US Politics, March 2018: Why do people leave the White House for good?

biegun is a condoleezza rice protege, i'm told

horserace-bred journalists having a hard time adopting an intelligible frame for a year and a half of incompetent blundering and constant lack of direction

i am not a lawyer so: to what extent can this recent kushner new be construed as ~actually criminal~ vs merely corrupt? like, is there anything actionable?

Praying the normal Republican with the Russia connections gets it over Bolton.

xpost Just more ethical violations and conflicts of interest, you know, the new normal. Nothing will happen, vote in November.

Bolton will never get a job in the Trump administration. Trump's hatred of mustaches is right up there with his hatred of stairs and rare steak.

lmao pic.twitter.com/JNM1QySJoz

— maya kosoff (@mekosoff) March 1, 2018

Russia Russia Russia.

― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, March 1, 2018 10:45 PM (nineteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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Wondering if Bolton has thought “I know I really want more war but how badly? Do I want it ‘shave my mustache’ bad?”

Why in the world would anyone expect Trump to know the first thing about video games?

Here we go—all 55 counties in WV have cancelled school. The strike is headed for day 7 #55strong #55united pic.twitter.com/Cxiuq5NL90

— Scott Heins (@scottheins) March 1, 2018

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVgMAs44fgU

Don't forget Ivanka?

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2018/03/01/politics/ivanka-trump-fbi-investigation/index.html?__twitter_impression=true

That darned mafia!

Rick Gates tells judge he's canceling Boston trip due to threat invoking Russian mafia https://t.co/bcSe0AecYH

— Evan Pérez (@evanperez) March 1, 2018

President CommentsSection/EndBarstool at it again (wrt video games causing violence, harsh laws best way to tackle drug problem). He really has no informed opinion about anything huh.

really sucks that any opinion this moron spouts is giving any sort of credence

given

"I liked the first season better."

Bannon: There was less White House "chaos" when Priebus was there https://t.co/dQB1utstID pic.twitter.com/KQV5gE3pBY

— The Hill (@thehill) March 1, 2018

good catch from a friend of mine, hadn't seen this posted yet:

Strange things are happening at the Trump International Hotel and Tower in Panama.

Armed guards and riot police. Shredded files and members of the Trump building security arrested. All while the building’s majority owner tries to sever ties with the Trump brand.

https://thinkprogress.org/trump-panama-hotel-investigation-5a49443c387f/

I read this three times and now I'm seeing stars https://t.co/CCt1oyZEhU pic.twitter.com/vt424YkPUt

— Mark Berman (@markberman) March 2, 2018

Wow.

More twists:

WASHINGTON — The top lobbyist for the National Rifle Association claimed late Thursday that President Trump had retreated from his surprising support a day earlier for gun control measures after a meeting with N.R.A. officials and Vice President Mike Pence in the Oval Office.

The lobbyist, Chris Cox, posted on Twitter just after 9 p.m. that he met with Mr. Trump and Mr. Pence, saying that “we all want safe schools, mental health reform and to keep guns away from dangerous people. POTUS & VPOTUS support the Second Amendment, support strong due process and don’t want gun control. #NRA #MAGA.”

Mr. Trump tweeted about an hour later, “Good (Great) meeting in the Oval Office tonight with the NRA!”

Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White House press secretary, declined to provide details about the previously unannounced meeting. A spokeswoman for the N.R.A.’s lobbying arm, which Mr. Cox leads, did not respond to requests for further comment.

But the twin tweets suggest that it may have taken the gun rights group a little over a day to persuade the president to back away from his apparent embrace of Democratic gun control measures during a remarkable, televised meeting on Wednesday with members of Congress.

Shocking

Breaking news: the insentient cassette tape currently sitting in as our president contains a new message after someone recorded over the previously-recorded message. More at 11.

Taped over the piss tape with another piss tape.

I know better than to do this but President Piss Tape Loop appeals.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5451711/Hope-Hicks-10-million-payday-publishers-scramble-sign-her.html

the power of propaganda: trump goes after the NFL and beer and republicans still back him

when you desperately need mother pic.twitter.com/Ytn8EqyRsc

— Ashley Feinberg (@ashleyfeinberg) March 2, 2018

So he has Melania sitting beside him and he puts his hand on Pence's knee. OK.

"I'm sorry to have to break this but I've met someone else..."

So he has Melania sitting beside him and he puts his hand on Pence's knee. OK.

― Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Friday, March 2, 2018

Wouldn't you?

When a country (USA) is losing many billions of dollars on trade with virtually every country it does business with, trade wars are good, and easy to win. Example, when we are down 00 billion with a certain country and they get cute, don’t trade anymore-we win big. It’s easy!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 2, 2018

We must protect our country and our workers. Our steel industry is in bad shape. IF YOU DON’T HAVE STEEL, YOU DON’T HAVE A COUNTRY!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 2, 2018

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

why is steel more important than any other industry?

Someone's copy editing those tweets

Is "trade" just a word in his head with no connection to the $100bn of actual stuff that comes in and ends up in eg shops where people can buy stuff? Does he think everyone gets everything from the black market, not just guns? I don't even know why I wonder questions like this about him.

Europe digs in to fight global trade war against Trump

Pres. Trump attacks 'Alex' Baldwin for his portrayal on "Saturday Night Live," tweeting that it was "agony for those who were forced to watch." https://t.co/SHpRh5ZPHB pic.twitter.com/MKGJXWsc6H

— ABC News (@ABC) March 2, 2018

before he fixed the spelling

even a broken clock etc

I'm sure I've said this before at some point but if he signed an executive order to cancel SNL I'd go campaign for him tbh

lol "alex baldwin"

he's such a great businessman, I'm sure he's got this

Wait, what about coal? Don't forget about coal! No coal, no Coal Country!

Wait, what about big? Don't forget about big!

things without which you don't have a country

coal
steel
tv
wall
hair

It's easy!

Donald Trump genuinely has no understanding of or interest in the systems which underpin this or any other country. As long as his Fox News and his Twitter and his taco bowl deliveries continue unabated, it's aaaaaaall good.

so relatable

so if we're getting steel from the other countries, doesn't that mean that THEY don't have a countries?

AND that we have their steel?

so that we DO have a country?? AND steel???

i was never any good at economics or breathing

Does the US have a strategic steel reserve? We should!