Been a busy week.
1). You can’t fake this stuff.. After complaining about “fake news” for two years, Trump has actually finally defined it.
Declaring that the “fake news” is “working overtime,” Trump went on to tweet, “Just reported that, despite the tremendous success we are having with the economy & all things else, 91% of the Network News about me is negative (Fake).”
So now we understand the disconnect. To the rest of the world, “fake” means fabricated. False. Untrue. A lie. You remember a lie: the thing that comes out of Trump’s mouth whenever it’s open. But to Trump, “fake” means something that is critical of him. You see, Trump is so star spangled awesome that any critique, complaint, or negative observation of him cannot possibly be true, because no sane person would see anything wrong with him.
To any reasonable person, that is of course complete bûllšhìŧ. People get criticized constantly: by news media, on social media, by spouses or loved ones, teachers, bosses, friends and enemies alike. And they respond to it in a variety of ways: by considering the criticism, apologizing, trying to make amends, ignoring it, even doubling down (which is the typical hard right strategy.) But I can’t recall anyone flat out stating that any criticism of him at any point across the board is flat out untrue. That’s nuts.
And that’s Trump.
2). Iran away. Trump has been assiduously stating that the Iran anti-nuke deal was “the worst” ever made and that Iran was cheating on it. Curiously, our allies asserted that Iran was remaining faithful to it. These were the same allies who asserted that Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction, which George W. ignored and launched a war that cost the lives of 4500 Americans and one million Iraqis before we found out that, no, he had no WMDs. So that worked out well.
But because, as the saying goes, those who do not listen to the lessons of history are doomed to repeat it, Trump has just taken the first step into destabilizing the Middle East even further (admittedly it’s not all that stable now) by terminating America’s adherence to the Iranian deal. Because a month before you go into a meeting with a North Korean dictator to make a deal, that’s exactly the message you want to send: That you can’t be trusted to keep a deal that your country makes. You’d think that a man who allegedly wrote a book called “Art of the Deal” would know that you should never break a deal. Which, actually, he has been quoted on previous occasions: you don’t break a deal. You’re sending a message that your word can’t be trusted.
Trump can come up with all the BS excuses he wants, but it’s painfully obvious why he broke the deal: Because it was something that Obama had done. Trump, like any demented racist, is determined to shatter every single accomplishment of his predecessor. He wants to create his ideal America, one where Obama was never president because, look, nothing he ever allegedly did lasted. This is the same dìçk who keeps blaming the Democrats for HIS demolishing of DACA. If he could find a way to remove Obama’s and Michelle’s portraits from the White House, he would do so in a heartbeat.
In the meantime, Israel has taken encouragement from this dûmbášš move and is currently exchanging missiles with Iran. We could wind up seeing a full blown war between Iran and Israel with nuclear missiles flying. All because Trump has taken away the main incentive for Iran to refrain from developing nuclear weapons.
3). Get rid of your poor, your tired…. A new plan to hurt immigrants has doctors and hospitals extremely concerned. The potential new policy calls for the following: If any legal immigrant holding a visa uses Medicare, food stamps, Obamacare or a number of other government policies, then their application for a green card can be denied. But what if your child was born here, meaning they’re American citizens? Doesn’t matter: it could still cause the parents to have their green card refused. The concern is that immigrants will starve or not seek medical care lest their green card becomes lost to them. Which of course the government knows, so hey: gets rid of immigrants, right? It’s all good.
Bášŧárdš.
4). Meanwhile in Cohen Land…. It turns out that Michael Cohen created a shell company, Essential Consultants LLC, which seemed to have one reason for existing: to sell access to Trump. It’s unclear if Trump knew about it at the time or not, but he knows about it now and he is extremely not happy with Cohen. It also seems to have bridged the gap between Stormy Daniels on the one hand and Russia on the other because companies with Russian ties have been “hiring” Essential Consultants. Which means Mueller’s playhouse has constructed a second floor.
Did he do anything right?. Somewhat, but he managed to get that wrong, too. Kim Jong un decided to free three prisoners in advance of meeting with Trump. Trump had been stating that he was working to do what Obama had failed to do and get the three of them released, even though only one of them had been taken while Obama was president and the other two were taken under Trump’s reign. Furthermore, it’s obvious that Kim is taking advantage of Trump’s idiocy by using the opportunity to present himself to the world as a wise, considered leader rather than the homicidal dictator we all know him to be. While idiot supporters are claiming that Trump should receive the Nobel prize, that’s absurd. Trump is a dictatorial bully, and the ONLY reason Korea is getting its act together is because they’re proving that they are collectively wiser than the idiot in chief. And then when he flew to welcome the returnees, he insanely speculated on how good the ratings they were getting were at 3 AM. When is he going to realize that ratings are NOT something the freaking president should be concerned about?
I’m betting never.
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Don’t forget that Trump thanked Kim for how well the three had been treated.
Seriously.
If someone made this stuff up, I’d slap them for the good of fantasy everywhere.
I wish I had the skills but I think someone needs to take Cher’s famous scene from “Moonstruck” and have Nic Cage replaced by Trump.
I’m sure she would wholeheartedly approve the idea, too. (You know she has to have been thinking that for the past couple of years.)
“You see, Trump is so star spangled awesome…”
With that statement, you have nailed why most of those who support Trump can’t be reasoned with, or even spoken to past a certain point.
You missed Trump’s other big moment.
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“We just approved $700 billion for our military. So we’re going to be having the best equipment ever known. And next year, $716 billion. So I wanted to let you know. And, by the way — I know you don’t care about this — but that also includes raises for our military. First time in 10 years.”
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Donald Trump on Wednesday, May 9th, 2018 in remarks at the White House
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Just another lie, but not just another lie to make his dimwitted cult of followers think he’s doing something to #MAGA that has been faltering before now.
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First, I found his timeline interesting.
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“First time in 10 years.”
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First time in 10 years? So the first time since… 2008? Oh, as in, Obama never gave the military a pay raise. Except, the military has gotten a pay raise every year for the last ten years; longer than that actually. So Obama saw the military get a pay raise every year he was in office.
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Maybe he got “confused” with the facts. Maybe he meant the largest in the last ten years? Nope. It was the largest in the last eight years, but not the last ten. So it’s not even a larger pay raise than one of them seen under Obama.
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But, no, Trump says he did it; the first pay raise in ten years. Just another self-aggrandizing lie to fluff his ego, but also one meant to make his dullard followers to believe that Obama stiffed the military for his entire presidency.
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Because, really, that’s one of the primary two things the Presidency is to Trump and two of the things he most wants out of being President. It’s an ego stroke to serve his narcissism, and it’s his way of getting back at Obama for making him look stupid. Well, that and it’s a way to funnel huge bits of taxpayer money into his golf resorts.
Of course, no sane person believes that Obama should have gotten the peace prize either, right? I mean it was a ludicrous, naive decision to award him the prize for work ‘not yet done’
But as for Trump, let’s not forget that North Korea stepping up to the table happened entirely without input from the Trump administration, and that they were initially HORRIFIED by it. So, yeah. Nobel Prize-worthy my skinny green butt.
To slightly paraphrase (making the exact weapon of chastisement appropriate to Trump) one of the late John W Campbell’s story blurbs:
And because it’s Friday evening and it just NEVER STOPS:
Guiliani has now apparently confirmed that the DOJ’s challenge to the AT&T/Time Warner merger is because Trump got directly involved. Which I’d imagine gives AT&T’s fight against the DOJ challenge some legs. And I’d expect to see Guiliani’s scalp flying from the White House flagpole by Monday morning at the latest.
Hey, Rudy thought he was being helpful by suggesting that despite AT&T’s big investment in Michael Cohen’s shell company, DJT was not influenced in their favor. Of course the notion that DJT is in favor of anti-trust action is kinda silly – I presume he was against the merger just to try to screw over the owners of CNN.
I also noticed that during his 3am pat-on-his-own-back, Trump said that Kim Jong Un was “excellent” to the hostages.
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Really?
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How so?
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What, did he give them room service, or something? Did he allow them to dine on their choice of rat or cockroaches?
When I heard that “excellent” description I had to think are you fûçkìņg kidding me? Except it’s Trump, and I now kind of expect that level of oblivious stupidity.
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I would’ve dearly loved it if one of the released hostages had looked directly at Trump, in front of the cameras, and said, “Are you fûçkìņg kidding me?”
Lord knows someone should call him on his šhìŧ to his face in public. The press certainly won’t ever.
Well, you’re dead-wrong on point #2. The Iran deal was in no way, shape or form “a deal that your country makes”. As Tom Cotton and a number of other Senators pointed out at the time – that was Obama’s deal, not America’s. Obama knew he couldn’t get the buy in from America, so he tried to do an end-run around due-process.
A refresher: https://www.vox.com/2015/3/10/8182063/tom-cottons-controversial-letter-to-iran-explained
And as for “our allies asserted that Iran was remaining faithful to it”… have you listened to Bibi Netanyahu lately? Geez…
Thank you, Mords, for today’s whataboutism. Back to the Fox hole with you.
Neil C.,
they’re called facts. You may only have a passing acquaintance with them, given your attitude; but there are none so blind etc etc…
Attack someone saying something you don’t like. Straight out of the Trump playbook. Surprised you didn’t say “Fake News”.
He’s a old guy and he doesn’t look fit despite what his doctors say if you ever read his Twitter page it’s full of Fake people just ragging on the poor guy combined with Fake Trump accounts of people pretending to be him. What is Trump suppose to Think? He’s not a guy of the digital age but just an adapter plus his Ego to boot what is left of his Ego.
At least Erik Larsen put him in the Savage Dragon =)