US Politics December 2018: ~very legal and very cool~

Also it used written words, a blind spot for Trump.

It’s fucking dumb that these people refuse to actually criticize him. You can’t “respect the office” when it’s occupied by someone who has no respect for anything.

Treeship sometimes superficial politeness is the most powerful own of all

Look how far it got Obama!

i am constantly owning everyone on ilx all day long

oh to be a fly on the wall for this closed-doors convo

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2018/12/23/mulvaney-trump-now-realizes-he-cant-fire-fed-chief-jerome-powell/2403176002/

Mnunchin’s gonna get fired next

"don't be telling people I can't fire people!"

Worst day of trading ever for a Christmas eve

i hope the stock market dies

i kinda like the bars around wall street though. those low-ceilinged colonial era buildings.

This is awesome

I am all alone (poor me) in the White House waiting for the Democrats to come back and make a deal on desperately needed Border Security. At some point the Democrats not wanting to make a deal will cost our Country more money than the Border Wall we are all talking about. Crazy!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 24, 2018

He's become isolated

Speaking of "crazy," I just came to post that "poor me" tweet. The Border Wall all the people in my head are talking about.

this feels like the unfilmed lead up to Michael Corleone falling from his chair dead in Godfather 3

"All Alone (Poor Me) In The White House" for next thread.

Trump, more isolated than ever, sits alone in White House as "opinion: the walls are closing in on Trump" (C&P from Oct 2017 etc)

stuck in the middle with.. hey where'd everybody go

Grisso otm

here's your thread title

Per pool, Trump to the first child who called in tonight to talk to Santa: “Are you still a believer in Santa?"

— Dafna Linzer (@DafnaLinzer) December 25, 2018

This made me laugh really hard.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DvKnMzWUYAAxAuL.jpg

Stop. Hammer time.

https://res.cloudinary.com/dv3qcy9ay/image/upload/c_fit,f_auto,h_520,q_90,w_780/v1/2017/prod_Zoot/ProductionPhotos/P13ZS372.jpg

that's a shop, right? i saw vic berger share it, it can't be real

yeah, there’s no way his hands are that big

OMG the video is amazing

Donald Trump, answering phone call from 7-year-old on Christmas Eve: "Are you still a believer in Santa? Because at seven it's marginal, right?" pic.twitter.com/VHexvFSbQ1

— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) December 25, 2018

He looks like a Kyle Baker drawing in that photo I posted.

"Are you still a believer in Santa? Because at seven it's marginal, right?"

For a Trumpism, this is a masterpiece.

every day is somehow weirder!

Honestly - I cannot believe he said that. I’ve believed easily many of the stupid, stupid things he saidin the past. But that “marginal” comment reads like 100% parody. My fucking god.

The guy who thinks you couldn't say Merry Christmas anymore just redpilled all under-8s.

if you were to write a Lifetime movie script and the bad guy were to tell a child Santa wasn't real it would be too on-the-nose

Santa is bullshit. Trump otm.

Both sides of the Santa debate deserve to be heard.

Teach the Santa controversy.

‘at seven it’s marginal’ is honestly hilarious

Maybe he's subtly encouraging American kids to believe in Ded Moroz instead.

I cracked a smile, sure. Regardless of the situation, the president thinks he's a fifth-rate Catskills stand-up comedian.

lol treesh

How do you have 5 kids of your own and yet say something like that to a 7 yr old? Oh right, by being a shitty father who never engages with your kids until they're adults and can be of service to you.

"What other lies have your parents told you? That anyone can be president?"

People keep asking me about the nuclear launch process and the President's power to use nuclear weapons, so I put everything you need to know in this helpful chart. #NoRedButton pic.twitter.com/NQFkGAVbCX

— Derek Johnson (@derekjGZ) November 27, 2017

I’ve seen a lot of smart people be in denial about how unilateral process is. More democrats should be publicly getting behind that “no first use” bill.

*the process is

News is reporting that Trump and Melania went to Iraq to visit the troops. I say bullshit; they filmed it in the same studio where they filmed the moon landing, just put up a tent and brought in some extras in camo.

New also reporting that Iraq is a “war zone” which will be news to the DOD and the Iraqi government.

I think there are areas of western Iraq, near Syria, that could still be considered war zones. I have no idea where the Trumps' visit took place.

Al Asad.

New York Times:

The place Mr. Trump chose to visit is the one theater of war where he has not promised a rapid drawdown of forces — and it is where he claims his greatest military victory, the defeat of the Islamic State in Mosul, the Iraqi city where the group’s leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi declared the beginning of its self-proclaimed caliphate. The assault on Mosul by Iraqi forces, backed by Americans, began under President Barack Obama but culminated in the summer of 2017 under Mr. Trump.

Presidential!

President Donald Trump and the White House communications team revealed that a U.S. Navy SEAL team was deployed to Iraq after the president secretly traveled to the region to meet with American forces serving in a combat zone for the first time since being elected to office.

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Trump flew to Iraq late Christmas Day after facing a barrage of negative headlines over the holiday season amid a partial government shutdown. The president and first lady Melania Trump posed for pictures with U.S. service members at al-Asad air base in Iraq.

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A pool report during Trump’s visit said the details of the trip were embargoed until the president finished giving his remarks to a group of about 100 mostly U.S. special operation troops engaged in combat operations in Iraq and Syria.

The pool report went on to say that Trump paused to take a selfie with U.S. Navy Lieutenant Commander Kyu Lee, who said he was the chaplain for SEAL Team Five, based out of Coronado, California. The chaplain said Trump told him: “Hey, in that case, let’s take a picture.”

After Trump left Iraqi airspace, the president posted a video to his Twitter account of his time spent with American forces during his visit to Iraq. Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the USA,” plays over the video and shows the president and the first lady posing for pictures with service members that appear to be from SEAL Team Five. The special warfare operators are dressed in full battle gear and wearing night vision goggles.

The video cuts to team members shaking the president’s hand before cutting to other special operations personnel and support troops.

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"The deployments of special operation forces, including Navy SEALs are almost classified events, as to protect those men and women that are on the front lines of every overt and covert conflict the United States is involved in,” a Defense Department official told Newsweek on condition of anonymity.

“Even during special operation demonstrations for congressional delegations or for the president or vice president, personnel either have their faces covered or their face is digitally blurred prior to a release to the general public,” the official said.

The president’s video did not blur the faces of special operation forces.

Naturally.