and petting it lovingly as their house burns down around them.

— Mike (@Gustogus) May 11, 2017

Um.. http://www.inkfreenews.com/2015/06/19/gov-pence-ceremonially-signs-jennys-law/

In the 'uh duh' category

NBC News: Trump nixes plan to visit FBI HQ—"told it was not likely he would be warmly welcomed." https://t.co/rY2ciU1YhU

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) May 11, 2017

no wonder red sweater lady is euphoric!

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Re: Lord Alfred's posted tweet

http://www.lovethispic.com/uploaded_images/54463-Its-Silly-But-I-Believe.gif?1

red cardigan woman looks like kellyanne in a curly wig

Um.. http://www.inkfreenews.com/2015/06/19/gov-pence-ceremonially-signs-jennys-law/

― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, May 11, 2017 8:33 PM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Now that I've committed myself it would have to be something like that. But hey, that's good news actually!!

lol he just RT'd Rosie O'Donnell

I know Trump sucks and all but he's also kind of amazing

when routine bites hard

@realDonaldTrump
Russia must be laughing up their sleeves watching as the U.S. tears itself apart over a Democrat EXCUSE for losing the election.

"laughing up their sleeves" is the new "keep your stupid comments in your pocket!"

@realDonaldTrump
Time to roll up our butts and get healthcare passed!!

lol he just RT'd Rosie O'Donnell

not only that - he dug up a Rosie tweet about comey from the end of last year ffs

you're supposed to be running a country, donald

@realDonaldTrump
Time to roll healthcare up our butts and get passed out!!

Further down the timeline, less amazing: https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/05/11/presidential-executive-order-establishment-presidential-advisory

The Rosie O'Donnell tweet was posted on the Trump subreddit about 20 minutes before the president tweeted it pic.twitter.com/xGuuwCFVK7

— Brandon Wall (@Walldo) May 11, 2017

the reddit link confirms it, trump is a fuckin steampunk

This needs to be stopped.

a steamtrump if u will oh god i wanna die

Why is he a steampunk?

keep up dude - time interview Ned posted earlier

"You know the catapult is quite important. So I said what is this? Sir, this is our digital catapult system. He said well, we’re going to this because we wanted to keep up with modern (technology). I said you don’t use steam anymore for catapult? No sir. I said, "Ah, how is it working?" "Sir, not good. Not good. Doesn’t have the power. You know the steam is just brutal. You see that sucker going and steam’s going all over the place, there’s planes thrown in the air."

http://www.newsicorn.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/steampunk-trump.jpg

there you go, some hard photographic evidence

Lol

What a dumb world.

man sky captain is really not gonna like this world of tomorrow

"Laughing up their sleeves." Have you heard that expression used before? Because I haven’t heard it. I mean, I just… I came up with it a couple of days ago and I thought it was good. It’s what you have to do.

sky captain otm

“I don’t watch CNN. I don’t watch MSNBC. Scarborough used to treat me great. But because I don’t do interviews and stuff and want to … He went the other way. Which is fine. He’s got some problems. But I don’t watch the show anymore. It drives him crazy. I don’t watch the show. I do watch Fox in the morning, and their ratings have gone through the roof because everyone knows I’m watching Fox. But they’re pleasant. And if I do something wrong they report on it. I don’t mean they – if I do something wrong. But it’s really, honestly it’s the most accurate.

“CNN in the morning, Chris Cuomo, he’s sitting there like a chained lunatic. He’s like a boiler ready to explode, the level of hatred. And the entire, you know the entire CNN platform is that way. This Don Lemon who’s perhaps the dumbest person in broadcasting, Don Lemon at night it’s like – sometimes they’ll have a guest who by mistake will say something good. And they’ll start screaming, we’re going to commercial. They cut him off. Remember?

“I’ve seen things where by mistake somebody they bring in a guest and it turns out to be a positive. And they go, I mean they get just killed. The level of hatred. And poor Jeffrey Lord. I love Jeffrey Lord. But sometimes he’s sitting there with eight unknown killers that nobody ever heard of. And CNN actually is not doing nearly as well as others. They’re all doing well because of me. But it’s not doing as well as others that are doing better actually. But Fox treats me very fairly. MSNBC is ridiculous. It’s just bad.

“It’s an ability I never thought I’d have. I never thought I’d have the ability to say, they’re doing a big story on me on CNN and I won’t watch it. And it’s amazing, it doesn’t matter. But it really, the equilibrium is much better. As far as newspapers and things, I glance at them. They’re really dishonest. I mean they’re really dishonest.”

Tommy Wiseau ALSO complains about the news media getting things wrong and being unfair fwiw

Chris Cuomo, he’s sitting there like a chained lunatic. He’s like a boiler ready to explode

steampunk

'I don't watch cnn oh here's a detailed breakdown of how and why cnn sucks did I mention i don't watch cnn'

Whoops!

Kushner family drops out of China presentation https://t.co/imLlaM0R40 via @shawnboburg

— Lisa Rein (@Reinlwapo) May 11, 2017

fuck!

I mean I know you had that sweet investment money lined up

Meanwhile, this from Costa

http://www.pbs.org/weta/washingtonweek/blog-post/three-things-watch-friday

Ends with:

Republicans, already a little uneasy about the 2018 mid-term elections, are telling me privately that Trump is reviving questions on Russia they thought would abate and making it tough for them to defend him when the narrative coming out of the White House is challenged daily.

We’ll delve into how Speaker Ryan and Leader McConnell are going to adjust to Comey moving forward and what kind of guidance they’re giving their members. The chorus so far is in Trump’s favor but that doesn’t mean the grumbling in the cloakroom isn’t growing and becoming a real problem for the president as he tries to get his party in line behind him.

Fairly obvious already but a useful underscore. Still early days.

The @NewYorker cover 😶 pic.twitter.com/nJIXKxJTok

— Xeni Jardin (@xeni) May 11, 2017

oh damn! that's fire

I THINK I SEE WHAT THEY DID THERE

They showed that a guy will still READ A BOOK ON A PLANE

United we stand.

That's me!

"We'll be TOGEEEEEEEETHER."