I read a comment the other day from a reporter who was basically like “of course we shouldn’t normalize any of the crazy sh-t going on with Donald Trump, but we shouldn’t live in a constant state of fear and outrage either.” I agree. I’ve made my peace with the fact that Trump is symptom of America’s decline across the board. I’ve made my peace that this sh-t is going to get a hell of a lot worse before it ever gets better. I care about the future of my country and the future of the planet too. But sometimes I have to turn off the news because I can’t live in a constant state of “what the f–k did these people do now?” So, with all that being said, I didn’t find Donald Trump’s new NYT interview to be all that OMG TREASON. It’s fairly mundane, if you’re using the standard of Our New Normal. Some highlights from Trump’s 50-minute NYT interview:
On French president Emmanuel Macron: “He’s a great guy. Smart. Strong. Loves holding my hand….People don’t realize he loves holding my hand. And that’s good, as far as that goes. I mean, really. He’s a very good person. And a tough guy, but look, he has to be. I think he is going to be a terrific president of France. But he does love holding my hand.”
On how much he hates Jeff Sessions: “Jeff Sessions takes the job, gets into the job, recuses himself, which frankly I think is very unfair to the President. How do you take a job and then recuse yourself? If he would have recused himself before the job, I would have said, ‘Thanks, Jeff, but I’m not going to take you.’ It’s extremely unfair — and that’s a mild word — to the President.”
On Sessions’ lies about meeting Russians: “Jeff Sessions gave some bad answers. He gave some answers that were simple questions and should have been simple answers, but they weren’t.”
He thought James Comey told him about the Steele dossier as an attempt to have “leverage” over him (Trump): “In my opinion, he shared it so that I would think he had it out there. When he brought it to me, I said this is really made-up junk. I didn’t think about any of it. I just thought about man, this is such a phony deal.” Trump said he had done the country a “great service” by firing Comey.On Robert Mueller. Trump says yes, he has a “red line” about Mueller’s investigation and Mueller will cross that line he investigates Trump’s family. “I think that’s a violation. Look, this is about Russia.”
His second undisclosed conversation with Putin: “It was not a long conversation, but it was, you know, could be 15 minutes. Actually, it was very interesting, we talked about adoption.”
He doesn’t think he’s under investigation: “I don’t think we’re under investigation. I’m not under investigation. For what? I didn’t do anything wrong.”
I guess it depends on where you fall on the Bigly Spectrum, because to me, Bigly didn’t sound particularly unhinged. His motivations and lies may be amateurish and stupid, but they are pretty straightforward too. He’s saying he’ll always take Putin’s side. He’s saying that no one should trust James Comey. He’s saying he wishes he had an attorney general who would interfere in Mueller’s investigation, and that Sessions should resign, which I agree with, although of course I don’t agree with Trump’s reasoning. I think Sessions should resign and Trump should nominate a successor and let’s see if the Senate confirms a new guy. Why not?
This is our new normal.
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Photos courtesy of Getty.
Let’s see.. Sessions actually did the RIGHT thing. And The Orange Dumb one is pissed because his guy took himself out of the investigation. Trump is pissed because he doesn’t have an ear in to know what Mueller if doing. I would imagine that someone told him something about the investigation or hinted that Mueller could find out about his shady business dealings from this investigation. Now we know what he is most scared of. This idiot gives everything away. He is a petty baby and only cares about himself. And reading his responses to questions someone should demand he have a medical check up. Trump is not mentally right. OR he is dumber than we thought. OR BOTH
He’s pissed because Sessions is involved and he expected hiring him would make it go away. Sessions did this to protect his own ass. Everyone in this inner circle has a lawyer. This isn’t normal
Trump is the guy who gets pulled over smelling like weed and tells the cop, “whatever you do, DON’T look in the trunk.”
He is a piss poor poker player that’s for sure. He shows his hand on everything. I hope Mueller is taking notes.
Yes I think he’s mentally unhinged and that position should undergo a yearly mental and physical exam.
Also, what’s with referring himself in 3rd Party – “the President.” Just because you invoke that doesn’t mean you’re not involved. Ugh this nut.
That Orange Juplip has to reaffirm that holding the French President’s hand goes no further than that has made me laugh-cry.
What a clueless dope. He is so uniquely bad at everything that he couldn’t get it right by accident.
Some thoughts:
Trump threatening Mueller over family finances is yet another unforced error in an extremely long line of errors. I wanna take three guesses as to where Mueller either is already looking or is now going to look since Trump threatened him. I think Trump is more scared that Mueller will uncover and release documents that will prove he’s not a billionaire. It would hurt his soul more than any other slight against him because that is the one thing he has always tried to sell himself on: associating the Trump brand with luxury and the uber rich. If there are documents that prove what a failure he is he will be crushed.
He just admitted to attempting to obstruct justice with hiring racist Keebler Elf.
He also admitted that there may be some truth to the dossier. Show the pee pee tapes.
Also, why is Trump doing interviews with a paper that he has called fake before? Is he so desperate for attention that he will talk with someone that he does not like just to say he represented himself?
Tin foil hat hypothesis:
Everything he says is a lie and most of us know that by now. In an interview on MSNBC (?) recently, Chris Kobach, a racist former Sec of State from Kansas, who is now working on fixing federal voting laws, admitted that the votes for Trump may also be considered fraudulent along with all final votes for Hilary. Last time I checked almost everything Trump has said that Hilary’s campaign committed his band of thieves has been caught doing. He complained for a while that there were 3-5 million illegal votes. Maybe the Russians were successfully able to change votes in key districts that allowed him to win the electoral college and take the election.
The statement about the family finances sends fireworks into the nighttime sky. He pretty much admitted the financial books are crooked.
Trump is obsessed with NYT coverage, just like Morning Joe. He’s majorly thirsty for anything resembling positive coverage from them and loves to see his quotes in the paper.
Bloomberg and the Guardian are both reporting that subpoenas are expected for Deutsche Bank for Trump family finances linked to Russia. Trumps wetting his pants over it. The whole family will hopefully be implicated. I get the feeling that Mueller is waiting until he has the goods “criminally speaking” on everyone including trump to take them all down at once so trump doesn’t have a chance to pardon any of them. At least I hope so…
I agree with your take on Mueller’s progression…a lot of folks are saying “you’ve got enough, take him down already”…
…but I also think he’s being EXTREMELY methodical and doing everything by the book so that there can be no successful (or even slightly legitimate) challenges to what he finds and charges people with. dude knows what he’s doing and he was just straight up threatened by the cheeto, threatened to NOT do what Mueller has absolute authority to do. also freely admitted, on the record, to obstruction with his bit about Sessions.
just keep talkin’ Donny boy…you’re helping to dig your own cell, UNDER the jail.
The thing with Trump is that almost everyone in the family has lied in depositions before. Even Melania – claimed under oath that she has a degree when we now know she doesn’t.
So this could be interesting, as they’re all quite likely to straight up lie under oath. In a weird, Clinton-esque twist, it could be perjury that ends up taking down one or some of them.
Ahhh, who are we kidding. They’ll all skate away free somehow.
Mueller’s big thing is to cross all t’s and dot all i’s. He wants an airtight case. I read a profile about him from his former staff at the US Atty’s office in Nor CA in the legal trade newspaper. The staff talked about how meticulous he was. After I read that I could sleep at night.
The end is coming.
As long as nothing happens to Mueller.
Deutsche Bank has a history of shady banking practices. They were a big part of the high risk mortgage crisis and there are allegations of money laundering . Tangerine can’t obtain a loan from American banks anymore for very good reasons. But Deutsche bank approved his loans and wouldn’t you know a bunch of oligarchs bank with them too. He is a failure as a businessman and he is mostly propped up by dirty money from Russia. This is going to get ugly.
I wish I could witness his followers’ reactions when his criminal activities are exposed.
That’s how I feel about Mueller too. I want Cheeto out & out now but more than that I want Mueller to connect all the threads and take them ALL out of power. I don’t want Prez Pence, I don’t want Prez Ryan. I want to see Princess Nagini in handcuffs throwing anyone and everyone under the bus (because she will if faced with real jailtime).
But like Sam Bee said “If you come for the king, you best not miss.” I think he’s got one real shot at making impeachment happen and I’m ok with waiting if that’s the end result.
“Maybe the Russians were successfully able to change votes in key districts that allowed him to win the electoral college and take the election”
I think that, using Jared’s data collection program and Rinat Akhmetshin (former spy who specializes in mis-information campaigns), they VERY SPECIFICALLY targeted voters and Facebook accounts BY PRECINCT to throw the election to Trump.
Rinat was at the Trump Tower meeting with Jr., Jared, and Manafort. Per GOP Senator Charles Grassley, Rinat is a former intelligence officer who has worked on behalf of Russian oligarchs to steal confidential, personal, and otherwise sensitive information so it could be disseminated. Aka…he’s a hacker and propagandist.
Kushner and Lindsey Graham met privately, I believe, today. Graham says they talked about immigration. I never trusted LG. I had read that everyday he talks to 45 by phone. LG says a lot but is lock step with 45’s agenda. I guess he’s helping JK with how to answer questions next week in his private hearings.
I still can’t believe so much has happened and trump has not been president for a full year yet. The scary thing is what has come out is probably just the tip of the iceberg.
1. He actually went on like that about Macron holding his hand? Seriously?!
2. You know who else tends to rattle on about about how “unfair” things are? Children.
Speaking of children – what’s amazing is that his granddaughter walked in halfway through (an insane moment, I imagine Ivanka got wind of this thing and came to babysit Trump) and he told the reporters that this six year old speaks fluent Chinese.
Because she said hello to them.
It’s that kind of sh*t that makes me wonder if he can’t help lying. It’s impressive that a six year old knows some Chinese. Why make outrageous claims?
There is no “Chinese” language. What people refer to as Chinese is in fact Mandarin. Drumpfy doesn’t know that.
From what I can tell from reading DM a few years ago she’s had a Chinese nanny since she was born – there were some pics with Nagini and partner-in-crIme right after she was born and there was a Chinese woman in a nursing outfit walking behind them with the baby carriage.
It’s likely she has a good vocabulary for a girl her age, very good for her, but fluency is too much of a really long stretch.
Plus, I am sure she has better manners than him. And yes, she speaks a foreign language.
Pumpkin – I should have been more clear in my reply that that was another thing that was eyeroll-y to me, that he just said Chinese instead of Mandarin – should have put it in quotes to be clear.
He is shameless and he lies for no reason.
“Loves holding my hand….People don’t realize he loves holding my hand. And that’s good, as far as that goes.”
My takes on this is that Drumpf implies Macron is (1) weak, (2) gay.
Oh yeah it’s totally homophobic and offensive. But that’s no shock.
Trumps stroking his own ego
He was playing to his homophobic base. They love this garbage because a lack of homophobia is the dreaded “political correctness.’
That’s because he believes marriage is between and man and his purchased trophy, so in his feeble mind, a man who marries a much older woman, must be gay. It’s not as if he was attracted to her mind! My mother is 75. My stepfather of 33 years is 55. Some men fall in love with a person, Foolius. It happens.
Of course he had to go there because this is how disgusting and vile Trump is
Well if Macron was gay, of course he’d want to hold hands with trump, the man no red-blooded hetero or homosexual could resist….hold me back….
I’ve been thinking about what Putin could have on him, and I really can’t see that pee tapes would be so awful. Especially now that it’s gone the rounds and been somewhat ‘defanged’. It’s something else…perhaps he’s shown naked in it and looks unimpressive…under-endowed perhaps. The sort of thing that he would find deeply humiliating. Or that, like someone said, he’s with clearly underage (perhaps even tween?) girls/boys?
And, (I can’t shake this idea somehow) I wouldn’t be completely surprised if it was some sort of sex tape with men/boys. I can see him covering this part of himself up pretty good, even to himself, but perhaps they got something on him. Is it completely insane to think that?
I guess what I’m saying is that this is big, whatever it is. And it would completely upset his world…present and future earnings included.
My sister brought that up too. He was associated with a man who was indicted on charges concerning underage prostitution. The problem is Clinton was associated with him too but in far more innocent circumstances. Bill made it impossible to expose because of his own association. The way he leered at his own daughter when she was a child and his odd comments to little girls may be a hint of possible scandals. I believe it is not only about prostitutes and pee too.
Well Roy Cohn was his mentor…
I think it is all about money. I think they own Trump and his assets by holding his debts.
We talked about adoption.
Sure. Because Vladimir Putin is all about finding homes for motherless kids. No. The adoption ban is tied into the Magnitsky Act sanctions for human rights violations. Putin wants the sanctions lifted and no punishment for human rights violations. You talked about lifting sanctions for human rights violations. Stop hiding behind the adoption ban.
Yes it’s rather blatant and our media for the most part let’s him get away with it but that’s Putin’s main objective. To get that act dissolved. Because it directly prevents specific individuals from accessing their money in any bank that uses American Dollars (oh that means every bank in the world). So that keeps those bad actors with ties to Putin (possibly even hold money for him) from leaving the country or doing any business outside of Russia.
more info about the Magnitsky Act…
http://www.npr.org/2017/07/13/537082081/businessman-bill-browder-details-dealings-with-russian-lawyer-tied-to-trump
@dawnchild – very interesting.
Obviously, one of his slimy lawyers told him to parrot the adoption line. I cannot express how much I hate, loathe, despise this man and his entire family and enablers.
I just think he’s playing stupid for the stupid masses not for lawyers. Lawyers and Murller etc know exactly what the adoption line is. Blatant and outright Quid Pro Quo.
Yes, perfectly summarized, LP.
Trump is beyond paranoid. If he truly gave a damn about the country he was elected to be the leader of, he wouldn’t be so weak and childish. He should be talking about healthcare, not how much he dislikes people he works with and not defending his relationship with Putin
Oh, he IS talking about healthcare…talking about “letting it fail” and that he and the other Repugs “won’t own it”….basically, rooting to take healthcare from tens of millions so that some of them die, just so he can have a “win” on healthcare.
it’s sick. cares more about appearances and “winning” than he does his constituents…THE PEOPLE HE’S SUPPOSED TO BE LOOKING OUT FOR.
@ Doofus: it’s been clear to me for a while that this man presents all the classic symptoms for psychopathy, so his extreme callousness re people losing their healthcare has now stopped shocking me. However, his supporters….for heavens sake, his supporters……many of whom will die, lose children or loved ones as a direct result of trumps actions, still support him. I am just not clever enough to understand how/why this can still be. Can someone please break this down for me? Genuinely.
He reversed course and demanded that Congress forego August recess to put Trumpcare back on for a vote. Turtlehead is doing the very thing this morning. This time he said he has the votes. I’m very angry about this.
He has the vote because 45 personally threatened everyone who voted no.
He does know that Mueller and his team can read this interviews, right? And that he’s basically admitting to obstruction?
He’s a very stupid man with diarrhea of the mouth. One of these days he’ll just admit to everything. He can’t help himself.
He did that before when he admitted he fired the FBI head to stop the investigation..and what happened? Nothing..trump believes the AG is his personal lawyer and the FBI is his personal bunch of Sam Spade private eyes.
Sure something happened. We got Mueller. I’m in the minority of keeping Keebler elf on board because as long as he’s in charge he can’t touch the investigation ergo he can’t fire Mueller. As soon as Keebler leaves, Orangino will find a stooge to take over who will take back the Russian investigation from Rosenstein (no “conflict” with the newbie) and outright fire Mueller.
So Keebler has his use for being a Dump doorstop.
I’m assuming the eventual prosecution at trial will just be 98% Mueller reading Donald Trump interviews into the record. And the other 2% will be Mueller getting under his skin enough to get him to admit to crap we didn’t even know was coming.
Can you imagine his lawyers’ response when they heard this interview? I’d love to be a fly on the wall as they’re all screaming and then banging their heads on their desks.
“He loves holding my hand” AHAHAHAHA!!! Don’t know why, but I laughed way too loud, and too long when I read this.
Just trying to show that putin is not his only boyfriend.
I can’t read the name “Jeff Sessions” without saying it in the Melissa McCarthy Spicey impersonation when she introduced him ha ha.
“On Robert Mueller. Trump says yes, he has a “red line” about Mueller’s investigation and Mueller will cross that line he investigates Trump’s family. “I think that’s a violation. Look, this is about Russia.”
O RLY? It IS about Russia, are you scared, Drumpfy? Violation is not, it’s Mueller doing his JOB. Is the “red line” a threat? It seems like so.
Re: some comments I read yesterday here about Drumpf’s mandate to forgive Junior’s et all federal crimes, there is an obvious and blatant conflict of interests. Only dictators put their relatives in high positions and as far as I know – there are exceptions – it is legally prohibited that family members and relatives of persons holding public offices make any profits or gains (including through influence) resulting from that public office. This is so outrageous.
And since Russia is the source of a great deal of trump’s finances, there you go. I’ll just repost this for anyone who missed it.
http://newrepublic.com/article/143586/trumps-russian-laundromat-trump-tower-luxury-high-rises-dirty-money-international-crime-syndicate
Jerusha – that was an excellent article – I read that yesterday. It really details his ties to Russian syndicate (mafia, racketeering, whatever we are calling it).
Such a good article. Thanks
The NYT reporters still have access at times, and that’s why they include the charming scene of his grandchild running in during the interview. They have to stroke his ego and make him look like a sweet grandpa to get the next interview. It’s nauseating. I think he’s on the offensive here to show Putin that he is handling things. He doesn’t have to go to the newspaper to get Sessions a message. I’m sure he’s already told him to resign. But he can’t so easily directly message Putin, since he knows he’s being watched. I wish there was an app that put him in an orange jumpsuit in every picture.
That scene was staged. Nobody runs into a room where the president is without clearance from multiple people. The way they exploit that girl to humanize them or distract from their wrong doings is disgraceful
No-I’ve read that this Oval Office is wide open-people walk in and out constantly. It’s like his old office at Trump Tower-he’s used to that chaos so he likes the WH the same way. Obviously his daughter and granddaughter have clearance to be there. It’s crazy!
I want to say that 45 going on about Macron holding his hand is him slyly trying to suggest that he is less than manly and/or gay, but I’m not sure he possesses the intelligence to get that point across without bludgeoning the reporter over head with it.
The rest of it is laughably (the kind of crazy, verging on crying-hysterical laughter) predictable – it isn’t fair, Sessions isn’t bad for lying (which he didn’t do anyway), he’s bad for not sticking around to continue to lie on my behalf, nothing to see here about his newest undisclosed convo with his buddy Putin, Comey is bad, another threat to Mueller for his investigation which is or is not happening depending on the sentence.
Why is he even talking to NYT considering they were one of the papers being lambasted for printing fake news, anyway? So he can come back later and accuse them of misquoting him?
‘Why is he even talking to NYT considering they were one of the papers being lambasted for printing fake news, anyway? So he can come back later and accuse them of misquoting him?’
Because he is a narcissist and he lives for attention.
Because no one would read about him in those little Christian papers or the crazy papers written by racists.
Why talk to the Times? Probably because there is a thin line between love and hate. He decries them when he likely craves their attention.
The Times because he’s from NY spent his life being laughed at by the real elites and it’s such an ego boost to be able to call the Times and have them immediately listen to him.
@Luca76-exactly this. And he likes Michael Schultz because he did investigative reporting on Hilary. He mistakingly thinks he’s somehow on his “side”.
@Luca76 – thought his go to paper was the NY Post. Could be wrong and he probably goes to the Times because he knows it will cause people to talk more about him.
@SWAK yes he goes way back with the Post but the whole ego high of have the NYT come to him and fawn over him is something apart from his connection to the Post. NYT is elite, old money and if he’d never run and won the presidency they wouldn’t be giving him the time of day whereas the Post just lives to gossip and will talk to him anytime.
Meanwhile, in other, alarming news we’re losing the right to free speech. This is just the beginning
https://theintercept.com/2017/07/19/u-s-lawmakers-seek-to-criminally-outlaw-support-for-boycott-campaign-against-israel/
Well, it is Thursday here in the States. That means Saturday is not too far from us. Night follows day. Could be a great night for a Massacre.
Old Beauregard’s crying 😭 On his mama’s porch right now HIS DEBUT IS RUINED!!
LOL And they’re going to serve cheese grits!
With shrimp!
Jerusha, my niece’s wedding featured cheese and shrimp grits. You know the lifestyle!!
Now I’m picturing him in his best southern belle dress, hat and parasol. LOL
Stop, LOL That visual is the stuff nightmares are made of. Sipping a mint julep.
“On how much he hates Jeff Sessions: “Jeff Sessions takes the job, gets into the job, recuses himself, which frankly I think is very unfair to the President. How do you take a job and then recuse yourself? If he would have recused himself before the job, I would have said, ‘Thanks, Jeff, but I’m not going to take you.’ It’s extremely unfair — and that’s a mild word — to the President.”
Hahahahahahaha! There you are-the much vaunted “trump loyalty.” It only works one way, buttkissing suckers. He’ll throw you under the bus in a millisecond to save his orange skin. How do you feel now, AG Asshat? Aren’t you proud to be the first senator to endorse him? Worked out great, didn’t it? Once again, hahahahahahaha! Those of us in Alabama with a working brain have always known how stupid you are. Now everyone knows.
@ Jerusha
Resist in Alabama!
Thank you!
From CA
Best to you Jerusha! I can only wish my family in Auburn felt the same!!
Roll Tide/War Eagle!😊
“Jeff Sessions took the job, gets into the job, recuses himself, which frankly I think is very unfair to the President…” who is the “president” he’s talking about? Sacarism. The man is out of his mind. All I want to know is: ARE WE GREAT YET? IS AMERICA GREAT AGAIN? I’m so sick of all this winning I wish I had Hillary to kick around now, I would feel better sleeping at nights. I’m so tired of feeling anxious every gad damn day.
How in the heck do you recuse yourself when you’re not even involved in the investigation before you are named AG? It makes no sense to me. Could someone explain Trumps logic?
I love every second of it. Bo Jeffery is getting a whippin’ from the Trumples. All that hard work for the Klan and earning his bigot street cred and the mob turns when their leader tells them to. Death threats don’t seem run of the mill when he knows gun toting nutjobs are behind them. The very same crazies he helped create.
“TRUMP: We had dinner at the Eiffel Tower, and the bottom of the Eiffel Tower looked like they could have never had a bigger celebration ever in the history of the Eiffel Tower. I mean, there were thousands and thousands of people, ’cause they heard we were having dinner.
HABERMAN: You must have been so tired at, by that point.”
STOP TREATING HIM LIKE HE’S A CHILD!
Poor, poor Trumpy. He had to have dinner at the Eiffel Tower after playing president for the day. And that big celebration didn’t even include any trucks for him to play with. Waaah.
FFS.
There are always thousands of people milling around the base of the Eiffel Tower
There is virtuallly no time of day when there aren’t thousands of tourists there. God, he’s such a lunatic. Went into his shambolic health care dinner still yammering on about the tanks and the big parade.
He’s some cross between an ADHD-added six year old/Grampa with dementia/Lennie from Of Mice and Men.
It was Bastille Day so OF COURSE there were thousands of people out & about. Why didn’t this reporter fact check him on that?!? insane. The press are so complicit.
It did bother me a lot. These particular reporters are generally hard hitting on Trump. But so many things he said here, they just let slide. I think it’s a bit “let him hang himself with his own rope” – for example, saying the woman he was sat next to spoke no English at all, so people could find videos of her speaking English – but still, I think there could have been some pushback. Maggie H is a badass babe, I would expect more from her.
Bigly is terrified Mueller will uncover the fact that Donnie Two Scoops, his businesses, everything is in total hock to the Russians. He’s already so compromised that IMO, Cheeto is literally in fear for his life. His buddy Vlad is know for adding a bit of deadly plutonium to someone’s (let’s say) KFC.
He’s trading the USA in exchange for his life.
He’s ripe to be blackmail. God help us. Who knows what that man gave to put on to keep his secrets.
“He really loves holding my hand.” = I’m going to repeatedly imply that Macron is gay
[Session’s recusal] is unfair to the President = he should serve me, not the country
On Comey informing him of the dossier = you can’t believe anything Comey says, he was trying to extort me!
A red line with Mueller = I’ll fire his ass if he tries to pin any of this on me
On second meeting with Putin, “We talked about adoption.” = facetious much? Or truly idiotic? Or both?
The second undisclosed meeting with Putin lasted reportedly an hour not 15 minutes and I would bet my life that they did not talk about adoption. Donald Trump spent the first 15 minutes of the meeting licking Putin’s boots clean. And then they started brainstorming how they are going to interfere in the 2020 election to make Trump win again. Lying for Donald Trump is second nature and he actually thinks that we believe his lies.
DT is incapable of expressing coherent thought.
Did you see how he kept bringing up Hillary re: Healthcare? Apparently, she had 8 years and couldn’t get it done. That’s 1- not true, 2- not relevant and if was it would 3- be because she’s a woman, not an idiot.
I can’t get past his bragging that Macron loves to hold his hand for a really long time. The threats to Mueller if he messes with the grifter baby fist clan is terrifying. Both truly bizarre in a completely creepy totalitarian baby fist interview.
I dunno if he was making excuses for the awkwardness or was trying to be shady and imply that Macron was somehow attracted to him. Newsflash: No one is attracted to him. Not a single mammal on earth. Not even Melania.
Bigly does think like an obnoxious 12 year old so I can’t rule out that it was a thinly veiled insult because to Orange Apocalypse anything other than straight is yucky and weird. And I’m sure he thinks Macron is weird just for being married to an older woman because in Trump world that’s absurd.
I’m sure you’re right about the hand holding comment. He is so thin skinned that the remarks/ridicule he got when Macron admitted to strong arming baby fists on purpose have been seared into his walnut sized brain. He MUST be admired and flattered by everyone. That’s why he’s attached to Putin, who I’m sure is stealthily praising him while steering him into the obliteration of our democracy.
Can Mueller order someone to be arrested? Or does he just funnel the charges to a district attorney? I read here a few days ago that you can’t arrest a sitting president, so if he is charged with something what happens next?
More thoughts:
1- Sessions hardly recused himself from the Russia stuff. He was still more involved,than he should’ve been.
2- Trying to imply Comey was blackmailing is such a lame argument. Trump is,basically saying it’s shady that the FBI director shared the fact a foreign enemy had incriminating Intel on the President with the President. Um….isn’t that the director’s job? Is Trump saying that it’s wrong to let the President know about Intel that might a negative impact on the President? That’s nonsense, especially since Trump later said that the FBI director works for the President (not precisely true of Trump to say, but that’s beside the point).
3. Telling Mueller not to cross his “red line” is 1- obstruction 2- self incriminating and 3- going to backfire on him.
4. We officially have a President who says things like “the FBI person”. We’re such a laughingstock.
Should I just run outside, drop to my knees and scream now or should I wait for it to start raining for added emphasis?
This is absolute batsh!ttery. Enough. There are no words to describe how disgraceful and disgusting I find this dung heap of a human.
@ Radley: ha ha ha ha ha ha…..lmfao….. pls wait for a TROPICAL rainstorm with lots of theatrical thunder and lightening, get someone to record it for you and put it on YouTube,so we can all go and worship the video.
Brilliant. ;-D
Your recommendations have been taken under advisement. I appreciate your support for my impending meltdown. LOL
How much longer before Mueller sends in the calvary?
Interesting… his son also met with the Russian lawyer – to discuss ‘adoption’
He can’t even keep his stories straight. Don Jr. already admitted through the emails that he was meeting with the Russians to get dirt on Hillary-the “adoption” story was before when he was still trying to downplay the meeting.
The King of Lies & Fake News does sound absolutely unhinged in this new interview. He is scared and it shows.
The King of Lies & Fake News called NYT fake news how many times, and yet here he is doing an exclusive interview with them? It is also disturbing how the 3 reporters(especially Peter Baker) tried to normalize The King of Lies & Fake News during and after the interview. This is where the press have failed us. It’s like they were doing damage control. They knew how unhinged The King of Lies & Fake News sounded in this interview, and therefore set out to depict him in a better light, thus the part about how Ivanka and his grand daughter “mysteriously” showed up during the interview to show off how she can say “hello” and “grandpa I love you” in Chinese and how Peter Baker said that The King of Lies & Fake News didn’t look stressed out or like he had the weight of the world on his shoulders. It also feels like they were babying him in his interview.
When Rosenstein hired Muller, there were reports that Jared wanted to strike back by releasing negative things about Muller. That day has finally come. Jared somehow convinced The King of Fake News and Lies to trash talk and threaten Mueller. The King of Lies & Fake News didn’t stop with trash talking Mueller, he went after Comey, Sessions, McCabe, and Rosenstein. Now Comey tried to “blackmail” him just like Obama “wiretapped” him and “colluded with the Russians”? The King of Lies & Fake News whines about fake news and then he spreads it.
The King of Lies & Fake News says that Mueller can only look into his family finances connected to Russia, but didn’t The King of Lies & Fake News and his son claim that they had no ties to Russia? So in this interview he admits the he and his son lied.
The King of Lies & Fake News claimed that he talked about adoption with Putin, the same excuse that Donald Jr first released as an excuse for meeting with the Russian lawyer. There were reports that The King of Lies & Fake News had his PR people work on the adoption excuse and then approved it, but the WH(Spicer?) denied that The King of Lies & Fake News participated in any part of that process. Once again The King of Lies & Fake News contradicts his WH staff by claiming that he too talked to Putin about adoptions, thus confirming that he did participate in his son’s adoption pr release.
The King of Lies & Fake News also spread fake news, claiming that the FBI reports to the President not the DOJ; and then some misinformation about Nixon and the FBI and Hitler and the Russians and the cold.
Where The King of Lies & Fake News sounds the most unhinged is when he talks about how Sessions should have told him that he was going to recuse himself before he hired him and it was unfair to him that Sessions recused himself.
He was unhinged even before this interview when he threatened Dean Hellar during the GOP healthcare luncheon; gave a speech for the Voter Suppression Commission claiming that he lost the popular vote because thousands of people voted illegally and referred to his speech in which he claimed that thousands of people were being bused into cities and states to vote illegally(which had already been proven false); flip flopping on repeal only vs repeal and replace; and citing inaccurate things about MitchMcare.
And just like that Bloomberg is reporting Mueller is investigating Trump’s financial records. Thanks for the tip Agent Orange!!!! I mean come on, I think it’s time for the Supreme Court to declare the election invalid due to hacking and possible voting interference.
It’s not fair. Why couldn’t the guy who’s investigating my corruption be as corrupt as me so he could let me off for my corruption?
They talked about “adoption” wink wink.
Hey Vlad, any chance you want to adopt Donnie Jr?
Is “adoption” a euphemism for money laundering in real estate deals?
I was just at the grocery store and the new Enquirer has proof that Hillary framed trump. So, there you go. We were all wrong.
Got two more jokes for you. @ Jerusha, A lawyer, a spy, a mob boss and a money 💰 launderer walked into a bar. Bartender: you guys must be here to talk about adoptions, ha ha.
Ivanka’s marketing new “collusion” colonel soon … smells a lot like orange treason, ha ha ❤️
Kaiser, I do love you. I feel your exhaustion and I agree. Let him fire Jeff Sessions, let them appoint another one, I mean at this point, who cares? It’s a circus, does it really matter who the revolving doors of players really are?
I love my country, warts and all. But it is truly depressing to be living in the “fall” part of the “rise and fall” of America as a world power. But maybe Trump is really the culmination of a long Republican policy of deregulation, decentralization, bigoted zoning regulations that destabilized neighborhoods, (looking at you, Robert Moses, NYC), and the entrenched power of corporate lobbying (Big Pharma, Big Food, Big Oil, NRA, Big Tobacco, Big Telecommunications, Big Auto, Wall Street, Big Sugar (yep, let’s not disregard the sugar lobby, which denies processed sugar, a cheap ingredient added to absolutely everything on the shelf, is killing us…hey, tobacco, sound familiar?, Big Insurance (looking at you, Aetna, Kaiser, and United Healthcare)…the list goes on) that started with Nixon and was furthered by Reagan, and has been a steady march downward since.
He seems to get more stupid every day. Does he know nothing about how the government and jurisprudential process work?! Plus he’s a corrupt, repulsive hypocrite.
This will never be the new normal for me. Never. This reminds me of people slowly turning into rhinos in Ionesco’s short story.
Macron indeed hang on to Trump’s farewell handshake forever, including while Trump kissed Macron’s wife farewell… and I assumed that was why: by hanging on to his hand, Macron prevented it migrating to Mme Macron’s ass.