Trump, September 2017: Walmart Knockoff Hats and Other Indignities

sad no one's mentioning Pete Buttigieg

Draft Tammy Duckworth

When Poppy Bush said every single day during his campaign "Read my lips; no new taxes", he was excoriated mercilessly by his supporters when he later signed a bill that included new taxes. It should be said as often as possible that Trump promised multiple times a day that Mexico would pay for the wall, so if Congress doesn't pay for it, that is only because they know Mexico must do it, so why waste US taxpayer dollars on it?

because the concept of hypocrisy died in 2016

The difference is that Poppy never had a base of support -- he was perpetually mistrusted.

same reason Obama got slammed for "you can keep your doctor"? Trump's lies and scandals at this point are like this -

http://www.tgaw.com/images/SpeakEasy/ThreeStooges.JPG

Has Trump had one of these "wait and see ... " moments yet where in the end he made the better decision rather than the most disruptive and upsetting one?

Huh, TN's AG pulled out of its "DREAMERS" suit. Maybe others will follow and nullify this bullshit.

I am starting to see reports from the misinformed press and the fake news on how I am in violation of breaking campaign law.

#1 I have still not officially announced my candidacy.

#2 See #1 and go fuck yourselves.

Everyone else, Have a great Labor Day (I will be spending mine WORKING in one of the greatest cities in America - Grand Rapids, Michigan!!)

Rock on.
Kid Rock

@ frogbs - antifa is a real thing but probably comprise idk two hundred people in the united states, rounding up. the RW infosphere interpretation is that they are a massive armed front basically interchangeable with black-bloc anarchists and the dangerous terrorist cell known as black lives matter. from what I can tell on comments threads and batshit cartoons they are also communists. must be tough for them juggling all these ideologies but hey.

also, it seems, all liberals of whatever stripes spend a lot of time actively agreeing with all these groups and movements and supporting everything they do. which is prob the most absurd thing to me, as if more than .001% of the US population had ever heard the word "antifa" before last month. conservative media is just so hungry for a "oh yeah well why won't LIBERALS condemn ANTIFA, see trump was right to talk about BOTH SIDES" etc.

the RW infosphere interpretation is that they are a massive armed front basically interchangeable with black-bloc anarchists and the dangerous terrorist cell known as black lives matter.

don't forget they're also secretly funded by george soros.

yeah but Andrew Sullivan cares that they're throwing smoke bombs and shit

yeah it's been strange. I'm used to the right-wing deflecting and "oh why won't you talk about the REAL story" (Benghazi) every time a Trump controversy comes up but this is the first time I've seen the left go along with it, "ahh yeah these *squints* Anteefa are also very bad".

wait isn't Gavin Newsom trying to run?

Trump's main thug, Keith Schiller, is leaving the White House.

Newsom wants to be CA gov first

That Kid Rock thing points to the inevitability of someone using "Fuck all y'all" as a campaign slogan

Hell yeah

Rock 2018: [Radio Edit]

ehhh the broad Dem coalition has always been pretty cool with throwing more aggressive activists, protesters that cross over into property destruction of whatever kind, or really radicals of whatever sort, under the bus. people who share Maddow news constantly are probably the most eager to proclaim "but these violent black-clad thugs, i condemn them totally" which may be a defensible position but it's not new imho. shades really quickly into "and it's fine if the cops mistreat them and throw away the key" cause a lot of the same cats are eager to make clear that they don't live up to the caricature version drawn by the right. turn back the clock to seattle '99, or white liberals struggling to make sense of the black panthers, etc. etc.

Aaaaand the walkback begins. Sarah Huckabee Sanders could not confirm whether Trump's planned donation of $1 million to Harvey victims was going to come from his personal money or from the Trump foundation.

every day, multiple times a day, there is a new illustration of what a piece of shit he is

https://www.mediaite.com/tv/watch-as-trump-calls-on-a-bunch-of-religious-leaders-to-thank-him-for-his-harvey-efforts/

Serious question: How many (and which) senior Trump administration officials use the word "scrivener"? https://t.co/iyjw80yiVF pic.twitter.com/NoLKdUVjxn

— Betsy Woodruff (@woodruffbets) September 1, 2017

ILX's new bff had a good explainer for use of that term - its intentional

The person quoted in that passage is minimizing Miller's role--suggesting he was like a transcriber or a secretary, exercising no judgment. https://t.co/P80fCAEge1

— Renato Mariotti (@renato_mariotti) September 2, 2017

Kelly and Trump not BFFs anymore! Sad!

President Trump was in an especially ornery mood after staff members gently suggested he refrain from injecting politics into day-to-day issues of governing after last month’s raucous rally in Arizona, and he responded by lashing out at the most senior aide in his presence.

It happened to be his new chief of staff, John F. Kelly.

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.

...

Like every other new sheriff in town Mr. Trump has hired to turn things around at the White House or in his presidential campaign, Mr. Kelly has gradually diminished in his appeal to his restless boss. What is different this time is that Mr. Trump, mired in self-destructive controversies and record-low approval ratings, needs Mr. Kelly more than Mr. Kelly needs him.

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For the seven months of the Trump administration, the favorite parlor game in the West Wing has been guessing how long imperiled aides like Mr. Priebus would hang on before getting fired. But these days it is Mr. Kelly’s state of mind, not Mr. Trump’s, that concerns the beleaguered aides buoyed by the new chief’s imposition of structure and clear lines of authority.

The question now is how long Mr. Kelly will stay, with estimates ranging from a month to a year at the most. White House officials say that Mr. Kelly has given no indication he intends to leave anytime soon. He has thrown himself into long-term planning of the administration’s tax reform push, the president’s Asia trip in November and scheduling for the next several months, they said. Mr. Kelly declined through a White House spokeswoman to comment for this article.

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Mr. Kelly cannot stop Mr. Trump from binge-watching Fox News, which aides describe as the president’s primary source of information gathering. But Mr. Trump does not have a web browser on his phone, and does not use a laptop, so he was dependent on aides like Stephen K. Bannon, his former chief strategist, to hand-deliver printouts of articles from conservative media outlets.

Now Mr. Kelly has thinned out his package of printouts so much that Mr. Trump plaintively asked a friend recently where The Daily Caller and Breitbart were.

"...and where the hell is my Daily Stormer!?!?"

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

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