Trump, May 2017: 100 days of [unintelligible]

I ran into some friends at a restaurant here in America today, but they were actually Russians.

long running thread

I assume reporters will spend tomorrow discussing the signs of dementia exhibited by Trump. https://t.co/b5nMV3SrU6

— Bae Talese (@elongreen) September 12, 2016

e.g. today

JUST SAY IT. https://t.co/yHKXnl8Gox

— Bae Talese (@elongreen) May 19, 2017

i think he's in the air tonight. hold on

jesus, this sounds like another category 5, right here:

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/congress/article151565947.html

CBO to release estimate for House-passed version of the AHCA on Wednesday, May 24 https://t.co/SPM6kHVfm3

— U.S. CBO (@USCBO) May 19, 2017

lol

can't stop laughing about this correction https://t.co/6XECVx1ptf pic.twitter.com/Fof0u9IEv7

— Haley Byrd (@byrdinator) May 19, 2017

Fear and loathing...

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/gop-fears-trump-will-take-the-republican-party-down-with-him/article/2623311

lucky for them Democrats don't vote

Oh, nothing major:

CNN: White House Counsel's office has consulted experts in impeachment & have begun collecting info on how such proceedings work@evanperez

— Shimon Prokupecz (@ShimonPro) May 19, 2017

when has Republicans being evil and incompetent monsters ever stopped half of America from voting for them? (xps)

Fear and loathing...

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/gop-fears-trump-will-take-the-republican-party-down-with-him/article/2623311

lol that they are just now realizing that Trump is a clown

Fear and loathing...

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/gop-fears-trump-will-take-the-republican-party-down-with-him/article/2623311

lol how many times since March 2016 has the GOP allowed itself to get quoted in stories with URLs like this?

DOJ official to @thedailybeast: Trump's comments could "absolutly" be construed as obstruction https://t.co/968YGsI0ZW pic.twitter.com/uwzAhb8kiO

— Colin Jones (@colinjones) May 19, 2017

waiting for Trump to just go on TV and scream ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED?

LOL at an administration utterly incapable or uninterested in thinking things through or planning in advance ... except when it comes to looking into the rules of impeachment.

This is actually a really cool shot:

https://static01.nyt.com/images/2017/05/20/us/20prexy1/20prexy1-master768.jpg

BTW, omg, who is looking after Baron!?!?

Baron

Don't tell me he's Home Alone?
Is that where the orange one came in? Kind of fitting bookend?

Hahah okay tons of great quotes here

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/05/19/trump-officials-he-looks-more-and-more-like-a-complete-moron

Amazing quotes in there

Also:

🚨🚨🚨 COMEY agrees to testify in open session before Senate Intel pic.twitter.com/PXktidhJyI

— Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) May 19, 2017

Trump himself hasn’t been implicated in any of these leaks except where he’s implicated himself, where he says something that makes his perhaps less-than-sterling intentions clear,” said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity in order to discuss the controversy candidly. “He keeps saying there’s no collusion, and I think he’s right. So if he would just shut his trap, what would Dems have?”

Holy cow, when your staff are willing to talk smack about you to the press this freely, what kind of a future does your admin have

how many words have donald and barron exchanged over the last four months, i wonder

"not the mama!"

it's kushner

If you're at the point of saying something like that to a reporter, why not just quit? Go be free.

— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) May 19, 2017

Be great if the plane comes back and they all go to the White House and there's nobody there.

Be great if the plane comes back

nuh uh

Note I said 'if'

true. there's always the chance Trump demands to fly the plane

Speaking of Twilight Zone episodes, I'd like that when the plane descended for landing they saw dinosaurs out the window.

they're going to a very volatile part of the world and they're infamously incompetent. is security a particular strength of this administration or is trump exposing himself to a lot of risk traveling to the middle east?

supposedly this will be the first time a plane has flown directly from saudi to israel in . . . quite a while

this really is a pretty telling video, Comey wants to be a million miles away from Trump and Trump is greeting him in this really amazing smarmy way, i swear he almost blows him a kiss before he walks over.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoIA7y_Kccc

The body language says everything.

i'm sure the height thing really does bother him

dunno - i remember that being heavily cited at the time as "look at snivelling comey and his best pal trump"

xpost.

i mean seems comey, in whatever awful madness this is, has impressively stood up to a terrible admin.

At this point, I'm really curious how the ~35% still approving Trump are avoiding the news. They certainly surf online, watch non-Fox national news, listen to non RW talk radio. I actually worry about it, as in, should Trump be impeached some 30+% will have no idea why and consider it a betrayal of democracy by DC elites.

^ certainly surely cannot

"not the mama!"

― Charles "Butt" Stanton (Neanderthal), Friday, May 19, 2017 6:18 PM (thirty-three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it's kushner

― 龜, Friday, May 19, 2017 6:19 PM (thirty-two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol for some reason I mentally detoured into "kushner is barron trump's real dad" territory for a second but that thankfully doesn't line up logistically

Eh, Comey has the opportunity to play hero and he may be taking it -- we'll see what his testimony is like. But it's not like he's exactly a victim here.

sanpaku: https://www.apnews.com/780cc65e99354b00877c870acf2cdaf0

I saw a report somewhere that public opinion does play a big role in all of this and that impeachment talk isn't realistic until approval ratings go down further (at least below 30%) because it's going to take that for the republicans to get on board

xp:

I've seen that, I still wonder what active measures these folks take to avoid news. It's not like being an literalist evangelical, where its easy enough to avoid science classes/articles/documentaries.

I had a number of informal talks (mostly online) with Trump supporters before the election, in which I encouraged them to look into his past as a serial business failure, and certainly irreligious/vulgar individual, and usually concluded, "He's an inept conman, we've known it and you will soon".

Analyses of Trump support will probably feature in dozens of theses going forward. The developed world really hasn't had such an important cult of personality since the 40s.

I'm also pretty worried about the rhetoric that T has already put out to that 30%, literally a declaration of war

i swear he almost blows him a kiss before he walks over.

My reading video of that is that you can remove the "almost".

if Quist wins that election next week in MT the GOP is going to freak the fuck out

He sent an email to his list that said something like, "as steve bannon said, the swamp won't let itself be drained without a fight." As this goes on he is going to try to tell his reporters that all of this is about the establishment trying to stop him from making america great again.