Did you think we were done with this hellscape story about Donald Trump and the fictional Alabama hurricane? Of course not. To recap, last weekend, Trump claimed that Alabama was in the path of Hurricane Dorian. At the moment of the claim, Dorian’s path in every model had the hurricane moving from the Bahamas up to Northern Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas. The issue with the models was “where will it hit in that very specific area of the Southeastern coast?” Alabama was never a factor. But instead of just admitting he made a mistake or misread the model or whatever, Trump has spent the entire f–king week insisting that Alabama totally dodged a bullet because the hurricane was coming straight for them. He even changed a NOAA map WITH A SHARPIE to add a “hurricane path bubble” to include Alabama. This whole thing has been psychotic.
After the Sharpie debacle, Trump spent all g–damn day on Thursday talking about the fictitious Alabama hurricane, all while Dorian raged in the Carolinas. He got his National Security Advisor to make an actual statement trying to explain the Alabama thing.
The White House just issued a statement from the homeland security adviser — Rear Admiral Peter Brown — insisting Trump was briefed Sunday on the potential impact from Dorian, which he says included "possibility of tropical storm force winds in southeastern Alabama." pic.twitter.com/yD74EaUhP0
— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) September 5, 2019
Trump also summoned a Fox News reporter into the Oval Office to insist that Alabama was always going to be in Dorian’s path:
Fox News senior White House correspondent John Roberts had just finished his 3 p.m. live shot on Thursday when President Donald Trump beckoned him into the Oval Office. The President had one argument to make, according to an internal Fox email Roberts sent about the meeting provided to CNN.
“He stressed to me that forecasts for Dorian last week had Alabama in the warning cone,” Roberts wrote. “He insisted that it is unfair to say Alabama was never threatened by the storm.”
Roberts’ analysis of the meeting was that the President was “just looking for acknowledgment that he was not wrong for saying that at some point, Alabama was at risk — even if the situation had changed by the time he issued the tweet” on Sunday morning, in which he said the state “will most likely be hit.” The President also provided Roberts with graphics to make his points.A White House aide familiar with the Oval Office meeting with Roberts said that Trump also voiced his displeasure about Fox News anchor Shepard Smith’s skeptical reporting about the Alabama map. The President summoned Roberts “to hit back at Shepard Smith,” the White House aide said.
Roberts claimed in his email that he pointed out to the President that by the time of his tweet warning Alabama and other states of the storm — 10:51 am ET on Sunday — Dorian’s projected trajectory had moved much farther east and was no longer including any part of Alabama.
The dumbest timeline, my lord. As for the Shep Smith thing – apparently, Shep went OFF yesterday on-air on Fox News, calling the Alabama debacle “fake news defined.”
Trump also posted some old maps… which were actually tracking wind… and I still can’t believe he’s still worried about this. We thought the Trump beef of the week was going to be about Debra Messing. But no. He’s beefing with… hurricane fake news.
Alabama was going to be hit or grazed, and then Hurricane Dorian took a different path (up along the East Coast). The Fake News knows this very well. That’s why they’re the Fake News!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 5, 2019
Just as I said, Alabama was originally projected to be hit. The Fake News denies it! pic.twitter.com/elJ7ROfm2p
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 5, 2019
I mean this seriously: the Alabama obsession really feels…clinical at this point? I mean if someone in your life was acting this way, you'd be legit concerned.
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) September 5, 2019
Photos courtesy of Avalon Red.
I mean it was always pretty hard to get my grampa to stop talking about the Jerries went his mind started to go, too.
He is bonkers so no surprise.
HIs dementia is escalating rapidly. Can we invoke the 25th amendment now, please?
The media needs to start asking Pence and Cabinet members why they haven’t invoked the 25th at every opportunity. And we need to put pressure on them to do so.
They won’t invoke the 25th because the distraction that is Trump means we’re not paying attention to what our lawmakers are doing.
Our politians failing to put country first, and the free rein it affords his cabinet, feels more dangerous to me than the stupid things Trump is doing,
There is method in the madness … I don’t believe that acting Cabinet members can vote on 25th Amendment proceedings: no quorum, no impeachment.
While I understand your points about why they won’t invoke, my point is that they shouldn’t be allowed to get away with it. They need to be put on the spot and asked repeatedly.
Never gonna happen. The Distractor-in-Chief serves a purpose. Hardly anyone is talking about the diversion of funds from the US military to build his wall for which Mexico is supposed to pay or Jefferey Epstein or his stupid trade war with China or the fact that millions of Americans don’t/won’t have health insurance or that he and Mother’s Husband may be beefing so his evangelical base may desert him or the babies in cages or the not so good jobs report this week or the many, many terrible things to which he is linked.
FWIW, one thing I noticed about his getting handsy with weather maps & sharpies – this is the first time we’ve seen him using his hands since G7. Since he came back, He’s had them hidden in his lap or laced tightly together in front of him. There were also pics *during* G7 of him holding one hand and trying to hide it.
My theory: TIAs, aka mini-strokes. He may have had one as a result of the stress and the long flights to Europe. Strokes can cause major personality changes, or exacerbate personality disorders already in existence.
I think he’s been having TIAs for a while now. I think it’s the real reason Pence flew from NH to DC so suddenly. I think it’s behind why Cadet Bone Spurs is so entrenched now on this crusade to reject everyone’s reality and replace it with his own re: hurricane Dorian’s trajectory. As a narcissist, he can never admit he’s wrong; add the belligerence born of a stroke to the mix, and boy howdy.
In the case of the 25th Amendment, you’d actually have to have a Cabinet in order to initiate it. Right now more than half the cabinet are “acting” secretaries Not Approved By The Senate, and thereby lack legitimacy to take such a step. By not moving those appointments forward in the Senate, #MoscowMitch is once again destroying our cherished institutions in order to cling to power.
He looks decrepit and insane in that top photo.
Because he is.
There’s a google browser extension that will automatically change every photo of Trump into a photo of kittens. It helps keep the despair somewhat at bay.
@Bookie
I downloaded that, but it never worked for me! I tried different browsers and still nothing.
How did you succeed? His face makes my soul hurt.
I also got detrumpify, which changes his name to something more appropriate, like “Racist, sexist block of aged Cheddar”. They have extensions for Chrome and Firefox and it truly makes my life better.
https://toolsofourtools.org/detrumpify-about
While I love those plugins and would like to use them myself, please be aware that in order for the plugin to function it (naturally) needs to read all the webpages that you visit. You might want to switch them off before you do sensitive stuff like online banking. Not saying that those two in particular are stealing data, just saying that theoretically they could, and users should be aware of that.
The delusion and narcissism is strong in this one.
Welp with the help of the Democratic party, the GOP has effectively rendered impeachment completely useless at this point. I’ve been saying for almost a year now that not impeaching will cause far more damage to the country than impeaching would and yeah, I think that’s pretty obvious at this stage. Because if we can’t impeach Trump for the unending damage he’s caused to our country; the sheer DANGER that he is to our collective safety, then we cannot impeach any future president. For anything.
Right on, Kitten. The damage being wrought by inaction on Trump’s constant appalling behavior is staggering, just frightening to think about.
How anyone goes about their day thinking any of this is any way normal is unfathomable to me. Yet here we are.
It blows my mind that there are Congress members within the Dem party that think that potentially losing their seat is more important than the devastating ramifications of not impeaching. And the thing is, they probably WOULDN’T lose their seat because most of the people that voted for them are pro-impeachment. But beyond that, they are abdicating their duty to protect the Constitution as well as their constituency.
We HAVE (many) examples of high crimes and misdemeanors. In fact, the framers of the Constitution specifically mentioned getting elected by bribery or deceit, working for a foreign power and abuse of power. They even cited dangling pardons to obtruct justice and prevent an investigation as an example.
You don’t come back from this. As a country, you just DON’T come back from this level of inaction. We’ve told Donald Trump and the rest of the world that he is unstoppable. And you know what? HE KNOWS IT.
That’s what makes our current situation so fucking dangerous.
That’s what I’ve always thought about it too. If you’re not willing to try impeaching THIS, then that means it’s an utterly useless tool.
Speaking of utterly useless, can you imagine any past president having time to stew on something stupid like this for days? Although the less he works the better, as everything he does is pure garbage.
Exactly.
No I can’t imagine.
And yet, here’s Congress and even members of the main stream media, normalizing his insane behavior. This is NOT the behavior of a fully-functioning person and we must always remember that. If my 77-year-old father was obsessing over something this trivial I’d be in a panic because I’d know something is deeply wrong with him. Whether it’s dementia or NPD, a brain addled by years of snorting drugs, anxiety and paranoia, whatever the EFF is causing Trump to behave like this—IT IS NOT NORMAL.
And it will only get worse.
I’ll admit I don’t know how impeaching works exactly, but what pisses me off is that I COMPLETELY see the GOP impeaching a Dem president the next decade for something completely innocuous compared to the crap Trump has done. And I can see Trump proudly tweeting about it, and his supporters cheerfully celebrating.
Fuck it – I’m betting on it right here right now. Whoever the first female president is, she’ll get impeached someway somehow. I hate to say that, but it’s what I believe. It’s what I’ve come to expect from my country.
Yup! I was just thinking EXACTLY this on my run this AM. They would have impeached Obama over his tan suit if they could have. If they could have impeached Hillary over Benghazi, they would have. But the GOP knows that Dems won’t dare.
It’s the thing that Trump fears most–being impeached–and STILL, they won’t do it.
I agree with all the feelings described above. But impeachment (if begun now) is destined to fail. It would pass the House and be defeated in the Senate, almost guaranteed. And that would only weaken what little authority the Democrats have and embolden Trump and his base … just as 2020 begins. Look, I’d like to see Trump impeached as much as anyone, but I also believe in only starting fights you can win.
I don’t care.
I. DON’T. CARE. IF. IT. FAILS.
Sorry for the allcaps but I seriously cannot take the absurd arguments against impeachment.. This is LITERALLY why our forefathers drafted the Constitution!! Because they were TERRIFIED that some power-hungry, narcissistic monster would be elected into Office and be uncontrollable. And guess what? WE HAVE THAT. Our forefathers didn’t expect that we would have a complicit GOP so no, they couldn’t have predicted the fact that the Senate will not convict but they put these checks and balances in place to REEL someone like Trump in.
FFS at the very least, impeachment is a framework for which to put the myriad of crimes and atrocities that he is committing on a daily basis that the American public isn’t hearing about or focusing on because sharpies or Ivanka’s dress or whatever.
Did you know that just this week Trump took funding away from military families to fund his insane wall (i.e. his useless symbol of hate)?
Did you know that just this week Trump terminated a program that allowed extremely sick patients from other countries to participate in clinical trials here in the US?
You know what I want to ask all of the people who say there’s no use impeaching because it won’t pass the Senate?
10, 20, 30 years from now when your grandkids are reading about this most horrific time in our lives and they ask you “WHY, after all this man did to our country, did we not impeach him?” what are you gonna tell them?
“Well honey, Nancy Pelosi thought it would empower Trump’s base and you know, he would never get convicted in the Senate and yes, I know we impeached Bill Clinton over a consensual blowjob but….” Do you think that will be an acceptable explanation to them? If it’s not an acceptable excuse now, when we’re actually living through it, it certainly won’t be any more acceptable 10, 20 years from now.
I mean, really.
DO IT BECAUSE IT’S THE RIGHT THING TO DO. Do it because it’s the last tool in our toolbox. We’ve exhausted everything else. Subpoenas aren’t working. They have not handed over ONE single document the Dems have requested. THE DEMS’ PLAN ISN’T WORKING FFS.
Gah! I’m sorry for the rant. It’s not even towards you but just..all the Americans who don’t see that impeachment is an IMPERATIVE, not an option. And I promise you that history will agree with me.
Everything you just said, Kitten. Spot on. If not now, when?
I totally agree with Kitten, too. I don’t care if the Senate kills it. The House must take action NOW. The Trump ‘base’ is already riled up getting ready for the election, this impeachment proceeding is not going to escalate that one bit. This country must stop operating under fear of that base – we must overpower it and DO THE RIGHT THING. NOW!
I co-sign to all of this. For real, if they won’t impeach after the ENORMOUS amount illegal grifting, outright crimes and major felonies — seriously, what good are they? Democrats desperately need to find their spines and GO FOR IT. They are all millionaires with guaranteed pensions and healthcare — they can AFFORD to stand up for this country…and yet, they don’t. They just keep rolling over for the bullies. It’s so frustrating. It’s not debate club where everyone is following the same rules — for goodness sakes, at least ACT like you give two f**ks about this country and its citizens.
THANK YOU.
I get so agitated (as you can see lol) about this particular topic but I always feel better when I see people who are as pissed as I am. My reps and senators are pro-impeachment so I can’t make any phone calls. My only catharsis is internet ranting at innocent strangers like Candikat lol.
Agree with what you are both saying, for what it’s worth. It should be done on principle, and even if it fails to pass, let history judge.
I am beyond frustrated by their “Ooooh let’s play by the rules! Let’s not be mean! Decorum no matter what!” EFF that. Roll up your sleeves and start punching some bullies square in the face. That WILL get their attention. And SO WHAT if Fox News calls them names — they just need to keep repeating the litany of crimes over and over again–like Fox News, because IT WILL EVENTUALLY stick.
And if it doesn’t, well then AT THE VERY LEAST the dems will have put up a damn good fight against this ridiculousness that is now our government. Jeez peas!
@Kitten ITA.
For people who say it’s destined to fail — we need to remind them that because of the Senate, yes, he will probably fail to be *removed.* But that doesn’t mean the entire exercise is useless. It will get all of his crimes out there in front of the American public and will also drive him completely insane. If he’s rage-tweeting about the impeachment every day, that’s less time for him to focus on his horrific agenda.
No matter the outcome, it is the right and necessary thing to do.
You go girl…I cosign to everything. And while we’re at it someone please inform Melanoma that fighting bullies begins at home i.e. Be Best!
Ha! Hi Kitten, it’s been quite the week over here and I didn’t get back to this thread till now, so you’ll probably not see this. But I’d like you to know that I LOVE your response! And I certainly don’t feel attacked, we’re on the same team. I agree in principle, that impeachment is the right thing to do. But even though I’ve been around this block a few times I’m startled to see how “traditional” methods of censure only strengthen Trump. Impeachment is a numbers game, and it means nothing if you lose. (Imagine the tweets after he prevails! Which, by the numbers today, he will.) The rules don’t matter anymore, and trying to go through those channels will embolden the coup and weaken the resistance. (Frankly, I don’t trust that our Congresspeople, even the good ones, are all that bright. They’re going to mess it up, you know it. And I certainly don’t trust our populace to suddenly develop the capacity for critical thought.) IMO the only way to change public sentiment (which we would need to successfully impeach) is to change the public discourse. Airing Trump’s egregious breaches of the law on CNN will get zero traction. Getting the non-editorial pages of major papers, or even Centrist-left TV news, to call him what he is (a liar, a repugnant human being, possibly a criminal) over and over is the only thing that will work. That’s the game the other side plays, and that’s what his susceptible base came to believe about Obama and HRC, so therefore they felt emboldened to elect someone just as bad but purportedly on their side. The only difference is that they lie, and we’re too “nice” to tell the truth.
Does it alarm anyone else to see the “adults in the room” give in and capitulate to his STUPIDEST demands?
I laugh because otherwise, I think I would just cry. This is our president. OMFG.
Some people were trying to say that this is just trump manipulating the media so no one is talking about more important stories. Yeah…..no. There’s no strategy. He just says whatever the hell is in his deranged mind at any given moment.
@TW – yes. There is no strategy. I think HE freaks out and gets distracted and that’s why he focuses on things like….Debra Messing….but I don’t think there is a thought process of “oh, I’m going to tweet X, everyone will ignore what’s happening over here!” Unfortunately, it works out that way bc everyone does obsess over his tweets etc, but some people in the media maintain their focus.
I agree.
ITA. People give him way too much credit. There is no plan of his- he is simply a deranged mad man.
+1000
Exactly. I’m so tired of people implying that he’s playing 5D chess. He’s NOT. He’s just an unhinged, ignorant, weak, pathetic and entirely CONFUSED individual who has no right to be leading a parade, much less an entire country.
He’s a bull in an effin China shop.
A bull in a China shop who is surrounded by folks using his broken China to effectively distract the China shop owner.
Ha! Yes! Thanks for elevating that analogy to perfection, Rapunzel.
I agree completely. There’s no strategist buried in that mind, only cobwebs and your racist drunk uncle at Thanksgiving, ranting about POC and “foreigners” in between shouts for an extra scoop of ice cream on his pie.
I honestly can no longer tell the difference between Trump’s real Twitter account and troll Trump accounts. Absurdity makes more sense than he does…
If I had a dime for every time I thought his Twitter was a parody account SMDH…
I feel the same way about actual news headlines and the Onion. Sometimes it takes me a minute to figure out which is which.
Onion has been rendered irrelevant.
I have to constantly check headlines to see if they came from Andy Borowitz or a non-satire writer. I can’t believe this is the time we live in.
His dementia is so obvious and Republicans continue to look the other way so they can retain their power. It’s horrifying and sickening. They’re watching the destruction of the US and doing nothing.
THAT IS NOT TRUE @MariaS….they are NOT ‘doing nothing’. They are very, very busy lining their own pockets and ensuring the United States is governed by corporations instead of by the ideals of the founding fathers. Trust me, they are not doing nothing…..they are damaging the country and the country’s credibility to the nth degree; that’s not nothing.
King of all weather— and buffoonery.
For most of us, if we saw our parents acting this way, we would step in. We would intervene. Daddy would retire. The car keys would be taken away. If mom (stepmom) couldn’t handle it herself, some family member would step up to handle their finances for them and someone would oversee the household chores and getting Daddy to medical appointments. It’s clear that not one of Trump’s four adult children love him.
LP- oh no, they love him…getting them lots of money. Nagini and the others are all getting paid. Plus, they think they’re building a dynasty. They loooooovvvve that. And sadly, unless people turn on DT, they are building a dynasty. Ivanka will run. She wants to be first woman President. And she stands a good chance if her daddy keeps his base.
The only thing stopping the Trumps from total dominance would be if he doesn’t get reelected, or something happens to make him reviled by even the GOP. Otherwise, the mindless Trumpsters will support his spawn. Our country will never stop the infestation.
Have you noticed Ivanka is going to more events in lieu of her father? She’s being groomed as his replacement. I read a horrible theory that Trump may try to replace Pence with Ivanka on the 2020 campaign. Should he be reelected, he’ll step down and she would then become president. Remember those official Ivanka Trump voting machines? Fortunately, I don’t think his ego would allow him to step down so there is that. However, all things considering I’m not sure if that’s a good thing or bad.
Sean- Oh, I fully expect an Ivanka run at some point. IDK if he’d make her VP for 2020, but if he gets reelected, I fully expect him to nominate her as SecState to give her political validation for a run in 2024. And I’m sure the GOP weasels would confirm her in a flash. Ivanka wants to be Hillary, only in nipple showing blouses and 6 inch heels.
Nancy Pelosi called out Pence yesterday about the Ireland trip and called Trump’s properties a “cesspool of corruption.” Can’t you DO anything, Ms. Pelosi?
Her family parties with the Trumps at Mar-a-lago, so nah.
Pelosi becoming SotH is one of the best things to happen to Trump since he took office.
He simply hasn’t learned that the only reason he suffers continued humiliation is because his main barometer of public opinion LOVES to humiliate. It humiliates anyone and anything at anytime for any reason. Nothing is sacred anymore, least of all him.
He is forever caught in a vicious vicious circle of humiliation of his own creation.
The problem is there is massive collateral damage that lies in his wake. Every single national and international debacle he has instigated is a result of his massive ego. He has not governed a single day his entire presidency. He has performed as POTUS for attention and love, and is obsessed with his failure to win the country’s mass approval. People have died and suffer as a direct result of his narcissism.
That there isn’t a collective coming together of the entire country to finally call him out and end this joke presidency boggles my mind. Recognizing he’s a clown isn’t rocket science. EVERYONE knows he’s a buffoon. But I guess letting the US reputation burn to the ground is more important than stubborn right wingers admitting they are wrong.
My neighbors have a golf cart with a giant Trump 2020 flag flying on the back and I seriously want to ask them what Trump has done to make him earn their affections. But the kicker would be that they’d have to do it without mentioning Obama or the Clintons. I’ll bet they can’t. I just don’t understand it at all.
MeghanNotMarkle- you will get nothing but nonsense RWNJ talking points from Fox… I’ve known Trumpster farmers to literally blame Hillary for the price drops in crops (WTF??). They’re logic is gone. They are lost. You will not get anything but frustration and anger out of trying to see the reasoning….cause there is none.
@meghannotmatkle – I have yet to been given a coherent answer to that question from Trump supporters. They usually spout out some gibberish about the economy but when I ask them what specific actions Trump took to improve the economy or their economical security, they can’t answer that. One mentioned the China trade war. But when I itemized the potential downfall the trade war may cause to the US and globally, they had no response. The new tax laws did not benefit them either because the are homeowners living in CA. I don’t get it.
I personally believe most Trump supporters who are at least a tad intelligent or have some decency know how bad this is. However, they’ve hitched their wagon to his and don’t want to admit they were wrong.
I honestly believe everyone can recognize him for the idiot he is. But to diehard right wingers anybody but a Democrat is acceptable.
I don’t even know what to say at this point. This whole administration has been a bizarre South Park episode that never ends.
And it won’t end in 2020, even if he loses. Trump already normalized everything that shouldn’t be normal, he already encouraged his fanbase to be as awful as they can be and proudly so, and the Dems played their part too by watching this happen and not impeaching. Trump shat on the institution of Presidency itself. He’s demonstrated to the whole world kooky South Park villains can be Presidents in our country and they can get away with any zany plan they have in mind.
Trump has already become a political icon. You know if he loses he’ll still be rabidly tweeting shit about the current administration and you know how money people will be eating it up. Trump supporters are salty about eveything Trump’s been criticized for so they’ll criticize whoever the next president is just as harshly, even if they don’t deserve it.
Agree with everything you said, Cindy.
If he does lose, I fully expect accusations of “rigging”, recounts and three of the most dangerous months this country has ever seen. He’ll be a cornered animal and no longer protected from charges.
However with Moscow Mitch blocking election security bills, vulnerable voting machines, the gutting of the FEC and a court stacked in their favor I half expect Trump and the GOP to win by a “landslide.”
Sean, did you see that vice chair of the FEC and disgraced Trump justice appointee Matt Petersen resigned only to take a job working for a law firm that specializes in helping wealthy corporate heads affect and influence elections in a way that is virtually undetectable? Sigh. Every damn day SMDH.
And just to quote the Big Dmnted Knob himself: “It’s a bad problem. It’s a mental problem.”
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This is way beyond wagging the dog and beating a dead horse. He has grabbed that pooch by the scruff and jumped on that ghost pony and is going for his 8 seconds.
Maybe the orange loony in charge wants a weather job? A nice straight jacket, a map of the USA, and a sharpie, in his little padded cell. 😋☔⛅
The memes coming out of this are amazing!
To see how quickly he is deteriorating, how does anyone seriously think he would be able to last another 4 years if he (god forbid) won in 2020. I’m not talking about his cult supporters, but his family… members of congress ….people that are with him every day? Are they all really willing to look past his obvious decline and put the country in such a perilous state?
Okay.. nevermind I know the answer to that.
No one’s talking about Mitch raiding Medicare and Social Security, are they? Mission accomplished.
I saw that shit on Twitter. He is SO effin evil.
just let it go dumbass!!!
don’t be surprised if he starts basing California’s weather on what New York gets – after all,If it snows in NYC, 3 hours later it will snow in LA because the earth rotates west to east.
Ha ha ha !
He just can’t be wrong about ANYTHING, can he????? And I don’t think it’s dementia as much as it’s narcissism. He’s like literally a walking napoleonic complex, although he’s not a short man. He lies about so much! I read somewhere he lies 68% of the time. That’s incredible, and he’s STILL in office, and we haven’t done anything to force him out of that position. It’s imperative we do so, and quickly.
Wow. Sheez Mr. Trump please, let it go already? Let’s help those that were and are being harmed from it. And other work to do too! Time to move on. Can’t wait to vote Mr. Trump and Ivanka and Jared out, We must. This is NOT Normal (yay Wanda Sykes) and actually downright embarrassing. Not to mention very dangerous. As a member of the Democratic party that has been nice and patient well, I say cool, but it’s GO time now. The Trump Kushners are getting away with EVERYTHING and planning a Dynasty. (OMG but true.) This must cease. Now, please.