Trump, May 2017: 100 days of [unintelligible]

This is the stupidest day in American history, a record that will be broken by every subsequent day in American history.

— Matt Christman (@cushbomb) January 20, 2017

A senior official in the Trump administration, who previously worked on the president’s campaign, offered a candid and brief assessment of the fallout from that string of bad press: “I don’t see how Trump isn’t completely fucked.”

A brief aside:

Ergodan goons roughing up protesters, as DC police try to stop them (VOA Turkey twitter link)

this is a good one. the trump clips are priceless.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EU3VpwV4-nk

the trump clips are priceless.

tru

lol

A senior admin. official tells me the White House wants to know if there are other memos from Comey's time at FBI -- on Obama, Clinton?

— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) May 17, 2017

wow Seth Meyers is as thoroughly unfunny as i always assumed

I never watch those videos, your late night TV smartarses all look the same to me

already getting tired of the "controversial" liberal hot takes - "Comey memo provides ZERO EVIDENCE".

Yes - his memo was intended to start the conversation, not complete the conversation. The evidence comes afterward when it's subpoenaed and when Comey testifies.

yes he's a jilted ex-lover but I sincerely doubt he's making it up.

it is kind of humorous to me that Trump apparently still doesn't realize the illegal things he does and says as a CEO are much more likely to become public knowledge when he does them as the President.

good mourning!

I like the moment five minutes in where he just becomes angry and yells 'PRESIDENT STUFF!' with hatred in his eyes. And then it's back to the smarm.

President Trump on everything but roller skates!

yes he's a jilted ex-lover

gaaaaahhhhhh my poor unprepared imagination just assaulted me with some seriously traumatic visuals

"I've been going out with a girl, her name is Julie, but last night she said to me while we were watching telly...."

LATEST: Russia's Putin says he can give record of Trump and Lavrov conversation to U.S. congress and senate https://t.co/DJ23iL4wJq pic.twitter.com/HYaLJepqxV

— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) May 17, 2017

lololol

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Kremlin aide says Putin prepared to provide transcript, not audio recording, of Trump and Lavrov meeting

i'd like to think lavrov straight-up asked trump to speak clearly and loudly into lavrov's lapel flower and trump gladly obliged

come on Putin no teasing let's see it, this could be another Economist interview

I have that transcript right here:

"Lavrov: We can has intelligence?
Trump: No! I would never leak intelligence!
Lavrov: Good, we were just testing you. You are a firm but fair partner in world peace.
Trump: Ha ha, you almost got me, Lavrov."

(xxp) "Hey you're not going to squirt water on me now, are you, Sergey? No? OK then".

"But Donald, I thought you liked Russians squirting water on you."
"Hey, keep it down Sergey, you never know who might be listening."

http://static-media.fxx.com/img/FX_Networks_-_FXX/927/347/Simpsons_05_12_P1.jpg?resize=600:*

L-R: Putin, Lavrov

there'd be a pleasing arc if putin manages to take trump out of the white house after helping to put him there in the first place

i mean the smoking ruin of us democracy it would leave in its wake would be troubling don't get me wrong but

apu's a way better businessman than trump ever was tbf to the man

well Apu has to actually run his business himself

Donald J. Trump‏Verified account @realDonaldTrump May 16

I have been asking Director Comey & others, from the beginning of my administration, to find the LEAKERS in the intelligence community..... GROCERY BAG!!!!

Sources tell us Kushner was a prominent voice advocating Comey's firing & the President's angry that move has created a firestorm @MajorCBS pic.twitter.com/N3IhlTnwM5

— Norah O'Donnell🇺🇸 (@NorahODonnell) May 17, 2017

knives out for jared

xpost lol

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Putin says he can give record of Trump and Lavrov conversation to U.S. congress and senate

Putin prolly also has a tape of Trump's meeting with Comey too, can he please send that along too? Oh, and the pee tape. And the tax returns while we're at it.

Thanks ever so

This morning summed up

Wow: @CBSThisMorning says it asked 20 GOP lawmakers to be a guest this AM to talk about Trump. And asked the WH for someone. ALL declined.

— Ed O'Keefe (@edatpost) May 17, 2017

A senior WH official tells @PeterAlexander that POTUS wasn't telling Comey to end Flynn investigation and suggest this is the way he speaks

— Marianna Sotomayor (@MariannaNBCNews) May 17, 2017

I mean, I love that second one. "You just didn't understand his tone of voice!"

Meanwhile, this restores my confidence so much

Trump national security aides put his name in their briefing docs as much as possible so he will keep reading them https://t.co/TTZfbKsy67 pic.twitter.com/rTm1r11EN0

— Dustin Volz (@dnvolz) May 17, 2017

Just came hear to get "Gordon is a Moron" stuck in my head, thanks

He was doing air quotes the whole time

As if the Senate didn't have enough on its mind

BREAKING: Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina collapses during DC race, gets CPR, taken away in ambulance.

— The Associated Press (@AP) May 17, 2017

Trump national security aides put his name in their briefing docs as much as possible so he will keep reading them

things that really really really read like an Onion article

oh it's from the Daily Express, not as highbrow or reliable as The Onion tbf

there'd be a pleasing arc if putin manages to take trump out of the white house after helping to put him there in the first place

As has been said before, chaos in USian politics is always in Putin's best interests. He likely doesn't even care who's in charge, as long as it's a mess that he can exploit. Dude is way evil, of course, but he is not stupid. His offer to helpfully provide a record of the Trump-Lavrov conversation is A+ trollage.

He's better at being evil than 45.

Trump national security aides put his name in their briefing docs as much as possible so he will keep reading them, with every other page featuring a collage of women in various stages of undress. The president is fed a treat after every third page and is slowly learning sign language so that he can communicate with his keepers.

Dude is way evil, of course, but he is not stupid

he doesn't even need to be smart to run rings around trump is the alarming thing

That what Tills gets for using up his body's finite store of energy

Whole lotta 'Pence save us'/'Pence what are you thinking' pieces today in various RW media outlets. Wonder why?

Meanwhile, fun times in the West Wing:

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/17/trump-white-house-on-edge-238482

In interviews, multiple White House officials indicated they feel under siege – unsure who in the intelligence community was leaking, how much damaging information was out there, when the next proverbial shoe would drop and what Trump might say.

Staffers shuttled back and forth among West Wing offices debating what to say without divulging confidential material or getting anything wrong. A deflated and exhausted Sean Spicer, who continues to read reports that his job is in jeopardy but is working 12 hours every day in his office, huddled in his office with Chief of Staff Reince Priebus.

There was a pervasive sense, another official said, that “we are kind of helpless.”

...

But inside the White House, there was a struggle to get any surrogates on TV because no one knew what to say or how to defend the story, one White House adviser said. At one point in the evening, Fox News host Bret Baier told viewers that “there are not Republicans willing to go on camera tonight as of yet.”

“There is this misunderstanding all these people want to go out there and defend us,” said one of the senior administration officials. “Who are they? Do you want to call them? Do you know how to get them on TV?”

Earlier in the day, National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster was given talking points to “try and turn the temperature down a little,” one person familiar with the comments said, “without causing more of a firestorm or making news or actually denying the story.”

But White House officials, one person said, are becoming increasingly leery of putting their names on statements in the immediate aftermath of stories – because Trump often contradicts them publicly or on Twitter.

Etc. etc.

of all the many trump traits that are incomprehensible to me, his inability to grasp the value of reading, either for work or for pleasure, is maybe the most alien to me

I know so many people like him!

Our new poet laureate

This email is the closest thing to a poem I've read in a while pic.twitter.com/Ou8ltlRVjX

— Rosie Gray (@RosieGray) May 17, 2017

Yeah, this'll work, sure.

Trump to unveil plans for an ‘Arab NATO’ in Saudi Arabia https://t.co/1pC7QuuqeR @washingtonpost

— Josh Rogin (@joshrogin) May 17, 2017