The Former Trump Presidency Thread

Grifman · Post by **Grifman** » Tue May 30, 2017 8:21 pm

malchior wrote:WH statement about Trump put out today is literally balls out crazy 3rd world material. Also he totally didn't write this himself or anything...

President Trump has a magnetic personality and exudes positive energy, which is infectious to those around him,” the statement from White House spokeswoman Hope Hicks reads. “He has an unparalleled ability to communicate with people, whether he is speaking to a room of three or an arena of 30,000. He has built great relationships throughout his life and treats everyone with respect. He is brilliant with a great sense of humor … and an amazing ability to make people feel special and aspire to be more than even they thought possible.

Everything is there but Dear/Great Leader.

$iljanus · Post by **$iljanus** » Tue May 30, 2017 11:43 pm

malchior wrote:WH statement about Trump put out today is literally balls out crazy 3rd world material. Also he totally didn't write this himself or anything...

President Trump has a magnetic personality and exudes positive energy, which is infectious to those around him,” the statement from White House spokeswoman Hope Hicks reads. “He has an unparalleled ability to communicate with people, whether he is speaking to a room of three or an arena of 30,000. He has built great relationships throughout his life and treats everyone with respect. He is brilliant with a great sense of humor … and an amazing ability to make people feel special and aspire to be more than even they thought possible.

Hmm, I beg to differ. Stay thirsty my friends!

pr0ner · Post by **pr0ner** » Wed May 31, 2017 12:24 am

Trump's tweeting at night is even more incoherent than his morning tweets.

In case he deletes it:

"Despite the constant negative press covfefe"

No follow up, no additional tweet, nothing. Just that.

Unagi · Post by **Unagi** » Wed May 31, 2017 12:33 am

Corrected: President Trump so clearly wishes he had a magnetic personality and tries constantly to exude positive energy, which, to his great frustration does not seem to infect those around him. He has an unparalleled ability to insult and patronize other people, whether he is speaking to a room of three or an arena of 30,000. He has the most estranged and tenuous relationships, built throughout his troubled and bankrupt life, and treats everyone with total disrespect. He is a moron with no sense of irony nor humor… and an amazing ability to make people feel hopeless and contemplate the end of America.

Unagi · Post by **Unagi** » Wed May 31, 2017 12:34 am

pr0ner wrote:Trump's tweeting at night is even more incoherent than his morning tweets.

In case he deletes it:

"Despite the constant negative press covfefe"

No follow up, no additional tweet, nothing. Just that.

Stroke !?

Unagi · Post by **Unagi** » Wed May 31, 2017 12:36 am

"Despite the negative press coverage.... did you see how I won Wisconsin while Hillary was totally thinking she was going to win that?"

Right?

Unagi · Post by **Unagi** » Wed May 31, 2017 12:38 am

Actually, it's funny to think he was about to write the above Tweet - when he got news of some exposed Russian money laundering - and just fat-fingered it and mistakenly hit 'Post'. (or 'Tweet', or what ever is done...)

Holman · Post by **Holman** » Wed May 31, 2017 5:36 am

I'm hanging on every non-word.

Have the lawyers informed him that he's no longer allowed to delete tweets? It's still there, and nothing since.

Chaz · Post by **Chaz** » Wed May 31, 2017 6:02 am

Looks like it's gone now.

Holman · Post by **Holman** » Wed May 31, 2017 6:03 am

link

tgb · Post by **tgb** » Wed May 31, 2017 7:04 am

I was hoping for a heart attack or stroke, but alas, that's not the case.

Carpet_pissr · Post by **Carpet_pissr** » Wed May 31, 2017 7:19 am

Wait, you guys are suggesting he wrote that ode to himself? Dude has a 60 word vocabulary at best. No way he wrote or even dictated that.

If it doesn't sound like Frankenstein (Phil Hartman version

) wrote it, it didn't come from him.

pr0ner · Post by **pr0ner** » Wed May 31, 2017 8:05 am

Yeah, he deleted the "covfefe" tweet, added a "humorous" one to replace it, then went on a Carter Page rant (perhaps accusing Comey and Brennan of perjury in the process), before finishing with an attack on Kathy Griffin and bringing his son Barron into the picture.

pr0ner · Post by **pr0ner** » Wed May 31, 2017 8:08 am

This bit of news came out yesterday, too:

Chaz · Post by **Chaz** » Wed May 31, 2017 8:35 am

The "funny" response to his own tweet is especially stupid since it lacks the context of having the original one up. It also tries to pass it off as a funny thing he did, which also get shot down, since if you wanted it to be a "mystery", you'd have to have left the original one up.

About the "my children are having such a hard time with this" thing, I wonder why Obama never took to twitter to complain about targets with his face on them, or people lynching him in effigy. Those things have much deeper overtones for a black family, but not a peep. Looks like Trump's the delicate snowflake.

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Wed May 31, 2017 8:53 am

pr0ner wrote:This bit of news came out yesterday, too:

It's a burner. Pimpin' Trump watched the Wire, yo.

$iljanus · Post by **$iljanus** » Wed May 31, 2017 9:41 am

pr0ner wrote:Trump's tweeting at night is even more incoherent than his morning tweets.

In case he deletes it:

"Despite the constant negative press covfefe"

No follow up, no additional tweet, nothing. Just that.

Has he gotten into the launch codes again?

Chaz · Post by **Chaz** » Wed May 31, 2017 9:51 am

It's totally the launch codes. He just messed up the punctuation. It should've been "Constant negative? Press 'covfefe'."

Ralph-Wiggum · Post by **Ralph-Wiggum** » Wed May 31, 2017 10:14 am

Maybe he pulled a Spicer and that's his Twitter password...

tgb · Post by **tgb** » Wed May 31, 2017 10:18 am

I picture him pulling a Gregg Allman (RIP) and nodding off face down into his two scoops of ice cream mid-tweet.

malchior · Post by **malchior** » Wed May 31, 2017 3:10 pm

Smoove_B · Post by **Smoove_B** » Wed May 31, 2017 3:23 pm

Oh hey look, people are beginning to have second thoughts:

One lawyer who represents prospective political appointees told POLITICO that three clients said over the past two weeks that they are no longer interested in working for the Trump administration following the appointment of Robert Mueller as special counsel overseeing the federal investigation into Trump associates’ contacts with Russian officials during the campaign.

“There’s no doubt in my mind that people are being very cautious, to put it mildly,” this lawyer said, adding that there is growing concern in Republican circles that the caliber of hires could deteriorate if the administration’s top picks drop out.

“You’re going to have a situation where they’re going to have trouble getting A-list or even B-list people to sign up,” the lawyer added.

Like a well-oiled machine...made up of low caliber workers. But I guess as long as they're loyal toadies, they'll be welcomed with open arms.

As a reminder:

According to the nonpartisan Partnership for Public Service, the White House has announced nominees for just 117 of the 559 most important Senate-confirmed positions.

If only all the liberals would just stop acting out and let the President get back to work.

Defiant · Post by **Defiant** » Wed May 31, 2017 3:26 pm

malchior wrote:

Aha! Trump was encoding confidential messages, and the small group was Putin and his friends who have Russian decoder rings. Imagine, sending out US intelligence right under our very noses!

No, wait, that would require Trump to have the prudence to encode confidential messages. Never mind.

Post by **ImLawBoy** » Wed May 31, 2017 3:48 pm

Smoove_B wrote:Oh hey look, people are beginning to have second thoughts:

One lawyer who represents prospective political appointees told POLITICO that three clients said over the past two weeks that they are no longer interested in working for the Trump administration following the appointment of Robert Mueller as special counsel overseeing the federal investigation into Trump associates’ contacts with Russian officials during the campaign.

“There’s no doubt in my mind that people are being very cautious, to put it mildly,” this lawyer said, adding that there is growing concern in Republican circles that the caliber of hires could deteriorate if the administration’s top picks drop out.

“You’re going to have a situation where they’re going to have trouble getting A-list or even B-list people to sign up,” the lawyer added.

Well, if they get down to the D-list, I know at least one person who is looking for a job . . . .

El Guapo · Post by **El Guapo** » Wed May 31, 2017 3:59 pm

Defiant wrote:
malchior wrote:

Aha! Trump was encoding confidential messages, and the small group was Putin and his friends who have Russian decoder rings. Imagine, sending out US intelligence right under our very noses!

No, wait, that would require Trump to have the prudence to encode confidential messages. Never mind.

tgb · Post by **tgb** » Wed May 31, 2017 11:28 pm

"la! la! Ph'nglui mglw'nfah Covfefe R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!"

Keep your eyes open for fish people.

Carpet_pissr · Post by **Carpet_pissr** » Thu Jun 01, 2017 1:37 am

tgb wrote:"la! la! Ph'nglui mglw'nfah Covfefe R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!"

Keep your eyes open for fish people.

Done.

Now what?!

Pyperkub · Post by **Pyperkub** » Thu Jun 01, 2017 1:46 am

Smoove_B wrote:Oh hey look, people are beginning to have second thoughts:

One lawyer who represents prospective political appointees told POLITICO that three clients said over the past two weeks that they are no longer interested in working for the Trump administration following the appointment of Robert Mueller as special counsel overseeing the federal investigation into Trump associates’ contacts with Russian officials during the campaign.

“There’s no doubt in my mind that people are being very cautious, to put it mildly,” this lawyer said, adding that there is growing concern in Republican circles that the caliber of hires could deteriorate if the administration’s top picks drop out.

“You’re going to have a situation where they’re going to have trouble getting A-list or even B-list people to sign up,” the lawyer added.
Like a well-oiled machine...made up of low caliber workers. But I guess as long as they're loyal toadies, they'll be welcomed with open arms.

As a reminder:

According to the nonpartisan Partnership for Public Service, the White House has announced nominees for just 117 of the 559 most important Senate-confirmed positions.
If only all the liberals would just stop acting out and let the President get back to work.

This may help hire people to fill the swamp:

President Donald Trump has exempted his entire senior staff from provisions of his own ethics rules to allow them to work with political and advocacy groups that support the administration.

Check your ethics (if you have any) at the door!

Alefroth · Post by **Alefroth** » Thu Jun 01, 2017 12:01 pm

I couldn't find the thread where we tracking these-

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-40114814

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/ ... i-incident

Alefroth · Post by **Alefroth** » Thu Jun 01, 2017 7:29 pm

Trump once again jumps the gun claiming a terror attack when there is no evidence to back it up.

https://www.usnews.com/news/world/artic ... -in-manila

msteelers · Post by **msteelers** » Thu Jun 01, 2017 7:39 pm

Today is the start of the Atlantic Hurricane season, but there is still nobody in charge of FEMA or NOAA.

Nothing to worry about, I'm sure it's perfectly normal. Even with NOAA predicting an above average year.

Sepiche · Post by **Sepiche** » Thu Jun 01, 2017 8:21 pm

msteelers wrote:Today is the start of the Atlantic Hurricane season, but there is still nobody in charge of FEMA or NOAA.

Nothing to worry about, I'm sure it's perfectly normal. Even with NOAA predicting an above average year.

Point taken, although I'm assuming they are currently being run by the deputies of the previous heads. You might be better off with them than whoever Trump decides to put in charge.

Scoop20906 · Post by **Scoop20906** » Thu Jun 01, 2017 8:48 pm

Sepiche wrote:
msteelers wrote:Today is the start of the Atlantic Hurricane season, but there is still nobody in charge of FEMA or NOAA.

Nothing to worry about, I'm sure it's perfectly normal. Even with NOAA predicting an above average year.
Point taken, although I'm assuming they are currently being run by the deputies of the previous heads. You might be better off with them than whoever Drumpf decides to put in charge.

Actually, it kind of sucks because none of the upper management wants to approve anything so all changes things grinds to a halt. It also kills morale of the workers. If you are fine with government agencies stuck in limbo and being unable to adapt then you love this administration.

Moliere · Post by **Moliere** » Fri Jun 02, 2017 1:43 am

Alefroth wrote:Trump once again jumps the gun claiming a terror attack when there is no evidence to back it up.

https://www.usnews.com/news/world/artic ... -in-manila

Like this one?

Philippine Casino Attack Leaves Dozens Dead

Philippine investigators say 36 people suffocated to death inside a major hotel-and-casino resort in the capital Manila after a gunman torched part of the complex and tried to make off with more than $2 million in casino chips.

The attacker, whose identity is still unknown, later killed himself by setting himself alight, national police chief Gen. Ronald Dela Rosa told reporters. “He burned himself inside the hotel in room 510,” Gen. Dela Rosa said. “He was burned beyond recognition.”

Victoria Raverna · Post by **Victoria Raverna** » Fri Jun 02, 2017 4:12 am

Moliere wrote:
Alefroth wrote:Trump once again jumps the gun claiming a terror attack when there is no evidence to back it up.

https://www.usnews.com/news/world/artic ... -in-manila
Like this one?

Philippine Casino Attack Leaves Dozens Dead

Philippine investigators say 36 people suffocated to death inside a major hotel-and-casino resort in the capital Manila after a gunman torched part of the complex and tried to make off with more than $2 million in casino chips.

The attacker, whose identity is still unknown, later killed himself by setting himself alight, national police chief Gen. Ronald Dela Rosa told reporters. “He burned himself inside the hotel in room 510,” Gen. Dela Rosa said. “He was burned beyond recognition.”

According to the Philippine authority, this was not a terror attack.

The gunman's goal was to rob the casino and he didn't shoot at the casino guests. Most of the casualties were because of the smoke.

Local chief of police, Oscar Albayalde, added: "It's either he lost in the casino and wanted to recoup his losses or he went totally nuts."

More than 50 people have been raced to hospital after the attack – which police were quick to deny was terror, despite the nation being gripped in a fight with ISIS.

It is claimed the bodies were found on the 2nd and 3rd floors of the casino area.

None of the victims had been shot, police said.

Heavily-armed police swarmed the hotel in the moments after the robbery as horrified witnesses claimed it was a terror attack.

ISIS initially claimed "lone wolf soldiers" carried out the attack, according to the SITE Intelligence Group that monitors terrorist organisations.

Police described the gunman as “foreign-looking, a Caucasian, about six feet tall” and said he spoke English.

Mr dela Rosa told local media: "We cannot attribute this to terrorism. We are looking into a robbery angle because he did not hurt any people and went straight to the casino chips storage room.

"He parked at the second floor and barged into the casino, shooting large TV screens and poured gasoline on a table setting it on fire."

Footage posted on social media shows scores of people frantically running from the hotel and casino complex as loud bangs were heard.

RunningMn9 · Post by **RunningMn9** » Fri Jun 02, 2017 7:55 am

I saw somewhere the other day (post-disastrous foreign trip and anticipating withdrawal from Paris Agreement) that the US is no longer the leader of the free world. I was surprised that my first reaction was "Good, that will limit the amount of direct damage this fucking idiot can do to the rest of the world".

Skinypupy · Post by **Skinypupy** » Fri Jun 02, 2017 7:58 am

Scoop20906 wrote:If you are fine with government agencies stuck in limbo and being unable to adapt then you love this administration.

Definitely a feature, not a bug. Grind the gears of government to a complete halt, then farm it out to private sector when people complain that the system isn't working.

Remus West · Post by **Remus West** » Fri Jun 02, 2017 8:04 am

Skinypupy wrote:
Scoop20906 wrote:If you are fine with government agencies stuck in limbo and being unable to adapt then you love this administration.
Definitely a feature, not a bug. Grind the gears of government to a complete halt, then farm it out to private sector when people complain that the system isn't working.

Yeah, because the private sector always puts the needs of the people before profit so that is a wonderful idea.

Paingod · Post by **Paingod** » Fri Jun 02, 2017 8:27 am

Remus West wrote:
Skinypupy wrote:
Scoop20906 wrote:If you are fine with government agencies stuck in limbo and being unable to adapt then you love this administration.
Definitely a feature, not a bug. Grind the gears of government to a complete halt, then farm it out to private sector when people complain that the system isn't working.
Yeah, because the private sector always puts the needs of the people before profit so that is a wonderful idea.

Bear in mind that this only works best when the private sector 'bidders' are all close personal friends of the politicians.

Moliere · Post by **Moliere** » Fri Jun 02, 2017 9:11 am

Victoria Raverna wrote:According to the Philippine authority, this was not a terror attack.

The gunman's goal was to rob the casino and he didn't shoot at the casino guests. Most of the casualties were because of the smoke.

It's still an interesting coincidence.