The Former Trump Presidency Thread

Octavious · Post by **Octavious** » Thu Aug 03, 2017 12:49 pm

I personally think it's because he's so much smarter than anyone (Some might say the smartest person in human history) that we can't possibly understand the brilliance of what he is saying. Years from now there will be scholars pouring through his every word to try and recapture the magic from the past.

Or he could be insane. One of the two.

Carpet_pissr · Post by **Carpet_pissr** » Thu Aug 03, 2017 12:53 pm

Captain Caveman wrote:This might be my favorite moment from the transcripts:
https://twitter.com/KevinMKruse/status/ ... 4339253248

Wow, this is exactly how my Dad operates when we tangle on politics (seldom these days, thankfully, since it always gets overheated).

He brings the heat, I return fire with some data, he poo poo's the data somehow and basically says "whatever!". As if it's an insult to try to bring in some truth or logic or data into the argument.

You can't really argue with "I know what I know, harumph!"

El Guapo · Post by **El Guapo** » Thu Aug 03, 2017 1:31 pm

Australia’s Prime Minister Slowly Realizes Trump Is a Complete Idiot

Hello, Mr. Thompson.

Skinypupy · Post by **Skinypupy** » Thu Aug 03, 2017 1:51 pm

Today's Twitter diarrhea:

Our relationship with Russia is at an all-time & very dangerous low. You can thank Congress, the same people that can't even give us HCare!

The President of the United States is siding politically and publicly with the Kremlin over Congress. Yeah, that's totally normal.

Defiant · Post by **Defiant** » Thu Aug 03, 2017 2:00 pm

Captain Caveman wrote:The Trump administration is proposing cutting legal immigration in half and admitting only those with skills who speak English

Technically, it's only one of a number of factors that they consider. But when looking over their point system, if you don't have an English speaking skills, the only likely way you're going to get in is if you have an advanced degree and a very good job offer in the US.

Zaxxon · Post by **Zaxxon** » Thu Aug 03, 2017 2:01 pm

YellowKing · Post by **YellowKing** » Thu Aug 03, 2017 2:11 pm

Skinypupy wrote:The President of the United States is siding politically and publicly with the Kremlin over Congress. Yeah, that's totally normal.

The question is how long are the Republicans going to stand idly by and let our country's standing be destroyed in some vain hope that they can score a point or two over the Democrats.

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Thu Aug 03, 2017 2:11 pm

Skinypupy wrote:Today's Twitter diarrhea:

Our relationship with Russia is at an all-time & very dangerous low. You can thank Congress, the same people that can't even give us HCare!
The President of the United States is siding politically and publicly with the Kremlin over Congress. Yeah, that's totally normal.

Why HCare instead of DonTCare?
Why support the Kremlin over the US?
And since when is this worse than the Cuban Missile Crisis?

Daily, he pisses on the idea that we should respect for the highest office of the land irrespective of who holds it. He's already stressed the notion past the point of breaking and this impressive considering the company he keeps in my lifetime alone.

hentzau · Post by **hentzau** » Thu Aug 03, 2017 2:15 pm

Zaxxon wrote:

I think the cancer has removed any fucks that Senator McCain may have had to give to the Donald.

LawBeefaroni · Post by **LawBeefaroni** » Thu Aug 03, 2017 2:17 pm

LordMortis wrote: And since when is this worse than the Cuban Missile Crisis?

Technically that was the Soviet Union, not Russia. Not that Trump knows. It's just his broken clock moment.

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Thu Aug 03, 2017 2:22 pm

LawBeefaroni wrote:
LordMortis wrote: And since when is this worse than the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Technically that was the Soviet Union, not Russia. Not that Trump knows. It's just his broken clock moment.

I don't accept that distinction but if you do then he's saying the worst relationship in the last twenty some years. Well, fucking good then. Bully for Congress! Thank you Congress and thank you for not giving us HCare according to Trump. He's doing something I thought impossible. He's making me thankful in at least some ways for the 115th Congress. That's fricken impressive.

tgb · Post by **tgb** » Thu Aug 03, 2017 2:42 pm

This is the most distressing comment in his conversation with the Australian PM:

They are not going to be wonderful people who go on to work for the local milk people.

Really? He doesn't know that they're called farmers?

Paingod · Post by **Paingod** » Thu Aug 03, 2017 3:17 pm

hentzau wrote:
Zaxxon wrote:
I think the cancer has removed any fucks that Senator McCain may have had to give to the Donald.

He's probably just realized that the only voter opinions he has to worry about now is at a gate that's very bipartisan.

Carpet_pissr · Post by **Carpet_pissr** » Thu Aug 03, 2017 3:18 pm

tgb wrote:This is the most distressing comment in his conversation with the Australian PM:

They are not going to be wonderful people who go on to work for the local milk people.
Really? He doesn't know that they're called farmers?

I keep telling myself that surely he can't be as stupid as he sounds when he talks, twitters, etc. I wonder if it's some form of intellectual "rope a dope" and he's doing it intentionally so everyone will underestimate him. If it's NOT that, the implications are too distressing to dwell on. Maybe I'm still in shock after the election. Everything is fine.

El Guapo · Post by **El Guapo** » Thu Aug 03, 2017 3:19 pm

Hey, does anyone have an in with the local milk people? I hear that they pay well.

Skinypupy · Post by **Skinypupy** » Thu Aug 03, 2017 3:21 pm

El Guapo wrote:Hey, does anyone have an in with the local milk people? I hear that they pay well.

The first rule of Milk People Club is that you do not talk about Milk People Club.

geezer · Post by **geezer** » Thu Aug 03, 2017 3:23 pm

El Guapo wrote:Australia’s Prime Minister Slowly Realizes Trump Is a Complete Idiot

Donald J. Trump wrote:What is the thing with boats? Why do you discriminate against boats?

El Guapo · Post by **El Guapo** » Thu Aug 03, 2017 3:26 pm

The best part is how Turnbull had already told Trump repeatedly why they "discriminate against boats" in their immigration policy. And then Trump then says "oh, I get it, they're from certain regions". Which is the opposite of what Turnbull was (repeatedly) saying!

"When I say 'Hi Mr. Thompson' and stomp on your feet, you smile and nod.
[stomp] 'hi Mr. Thompson'
Homer: [Blinks] "I think he's talking to you."

Octavious · Post by **Octavious** » Thu Aug 03, 2017 3:43 pm

I guess we're going to need a bigger boat.

OMFG I can't keep reading his transcripts. It's so depressing that someone like this has amassed so much power and money.

Alefroth · Post by **Alefroth** » Thu Aug 03, 2017 3:51 pm

El Guapo wrote:Hey, does anyone have an in with the local milk people? I hear that they pay well.

Like these milk people?

Holman · Post by **Holman** » Thu Aug 03, 2017 3:57 pm

Apparently "milk" is also alt-right slang for whites. (Richard Spencer had a glass-of-milk emoji in his Twitter handle the last time I saw him quoted, but now it's gone.)

With Trump I can believe he just couldn't recall the term "dairy." If it were Bannon or DonJr, I'd be suspicious.

Vorret · Post by **Vorret** » Thu Aug 03, 2017 4:06 pm

He really is quite pathetic, can't wait to see how the right wing nuts spin this one

YellowKing · Post by **YellowKing** » Thu Aug 03, 2017 4:36 pm

Carpet_pissr wrote:I wonder if it's some form of intellectual "rope a dope" and he's doing it intentionally so everyone will underestimate him.

No, he's really just a fucking idiot. Somebody clever enough to intellectually rope-a-dope would not repeatedly act against their own self-interests.

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, and sometimes a moron is just a moron.

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Thu Aug 03, 2017 4:43 pm

YellowKing wrote:Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, and sometimes a moron is just a moron.

Rip · Post by **Rip** » Thu Aug 03, 2017 5:51 pm

I just can't believe what the words people are writing about him.

May need to have the lawsuit people look into it.

Chaz · Post by **Chaz** » Thu Aug 03, 2017 8:09 pm

You can't sue someone for being mean to you, Bob.

malchior · Post by **malchior** » Thu Aug 03, 2017 9:08 pm

El Guapo wrote:The best part is how Turnbull had already told Trump repeatedly why they "discriminate against boats" in their immigration policy. And then Trump then says "oh, I get it, they're from certain regions". Which is the opposite of what Turnbull was (repeatedly) saying!

My biggest problem is it once again exposes what a piece of shit human being he is. He doesn't give a damn about these poor people, his partners in Australia, the person he is talking to, anyone at all besides himself. It was all about how it would be bad for him.

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Thu Aug 03, 2017 9:11 pm

Rip wrote:I just can't believe what the words people are writing about him.

May need to have the lawsuit people look into it.

If that were possible, Hillary Clinton would own your ass.

geezer · Post by **geezer** » Thu Aug 03, 2017 9:14 pm

malchior wrote:
geezer wrote:
pr0ner wrote:Barf. The lack of respect he shows for his peers (other than Putin) is staggering.
It's weird, right? He sounds only half as stupid in "private" and significantly more aware but even more arrogant. What a total dick.
I think he still shows a dangerous lack of coherence.

Trumpy Trump Trump wrote:And certainly, as to the relationship and friendship, I consider you a friend. I met you the one time and I studied you. You are a very hard person to study, because you are sending out messages that are important to the Mexican people.
WTF does that even mean?

He also just can't stop lying and misrepresenting himself. He didn't win a large number of hispanics. He didn't win New Hampshire. He is a complete loon and these guys have to tolerate him but are not going to actually work with him beyond the bare minimum. It is ridiculous that this is our face to the world.

Oh I agree... But at least in the transcripts he seems to be self-aware as opposed to the random ignorant nonsense he seems to blurt out in public. That doesn't mean I think he's competent.

geezer · Post by **geezer** » Thu Aug 03, 2017 9:19 pm

malchior wrote:
El Guapo wrote:The best part is how Turnbull had already told Trump repeatedly why they "discriminate against boats" in their immigration policy. And then Trump then says "oh, I get it, they're from certain regions". Which is the opposite of what Turnbull was (repeatedly) saying!
My biggest problem is it once again exposes what a piece of shit human being he is. He doesn't give a damn about these poor people, his partners in Australia, the person he is talking to, anyone at all besides himself. It was all about how it would be bad for him.

And on this I agree 100%.

milo · Post by **milo** » Thu Aug 03, 2017 9:45 pm

Vorret wrote:He really is quite pathetic, can't wait to see how the right wing nuts spin this one

Fox News headline was focused on the "Mega-Leak" aspect of this. So, probably that.

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Thu Aug 03, 2017 10:00 pm

The Supreme Court is currently arguing over changing the legal definition of witness to leaker.

Max Peck · Post by **Max Peck** » Thu Aug 03, 2017 10:52 pm

When conflicts of interest go wrong:

The Secret Service has vacated its command post inside Trump Tower in Manhattan following a dispute between the government and President Trump’s company over the terms of a lease for the space, according to two people familiar with the discussions.

Previously, the Secret Service had stationed its command post — which houses supervisors and backup agents on standby in case of an emergency — in a Trump Tower unit one floor below the president’s apartment.

But in early July, the post was relocated to a trailer on the sidewalk, more than 50 floors below, a distance that some security experts worry could hamper the agency that protects the president’s home and family.

The command post appears unlikely to move anytime soon back inside Trump Tower, where the president and his family have rarely gone since moving to the White House.

On Thursday, a spokeswoman for the Trump Organization said the government should seek space in another location.

“After much consideration, it was mutually determined that it would be more cost effective and logistically practical for the Secret Service to lease space elsewhere,” spokeswoman Amanda Miller wrote in an email to The Washington Post.

Luckily, the Prez spends most of his time at his golf courses, or that dump in DC.

tgb · Post by **tgb** » Thu Aug 03, 2017 10:55 pm

milo wrote:
Vorret wrote:He really is quite pathetic, can't wait to see how the right wing nuts spin this one
Fox News headline was focused on the "Mega-Leak" aspect of this. So, probably that.

Is there anybody who could be in possession of the transcripts that might have an axe to grind? Anybody? Anyone at all?

Spoiler:

Unagi · Post by **Unagi** » Thu Aug 03, 2017 11:15 pm

I was thinking Reince Priebus was more likely for this one.

He's raw.

...and was more suspected, IIRC, of being a suspected leaker

Octavious · Post by **Octavious** » Thu Aug 03, 2017 11:34 pm

It was the Motch! He always actually hated Trump. He got in stole shit and got out! That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

Unagi · Post by **Unagi** » Thu Aug 03, 2017 11:39 pm

Octavious wrote:It was the Motch! He always actually hated Trump. He got in stole shit and got out! That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

I'd have no problem with that reality either... but I doubt he had access to that early call's transcript in passing and I doubt he was savvy enough to sniff for dirt.

However, to your point - the crazy bad stuff the Mooch said about Trump before the election; how on earth did Trump green light him?

Unagi · Post by **Unagi** » Thu Aug 03, 2017 11:44 pm

Is there any argument that Australia leaked the transcript?

Rip · Post by **Rip** » Thu Aug 03, 2017 11:54 pm

hepcat wrote:
Rip wrote:I just can't believe what the words people are writing about him.

May need to have the lawsuit people look into it.

If that were possible, Hillary Clinton would own your ass.

Ahh, but I'm not a words person and I am poor. The lawsuit people won't waste their time on me.

Unagi · Post by **Unagi** » Fri Aug 04, 2017 12:01 am

Rip wrote:
hepcat wrote:
Rip wrote:I just can't believe what the words people are writing about him.

May need to have the lawsuit people look into it.

If that were possible, Hillary Clinton would own your ass.
Ahh, but I'm not a words person and I am poor. The lawsuit people won't waste their time on me.

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