Donald Trump: Classic or Dud?

Wouldn't this exec order create more twitter censorship? They would be held accountable when Trump says libelous things.

You figure at some point his nose has to stop growing back after he petulantly spites his face.

Update on the nose/face showdown:

The president's clash with tech companies comes at a delicate moment. Unlike most American firms, these companies — which are used to working remotely and do not rely on physical locations for sales — have performed strongly throughout the pandemic and have helped to drive the stock market recovery.

Which is pretty much his be-all and end-all, no?

http://www.cnn.com/2020/05/28/investing/premarket-stocks-trading/index.html

I'm not on Twitter, so I can't check beyond his first few posts--did they at least leave up those disclaimers from yesterday, or are those already gone?

i don't really understand what he could do to twitter with an EO. if he holds the platforms responsible for what others publish on them -- as if they were "publications" -- then that would be the end of social media. the platforms would need to vet everything that is published on them, not just things that have been flagged.

Twitter should just ban him for 24 hours then reset his followers to 0.

It'll end up meaningless, this is just him flailing in his temper tantrum because, for the first time, he's actually seeing tangible pushback on the shit he spews.

Temper, and whipping up a story that's not the pandemic or George Floyd.

I think the latter is just a happy bonus for the GOP, I genuinely don't think Trump himself is thinking even that deeply beyond being absolutely furious that he's told he can't say whatever he wants.

Headline of the day. pic.twitter.com/AaWmQoZvFa

— Nick de Semlyen (@NickdeSemlyen) May 28, 2020

I think the latter is just a happy bonus for the GOP

Had a similar thought after I posted...Ultimately, I don't know if anything will matter in the election--the pandemic, deaths, the economy, race, feuds--except how many of you (Americans who want Trump out) vote.

Here's an even better Zuck headline:

https://chaser.com.au/world/social-media-should-not-fact-check-posts-says-child-molester-mark-zuckerberg/

“Social media should not fact check posts” says child molester Mark Zuckerberg

good lord this man is a piece of shit

"When the looting starts, the shooting starts" is originally a phrase of Miami police chief Walter Headley.

Headley refused to return from vacation when violent protests broke out at the RNC in 1968. "They know what to do...Wen the looting starts, the shooting starts." https://t.co/NpehNOCLNx

— Steadman™ (@AsteadWesley) May 29, 2020

We have placed a public interest notice on this Tweet from @realdonaldtrump. https://t.co/6RHX56G2zt

— Twitter Comms (@TwitterComms) May 29, 2020

imagine what they might have noticed if they'd ever looked at his account before

This MF said.. “When the looting starts, the shooting starts...” Unbelievable.

— ICE T (@FINALLEVEL) May 29, 2020

Gop Killer

I don't know how he managed to get to the FINALLEVEL still with the incredulity that the US is actively a murderous police state if you are black and the pres is a bit of a racist scoundrel.

It's Ice T, I'm guessing he is already aware?

marketing genius declares “maga night,” inspires the most chaotic night of domestic unrest in years

I get emails from both the Biden and Trump campaigns (under a pseudonym, of course). I got SIX fundraising emails overnight from the Trump team. They do not appear to be operating from a position of confidence.

maga night = cities on fire is just good branding lol

make america glow again

I got SIX fundraising emails overnight from the Trump team.

Not that this should come as a surprise, but I can't think of a clearer indication of what an opportunity they view all this as.

lol the secret service rushed trump to the bunker under the white house on friday night

what's his codename right now, birdsnest or whatever

"taint"

They're saying on the news Trump was taken into a bunker because he had so much nervous diarrhea he clogged the entire White House plumbing and all the turds were flooding everywhere like the blood elevator in The Shining and then he clogged the bunker toilet too.

— 👶 luke oneil 🧠 (@lukeoneil47) June 1, 2020

Seems Legit.

laying low and tweeting through it. that's leadership

the phrase "wouldn't bust a grape in a fruit fight" comes to mind

Zuck called Trump to ask him to change his post:

https://www.axios.com/trump-protests-riots-4ab7f1e1-1498-433b-8b80-cedf3cc1ae96.html

am i the only person who thinks "ominous weapons" is weirdly eloquent for trump. made my brain jump straight to the use of DIME and white phosphorous in gaza in 2009

Trump clearly wants to be Pinochet, whether he recalls who he is or not

(im sure they golfed together at some point)

Trump asks Melania to smile during today's photo op. pic.twitter.com/B59YeDHKRM

— The Recount (@therecount) June 2, 2020

Hey, not bad! Better than I could do.

I'm imagining the hard diamond glitter of her eyes behind those shades

fuck both of them

she could divorce him at any moment and everyone in the world would not only understand but would commend her for doing the right thing

^^^^^^^^

she's as culpable as anyone

Well, I don't know about that, but she's got a lot to answer for, sure. She doesn't seem like a glitter mind person though. I've got her pegged as more of a rapidly-transitioning scenes of mutilated flesh mind person. I just can't tell if that barely concealed rage is directed at him or at those who would destroy property. She's a tough nut to crack.

People are saying she's becoming increasingly isolated these last few days...

By the way, although the schadenfreude from fantasizing about her leaving him is comforting at first, it's quickly followed by the soul-crushing realization that there would likely be hundreds if not thousands of younger, blonder, farther-right women racing to replace her, and this would very much please Donald.

The Eastern Bloc has secret Trumpspouse factories

People are saying she doesn't really care, do u?

the world moves so fast that this is old news already but given the true sickness of it all, let's make sure it's noted:

https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/an-abuse-of-sacred-symbols-trump-a-bible-and-a-sanctuary

The production, it turned out, had only just begun. After the streets around Lafayette Park had been cleared and the tear gas had wafted away, Trump set out from the White House on foot. He was accompanied by his daughter Ivanka and her husband, Jared Kushner, and a coterie of attendants. They headed toward St. John’s Episcopal Church, the small yellow sanctuary known as the Church of Presidents, because it has welcomed the nation’s leaders since the days of James Madison. The night before, St. John’s had been vandalized with graffiti, and a fire had burned the basement. And yet, throughout Monday afternoon, members of the clergy had been out front, offering water and aid to protesters.

Trump stalked across the park, weaving past the monuments, with his security detail skittering around him. When he reached the sanctuary, he did not go inside. Instead, he turned toward the camera, and members of his entourage assembled into a tableau so bizarre that it took a moment to understand what was unfolding. He held up a Bible and posed with it for the cameras, clasping it to his chest, bouncing it in his hand, turning it to and fro, like a product on QVC. He did not offer a prayer or read from scripture. On either side of him, his aides fidgeted awkwardly; there was the droopy, basset-hound visage of his enabling Attorney General, William Barr; his unrelenting cheerleader Mark Meadows, the chief of staff; his spokesperson, Kayleigh McEnany, who grinned madly. Apart from Ivanka Trump, none wore masks.

When at last it was over and the President’s expedition had returned to the White House, the church rebelled. In a seething call with CNN, the Right Reverend Mariann Budde, the Episcopal bishop of Washington, said that she was “outraged” by Trump’s use of St. John’s as a prop. “I can’t believe what my eyes are seeing tonight,” she said. “What on earth did we just witness?” Driving away a peaceful crowd with tear gas and weapons in order to stage a photo op was an “abuse of sacred symbols,” she said. A visiting pastor was tear-gassed in the charade. “The President just used a Bible . . . and one of the churches of my diocese without permission as a backdrop for a message antithetical to the teachings of Jesus and everything our churches stand for.”

This is an awful man, waving a book he hasn’t read, in front of a church he doesn’t attend, invoking laws he doesn’t understand, against fellow Americans he sees as enemies, wielding a military he dodged serving, to protect power he gained via accepting foreign interference...

— Robert Hendrickson (@FrRHendrickson) June 2, 2020

the Catholic diocese even vomited on him today

he's deserved it a hundred times over