Trump, May 2017: 100 days of [unintelligible]

trump
"fabricate, devise," 1690s, from trump "deceive, cheat" (1510s), from Middle English trumpen (late 14c.), from Old French tromper "to deceive," of uncertain origin. Apparently from se tromper de "to mock," from Old French tromper "to blow a trumpet." Brachet explains this as "to play the horn, alluding to quacks and mountebanks, who attracted the public by blowing a horn, and then cheated them into buying ...." The Hindley Old French dictionary has baillier la trompe "blow the trumpet" as "act the fool," and Donkin connects it rather to trombe "waterspout," on the notion of turning (someone) around. Connection with triumph also has been proposed. Related: Trumped; trumping. Trumped up "false, concocted" first recorded 1728.

i'd applaud his trashing of the anthem if i thought it was intentional.

Keep searching - you'll come up with a reason to love him eventually, I'm sure of it.

Says who, indeed

Russia investigation expands to include Donald Trump's attorney - Michael Cohen - ABC News - https://t.co/6W4F2ZT3H0 via @ABC

— Rick Klein (@rickklein) May 30, 2017

the inside of trump's brain is like

Decent explanation, if this hasn't been shared already:

1. I want to riff on the point I made here, which I still think is central to our current political...uh, situation. https://t.co/hNMGR5GfCW

— David Roberts (@drvox) May 10, 2017

The Orb thrives

https://www.dailydot.com/layer8/nordic-leaders-troll-trump-orb-photo/

Was there an actual explanation to what the hands on the glowing orb thing was supposed to signify in the first place? looks like a bunch of people that I wouldn't want to think thought they controlled things to that extent anyway.

Listening to an interview with George W right now, it really is quite remarkable. Maybe it's been the painting, or maybe it's just been being out of the spotlight, but he is so loose, self aware, so thoughtful, so empathetic, and funny too. He may very well be full of shit, but it's just such a weird transformation.

His best joke was that under Obama, he kept getting calls from the Heartland asking him to speak out. And now under Trump, he's getting calls from the coast, asking him to speak out.

he was the GOP's useful idiot. they got their tax cuts etc. he got to have his war to one-up his dad.

but for his many crimes he's an ok dude

if only he had disrespected the national anthem

he is not an ok dude

100,000s of people died because of his deep-seated need to have a dick-measuring contest with his dad

I think maybe you should reread Morbs's post because right now you are making its subtext into text and acting like you are disagreeing with him

Grading presidents

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

you guys need another coffee b4 u read my posts mebbe

or watch fewer horror movies

DJP otm

RIP Manuel Noriega. DC wise man Elliott Abrams protected him when he had a political opponent tortured & decapitated https://t.co/qKAuoMW6ZX

— Jon Schwarz (@tinyrevolution) May 30, 2017

I get that Morbz was being sarcastic - yes I just wanted to make the subtext into text, because ppl do seem to be fondly remembering Dubya right now and that is wrong

xp

Coffee before, brandy after, pepto during

I've been screaming about "oh, Nixon and Bush weren't so bad" horseshit for awhile now, myself

Who's he three worst

couldn't be worse than Warren G

he didn't conduct any genocidal wars, tho

he did regulate however

Dubya was always personable and he obviously had a hard time projecting the dangerous hardman image he was trying for during his warmongering speeches, because his default personality is easy-going and fun-seeking. He was a god awful president because his heart was full of unearned confidence and his head was full of half-truths and nonsense.

I'd settle for the corpse of Nate Dogg at this point.

I'm taking the hardline moral stance that all presidents are/were indefensible monsters.

(Did I do that right, guys?)

"Jump! Jump!"

Yes, this is really @DarrellIssa on the roof of his district office building. Too afraid to come speak with assembled constituents below. pic.twitter.com/wCYRjO8Ev8

— Mike Levin (@MikeLevinCA) May 30, 2017

teapot dome scandal was some hot shit tho

what's n-x-e-t?

renaming the "Hastert Rule" the "Serial Molester Rule"

how about that chris cillizza amirite

Dude's name always reads to me like a cross between some Toho kaiju and a venereal disease.

renaming the "Hastert Rule" the "Serial Molester Rule"

― Οὖτις, Tuesday, May 30, 2017 2:20 PM (thirty-four minutes ago

real lol

Harding wasn't as bad a prez as Coolidge: far less damaging to the economy or immigrants.

re the huge bump in fake trump followers today

I'm tracking *45's number right now. He is growing by around 100 bots a minute. He is massing a propaganda army.

— SnowflakePrincess (@amandablount2) May 30, 2017

For what purpose? Do people give a shit what his follower count is? If his team is generating a bunch of twitter bots to spread Trumpophilic stories, why would they all need to follow Trump?

some speculation in the replies above, like driving trending

Hey, what happened to Rick Perry?

lost his glasses, is now stupid again

Never forget: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/372882/rick-perry-intellectual-tim-cavanaugh

Bias confession: This reporter’s heart is with Cruz and/or Paul, but the Republicans have a very deep bench of governors. America’s most recent experiment with electing a senator to the White House has now been exposed as a folly the nation was smart to suppress during the preceding four decades. The 2016 candidate will be a governor. Perry brought a new self to CPAC, and his idea-guy act proved a better vehicle to move the crowd than his previous instantiation as a big Texan in cowboy boots.

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/372882/rick-perry-intellectual-tim-cavanaugh

whoops

little did he realize the GOP would be taken over by an independent candidate masquerading as a republican!

and his idea-guy act proved a better vehicle to move the crowd...

I honestly read this as idiot-guy. Perry's not the only one needin' glasses.

https://assets2.onionstatic.com/onion/custom/trump-docs/poster/05-Presidential-Briefings/5-Presidential-Briefings_3_POSTER-fix.png

Rebecca Solnit: The Loneliness of Donald Trump (Literary Hub)

One way or another, he knows he has stepped off a cliff, pronounced himself king of the air, and is in freefall. Another dungheap awaits his landing; the dung is all his; when he plunges into it he will be, at last, a self-made man.

This is where the GOP is now, a politics finally stripped of all policy or ideological goals, driven totally by inchoate tribalistic rage and thirst for librul tears:

Why did I (since Cruz dropped out) and still do support President Trump?
Because fuck liberals.
We win, they lose.
Nothing else matters.
🗡️

— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) May 29, 2017

huh i've never heard those lyrics on my copy of "nothing else matters"

I'm tracking *45's number right now. He is growing by around 100 bots a minute. He is massing a propaganda army.
— SnowflakePrincess (@amandablount2) May 30, 2017

what were his numbers before he touched the orb?