The Former Trump Presidency Thread

Smoove_B · Post by **Smoove_B** » Tue Sep 11, 2018 8:18 am

I wonder what President Trump's first statement of the day will be on 9/11?

"We have found nothing to show collusion between President Trump & Russia, absolutely zero, but every day we get more documentation showing collusion between the FBI & DOJ, the Hillary campaign, foreign spies & Russians, incredible." @SaraCarterDC @LouDobbs

I know I shouldn't be surprised...but man. That stings.

Holman · Post by **Holman** » Tue Sep 11, 2018 8:24 am

Smoove_B wrote: Tue Sep 11, 2018 8:18 am I wonder what President Trump's first statement of the day will be on 9/11?

To be fair, he was still watching yesterday's shows.

https://twitter.com/MattGertz/status/10 ... 0957669376
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$iljanus · Post by **$iljanus** » Tue Sep 11, 2018 9:00 am

Pyperkub wrote:More book stuff:

.S. President Donald Trump promised Monday that he would “write the real book” to set the record straight on his administration, once again lashing out against veteran Washington reporter Bob Woodward, whose incendiary book about the Trump White House will be released this week.

“The Woodward book is a Joke – just another assault against me, in a barrage of assaults, using now disproven unnamed and anonymous sources. Many have already come forward to say the quotes by them, like the book, are fiction,” Trump tweeted on Monday morning. “Dems can’t stand losing. I’ll write the real book!”
Of course, this only gets published as a picture book due to Trump's vocabulary if he doesn't use a ghostwriter...

He could always release the bound leather edition of "The Collected Tweets of President Trump". All the important talking points would be in there in small digestible pieces.

Pyperkub · Post by **Pyperkub** » Tue Sep 11, 2018 9:47 am

$iljanus wrote:
Pyperkub wrote:More book stuff:

.S. President Donald Trump promised Monday that he would “write the real book” to set the record straight on his administration, once again lashing out against veteran Washington reporter Bob Woodward, whose incendiary book about the Trump White House will be released this week.

“The Woodward book is a Joke – just another assault against me, in a barrage of assaults, using now disproven unnamed and anonymous sources. Many have already come forward to say the quotes by them, like the book, are fiction,” Trump tweeted on Monday morning. “Dems can’t stand losing. I’ll write the real book!”
Of course, this only gets published as a picture book due to Trump's vocabulary if he doesn't use a ghostwriter...
He could always release the bound leather edition of "The Collected Tweets of President Trump". All the important talking points would be in there in small digestible pieces.

But he would have to attribute the ghostwritten tweets... Trump, give credit to someone else? Hmmm....

Defiant · Post by **Defiant** » Tue Sep 11, 2018 9:57 am

BREAKING NEWS: Second Anonymous Op-Ed by Senior WH Official Published

Blackhawk · Post by **Blackhawk** » Tue Sep 11, 2018 10:15 am

This happens a million times a day, but I'm thinking of a very specific instance. Elderly guy, starting to go a bit soft in the head, sits alone watching Fox News. He believes everything they say, about the world, about politics, about Trump. He bases everything off of that reality.

Except this guy is Trump.

We're stuck in a causality loop.

LawBeefaroni · Post by **LawBeefaroni** » Tue Sep 11, 2018 11:46 am

Pyperkub wrote: Mon Sep 10, 2018 9:49 pm More book stuff:

.S. President Donald Trump promised Monday that he would “write the real book” to set the record straight on his administration, once again lashing out against veteran Washington reporter Bob Woodward, whose incendiary book about the Trump White House will be released this week.

“The Woodward book is a Joke – just another assault against me, in a barrage of assaults, using now disproven unnamed and anonymous sources. Many have already come forward to say the quotes by them, like the book, are fiction,” Trump tweeted on Monday morning. “Dems can’t stand losing. I’ll write the real book!”
Of course, this only gets published as a picture book due to Trump's vocabulary if he doesn't use a ghostwriter...

It'd be a great read. I mean I can't wait to hear how he bested Kim Jung Il's record 38-under-par 34 and how he received thousands of letters a day from the parents of WWII vets praising his support of the military.

Archinerd · Post by **Archinerd** » Tue Sep 11, 2018 12:50 pm

LawBeefaroni wrote: Tue Sep 11, 2018 11:46 am
Pyperkub wrote: Mon Sep 10, 2018 9:49 pm More book stuff:

.S. President Donald Trump promised Monday that he would “write the real book” ... Trump tweeted on Monday morning. “Dems can’t stand losing. I’ll write the real book!”
Of course, this only gets published as a picture book due to Trump's vocabulary if he doesn't use a ghostwriter...
It'd be a great read. I mean I can't wait to hear how he bested Kim Jung Il's record 38-under-par 34 and how he received thousands of letters a day from the parents of WWII vets praising his support of the military.

That's a lot of words to write, don't you think Donnie? Wouldn't it be easier just to burn all the books you don't like?

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Tue Sep 11, 2018 1:11 pm

He'll write that book, alright. It will feature a hero named "Li'l Donny" and there'll be a cat in it. A talking cat, no less. And he and the cat will go on adventures! They'll steal pies from window sills, play pranks on the Mexican next door and attend cross burnings and all the other stuff that his nasty teacher Mr. Sessions doesn't want him to do!

Archinerd · Post by **Archinerd** » Tue Sep 11, 2018 1:12 pm

That actually sounds pretty good.

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Tue Sep 11, 2018 1:18 pm

He'll call it "The Taking Tree".

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Tue Sep 11, 2018 2:23 pm

Fake language and fake etymology.

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/trumpery

I really need to find a way to work this word into my lexicon.

Holman · Post by **Holman** » Tue Sep 11, 2018 3:15 pm

LordMortis wrote: Tue Sep 11, 2018 2:23 pm Fake language and fake etymology.

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/trumpery

I really need to find a way to work this word into my lexicon.

Word Origin

C15: from Old French tromperie deceit, from tromper to cheat

Pyperkub · Post by **Pyperkub** » Tue Sep 11, 2018 3:20 pm

In other Typical Trump - bankrupting a project and leaving others with the bill:

The CBO now says the deficit will approach $1 trillion by the end of this fiscal year, but in April the agency didn’t expect the deficit to reach $1 trillion until 2020.

GreenGoo · Post by **GreenGoo** » Tue Sep 11, 2018 3:33 pm

Defiant wrote: Tue Sep 11, 2018 9:57 am BREAKING NEWS: Second Anonymous Op-Ed by Senior WH Official Published

Come on, man. How on earth is anyone supposed to know if that's satirical or not? That could literally be something that happened.

Zarathud · Post by **Zarathud** » Tue Sep 11, 2018 4:41 pm

No Republican can ever claim to be fiscally conservative again. Supporting the Trump tax cut was a crime against America's future.

Holman · Post by **Holman** » Tue Sep 11, 2018 5:34 pm

https://twitter.com/MSNBC/status/1039600437291298819

BREAKING: President Trump says federal gov’t is "ready" for Hurricane Florence, and reflects on what he describes as "incredibly successful" response to Puerto Rico hurricane disasters in 2017 – “one of the best jobs that’s ever been done.”

Carolinas, you're fucked.

Kraken · Post by **Kraken** » Tue Sep 11, 2018 5:37 pm

Truckloads and truckloads of paper towels.

pr0ner · Post by **pr0ner** » Tue Sep 11, 2018 6:30 pm

It's tremendously wet.

Pyperkub · Post by **Pyperkub** » Tue Sep 11, 2018 6:46 pm

Zarathud wrote: Tue Sep 11, 2018 4:41 pm No Republican can ever claim to be fiscally conservative again. Supporting the Trump tax cut was a crime against America's future.

I thought the "fiscally conservative" policy was to Tax Cut and Spend. It's been accepted gospel for 38 years...

Grifman · Post by **Grifman** » Tue Sep 11, 2018 6:49 pm

Zarathud wrote: Tue Sep 11, 2018 4:41 pm No Republican can ever claim to be fiscally conservative again. Supporting the Trump tax cut was a crime against America's future.

Yep, I will laugh in the face of any Republican that dares to mention the deficit in the future. Whatever you thought of Clinton, she proposed to pay for any new programs and not worsen the deficit. She was far more responsible than Republicans.

Smoove_B · Post by **Smoove_B** » Tue Sep 11, 2018 6:56 pm

pr0ner wrote: Tue Sep 11, 2018 6:30 pm It's tremendously wet.

Future generations are not going to look at us kindly:

“It is tremendously big, tremendously wet,” Trump continued. “Tremendous amounts of water. So I have spoken with the governors of South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia. They’re prepared, we are prepared.”

What an embarrassment.

Holman · Post by **Holman** » Tue Sep 11, 2018 7:41 pm

For those looking fondly back on the GWB administration as a time of decency and normalcy:

https://twitter.com/politicoalex/status ... 6730259457

After everything we've seen, he's stumping to save Trump's majorities in Congress.

Max Peck · Post by **Max Peck** » Tue Sep 11, 2018 10:43 pm

https://twitter.com/MaddowBlog/status/1 ... 0959280128

The good news is that ICE is already on the ground in North Carolina just in time to help with Florence.

In an indirect way, this means that the FEMA detention camps conspiracy theory has sort of come true.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Wed Sep 12, 2018 8:16 pm

Trump would prefer a government shutdown over immigration before the midterms

"I would personally prefer before, but whether it's before or after, we're either getting it or we're closing down government," Trump said. "We need border security. We need border security."
The President said "a lot of great Republicans" had pointed to the strength of the economy and did not want to "complicate" that as voters prepare to head to the polls in elections that will decide control of Congress.

GreenGoo · Post by **GreenGoo** » Wed Sep 12, 2018 9:43 pm

Omg, I've never wanted Drumpf to get his way more than I do right now.

Max Peck · Post by **Max Peck** » Thu Sep 13, 2018 9:21 am

On the eve of Florence, Trump would like to remind you that he loves Puerto Rico.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/sta ... 7703026689
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/sta ... 5400386560

Captain Caveman · Post by **Captain Caveman** » Thu Sep 13, 2018 9:28 am

The only victim of Hurricane Maria is, apparently, Donald Trump himself.

Fuck this guy and his toadies in the administration and Congress. How anyone continues to support this bullshit is beyond me.

Paingod · Post by **Paingod** » Thu Sep 13, 2018 9:29 am

Holy vomitous hell. I want him imprisoned eternally in a post-hurricane Puerto Rico simulation until he can understand how the aftermath of a disaster adds to the total body count.

Any trump supporters out there? How do you feel about him trying to invalidate the suffering and deaths of thousands of Americans with lies? Rip? msduncan? Or are a few thousand "brown" American lives worth forwarding your agenda?

Archinerd · Post by **Archinerd** » Thu Sep 13, 2018 9:40 am

Don't worry, everything will be fine. Secret high level insiders are keeping this piece of shit in check.

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Thu Sep 13, 2018 9:43 am

Paingod wrote: Thu Sep 13, 2018 9:29 am Any trump supporters out there? How do you feel about him trying to invalidate the suffering and deaths of thousands of Americans with lies? Rip? msduncan? Or are a few thousand "brown" American lives worth forwarding your agenda?

Rip you can ask, but I would ask that you leave MSD out of this. He's kept out of these discussions and I don't think we should be pulling him in when we're upset.

Carpet_pissr · Post by **Carpet_pissr** » Thu Sep 13, 2018 9:48 am

Captain Caveman wrote: Thu Sep 13, 2018 9:28 am How anyone continues to support this bullshit is beyond me.

Pride. Think how hard it would be to admit you actually voted for this turd. I like to think if I had voted for him, I would now be denouncing him, but that's me. Everybody's different. Some people turtle and sulk when confronted with a huge fuck-up.

Skinypupy · Post by **Skinypupy** » Thu Sep 13, 2018 9:50 am

Max Peck wrote: Thu Sep 13, 2018 9:21 am On the eve of Florence, Trump would like to remind you that he loves Puerto Rico.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/sta ... 7703026689
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/sta ... 5400386560

This is just flat-out sick. When you leave people without power, water, and food in the wake of a natural disaster, they often die. It might not have been immediately (i.e. literally the day of the storm), but they still died as a direct result of your compete and utter lack of support.

Trump proving again that he is an repulsive human being.

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Thu Sep 13, 2018 9:57 am

My memory of billions raised for Puerto Rico by the our GOP president is little different.

https://www.gq.com/story/trump-puerto-rico-aid

How does a president raise money for a territory anyway?

Captain Caveman wrote: Thu Sep 13, 2018 9:28 am Fuck this guy and his toadies in the administration and Congress. How anyone continues to support this bullshit is beyond me.

Because they're coming for our social security and free government medical when I have paid in so much and ]they're[/i] bringin their whole families.

Paingod wrote: Thu Sep 13, 2018 9:29 am How do you feel about him trying to invalidate the suffering and deaths of thousands of Americans with lies?

You know damned well Puerto Ricans aren't really Americans.

wonderpug · Post by **wonderpug** » Thu Sep 13, 2018 9:58 am

Look, unless a doctor says "cause of death: hurricane" then it's not the hurricane's fault. Even the 6 to 18 reported hurricane deaths are questionable. After some investigation, many of those deaths were actually caused by drowning or by impact with flying debris.

GreenGoo · Post by **GreenGoo** » Thu Sep 13, 2018 10:26 am

hepcat wrote: Thu Sep 13, 2018 9:43 am Rip you can ask, but I would ask that you leave MSD out of this. He's kept out of these discussions and I don't think we should be pulling him in when we're upset.

Why not? When should we ask MSD to be accountable for his political positions, that when he mentions, he celebrates?

When we're calm and collected?

The last time he commented he was extremely happy with Drumpf's performance thus far.

When would be the right time to hold a dialogue with the voters who put this shitgoblin in the WH?

I'm not saying crucify MSD (although I'm good on Rip, he's made his position clear) but when do we get to speak to the nearest drumpf voter and ask "wtf, bro? Explain yourself".

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Thu Sep 13, 2018 10:32 am

Trump supporters will stay Trump supporters. He could pull a gun and shoot one and then say he is draining the swamp and the supporter would whisper drain the swamp as they bled out. He can do no wrong and they believe everything he says. I see everything he says as stupid and a outright lie. I no longer watch anything one him. Ill read up on it but I refuse to hear his fucktarded mouth speak.

I think his approval is like 36% yet just watch come Nov at how many people vote GOP still.

Pyperkub · Post by **Pyperkub** » Thu Sep 13, 2018 11:05 am

GreenGoo wrote:
hepcat wrote: Thu Sep 13, 2018 9:43 am Rip you can ask, but I would ask that you leave MSD out of this. He's kept out of these discussions and I don't think we should be pulling him in when we're upset.
Why not? When should we ask MSD to be accountable for his political positions, that when he mentions, he celebrates?

When we're calm and collected?

The last time he commented he was extremely happy with Drumpf's performance thus far.

When would be the right time to hold a dialogue with the voters who put this shitgoblin in the WH?

I'm not saying crucify MSD (although I'm good on Rip, he's made his position clear) but when do we get to speak to the nearest drumpf voter and ask "wtf, bro? Explain yourself".

Because msd is a valued member of the community, and doing so would be more self serving than constructive.

Paingod · Post by **Paingod** » Thu Sep 13, 2018 11:16 am

Daehawk wrote: Thu Sep 13, 2018 10:32 amTrump supporters will stay Trump supporters.

Listening to NPR, hearing interviews with farmers. They're getting ripped apart in tariffs and they know it's coming down from Trump. However, they square their shoulders and say "This is just the price that needs to be paid to level the field with China. We should have done it 40 years ago" while they watch their crops plummet 25% in value, suicide rates climb, and corporate farm-takeovers increase.

Kraken · Post by **Kraken** » Thu Sep 13, 2018 11:17 am

Daehawk wrote: Thu Sep 13, 2018 10:32 am Trump supporters will stay Trump supporters. He could pull a gun and shoot one and then say he is draining the swamp and the supporter would whisper drain the swamp as they bled out. He can do no wrong and they believe everything he says. I see everything he says as stupid and a outright lie. I no longer watch anything one him. Ill read up on it but I refuse to hear his fucktarded mouth speak.

I think his approval is like 36% yet just watch come Nov at how many people vote GOP still.

You know what will be a good metric for this? The MA governor's race. Charlie Baker is the most popular guv in the US because he's stayed out of Trumpland and worked harmoniously with Democrats. His actual accomplishments are middling, but he's fiscally conservative and a decent enough man. Then, last week, he endorsed the Republican Senate candidate running against Warren. That guy's platform is "I'm Trump's BFF; vote for me and we'll have a seat at the table." Since then, Democrats have started dropping out of Baker's corner. Baker can't win without some D support, so what should have been a cakewalk is starting to look competitive. If he loses (or just barely squeaks by) it will be because he hugged a Trumpster.