Trump, September 2017: Walmart Knockoff Hats and Other Indignities

lol "a friend"

God, that's all so, so pathetic

Mr. Kelly, the former Marine general brought in five weeks ago as the successor to Reince Priebus, reacted calmly, but he later told other White House staff members that he had never been spoken to like that during 35 years of serving his country. In the future, he said, he would not abide such treatment, according to three people familiar with the exchange.

First of all I would love to know how a Marine who enlisted in 1970 actually phrased the sentiments described above, but I can probably guess at some of the terminology.

Second, that he put those rhymes down in front of at least three people - and you know he knows some if not all of those press sources are press sources - is extremely telling.

'why i never!'

/Jimmy Stewart voice/

"Why by gosh in all my 35 years of service to this great country I can't recall a single time any man, or woman, or even a dog ever gave me so much guff. I don't think I could abide being spoken to like that again, not even by the President. No sir, I don't think I could abide it, not at all. Now I'm afraid you'll have to excuse me; I don't like to be emotional in front of people who aren't my wife."

I would love to know how a Marine who enlisted in 1970 actually phrased the sentiments described above

lololol

america is a comedy

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/black-smoke-chimney-russian-consulate-san-francisco/

Schiller going seems pretty damn notable.

it just further proves that Trump has nobody loyal to him besides the people who imagine they're in his will; Schiller was in it for the money and the power, he wasn't getting enough of either, so maybe he'll go die in a cornfield, nobody fucking cares. Omarosa will quit sometime in November, I figure.

Trump doesn't have a web browser on his phone? I thought that was where he used Twitter from.
Don't you need the web to do that?

There's an App for that!

america is a comedy

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/black-smoke-chimney-russian-consulate-san-francisco/

― nomar, Saturday, 2 September 2017 1:57 PM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

New pope?

I thought new phones pretty much automatically came with internet access for the last 5 or 10 years.
Does having a Twitter App but no Internet Browser reflect an absolute lack of curiosity about the world while maintaining a need to spout off about it?
I still have a non Smart phone so am not familiar with Apps. So am used to all that web related stuff being accessed through internet option. So Facebook, Twitter etc and tv or whatever would be through a browser. So surprised that what to me are sub categories bypass the umbrella category.

We can tell u don't zing, so there r things we can't share sorry

I could be wrong but is this the first time one of his key cronies has basically called him out on his fucking up?

https://apnews.com/09374b11b8494515b50de5a5538014f6

“He’s in a weak position,” said Christopher Ruddy, the CEO of Newsmax and a longtime Trump friend. “A lot of the Republican establishment has not been supportive, his poll numbers are down and he has spent most of his early presidency appealing to his base while most presidents would be seeking more consensus.”

Obviously he could be harsher but he is pretty much pointing out the obvious.

A later quote by Ruddy is even more telling to my mind. I honestly wouldn't have expected the guy behind Newsmax to be this open about the limits of what he's helped push, though at the same time how conveeeenient that he can blame someone who is once again an open competitor:

“Steve Bannon got the president and a lot of people believing they had to fulfill a checklist number of promises I don’t believe his supporters require him to do that,” Ruddy said. He added that as long as Trump appeals only to that group of voters, he will be focused only on “a fraction of conservatives, a minority viewpoint.”

I thought new phones pretty much automatically came with internet access for the last 5 or 10 years.

They probably gave him one of those w/ giant buttons for grandparents who don't want the internets.

'i don't wanna accidentally buy something'

well yes

http://fortune.com/2016/06/10/president-obamas-new-smartphone-is-more-like-a-toddler-phone/

So I guess he was a jackass feeding people at the shelter today?

everyone was having such a good time

I saw a photo of him kissing a little black girl, and it looked like he was a heartbeat away from swallowing her whole.

Small thing, but I really don't like how he and Melania keep product placing their hats. Astros/Texans/Rockets/Rap-A-Lot swag had to be available.

Seeing the President directly serve the people is welcomed and heartening. https://t.co/37akVLy8BH

— Evan McMullin (@Evan_McMullin) September 2, 2017

http://pbs.twimg.com/media/DIvcoqYWAAAXx9F.jpg

The look on his face conveys that there are human hearts in those to-go boxes.

re: how he uses Twitter:

I dictate my tweets to my executive assistant and she posts them. "Time is money"---The Art of the Deal.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 23, 2011

and here i thought bob marley came up with that one

So he has somebody else up with him in the middle of the night making non grammatical nonsense posts. Covfefe and long interval between posts were dictated? If that's true isn't it worse.
He's employing an assistant that's also heartless and hasn't been mentioned over the last 7 months? I don't think so, certainly not for all of his Tweets.

It's John Barron.

is she Siri or Cortana?

https://i.imgur.com/hYu8WUA.jpg

A lot about his daily life has chambers since 2011.

Changed, fu autocorrect

don't you think that executive assistant would have had a fawning nymag profile by now if she existed

in the admin context i mean

He's definitely not dictating the colorful late night tweets. The retweets of neo-nazis, likewise, are his doing. No employee who wants to preserve their job would do that stuff.

Her name is Rhona Graff, apparently

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/rhona-graff-trump-conduit-236484

re: how he uses Twitter:

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― louie mensch (milo z), Sunday, September 3, 2017 1:41 AM (eight hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-mAuazb3yoRk/U2Bl6ls1wfI/AAAAAAAADFI/7JO63B_kUf0/s1600/best.jpg

sic otm, he hasn't "dictated" tweets to an assistant in years and he certainly doesn't do it now

No, it's absolutely true. I found a picture of his Twitter assistant.

http://rs718.pbsrc.com/albums/ww183/ckdout/Quato.jpg~c200

tbh there is a strong possibility the assistant was always John Barron, and Trump just thinks the idea of him dictating things to subordinates makes him sound important

The United States is considering, in addition to other options, stopping all trade with any country doing business with North Korea.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 3, 2017

Ha ha, yeah, this'll end well.

They are groping for a non-military way to 'get tough' on NK. Every administration has the same intractable set of NK problems and the same set of unworkable ideas to deal with them. Some day we'll have to give in, normalize relations, and try to reintegrate NK into the world's community of nations.

I'm just envisioning Trump saying this to China and having them respond with an invoice for every dime we owe them, due in 30 days.

https://medium.com/@Amy_Siskind/week-42-experts-in-authoritarianism-advise-to-keep-a-list-of-things-subtly-changing-around-you-so-a1fbe96c91ca

117 items on this week's list

he racked up 117 items in a slow week in late August!

knowing trump, he likely got in the 10 items or less lane too

Lyle Goldstein has some interesting insights into how to constructively engage with both China and the DPRK, of course I'll have to re-listen to the podcast below to remember what they were. That said they all involved give and take, talks, understanding an opposing point of view and all kinds of things 45 is not to good at.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/sinica-podcast-weekly-discussion-current-affairs-in/id1121407665?mt=2&i=1000390124742

from maura's

In a radio interview, Eric Trump said the negative media coverage was impacting his father: “It important to keep in context. Otherwise, quite frankly, you’d probably end up killing yourself out of depression.”

where's that osama thumbs up gif

i don't know if it's reassuring or not that a 117-item list can almost uniformly strike me as old news. either the constant stream of stories is calling attention away from arguably worse things, or the normalization is not actually as creeping and insidious as it has been made out to be, since the stream of stories is graspable and seems to be cohering into a constant reminder of the nation's grievance against trump (much like he can never forget a slight)

So, his Tweet-assistant typed covfefe?