Days 95- 101 of the Election of no 45 and days 24-30 of it being official.
Well, it was an interesting week for old no 45.
On Monday 2-13-17, Mike Flynn resigned from the administration after it came to light that he spoke with Russia DURING and after the election without anyone's permission. Remember, this is the guy who Obama fired for being incompetent and the right wing went nuts when it happened. But now? Silence. His replacement that he wanted told him no and also called the no 45 administration a "shit-sandwich", which is spot-on.
When asked about the Israel/Palestine settlement, he rambled on about his win. Same thing happened when he met Canada PM Justin T
His 1st press conference became the shitstorm you would think.
On Saturday 2-18-17 at a press conference in Florida, he made up a terrorist attack about Sweden and Sweden was like "wtf is he talking about" because no such thing happened. Then no 45's crew said no 45 was talking about that it was ongoing but also that they heard it from FOX news.
This week for no 45 has been so crazy it's hard to tell where it starts.
On 2-19-17, Chris Wallace from FAUX news had an interview with Reince Preibus about the issues regarding No 45 and of course Reince kissed the ass of no 45.
The no 45 administration is telling leaders of the world to ignore what no 45 says for whatever reason.
According to what
White House press secretary Sean Spicer said,
Trump requested the resignation of former National Security Advisor Michael
Flynn due to the erosion of trust. Flynn lied to the administration regarding
discussions with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak. Trump literally fired Flynn
but he’s now calling the scandal ‘fake news.’ The amateur president has been lashing out at networks reporting on the scandal, calling them ‘fake news,’ too.
Thursday morning, Trump went on quite a tweet-storm.
“FAKE NEWS media,
which makes up stories and “sources,” is far more effective than the
discredited Democrats – but they are fading fast!,” Trump tweeted.
FAKE
NEWS media, which makes up stories and “sources,” is far more effective than
the discredited Democrats – but they are fading fast!
— Donald J. Trump
(@realDonaldTrump) February
16, 2017
In the following
tweet, he wrote, “The Democrats had to come up with a story as to why they lost
the election, and so badly (306), so they made up a story – RUSSIA. Fake news!”
The
Democrats had to come up with a story as to why they lost the election, and so
badly (306), so they made up a story – RUSSIA. Fake news!
— Donald J. Trump
(@realDonaldTrump) February
16, 2017
Trump is clearly
unhinged. Trump has previously admitted that Russia engaged in cyber attacks during the U.S.
presidential election. And again, he fired Flynn for lying to the
administration about talks with the Russian ambassador about sanctions.
Regardless, today he’s calling it fake news.
The Internet pounced
after Trump unleashed his crazy-time tweets and fact-checked him.
@realDonaldTrump And Russia was not INVENTED by the
Dems, it’s been confirmed by the FBI that your aides had contact w/ Russian
intelligence
— Khary Penebaker
(@kharyp) February
16, 2017
@realDonaldTrump Your PHONE RECORDS show your campaign
had contact with Russian Intelligence. Who invented that?
@realDonaldTrump It’s not fake news when three of your
advisers are forced to resign because of exposed Russian ties.
— Ruwayda Mustafah
(@RuwaydaMustafah) February
16, 2017
@realDonaldTrump It’s not fake news when foreign banks
such as Deutsche bank start to investigate your account for Russian links.
— Ruwayda Mustafah
(@RuwaydaMustafah) February
16, 2017
“It can’t be leaked
information and fake news.”
@realDonaldTrump yesterday you were saying it was
‘leaked information’. It can’t be leaked information and fake news.
— Matt Haig
(@matthaig1) February
16, 2017
— Brandon Neely
(@BrandonTXNeely) February
16, 2017
@realDonaldTrump You should release your taxes to
prove to the Dems and failing/lying media you have ZERO financial entanglement
with Russia
— Evan Dashevsky
(@haldash) February
16, 2017
@realDonaldTrump #TrumpLied? #FlynnGhazi #RiggedElection #WaterGate #maddowpic.twitter.com/k2NYaW8e3B
— Diva (@sammypolsen12) February
16, 2017
You gonna ask for HIS
resignation too?
— JustJanis
(@jsavite) February
16, 2017
@realDonaldTrump but the FBI isn’t “the democrats”
— Brandon Keating
(@BrandonTalks) February
16, 2017
You gonna ask for HIS
resignation too?
— JustJanis
(@jsavite) February
16, 2017
.@realDonaldTrump “Russia, if you’re
listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are
missing.” https://t.co/3tMzMn2EN6
— Shannon Watts
(@shannonrwatts) February
16, 2017
@realDonaldTrump You have literally fired 3 advisors
because of their ties to Russia. The only fake news is you being a legitimate
president
— Matthew A. Cherry
(@MatthewACherry) February
16, 2017
“You fuck nut.”
@realDonaldTrump you fuck nut
Trump won’t even take questions about Flynnghazi from reporters.
And by the way, there’s a Russian spy ship patrolling off the coast of the U.S.
Presently, it’s near Virginia. So naturally, Trump is planning to hold a rally in Florida.
All HELL Breaks Loose After Trump Accuses Obama Of Being ‘Soft On Russia’ (TWEETS)
Donald
Trump kicked off his Wednesday morning by launching into another insane rant
about “fake news,” with a bonus guest appearance by a stupid comment about
Hillary Clinton.
“The
fake news media is going crazy with their conspiracy theories and blind hatred. @MSNBC &@CNN are unwatchable,” Trump said, continuing his attack on media
that tells the truth about him. Of course, he was sure to endorse a network
that generally distorts stories in his favor on behalf of the U.S. Government:
“@foxandfriends is great!”
The fake news media is going crazy with their conspiracy theories and blind
hatred. @MSNBC & @CNN are unwatchable.@foxandfriends is great!
Sorry,
folks. The very real information about Michael Flynn and Russia (the information
that led to his resignation) as well as Trump’s guest Facebooking a photo of
the guy carrying the nuclear football along with his name, Trump reviewing
secure documents using a cell phone flashlight during dinner while the
waitstaff continued service, the confirmation that his staff stayed in
frequent contact with the Russian government during his campaign, and even Kellyanne Conway’s “free
commercial” for Ivanka Trump’s products — all of that is just “conspiracy
theories” and “blind hatred.”
After
taking his traditional half-hour to figure out how he can sound even more
like an uninformed madman than with his previous tweet, Trump informed us that
any allegations that he or his staff are connected to Russia are simply
attempts to cover up Hillary Clinton’s massive popular vote victory he keeps
denying happened:
This Russian connection non-sense is merely an attempt to cover-up the many
mistakes made in Hillary Clinton's losing campaign.
After
an 11-minute thinkin’ session, Trump amped up the stupidity by saying that
intelligence agencies leaking information about his ties to Russia makes them
“just like Russia”:
Information is being illegally given to the failing @nytimes &@washingtonpost by the intelligence community (NSA and FBI?).Just like Russia
But
Trump wasn’t done yet! What good is an unhinged right-wing rant without someone
dragging Obama into it? “Crimea was TAKEN by Russia during the Obama
Administration. Was Obama too soft on Russia?” Trump writes.
Crimea was TAKEN by Russia during the Obama Administration. Was Obama too
soft on Russia?
Before
he took office, Trump whined that Obama was too hard on his previous Vladdy
Poot Poot, arguing for a substantial rollback of sanctions against Russia
(including some of the ones Obama put in place after Crimea “was TAKEN.”
Naturally,
after almost an hour of pure stupidity, Americans just unleashed on The Donald:
Haha @realDonaldTrump saying
obama was soft on Russia is the best so far. Practicing your comedy routine, I
see!
So Trump's defense for borderline-treasonous behavior & collusion:
Obama was soft on Russia!
@realDonaldTrump you have Obama tourettes. You can't say 'but Obama' every time you are in
trouble. Own your own shit.
Crimea was TAKEN by Russia during the Obama
Administration. Was Obama too soft on Russia?
@AirlineFlyer @realDonaldTrump is melting down this morning. I'd enjoy watching this train wreck but I'm
on that train.
.@realDonaldTrump You're BUDDIES with Putin but you want to talk about Obama being too soft
on Russia?
Crimea was TAKEN by Russia during the Obama
Administration. Was Obama too soft on Russia?
@realDonaldTrump Oh so NOW you’re all “Back off Russia” It’s almost as if you’re shitting
yourself or something.
Crimea was TAKEN by Russia during the Obama
Administration. Was Obama too soft on Russia?
@realDonaldTrump there's a Russian spy ship off the coast of Delaware. They fired a treaty
violating missile yesterday. Stop deflecting.
Crimea was TAKEN by Russia during the Obama
Administration. Was Obama too soft on Russia?
. @realDonaldTrump there were also three TAKEN movies during Obama's administration. Anyway
back to you committing treason with Russia...
Crimea was TAKEN by Russia during the Obama
Administration. Was Obama too soft on Russia?
Crimea was TAKEN by Russia during the Obama
Administration. Was Obama too soft on Russia?
@realDonaldTrump He imposed sanctions in response to Russian aggression. YOUR ADMINISTRATION
conspired with the Russians to lift them.
Crimea was TAKEN by Russia during the Obama
Administration. Was Obama too soft on Russia?
@realDonaldTrump "Bad things happened under Obama, but no one calls HIM out for the
treasonous things that only I did! Wait..."
Crimea was TAKEN by Russia during the Obama
Administration. Was Obama too soft on Russia?
Crimea was TAKEN by Russia during the Obama
Administration. Was Obama too soft on Russia?
@realDonaldTrump Obama imposed sanctions on Russia ( that you want to lift) for interfering
in our election, while you...pic.twitter.com/lIHwBX9f3c
If
anyone is “soft” on Russia, it’s the guy who once tweeted that he wanted
Putin to become his “new best friend.”
If
there’s one takeaway from this moronic outpouring of what-the-fuck, it’s that
Trump is scared and is lashing out at everything he can. His days are numbered.
“The
real scandal here is that classified information is illegally given out by
“intelligence” like candy,” Trump says. “Very un-American!”
The real scandal here is that classified information is illegally given out
by "intelligence" like candy. Very un-American!
Sorry,
Trump: exposing your administration’s unprecedented corruption is the most
American thing we can do right now.
Trump claim of being ‘first in his class’ at Wharton was another lie: report
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Throughout his campaign and nascent presidency, Donald Trump has
maintained that he is “a
very smart guy” who
graduated from Pennsylvania University’s Wharton School of Business at the top
of his class.
However, according to a Thursday report from The Daily Pennsylvanian, academic
records and the recollections of his classmates don’t line up with
Trump’s claims — including a 1984 boast to the New York Times that he graduated “first in his class.”
“Penn records and Trump’s classmates dispute this claim,” wrote the
Pennsylvanian’s Alex Rabin and Rebecca Tan. “In 1968, The Daily Pennsylvanian published
a list of the 56 students who were on the Wharton Dean’s List that year — Trump’s name is
not among them.”
“I recognize virtually all the
names on that list, ” said 1968 Wharton graduate Stephen Foxman to the DP, “and
Trump just wasn’t one of them.”
A program
from the 1968 commencement ceremony shows no mention of Trump’s name, which
Wharton graduate Jon Hillsberg said would be highly unlikely if the president
had won academic honors.
The program does list, “20 Wharton award and prize
recipients, 15 cum laude recipients, four magna cum laude recipients and two
summa cum laude recipients for the Class of 1968. Trump’s name appears nowhere
on those lists.”
“Given that there are 366 listed
1968 Wharton graduates on QuakerNet, Penn’s alumni database, the Dean’s List of 56 students
represents approximately the top 15 percent of the class. The omission of
Trump’s name suggests that his academic record at Penn was not as outstanding
as he has claimed,” concluded Rabin and Tan.
At other points in his career, Trump has claimed to have an MBA
from Wharton, although Newsweek‘s Kurt
Eichenwald confirmed that Trump
never pursued post-graduate studies at Wharton and only attended the
undergraduate program for two years, transferring in as a junior.
University
of Pennsylvania spokesman Ron Ozio said in a written statement that the school
does not release transcripts or academic records of past graduates, a rule that
“does not change because an alumnus is famous or holds a public position.”
Accounts
from other students vary. Some recall him being focused and attentive in class.
Others say he was absent for much of regular campus life because he preferred
to be in New York on the weekends.
“He was
really off by himself. He didn’t party or go to football games … [h]e didn’t
mingle with the guys going back to hang out and chatting, and stuff like that,”
said fellow 1968 graduate Edward Pollard, who, like Trump, transferred into the
program in his junior year.
Classmate Louis Calomaris said, “Don
… was loath to really study much.”
The future
reality TV star would show up to study sessions with classmates without having
read the material, Calomaris said, and “didn’t seem to care about being
prepared.”
“He spent
all his weekends in New York because residential real estate is a weekend
business,” Calomaris said.
“He was not an intellectual man, but that wasn’t what his goal
was,” he told the DP. “He’s
not an intellectual now, [and] that’s pretty obvious … [w]hat I saw early on
was an unbounded ambition that did come to fruition, because it matched his
firm’s needs, and that’s how these things work.”
‘Why should Americans trust you?’: Presser goes off the rails when NBC reporter confronts Trump
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NBC News reporter Peter Alexander on Thursday confronted Donald
Trump over his credibility given the president’s well-documented
penchant for spreading
lies and
misinformation.
After boasting (inaccurately) that
his electoral college win was the largest margin since Ronald Reagan’s, the
president turned his attention to the damaging information coming out about his
administration’s potential ties to the Russian government. Trump called all of
the reporting about Russia “fake news” and blasted the media for reporting
“lies.”
Trump then fielded questions from
the press. After the president once again berated the media for reporting
on former National Security Advisor Mike
Flynn’s contact with the Russian ambassador, NBC’s
Alexander seized on the opportunity to point out a fundamental question
pertaining to the president’s
credibility.
“You said today that you had the
biggest electoral margin since Ronald Reagan,” Alexander began, reading off a
list of several recent previous presidents who had larger margins than Trump.
“Why should Americans trust you,”
Alexander asked.
The president insisted he was
talking about Republican presidents before saying he was “given” that
information.
“I don’t know,” Trump added.
“Why should Americans trust you when you
accuse the information they receive as being fake when you’re providing
information that’s fake?” Alexander pressed.
“I don’t know,” Trump repeated. “I
was given that information.”
Trump’s approval rating drops below his disapproval rating
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February 16, 2017
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For the first time during his presidency, Donald Trump's
approval rating has fallen behind his disapproval rating, according
to a Reuters/Ipsos
tracking poll published Wednesday.
Just 46 percent of Americans have approved of the job he's
doing, according to the survey. Half of the country disapproved of the job
he's doing. "The data indicates that all the furor around foreign policy
is not playing to what the public perceives are his strengths, which remain the
economy and jobs," the polling team said in a press release.
Sixteen percent of Americans said the economy was their top
concern, while 14 percent said their main priority was healthcare and 13
percent said terrorism. Fifty-three percent of Americans approved of Trump's
performance regarding jobs and 52 percent approved of his handling of the
economy, according to the poll. The survey was conducted from Friday through
Tuesday, interviewing 1,744 people online and has a margin of error of 2.7
percentage points.
The first three weeks or so of Trump's presidency have largely
been defined by controversy. An executive order
temporarily banning travel to the U.S. by people from seven Muslim-majority
countries sparked widespread protests at airports and other places across the
country.
Trump's administration has also been dealing with the
blow-back surrounding the
resignation of former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn. He
apparently lied to Vice President Mike Pence and others about discussing U.S.
sanctions enacted by President Barack Obama on Russia with an ambassador for
the Eastern European country. The controversy came amid the assessment from the
intelligence community that the Kremlin worked to get Trump elected and new reports this
week that alleged the then-GOP candidate's campaign had regularly communicated
with Russian officials.
Meanwhile, Russia has allegedly deployed a new cruise missile
despite it being prohibited. It has also dispatched a spy ship spotted along the
East Coast. North Korea has also tested Trump by test-firing a
ballistic missile.
Amid these early issues, Trump's approval rating has been low
across the board. This week, Gallup found that
just 40 percent of Americans approved of the job he was doing, while more than
half the country disapproved. Even in Iowa, a swing state Trump won by nine
percentage points in November's election, 49 percent of people
disapproved of the president's performance, according to Des
Moines Register/Mediacom Iowa survey.
‘Now Spicer seems like an adult’:
Internet reels at Trump’s rambling, incoherent press conference
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Pres. Donald Trump’s
press conference on Thursday was combative, rambling, hostile and at times incoherent. Some web users wondered
if they were watching a Saturday Night Live sketch. Others — like CNN’s Jake Tapper — said it seemed
like “the airing of the grievances” from Seinfeld’s made-up holiday Festivus.
Others said it made Sean
Spicer’s hot-faced, argumentative press conferences look
professional by comparison.
Some of the best reactions are embedded below:
Trump: I'll take
questions now. Yes, you.
Reporter: President Trump, w-
Trump: Yes, I am the president. I crushed Hillary. Next question.
Reporter: President Trump, w-
Trump: Yes, I am the president. I crushed Hillary. Next question.
Trump says he’s been
briefed and that a nuclear holocaust would be bad.
Trump just said he's the
least racist person#TrumpPressConference
#TrumpPressConference Yall this is the real reason Melania wanted to stay
in New York. pic.twitter.com/5CyrHixjof
— DKT (@darleneturner53) February
16, 2017
When are the feats of
strength?
So Trump held a press
conference to throw a tantrum at the press. Just when was Faye Dunaway as Joan
Crawford elected as our president?
"I'm the least
antisemetic person" - the guy who hired an antisemite as chief
strategist #TrumpPressConference
#trumppressconference wait, he hasn't
said 306 in a few minutes yet. In case nobody remembers,he won bigly by 306.
Anybody forget that yet?
Trump to BBC reporter:
"Where are you from?"
"I haven't spoken to
anyone in Russia in years... I spoke to Putin twice after the election"
I'm screaming
Cool. We get to watch the
so-called POTUS ramble incoherently live on national television. Bigly. What a
country!#TrumpPressConference
#TrumpPressConference
April Ryan, " Will you meet with the CBC?"
Trump, " Who?"
Mr. President, The CBC is the Congressional Black Caucus.
April Ryan, " Will you meet with the CBC?"
Trump, " Who?"
Mr. President, The CBC is the Congressional Black Caucus.
He lists healthcare,
education, and crime as the areas that his efforts to "fix the inner
cities" will focus on.
She asks if he'll include
the Cong Black Caucus in his deliberations. He instructs her to set up the
meeting. "Are they your friends?"
#TrumpPressConference "Man that Alec
Baldwin is hilarious"...."wait!...what?!?"
#TrumpPressConference Performance was
SAD!
Ikr. So unprofessional.
It was a train wreck, OMG, wtf moment all in one. Holy crap. #TrumpPressConferencehttps://twitter.com/Impeach_D_Trump/status/832312262140555265 …
#TrumpPressConference Heres,a recap if
you missed it.
Trump should do a press
conference without the press, just a room full of psychiatrists asking
questions.#TrumpPressConference
Still not understanding
how the leaks are real, but leaks/news of them are fake. What a delusional
liar. Embarrassing#TrumpPressConference
This sums up the #TrumpPressConference
Watching #trumppressconference was illuminating in
the same way opening the Arc of the Covenant is illuminating.
Trump just gave a weapons-grade crazy
press conference — here are the 7 most insane moments
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President Donald Trump held a press conference today in which he
once again boasted about his November election win and attacked the mainstream
media for producing “fake news.”
But beyond the usual boasting and bashing, the president made
several jaw-dropping statements that were surprising even by his standards.
Below, we’ll go over the seven craziest moments at today’s press conference.
1.
Trump says that while the leaks coming out of
his administration are real, the news stories being written about them are
still fake news. When asked to explain the seeming contradiction in his
desire to both crack down on leaks in his administration and to attack news
stories based on those leaks, the president simply said the leaks from the
administration were real, but the news they generated was fake. ”The leaks are
real,” Trump said. “The leaks are absolutely real. The news is fake because so
much of the news is fake.”
2.
Trump falsely claims that his Electoral
College victory this past November was the biggest since Ronald Reagan’s. With
306 electoral college votes, Trump’s margin of victory last year was smaller
than not only Ronald Reagan’s, but also George H.W. Bush’s victory in 1988,
Bill Clinton’s two victories in 1992 and 1996, and Barack Obama’s two wins in
2008 and 2012.When confronted by this, Trump simply replied that he “was given
that information,” without acknowledging that the information was false.
3.
Trump said he was fine with WikiLeaks because
it never leaked classified information. When asked to
resolve the contradiction between his current crusade against leaks purportedly
coming from the intelligence community and his past praise of WikiLeaks for its
leaking of damaging information on Hillary Clinton, Trump falsely claimed that
WikiLeaks doesn’t leak classified information.
4.
Trump dismisses GOP town hall protesters
because most of them are Democrats. When asked about the
rowdy protesters from constituents that many Republican lawmakers have faced at
their town halls, Trump dismissed them and said most of those people weren’t
the people who voted for Republicans in the first place, and thus shouldn’t be
taken into consideration. “They are not the Republican people that our
representatives represent,” the president said of the protesters.
5.
Trump insists that the alternative to getting
along with Russia could be “nuclear holocaust.” When
asked about his repeated praise of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Trump once
again said that he hoped to get along with the Kremlin, while not guaranteeing
that he would be able to do so .Trump then veered off course and said that
relations between the two countries were important because otherwise the result
could be “nuclear holocaust.” “Nuclear holocaust would be like no other,” he
said. “They’re a very powerful nuclear country, so are we.”
6.
Trump shouts down a Jewish reporter who asked
him about rising anti-Semitism. When a reporter from a
Jewish publication asked Trump to address the rise in anti-Semitic hate crimes
around the country, Trump shot back at him for supposedly asking an unfair
question. “It’s not a fair question,” Trump said to the reporter, and then told
him to “sit down. ”Trump then went on to say that he was the least anti-Semitic
person in the world.
7.
Trump asked a black reporter to help him set
up a meeting with the Congressional Black Caucus. When
Trump was asked by reporter April Ryan if he’d meet with the CBC, Trump asked
her if they were “friends of hers” and then instructed her to “set up a
meeting,” as he apparently assumed that she knew them because she was black as
well.
Donald Trump’s slow and
visibly painful meltdown over his administration (and campaign) getting caught
colluding with the Russian government continued Thursday, with The Donald once
again attacking the media for reporting it.
“Leaking, and even
illegal classified leaking, has been a big problem in Washington for years.
Failing @nytimes (and others) must apologize!” Trump
demanded.
Leaking, and even illegal classified leaking, has been a
big problem in Washington for years. Failing @nytimes (and
others) must apologize!
The New York Times was
instrumental in bringing much of the information we know so far about the Trump
administration’s criminal dealings with Russia to light. Naturally, the LOSERS
on Twitter were quick to BIGLY Point out that he’s full of Bannon:
.@realDonaldTrump Your
relationship with @nytimes is like that
between an abusive husband and his estranged wife. You used to be so nice.
.@realDonaldTrump Remember
when you said that @nytimes was "very
nice"? https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/294530875503280129 …
Leaking, and even illegal classified leaking, has been a
big problem in Washington for years. Failing @nytimes (and
others) must apologize!
@realDonaldTrump You
only fired Flynn when the truth was leaked. What else are you lying about?
@realDonaldTrump ALSO,
are you now verifying everything the Times reported about your Russia contacts?
Leaking, and even illegal classified leaking, has been a
big problem in Washington for years. Failing @nytimes (and
others) must apologize!
Leaking, and even illegal classified leaking, has been a
big problem in Washington for years. Failing @nytimes (and
others) must apologize!
@realDonaldTrump @nytimes the
nytimes Doesn't need to apologize for doing the job of the free press.
Leaking, and even illegal classified leaking, has been a
big problem in Washington for years. Failing @nytimes (and
others) must apologize!
@realDonaldTrump @nytimes I'm
confused. Why should the press apologize for reporting facts from solid
sources?
Leaking, and even illegal classified leaking, has been a
big problem in Washington for years. Failing @nytimes (and
others) must apologize!
Leaking, and even illegal classified leaking, has been a
big problem in Washington for years. Failing @nytimes (and
others) must apologize!
@realDonaldTrump The @nytimes is
still not failing. Record subscriptions since the election. Stock STILL at a 52
week high. KILLING IT! pic.twitter.com/XITt2JJe1H
Leaking, and even illegal classified leaking, has been a
big problem in Washington for years. Failing @nytimes (and
others) must apologize!
@realDonaldTrump @nytimes When
you keep asking whistleblowers to apologize, that means you're hiding
something. We'll find it!
But Trump wasn’t done.
He vowed that he will catch those responsible for exposing the corruption in
his administration:
The spotlight has finally been put on the low-life
leakers! They will be caught!
And, of course, The
Donald slammed the “fake news” media for writing “stories” using “sources.”
FAKE NEWS media, which makes up stories and
"sources," is far more effective than the discredited Democrats - but
they are fading fast!
Ultimately, Trump
says, this whole Russia thing — the one that has been confirmed by 17 U.S.
intelligence agencies — is just “fake news” made up by the Democrats to explain
away Hillary Clinton’s massive popular vote win (and Trump’s
victory-by-technicality):
The Democrats had to come up with a story as to why they
lost the election, and so badly (306), so they made up a story - RUSSIA. Fake
news!
Pay attention to the
way he is acting. When Trump wakes up and rambles incoherently, it means that
he is worried. It means that he is lying.
He also thinks he will
get away with it. It is up to us to make sure he doesn’t. Never stop leaking.
Never stop telling the truth. Never stop resisting. Never submit.
More Nonsense: Trump Answers Question On Iran With Rant About Unfair, Fake Media And Clinton’s Loss.
In his joint
press conference with
President Netanyahu of Israel at noon today, Trump took a few questions from
the assembled journalists. As is his usual style, he took the first question
from conservative media. Today it was the Christian Broadcasting Network.
Their correspondent asked Trump about the future of the Iran nuclear deal that
he so often criticizes. Mr. Trump responded with a word salad about the unfair
media treatment of David Flynn, and how badly Hillary Clinton lost the
election.
The first question of the press conference: Iran.
The Christian
Broadcasting Network has been given the unusual honors of some
of the first questions during White House press
conferences. At today’s joint press conference with visiting Israeli Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House, Trump called on CBN’s chief
political correspondent David Brody after
the two leaders made brief remarks. Brody rocketed to fame two weeks ago when
he landed his network a coveted
one-on-one interview with
the new president.
Brody directed his question to Trump.
Brody directed his question to Trump.
Both of you have criticized the Iran nuclear deal and have called
for its repeal. I’m wondering if you’re concerned at all, as it relates to, not
just the National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, who is recently no longer
here, but also some of those events that have been going on with Russia, if
that is going to hamper this deal at all, whether or not it would keep Iran
from becoming a nuclear state.
Trump’s word-salad response.
After a short pause
during which he closed his eyes, Trump said;
Michael Flynn, General Flynn is a wonderful man. I think he’s been
treated very, very unfairly by the media. As I call it, the “fake media” in
many cases [Trump turns to Netanyahu]. And I think it’s really a sad thing that
he was treated so badly. I think in addition to that, from intelligence, papers
are being leaked, things are being leaked. It’s criminal action — criminal act
— and it’s been going on for a long time, before me. But now its really going on.
And people are trying to cover up for a terrible loss that the Democrats had
under Hillary Clinton. I think its very, very unfair what’s happened to General
Flynn, the way he was treated, and the documents and papers that were illegally
— I stress that, illegally — leaked. Very very unfair.”
So what does Trump think of the Iran nuclear deal? Who knows.
How has
America’s position on the
Iran deal been affected by revelations of
close communications between his campaign advisers (many of whom are his
current staff) and senior Russian intelligence officials (Remember that Russia
is a close ally of Iran)? We have no idea.
Will Iran use
this turmoil to find a way to accelerate its nuclear program? One would think
that the growing threat of new nuclear powers would be a key issue on Trump’s
mind, especially given North Korea’s recent
missile test. Nope, not a word.
But rest
assured America, buried inside that “answer” (was anyone else expecting him to
finish with a “bork bork bork!” like the Swedish Chef?)
Trump is very concerned
about how the media treated a man who spent a month advising him on national
intelligence while living under the very real and omnipresent risk of blackmail from
the Russian government for lying to the White House.
Since Trump
brought up the subject of fair treatment, exactly how should the media treat a
senior government and intelligence official who likely committed multiplefelonies with
one of our enemies? Seriously, we’d like to know what “fair” is? One thing is
for certain. “Fair” news is most certainly not the
President continuing to blame his administration’s own ineptitude on Hillary
Clinton’s loss.
Trump’s real fixations make us “tremendously” unsafe.
There are two
things Trump can’t stop obsessing over. And neither one has to do with jobs,
national security, healthcare, or any of the other myriad real concerns
of a competent president.
Just hours
before the press conference, Trump tweeted yet again his increasingly moldy
accusation that any and all scandals in his office are due to disgruntled
Hillary supporters.
This Russian connection non-sense is merely
an attempt to cover-up the many mistakes made in Hillary Clinton's losing
campaign.
In the 10 days
between Jan 28 and Feb 6, Trump tweeted 6 different times about the “failing” New
York Times and
their “fake news.” Read them here, here, here, here,here,
and here.
If those
obsessions are permeating everything he says in public, what does it imply for
his priorities in the Oval Office? Seriously, are you going to sleep better
tonight knowing that his top priority is reminding you that he won the election
that ended over three months ago?
Omarosa threatens reporter: Trump officials have incriminating ‘dossiers’ on journalists
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Omarosa Manigault, the former Apprentice star turned White House
communications official threatened American Urban Radio Networks’ White House
correspondent April Ryan last week insisting Donald Trump officials have
“dossiers” of incriminating information on her and other journalists, the Washington Post reports.
The encounter reportedly occurred
just outside the West Wing last Wednesday, near White House Press Secretary
Sean Spicer’s office. The crux of the argument was over an email Manigualt sent
to Ryan last October, demanding to known whether the journalist was paid by
former Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton’s campaign.
Pointing to a story published by the Intercept that suggested Ryan was among the reporters
Clinton’s campaign hoped to influence, Manigault wrote, “This story suggests
that as a reporter, you are (or were) a paid Clinton surrogate.”
“I pray this is not true!”
Manigault added. “This could be hurtful to your legacy and the integrity of
your work.”
In a separate email, Manigault
urged Ryan to “Protect your legacy!!”
“You have worked too hard to have people
question your ethics as a journalist,” she wrote. People talking trash about
the reporters on that list having NO integrity. It’s hurtful to hear people say
those things about you.”
Ryan vigorously denied Manigault’s
charge, insisting the former Apprentice star is “trying to harm my integrity
and my career.”
“I’ve been [covering the White
House] for 20 years,” Ryan said in an interview. “I plan to be here for the
next 20 years. You don’t mess with someone’s livelihood.”
Ryan said during the altercation,
Manigault “stood right in my face like she was going to hit me.”
“I said, ‘You better back up,’” Ryan added.
“She thought I would be bullied. I won’t be.”
She also reportedly told Ryan she
was among several reporters the administration collected “dossiers” of
information on.
Manigault has a history of threatening people—particularly those
critical of the Trump administration. Discussing Trump critic Sen. Lindsey
Graham (R-SC) at Trump’s election night party in New York, Manigault told the Independent Journal Review, “it’s so
great our enemies are making themselves clear so that when we get in to the
White House, we know where we stand.”
“Let me just tell you, Mr. Trump
has a long memory and we’re keeping a list,” she added.
Manigault made similar comments even before Trump’s election. In
September, she bragged that, “every critic, every detractor, will have to bow
down to President Trump.”
”It’s everyone who’s ever doubted
Donald, whoever disagreed, whoever challenged him,” Manigault added. “It is the
ultimate revenge to become the most powerful man in the universe.”
Judge trolls Trump lawyers over ‘SEE YOU
IN COURT’ comment while extending suspension of travel ban
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The federal judge in Seattle who struck down President Donald
Trump’s travel ban aimed at Muslims and refugees, got off a shot at both the
president and his lawyers late Monday, reminding them that Trump had claimed he
would “See you in court” after the 9th Circuit upheld his decision.
U.S. District Judge James Robart told attorneys in the legal
squabble to continue to present their case, but expressed surprise that the
Trump White House was requesting a delay.
According to a tweet by Reuters reporter Dan Levine, “At Seattle
court hearing, Robart said he was ‘surprised’ DOJ asked for a delay, given
@realDonaldTrump tweets after the 9th Circuit ruling.”
Robart, whom Trump
referred to as a “so-called judge,” was making reference
toTrump’s all-cap tweet telling the 9th
Circuit, “SEE YOU IN COURT, THE SECURITY OF OUR NATION IS AT STAKE!” after they
unanimously ruled against him on Feb. 9.
See the tweets below:
Breaking: Judge Robart
says en banc review of Trump travel ban should NOT slow down proceedings in
Seattle, orders both sides to continue
At Seattle court hearing,
Robart said he was "surprised" DOJ asked for a delay, given @realDonaldTrump tweets
after the 9th Circuit ruling.
Trump is still beating
his “widespread voter fraud” drum, and it hasn’t escaped the notice of the
Federal Election Commission. Now it seems their frustration has overflowed,
because one of the commissioners finally demanded that Trump produce his
evidence. Ellen Weintraub, the commissioner in question, issued a formal statement
on the matter after Trump told the Senatethat thousands of people were bussed from
Massachusetts to New Hampshire on Election Day.
Apparently those
people who were bussed to New Hampshire to vote against him are why he and
Kelly Ayotte lost. Weintraub didn’t mince words in her statement. She said:
“The scheme the President of the United States
alleges would constitute thousands of felony criminal offenses under New
Hampshire law…
…The President has
issued an extraordinarily serious and specific charge. Allegations of this
magnitude cannot be ignored.”
She’s right – if there
really is this kind of voter fraud going on, we need to know. The proper
authorities need to know so they can begin investigating and prosecuting those
responsible, and so the states can overhaul their election laws to prevent this
from happening again.
Trump, however,
refuses to release his evidence, most likely because he doesn’t have any.
Knowing President Asterisk, the evidence is people who look like they can’t
legally vote were voting, and also that he lost that state (and the national
popular vote), which just can’t possibly have happened.
“The president does
believe [there is widespread fraud]. It’s a belief that he’s maintained for a
while, a concern that he has about voter fraud. And that’s based on information
that’s provided.”
What information?
That’s what Weintraub wanted to know when she went on to stick it to Trump on
that issue at the end of her statement:
“I therefore call upon
President Trump to immediately share his evidence with the public and with the
appropriate law-enforcement authorities so that his allegations may be
investigated promptly and thoroughly.”
That will never
happen, because there is no evidence to provide. Read the full statement below:
I call upon @POTUS to
immediately share NH voter-fraud evidence so that his allegations may be
investigated promptlyhttps://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/5381420/ELW-POTUS-voter-fraud-statement.pdf …
Rush Limbaugh praised
Donald Trump’s insanely embarrassing press conference, so now he is referring
to Limbaugh as real news.
It’s clear that Trump
is going to continue calling any media outlets who criticize him “fake news.”
Trump even demanded
during his press conference on Thursday that the media should take him at his
word at all times and that he should get to decide when the media can write
“bad” stories about him.
The public is — you
know, they read newspapers, they see television, they watch. They don’t know if
it’s true or false. Because they are not involved. I’m involved. I’ve been involved
with the stuff all my life. But I’m involved. I know when you are telling the
truth or when you are not…I know when I should get good and when I should get
bad. And sometimes I say, wow, that’s going to be a great story, and I’ll get
killed. I know what’s good and bad, I’d be a good reporter, but not as good as
you. I know what’s good. I know what’s bad. And when they change it, and make
it really bad, something that should be very positive, they’ll make it okay.
They’ll even make it negative. I understand it. So because I’m there. I know
what was said. I know who is saying it. I’m there.
In other words, Trump
wants to lie his ass off and he wants the media to be his propaganda machine.
Rush Limbaugh is
apparently fine with that and Trump praised him for it on Friday on Twitter.
Thank you for all of the nice statements on the Press
Conference yesterday. Rush Limbaugh said one of greatest ever. Fake media not
happy!
Trump literally just
called his critics “fake media” while suggesting that Limbaugh is real news
because he said nice things about him.
The Internet showed no
mercy.
@realDonaldTrump Rush
eats 30 Percocets before breakfast, so he thought you were an orange dancer at
the Bongo Gentlemen's Club in Orlando.
@realDonaldTrump I
know you only listen to people who tell you that you are great, but your
performance was an embarrassment to the country.
@realDonaldTrump You're
worryingly delusional. The conference was a complete shambles. You were
extremely rude to attending journalists.
@realDonaldTrump Everyone
was happy. It was comedy gold. The Black Caucus, Uranium, really fake
news...you gave SNL material for years!
@realDonaldTrump When
Rush Limbaugh is your greatest ally...it wasn't a great news conference.
@realDonaldTrump,
Rush Limbaugh isn't news. On the other hand, even @FoxNews criticized
your one-man show as "crazy"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLh2bm5ftlU …
@realDonaldTrump That
press conference was a national disgrace of historic proportion.
@realDonaldTrump Rush
IS fake media.
Donald Trump is
pathetic. Rush Limbaugh is a proven liar, racist, and sexist who will say
anything to get attention. In short, it looks like Trump found his new BFF.
Twitter Erupts As President Trump Congratulates Himself on Widely Panned Press Conference
There Was A Surreal Reaction On Twitter From President
Trump, His Allies And His Opponents To His Press Conference
President Donald Trump’s
hastily arranged, 77-minute long Thursday press conference was anything but
routine. Global media outlets have classified it as “confidently unhinged“, “meandering“, “chaotic“, “sociopathic“, “bizarre” and
“alternative reality“. And
it wasn’t just the outlets which the president has deemed “fake news” that were
critical. Much to the chagrin of his audience, Fox
News’ Shepard Smith said:
“It’s
crazy what we’re watching every day. It’s absolutely crazy. He keeps repeating
ridiculous, throwaway lines that are not true at all and sort of avoiding this
issue of Russia as if we’re some kind of fools for asking the question. Really?
Your opposition was hacked and the Russians were responsible for it and your
people were on the phone with Russia on the same day it was happening and we’re
fools for asking the questions? No sir.”
Yet the president got the
approval from the only demographic he’s concerned with. Taking to (you guesses
it) twitter, the President shared the accolades from conservative radio
talk show host Rush Limbaugh while simultaneously deeming all criticisms “fake
news”:
Thank you for all of the nice statements on the Press Conference yesterday.
Rush Limbaugh said one of greatest ever. Fake media not happy!
This gave users the
opportunity to kick their President’s Day Weekend off by airing their
grievances with the current officeholder in spectacular fashion.
Trump’s especially strange interaction about the Congressional Black
Caucus inspired some responses:
@realDonaldTrump I liked the part where you yelled at a
Jewish reporter to sit down when he asked how you were going to combat
anti-semitism
@realDonaldTrump I also liked the part when you thought all black people are friends with
each other.
So did his “word salad”
approach.
@realDonaldTrump ...but also BAD THINGS (like URANIUM,
which, you know: NUCLEAR WEAPONS!). Oh boy, don't get me started on SCIENCE!
Thank you for all of the nice statements on
the Press Conference yesterday. Rush Limbaugh said one of greatest ever. Fake
media not happy!
@realDonaldTrump @jennablan to be fair, wikipedia did correct its page on uranium. pic.twitter.com/TTEPnlfFsg
A few users were more blunt
and honest in their assessment.
Thank you for all of the nice statements on
the Press Conference yesterday. Rush Limbaugh said one of greatest ever. Fake
media not happy!
Thank you for all of the nice statements on
the Press Conference yesterday. Rush Limbaugh said one of greatest ever. Fake
media not happy!
Thank you for all of the nice statements on
the Press Conference yesterday. Rush Limbaugh said one of greatest ever. Fake
media not happy!
@realDonaldTrump You didn’t watch it. Huh? DON’T. It was honestly one of the most disjointed
and dishonest press conferences I’ve ever seen.
Thank you for all of the nice statements on
the Press Conference yesterday. Rush Limbaugh said one of greatest ever. Fake media
not happy!
While others targeted the
object of Trump’s affection.
@realDonaldTrump Rush eats 30 Percocets before breakfast, so
he thought you were an orange dancer at the Bongo Gentlemen's Club in Orlando.
@realDonaldTrump @rushlimbaugh's favorite girl: (image viahttp://www.davesink.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/StripperTrump.jpg …) pic.twitter.com/ZiKETxRAav
Many offered free
psychological advice.
Thank you for all of the nice statements on
the Press Conference yesterday. Rush Limbaugh said one of greatest ever. Fake
media not happy!
@realDonaldTrump You're worryingly delusional. The conference was a complete shambles. You
were extremely rude to attending journalists.
Memes and cartoons were prominently
featured.
Thank you for all of the nice statements on
the Press Conference yesterday. Rush Limbaugh said one of greatest ever. Fake
media not happy!
The president’s erroneous claim to have had the largest electoral college win since Ronald Reagan was openly
fact-checked and mocked.
@MikeysPG69 @realDonaldTrump Obama and Bill Clinton also won by bigger landslides. pic.twitter.com/3uLdmpiOlL
Thank you for all of the nice statements on
the Press Conference yesterday. Rush Limbaugh said one of greatest ever. Fake
media not happy!
@realDonaldTrump You lied about the Electoral vote AGAIN in the press conference, so a
refresher. One of the slimmest margins in history. pic.twitter.com/fWM3anGzun
Here’s a rather zen approach
to fake news.
Thank you for all of the nice statements on
the Press Conference yesterday. Rush Limbaugh said one of greatest ever. Fake
media not happy!
.@realDonaldTrump If you had a press conference with the media you call fake, did it actually
happen?
As one would expect, Saturday
Night Live was often referenced in the response tree.
Thank you for all of the nice statements on
the Press Conference yesterday. Rush Limbaugh said one of greatest ever. Fake
media not happy!
@realDonaldTrump, the press conference was a complete disaster. It's difficult to tell the
difference between SNL and the real thing.
Thank you for all of the nice statements on
the Press Conference yesterday. Rush Limbaugh said one of greatest ever. Fake
media not happy!
Thank you for all of the nice statements on
the Press Conference yesterday. Rush Limbaugh said one of greatest ever. Fake
media not happy!
@realDonaldTrump Everyone was happy. It was comedy gold. The Black Caucus, Uranium, really
fake news...you gave SNL material for years!
But above all else, this
twitter account spoke for tens of millions of Americans perfectly.
Thank you for all of the nice statements on
the Press Conference yesterday. Rush Limbaugh said one of greatest ever. Fake
media not happy!
the rich asshole Just Called The Press An Enemy To The American People Then Deleted It (TWEET)
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Going off the deep end, yet again, some
rich asshole took to Twitter in a moment of rage and tweeted out:
“The FAKE NEWS media
(failing NYTimes, CNN, NBCNews and many more) is not my enemy, it is the enemy
of the American people. SICK!”
Less than a minute later, the tweet was
deleted.
However, here is the tweet as seen right
after he tweeted:
This isn’t only a sign that somebody
knew he shouldn’t have done that, but it also seems to break the law. You see,
now that the rich asshole is president he’s bound by the Presidential Records Act of 1978 which
was recently expanded to include electronic messaging. Although,
whether or not he actually broke the law is still up for debate, but
nonetheless, he still needs to be held accountable for everything he writes. He
is, after all, the President of the United States and what he says holds an
extreme amount of weight.
The fact that he would call our press the
enemy of the American people isn’t only disgusting, it’s unconstitutional
because a free press is written into our founding documents. Just because he
doesn’t like what’s written about him doesn’t make the media the enemy. Perhaps
he should look at himself and realize he might just be the problem.
UPDATE:
He just posted it again, and this time
added more news sources. Holy shit.
The FAKE NEWS media (failing @nytimes, @NBCNews, @ABC, @CBS, @CNN) is not my enemy, it is the enemy of the American People!
Chris Wallace warns Fox News colleagues not to dismiss Trump’s attacks on the media
Posted on February 20, 2017
While speaking to his Fox News colleagues this Sunday, Chris Wallace warned that President Trump‘s latest attack on the
media ventured into unknown territory.
“Look, we’re big boys. We criticize presidents. They want to
criticize us back, that’s fine,” Wallace told Fox & Friends. “But when he said that the fake
news media is not my enemy, it’s the enemy of the American people, I believe
that crosses an important line.”
Wallace’s comments came
after a clip was shown of Trump recounting how Thomas Jefferson Abraham Lincoln
were known for making disparaging remarks about the press, to which he reminded
his colleagues that Jefferson had once wrote, “And were it left to me to decide
whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a
government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.”
“Yes, presidents have
always had — and politicians have always had — problems with the press,”
Wallace said. “They want good press. The press doesn’t always give it to them.
But what Jefferson [was saying] is, despite all of our disputes, that to the
functioning of a free and fair democracy, you must have an independent press.”
On the heels of Trump’s
repeated attacks the press (primarily CNN) as “fake news,” the President
started an uproar on Friday when he declared the press as “the enemy of the
American people.”
“The FAKE NEWS media (failing @nytimes, @NBCNews, @ABC, @CBS, @CNN) is not my enemy, it is
the enemy of the American People!” Trump tweeted, noticeably leaving out Fox
News, which he’s praised for giving him favorable coverage.
The FAKE NEWS media (failing @nytimes, @NBCNews, @ABC,@CBS, @CNN) is not my enemy, it is the enemy of the American People!
“We can take criticism,
but to say we’re the enemy of the American people, it really crosses an
important line,” Wallace said.
Fox & Friends host Pete Hegseth suggested that Trump was simply “taking on the hidden bias”
of news outlets that “tell you they’re unbiased.”
“I think there’s
absolutely something there, and if he had said that, you wouldn’t have heard a
peep out of me,” Wallace replied. “Lord knows, Barack Obama criticized Fox
News. If Donald Trump wants to criticize the New York Times, that’s fine. But
it’s different from saying that we are an enemy of the American people. That’s
a different thing.”
“And I know there are a lot of listeners out there who are going
to reflexively take Donald Trump’s side on this,” Wallace continued. “It’s a
different thing when it’s a president — because if it’s a president you like trying to talk about the
press being the enemy of the people, then it’s going to be a president you don’t like saying the same
thing. And that’s very dangerous.”
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Trump admits false ‘last night in Sweden’ claim was something he heard ‘broadcast on Fox News’
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Pres. Donald Trump admitted on Sunday that the terror attack he said happened in Sweden on Friday night was actually something he saw — but didn’t
fully understand — on Fox News.
In a tweet, the president said he’d gotten confused by
something he saw on an episode of Tucker Carlson’s new Fox News show, writing,
“My statement as to what’s happening in Sweden was in reference to a story that
was broadcast on @FoxNews concerning immigrants & Sweden.”
My statement as to what's happening in
Sweden was in reference to a story that was broadcast on @FoxNewsconcerning immigrants & Sweden.
The supposed attack in Sweden spawned social media memes and joined Kellyanne Conway’s “Bowling
Green massacre” canard as another “alternative fact” promulgated by the month-old
administration.
Trump appeared in Florida Saturday where 9,000 followers
gathered to hear him speak, including one man who said he salutes and prays to
a six-foot cardboard cut-out of Pres. Trump every day.
Mike Pence embarrassingly tells EU: Trump attacks media ‘when they play fast and loose with facts’
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Vice President Mike Pence said on
Monday that President Donald Trump has been forced to attack the media because
the press plays “fast and loose with the facts.”
At a press conference with
European leaders in Brussels, the U.S. vice president was asked to give NATO
allies assurance that freedom of the press was not in jeopardy after Trump
recently called the media an “enemy” of the people.
“Rest assured,” Pence replied.
“Both the president and I strongly support a free and independent press.”
“But you can anticipate that the
president and all of us will continue to call out the media when they play fast
and loose with the facts,” he added. “The truth is we have in President Trump
someone who has a unique ability to speak directly to the American people.”
“And when the media gets it wrong,
I promise you, President Trump will take his case straight to the American
people to set the record straight.”
Trump administration tells world leaders to just ignore what the president says: report
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One month into President Donald Trump’s administration, the
divide in his team’s approach to national security and foreign policy issues
couldn’t be clearer. The Rachel Maddow blog laid out the ways in which the
Trump team has adopted a “Never-Mind-What-Trump-Said” approach to both matters.
In his first address at the CIA headquarters nearly one month
ago, Trump bemoaned the United States not taking oil in 2003 after invading
Iraq under former President George W. Bush. “The old expression, to the victor
belong the spoils. We should’ve kept the oil. But, okay, maybe we’ll have
another chance,” Trump said in his speech.
The author of Maddow’s blog, Steve Benen noted how just a few
days later, Trump, in an interview with ABC news made the same statement four
times. “We should have taken the oil,” he said. On Presidents’ Day, now exactly
one month into Trump’s presidency, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis visited
Iraq and said quite the opposite, telling reporters, “We’re not in Iraq to seize
anybody’s oil.” This is what Benen refers to as the
“Never-Mind-What-Trump-Said” policy.
Even between Trump and Vice President Mike Pence, the same
approach is clear. Pence has appeared at odds with Trump’s views on
various issues, but has had to clean up the mess while taking a united
approach. Last fall, it appeared the two were not on the same page on the
matter of climate change, which Trump believes is not man-made, while his vice president took the opposite view, at
that time.
Benen commented on Pence’s recent trip to Europe, where he was
apparently sent to clear up any confusion between the U.S. and
“worried allies.” The Washington Post reported, Pence
met with allies to explain, “despite what his boss may say, the United States
remains committed to the security of Europe and to the historic transatlantic
partnership.”
The Post noted, “Although the vice president repeatedly
stressed that he was speaking on behalf of President Trump, the two men indeed
seemed as though they were separated by an ocean.”
These various actions that are meant to appear as a united front
on behalf of the Trump team, as the president continues to maintain views that
seem opposition to his team all contribute to the policy that Benen outlines.
However, he writes, “The dirty
little secret of the ‘Never-Mind-What-Trump-Said’ approach to foreign policy is
that it’s not a sustainable foreign policy at all.”
MSNBC Host Drops BOMBSHELL on Real ‘Enemy’ To America; Trump PISSED (VIDEO)
Even
from the beginning of his hate-fueled, bigoted presidential campaign, it was
obvious that Donald Trump did not give a damn about America and the values the
country was built upon. Trump has carried this anti-American attitude straight
into his failing, undeserved presidency – and yet he has the nerve to call the
media the “enemy of the American people” because of unfavorable coverage.
Despite
how many distractions Trump tries to create to hide his failures and f*ckups,
we shouldn’t forget who the real threat to America is – and MSNBC host Joe
Scarborough wasn’t afraid to point it out. Earlier today, Scarborough called
out Trump’s attacks on the media, calling it the real enemy because it
might encourage violence against the journalists who are reporting the truth
about Trump.
On Morning Joe, Scarborough echoed the comments of Republican senator John
McCain, who said that Trump’s attack on the media sounded like a dictator and
that he had gone too far. Scarborough ripped Trump:
“It’s
one thing to say the press is liberal, it’s one thing to say the 9th Circuit
(Court) is liberal, but when you start saying that somebody is an enemy of the
people, then that does incite people to violence — especially if it’s coming
from the president of the United States.”
Scarborough
revealed that thanks to Trump, journalists are now getting death threats on a
daily basis just for telling the truth about the Trump administration, putting
their lives in danger.
“When
you receive tweets every day, and somebody’s threatening your life and they
talk about lynching you and your family after President Trump has his way with
the media, this happens over and over again, and I don’t think there’s anybody
who’s in the media that doesn’t hear that every day. So yeah, this is very,
very dangerous.”
Scarborough
also nailed Trump on his “fake news” tantrums, noting the irony that Trump and
his team are the most dishonest administration we’ve ever seen. Most recently,
Trump even made up a completely bogus terrorist attack! Scarborough said:
“As
Jesus said, don’t throw stones if you live in glass houses. This man lives in
the biggest glass house there is when it comes to a disconnection from truth.
So to attack the media and then say they’re enemies of the people is beyond the
pale.”
And
if Trump thought that attacking the press was going to shut the media down,
Scarborough gave him a brutal reality check:
“Let’s
talk about things in a way that Donald Trump can understand — ratings — and
let’s just put it all out on the table. Everybody’s ratings are up, newspaper
subscriptions at the New
York Times are exploding, the Washington Post doing better than it’s
ever done before. CNN — from the day that Donald Trump called them fake news,
CNN’s numbers have exploded. Donald Trump has been Jeff Zucker’s — you can tell
they’ve been great friends for a very long time, because there is nothing
Donald Trump could do to help CNN more. They’re enjoying record numbers.”
70-Year-Old Man Reportedly Has ‘Cabin Fever’ After Only One Month On New Job
Amateur
president Donald Trump blasted rival Hillary Clinton while on the campaign
trail as “low energy.” He said Clinton “takes naps” and added, “No naps for Trump. I don’t
take naps. We don’t have time!” Since that time, Trump has taken three
vacations, gone on a thank you tour and on Saturday, he held a rally — less
than a month after being sworn in. Trump is not handling the presidency very
well. Adjusting to the most difficult job in the world hasn’t been easy for the
70-year-old. This from a man who said in reference to ISIS, “I alone can fix
it.” Perhaps Trump didn’t really want the job. He did want adoration from his
supporters, though.
According
to Axios’ Mike Allen’s latest newsletter, a Trump adviser told him that
Trump is experiencing “cabin fever” in the White House.
Trump
is reportedly experiencing headaches and frustration that he can’t spend his
evenings dining at restaurants like he could around Trump Tower in his old
neighborhood in New York City.
Hillary
Clinton and Bernie Sanders were both far more qualified for the job but Trump
supporters thought bringing in a man with zero political experience was the way
to go.
Instead
of doing his job, Trump held a campaign-style rally in Melbourne, Florida
Saturday in which he filled his speech with lie after lie. That was just after
he blasted
the ”fake news” media. By the way, he’s given press credentials to a fake news site. Whatever Trump accuses someone of, he’s
guilty of that same thing.
During
the rally, Trump tried to defend his Muslim ban by fabricating
a terror attack in Sweden which never happened.
Allen
writes that that blunder was “partially about Trump management.” That’s three
fake terror attacks team Trump has used to defend his travel ban of citizens
from seven predominately Muslim countries, none of which committed an act of
terror on U.S. soil.
Trump
is to spend Sunday interviewing candidates to replace Mike Flynn, the disgraced
former national security adviser who was ousted over his conversations with a
Russian ambassador about lifting sanctions.
Attendance For Trump’s ‘Huge’ Florida Rally Released – Prepare For Tantrum
February 18,
2017
Size queen President Donald J. Trump will
be crying soon to reporters, and his Press Secretary Sean “Spicy” Spicer will
be running amok with word salads after they get a look at this.
Today, a rally was held in Melbourne, Florida for Trump
supporters. Trump took the time off from his oh so busy, super important job
being President and leader of the (not so) free world, to fly to Florida and
talk with his base. However, he will be disappointed to hear that his audience
wasn’t nearly as big as the same rally he held in September in Melbourne.
Back in September, Trump tweeted / bragged:
‘Unbelievable
evening in Melbourne, Florida w/ 15,000 supporters- and an additional 12,000
who could not get in. Thank you! #TrumpTrain #MAGA’
Unbelievable evening in Melbourne, Florida w/ 15,000 supporters- and an
additional 12,000 who could not get in. Thank you! #TrumpTrain #MAGA
However, this time around, Melbourne Police tweeted out
confirmation that all the attendees had arrived and were accounted for. Problem
is, the number wasn’t quite the big 15,000.
‘All
attendees now in the AeroMod hangar for the @realDonaldTrump rally. Total
attendees at event = 9,000.’
All attendees now in the AeroMod hangar for the@realDonaldTrump rally. Total attendees at event = 9,000.
We can hear Trump now. “Wrong.” “Fake.” “Fake news.” However,
that’s coming from the local police administration. Trump, of course,
during the rally mentioned the huge crowd size but threw shade at the media
saying they wouldn’t show the crowd. He said:
‘And, by
the way, do you think that one media group back there, that one network, will
show this crowd? Not one. Not one. They won’t show the crowd.’
‘Trump says
media won’t show crowd. The pool feed on every cable channel showed the crowd
when he arrived.’
Trump says media won't show crowd.
The pool feed on every cable channel showed the crowd when he arrived.
The pool feed on every cable channel showed the crowd when he arrived.
Though some could argue covering crowd size is useless and a
waste of time when so many other issues are going on, it is important
to highlight the president’s inability to accept the truth. His crowd just
wasn’t as big as his last crowd, which may support the
suggestion that Trump supporters across the country are beginning to have
regrets. We can only wait to see how Trump will react.
Trump’s 1st Pick to Replace Flynn Says No Thanks, Calls Offer, “S*** Sandwich”
Byproudlib
Posted on February 20, 2017
After Trump’s National
Security Advisor, Michael Flynn, resigned amid a growing scandal of
arguably-illegal communications with Russia, one could fairly assess the Trump
Administration as spiraling out of control.
And apparently the
American public aren’t the only ones coming to that conclusion.
Trumps first pick to replace Flynn was the well-respected and
highly-decorated Vice Admiral Robert Harward. Harward’s decline of Trump’s
offer means another blow to an administration that just can’t seem to land on
solid ground. The Washington Post outlines
Harward’s qualifications:
Harward, a former Navy
SEAL, served as deputy commander of U.S. Central Command under Gen. James
Mattis, who is now defense secretary. Harward served on the National Security
Council under President George W. Bush and commissioned the National Counter
Terrorism Center.
Upon retirement in 2013
after a nearly 40-year career in the Navy, Harward became chief executive
officer for defense and aerospace giant Lockheed Martin in the United Arab
Emirates. Trump has recently been in very public negotiations with Lockheed
over the cost of its F-35 fighter jet.
Harward said in a statement to the Associated Press that Trump
was “very accommodating to my needs, both professionally and
personally…It’s purely a personal issue. I’m in a unique position finally after
being in the military for 40 years to enjoy some personal time. Since retiring,
I have the opportunity to address financial and family issues that would have
been challenging in this position. Like all service members understand, and
live, this job requires 24 hours a day, 7 days a week focus and commitment to
do it right. I currently could not make that commitment. My thoughts and
prayers are with those that carry such heavy burdens and responsibility for
taking care of our country’s national security concerns. God bless this great
country of ours.”
While Harward’s public
explanation was gracious, his private assessment was much more blunt.
According to CNN’s Jake
Tapper, a source said to be a friend of Harward says that Haward characterized
the offer as a “shit sandwich.” This is likely because the President will not
allow anyone he appoints to that position to put his own team into place. CNN
explains:
A Republican official
told CNN that Harward made it a condition of taking the job that he could form
his own team. In the end, he didn’t feel that was the case. And a senior
Republican familiar with the process added that “a question of clarity
regarding the lines of authority” was central in Harward’s decision.
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