August 1st, 2017 - August 4rd, 2017. 262-265 days since the Nov 8, 2016, election and 193-196 days since the Jan 20th inauguration
Conservative columnist: Kelly’s biggest task is explaining to the rich asshole his entire presidency is built on lies
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Writing in the Washington Post, conservative columnist Jennifer Rubin pointed out that new White House Chief of Staff Gen. John Kelly will never be successful reining President some rich asshole in until he gets him to sit down and listen to some hard truths about his failing presidency and why he continues to plummet in the polls.
Rubin, a longtime cheerleader for conservative causes, has become one of the rich asshole’s harshest critics based upon her beliefs that he has betrayed conservative principles — choosing instead to promote himself.
Friday morning she noted that former White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta has offered some advice to Kelly on how to effectively do his job, starting with being bluntly honest with the rich asshole.
“There has to be one person in the White House willing to look the president in the eye and tell him the truth — to tell him when he is wrong and when he is about to make a mistake — and that has to be the chief of staff,” Panetta wrote. “It is a disservice to the president and the nation not to make him aware of the political and substantive problems he may confront as a result of a particular decision. No president likes to be told he is wrong. However, to be successful, all presidents have to accept the reality that they are not always right.”
With that in mind, Rubin ticked off some of the rich asshole’s more notable lies and what might even be called “alternative facts” that he needs to quit insisting upon if he doesn’t want to see his administration go down in flames.
Among her most scathing suggestions:
“There was no massive voting fraud in 2016. Hillary Clinton won the popular vote by about 3 million votes,” Rubin wrote, adding, “Your approval is really, really low and you are losing some of your core base, including whites with no college degree. As a result of that and failure of health-care reform, Republicans in Congress now ignore you.”
“The Russia investigation is not fake news or a hoax. Contrary to your representations, the campaign had multiple contacts with the Russians,” Rubin stated. “”Michael Flynn, Jeff Sessions and Jared Kushner all made representations that were not true concerning contacts with Russian officials.”
Rubin also warned the president to keep his nose out the investigation into the June 2016 meeting where some rich asshole Jr. and son-in-law Jared Kushner met with Russians connected with the Kremlin.
“You involved yourself in creating a fake cover story for the June 2016 meeting with Jared Kushner, some rich asshole Jr. and Paul Manafort. Combined with the firing of James B. Comey, the special prosecutor may have a case for obstruction of justice,” she lectured before getting to a key warning, bluntly stating, “If you fire Robert S. Mueller III, it is quite possible Congress will move to impeach you.”
Rubin also advised that White House aide Stephen Miller should never be allowed on television again, and said it was time to send Kushner and Ivanka the rich asshole packing back to New York City.
“Your son-in-law and daughter are unqualified to be senior advisers. Jared has made some really bad recommendations (like hiring Anthony Scaramucci and firing Comey). They should go back to New York. Honestly, you’d be doing them a favor,” Rubin wrote.
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the rich asshole’s childlike attention span means he loses track after ‘two minutes’ of policy briefing: report
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It’s no secret that President some rich asshole has a short attention span, but a new report suggests his unwillingness to read lengthy reports may be hurting his ability to conduct foreign policy.
According to a Washington Post report about national security adviser Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster’s attempts to get the president’s ear on Afghanistan policy, the troubling trend of the rich asshole’s super-short attention span once again reared its head.
“I call the president the two-minute man,” a “confidant” of the president told the Post. “The president has patience for a half-page.”
“Even a single page of bullet points on the country seemed to tax the president’s attention span on the subject, said senior White House officials,” the report continues.
the rich asshole’s inability or unwillingness to delve into lengthy policy briefs has caused issues in his short presidency — most notoriously, it caused NATO leaders to “freak out” when trying to figure out how to deal with him.
“It’s kind of ridiculous how they are preparing to deal with the rich asshole,” a source told Foreign Policy in May. “It’s like they’re preparing to deal with a child — someone with a short attention span and mood who has no knowledge of NATO, no interest in in-depth policy issues, nothing. They’re freaking out.”
‘I give him four months’: the rich asshole confidantes already placing bets on how long Gen Kelly will last
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some rich asshole’s decision to replace Reince Priebus with Gen. John Kelly as his chief of staff has received much fanfare, with supporters encouraged by the new chief of staff’s attempts to curtail the president’s open door policy and establish a pecking order in the West Wing.
But privately, aides and confidantes worry Kelly risks isolating the president in his attempt to moderate the free-flow of unveiled information that poured into the Oval Office under his predecessor. “The problem here is that [the rich asshole] won’t have anyone to talk to, and he’ll get frustrated,” a rich asshole associate told the Wall Street Journal. “I give General Kelly four months.”
That sentiment was echoed by the rich asshole advisor Rudy Giuliani, who speaks with the president frequently. “It wouldn’t work to try to isolate President the rich asshole. He would rebel against that,” Giuliani told the Journal. “General Kelly has to balance on the one hand an orderly process, and on the other hand an orderly process that doesn’t in any way isolate the president.”
the rich asshole is known for “reveling in chaos” and reportedly encouraged the public and explosive feud between Priebus and Anthony Scaramucci — who lasted as the president’s communications director for all of ten days.
According to the Journal, while Kelly won’t have a say in some of the rich asshole’ more destructive habits, like obsessively tweeting about issues unrelated to the administration’s stated agenda, supporters hope he will be able to control the information that makes its way to the president.
It’s “very clear that [Kelly’s] here to manage the staff, not to manage the president,” an official said, adding the goal is to ensure the rich asshole is “being properly staffed.”
For now, aides are confident the general will bring about order to the West Wing.
“General Kelly has the full authority to carry out business,” White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told the Journal. “It’s been a great first week and there is a sense of cohesion within the staff.”
Now the rich asshole’s interior secretary is facing an ethics inquiry after threatening GOP senators
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The Interior Department’s Office of the Inspector General opened a “preliminary investigation” into Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke after he placed phone calls to Sens. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) and Dan Sullivan (R-AK) on behalf of some rich asshole.
Zinke last week contacted the Republican Senators after Murkowski failed to vote in favor of a motion to proceed on the GOP Obamacare replacement plan. Sullivan told the Alaska Dispatch News that Zinke brought up issues including nominating Alaskans to the Interior department and drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
Sullivan called the conversation “troubling,” adding “the message was pretty clear.”
“I’m not going to go into the details, but I fear that the strong economic growth, pro-energy, pro-mining, pro-jobs and personnel from Alaska who are part of those policies are going to stop,” Sullivan told the News.
The OIG on Thursday sent a letter to Congressmen Frank Pallone (D-NJ) and Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ), who requested the inspector general “address a number of potential legal and ethical violations.”
“OIG is undertaking a preliminary investigation into this matter,” Deputy Inspector General Mary Kendall wrote.
Murkowski, who joined Zinke for a beer on Thursday, described her communication with the interior secretary as “not a very pleasant call.” But she told CNN’s Dana Bash on Thursday that she “did not take it as a threat.”
“[Zinke] and I have a pretty good relationship, very professional, a respectful one. My hope is that we’re going to be able to continue to work on good, good energy initiatives for Alaskans,” she said.
Fox News’ Jeanine Pirro loudly warns there will be an ‘uprising’ if any the rich asshole family members are indicted
Fox News host Jeanine Pirro (screen grab)
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Appearing on Fox & Friends on Friday morning, weekend Fox News host Jeanine Pirro warned that, should prosecutors indict a the rich asshole family member on criminal charges, there will be hell to pay with the American public.
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Addressing reports that at least one grand jury is investigating President some rich asshole and his associates, the former prosecutor excitedly stated that it probably is concerning to the rich asshole that he is being persecuted.
“I’m sure this is on Donald’s mind, he never stops thinking,” she explained. “But at the same time, this is an agenda.”
“Here is my concern,” Pirro told the Fox & Friends hosts. “If they end up with an indictment against a family member, just to get at some rich asshole because they couldn’t get at him, there is going to be a real uproar, a real uprising in this country.”
Pirro went on to add, “I was a prosecutor for 32 years, you can indict a ham sandwich. The only person in that grand jury is the district attorney who is interacting all of those grand jurors on what the law is — and the body language is clear!”
Watch the video below posted to Twitter by Fox News:
.@JudgeJeanine: There will be an uproar in this country if they end up with an indictment against a Trump family member just to get at POTUS
WATCH: Comedy Central’s Scaramucci leaves ‘The President Show’ with a passionate smooch of the rich asshole
Screenshot from The President Show
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Comedian Mario Cantone — who briefly portrayed former White House Communication Director Anthony Scaramucci on Comedy Central’s “The President Show” — bid farewell to the comedy hit Thursday night by giving the show’s President some rich asshole a passionate smooch.
And then he we was dragged from the room.
With the show’s the rich asshole lamenting the loss of the Mooch, saying “Gen. Kelly says you gotta go this time,” Cantone asks, “Do I really have to go, now that our love is so new,” before conceding that he now has time to go see his wife (who is divorcing him) and “his newborn son” — before bursting into laughter.
As Scaramucci says his final goodbyes, the rich asshole clutches him and they engage in a deep and passionate kiss, before the Mooch is dragged off by the large prop hand of Kelly while professing his love of the rich asshole, exclaiming, “I frigging love you,” as the rich asshole bursts into tears.
Watch the video below via Comedy Central:
‘He can look forward to a stay at Rikers Island’: The View heckle the rich asshole over his 17-day vacation
Sunny Hostin, a co-host of The View (Screenshot/ABC)
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The View hosts on Friday mocked some rich asshole’s planned 17-day long vacation to New Jersey, with co-host Joy Behar joking the president “can look forward to an extended stay at [the New York jail] Rikers Island.”
“He’s had a month and a half of vacation in six months,” Behar noted at the top of the segment.
Co-host Sara Haines acknowledged the rich asshole “didn’t expect what he got in this job,” but pointed to his relentless criticism of Barack Obama for golfing during his presidency. “When you compare the numbers, it’s like, I’d at least like some recognition of, ‘okay I didn’t know it’s more fun to golf than be the president,’” Haines joked.
“He also said in 2004 you shouldn’t take a vacation, because if you need to take a vacation you’re in the wrong job,” Sunny Hostin reminded the panel.
“Well, He can look forward to an extended stay at Rikers Island,” Behar replied. “He’ll have his sons with him it will be like a family reunion.”
Referring to an upcoming cover of Newsweek that features the rich asshole in a La-Z-Boy, Behar told her co-hosts, “notice how he never gives press conference anymore? It’s because he doesn’t know anything.”
“He doesn’t know how to answer the questions, we haven’t seen him in front of the press in weeks and weeks,” she added.
Paula Faris and Jedediah Bila protested Behar’s characterization of the rich asshole.
“We don’t have to respect the man, but we have to respect the office,” Faris argued.
“He set the tone,” Behar replied. “No matter what we do, we’ll never go as low as he did.”
“This is why he won,” Bila insisted, pointing to two flattering Newsweek covers of Obama. “When people look at this out in the country and they say, ‘there’s media bias, all the media is doing—“
“That man led with dignity!” Houston shot back, referring to Obama. “When you lead with dignity, and you lead with elegance and you lead with smarts, then you get that.”
“Then it’s the job of the media to decide who they believe is leading with dignity?” Bila asked.
“No it’s the job of the media to reflect accurately what’s going on,” Hostin replied.
White House aides praying the rich asshole doesn’t kick off ‘apocalyptic shitstorm’ by firing Mueller
President some rich asshole speaks at Kennedy Center rally (Photo: Screen capture)
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President some rich asshole’s White House staff are living in dread that the hot-headed president will lash out at Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation in ways that will only make the already complicated situation even more difficult.
One aide anonymously told The Daily Beast that staffers are most concerned that the rich asshole will fire Mueller or fire other officials to pave the way for Mueller’s termination, thereby kicking off an “apocalyptic sh*storm.”
The Daily Beast’s Betsy Woodruff, Lachlan Markay and Asawin Suebsaeng interviewed multiple the rich asshole administration officials and advisors. They painted a picture of a White House under siege, with staff praying the president can rein in his impulses and behave as Mueller’s investigation of Russian meddling in the 2016 election begins to cross over into the rich asshole and his family’s personal financial dealings.
“Inside the White House, it’s not just the potential legal jeopardy that has officials concerned; it’s how President the rich asshole might react to news that his and his family’s finances are under investigation — and the political and legal consequences that could ensue from a the rich asshole backlash against the news,” said The Daily Beast.
“The worry is what the president does now,” said one official. “Whether he does something that’s gonna make everything else even more difficult.”
“Just keep him off the Twitter and on the teleprompter,” said another.
The greatest worry is that the rich asshole will make a “Saturday Night Massacre”-style move and begin firing Justice Department officials until he finds someone willing to take Mueller off the investigation. The president can’t fire Mueller himself, but he can issue the order to the Justice Department.
Some officials said that they believe newly appointed White House Chief of Staff John Kelly would check the president before allowing such a move, but the rich asshole has shown himself to be deaf to advice and constructive criticism since he began his campaign.
The Daily Beast said, “For months, White House advisers have been urging the president — who has no qualms venting about Mueller and other top law-enforcement officials publicly — not to order the firing of Mueller, as aides generally recognize the ‘apocalyptic shitstorm,’ as one White House adviser put it, that would result.”
“[the rich asshole] has gone up to the line of and flirted with the idea of firing [officials], including Sessions,” one the rich asshole adviser said. “But we’re not at code red at all yet.”
The rich asshole can’t make recess appointments thanks to Alaska Republican he attacked
Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK, left) and President some rich asshole (images via Creative Commons and screengrab).
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Amid concerns that President Donald the rich asshole may try to fill positions while Congress in in recess for August, the Senate moved to ensure he’s unable to do just that.
According to The Hill, Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) (who the rich asshole attacked earlier this year) wrapped up the Senate’s session by locking in nine “pro-forma” sessions — incredibly brief sessions that sometimes only last a few minutes — during their summer break.
In doing so, she ensured that “the Senate will be in session every three business days throughout the August recess,” and has historically been used to block recess appointments in the past — most recently when President Barack Obama attempted to fill former Justice Antontin Scalia’s seat on the Supreme Court.
The move, which the Senate voted for unanimously, came amid tensions between the rich asshole and Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who many in Washington fear will be fired in the coming weeks.
Some rich asshole has taken more vacation days in 7 months than Obama did in 8 years
August 3, 2017
Joe Difazio
Posted with permission from International Business Times
President Donald Trump was a frequent Twitter critic of former President Barack Obama for his vacation days and golf outings, but to date, Trump has outpaced the former president on both those fronts.
Before entering the White House, Trump was a frequent critic of Obama's personal time outside the Oval Office. Trump even criticized taking vacations at all.
“Don't take vacations. What's the point? If you're not enjoying your work, you're in the wrong job,” tweeted Trump in 2012.
Trump has apparently changed his position on the matter, as the president is set to take a 17-day vacation starting Friday. The president will head to his private golf course in Bedminster, New Jersey for what his aides are calling a “working vacation.” While he’s gone, the White House will receive maintenance on the heating and cooling system. Everyone, including staff, will be required to vacate the building during that time.
Presidential vacations are easy fodder for criticism from the opposition party. During Obama's time in office, Trump himself blasted the former president frequently on Twitter and called him the “habitual vacationer.” But exactly how much more vacation time Trump has taken compared to his predecessor depends on how you look at it.
This is Trump’s first official vacation, however the president has visited one of his private properties upwards of 40 of the days he’s been in office — so far he’s spent seven weekends at Mar-a-Lago. And sometimes Trump adds work to pleasure, such as when he hosted and golfed with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe during one of the Mar-a-Lago outings. But in addition to the 17 days he will take in Bedminster, one can additionally count all of his other golf outings as part-day vacations.
Trump and his staff are also notoriously sneaky about whether Trump is golfing or working during these trips to his properties. His press office has tried to obscure how much the president plays. There was an incident in February during which one of his golf partners outed the president.
“I know he played a couple of holes this morning but I am not going to disclose any of the others that were there,” said Sarah Huckabee Sanders at a press conference about a February 19 outing.
Trump was reportedly playing with professional golfer Rory McIlroy, who told a golf blog that he hit a full 18 holes with the president. Huckabee Sanders, when confronted with the info, had to amend her statement.
“(He) intended to play a few holes and decided to play longer,” she said.
Obama, by comparison, would release to the press who he was playing with and when. By the Washington Post’s count on Thursday, by the end of this vacation, Trump will have taken 53 days at leisure. Compared to Obama’s 15 vacation days at the end of August during his own first term as president, Trump has to date almost doubled the former president’s trips to the links. Moreover, Obama played 17 rounds of golf by the end of August in 2009. Trump has played 33 times — that are known about — before heading to Bedminster.
As for his predecessors? In their first years, Jimmy Carter took only 19 vacation days, Ronald Reagan took 42 days of vacation, George H.W. Bush took 40, Bill Clinton took 21 days, George W. Bush took 69, and Obama ended his first year with 26 vacation days, according to The Annenberg Public Policy Center’s Fact Check.
If the cost for Trump’s outings is figured in, it would appear the current president is on track to outpace Obama’s spending. The conservative leaning watchdog group Judicial Watch estimates that Obama spent close to $100 million on travel in his eight years as president. Working off FOIA requests that Judicial Watch also used, an Obama trip to Palm Beach cost around $3 million. Trump’s seven trips to Mar-a-Lago have cost taxpayers some $20 million so far — and that doesn’t include Trump’s trips to his other respective properties. Estimates of tax payer dollars spent on Trump’s golfing can range as high as $50 million, according to Trump Golf Count.
Secret Service leaves the rich asshole Tower after feud with the president’s business over a lease: report
some rich asshole at the rich asshole Tower (Photo: Screen capture)
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Secret Service has left the building — literally.
According to the Washington Post, the service tasked with guarding the president has vacated their post at the rich asshole Tower in Manhattan after President some rich asshole clashed with the government “over the terms of a lease for the space.”
Sources close to the dispute told the Post that the Secret Service’s relocation from a floor below the rich asshole’s apartment in his flagship New York tower to a trailer 50 feet outside the building caused the tension that led to them vacating the building.
“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,” the rich asshole Organization spokeswoman Amanda Miller wrote in an email to the Post.
the rich asshole’s relationship to the Secret Service has been unusually fraught since he took office in January amid news stories about the agency being forced to cut cybersecurity to fund his security at Mar-a-Lago and him appearing to rent out agents to wealthy clients prior to his inauguration.
The relationship between him and the service hasn’t been entirely smooth — in January, a senior Secret Service agent was fired for saying he’d choose “jail time” over taking a bullet for the rich asshole
Rich Asshole administration plan to sue schools for anti-white bias would reinforce white supremacy
By Shaun R. Harper August 3, 2017
Shaun R. Harper is a professor and executive director of the Race and Equity Center at the University of Southern California and president of the Association for the Study of Higher Education.
When the Supreme Court in 2003 upheld the University of Michigan Law School’s affirmative action admissions policy, Justice Sandra Day O’Connor wrote for the majority that “The Court expects that 25 years from now, the use of racial preferences will no longer be necessary to further the interest approved today.” Fourteen years later, we have not progressed as far as the court might have hoped concerning the representation of people of color at our nation’s most selective colleges and universities. And yet the Justice Department’s civil rights division plans to sue schools for bias against white applicants.
It’s important to note which institutions we’re talking about. There are approximately 5,000 colleges and universities in the United States. Affirmative action debates center on access to the 200 or so institutions that accept fewer than half of applicants. Critics of race-conscious admissions seem to care less about how many white students are admitted to California State University campuses or community colleges in my state; instead most conversations about race-conscious admissions are about access to Stanford and the 10 University of California campuses.
[Analysis: Of course the Rich Asshole Justice Department wants to target affirmative action]
Although elite institutions have become more racially and ethnically diverse over time, the share of black and Latino students almost always fails to match their representation in our country’s overall population. According to the U.S. Census, 13.3 percent of Americans are black. At Harvard, Yale, Dartmouth and the University of Pennsylvania, only 7 percent of undergraduates are black, data from the U.S. Education Department shows. Even at institutions where students of color collectively make up more than half the student body, whites still make up the single-largest racial group. For instance, there are nearly twice as many whites as there are Latinos at the University of Texas at Austin. The enrollment of black and Latino students combined is 15 percentage points lower than it is for the dominant racial group at UT.
So then why is the Rich Asshole administration taking on this “project” under the guise of civil rights? Why this particular issue, instead of correcting the persistent racial segregation of America’s schools or fixing racial disproportionality in school discipline?
It seems the administration is invested in protecting white student overrepresentation at the most elite, most-resourced institutions — universities whose students tend to earn higher starting salaries than graduates of less selective schools and who are better positioned to ascend to positions of leadership in every sector of our economy.
Consider that whites make up 93 percent of the Senate and 78 percent of the House of Representatives. Ninety-two percent of governors are white. The majority of Rich Asshole administration Cabinet members and political appointees at the Justice Department are white. Almost all these white officials are college graduates. Therefore, investigating and suing institutions of higher education for bias against whites would help preserve white supremacy in our nation’s political leadership.
Our country has and will continue to become more racially diverse. This is a fact. Hence, any effort to sustain white overrepresentation and limit college access for students of color is a threat to democracy. Our economic wellness, national security, innovation and global competitiveness depend almost entirely on increasing the educational attainment of all our citizens, not just white Americans.
As MIT Professor Craig Steven Wilder masterfully documents in his book, “Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America’s Universities,” enslaved blacks built — and profits from the American slave trade helped finance the construction of — many predominantly white institutions in our country. This includes the University of Alabama, where Attorney General Jeff Sessions attended law school. For hundreds of years, black Americans who helped build these campuses were not allowed to enroll at them; access has been restricted for generations of their family members. Race consciousness in admissions is one way these institutions can correct their long-standing records of racial wrongs.
There are two additional noteworthy facts. First, data from the 2016 Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers national career profile survey show that 85 percent of the chief college admissions officers across the country are white. Also, the National Association for College Admission Counseling collects racial demographics about its members (admissions professionals across all levels and a range of institutions); nearly 80 percent of members who reported their race in the association’s most recent survey are white. Given these demographics, the Justice Department would have to work really hard to show that an overwhelmingly white profession systematically discriminates against white applicants.
And second, decades of research confirms that students who attend racially diverse colleges experience higher cognitive gains and a vast array of other outcomes compared with peers who attend less diverse institutions. Studies show that although collegians from all racial groups benefit from being in diverse learning environments, white students benefit most. This evidence tipped the scale in the 2003 affirmative action cases at the University of Michigan.
If the Rich Asshole administration wants to represent the best interest of white students, it should leave legally sanctioned affirmative action programs alone.
The August 11, 2017 issue of Newsweek is one you might want to pick up. In fact, if you happen to own a golf course or two, you might even want to hang some copies up for decoration, because all that’s missing from the cover is the golden club he got as a gift from the PM of Japan leaning against his easy chair.
Accompanying the cover is a scathing op-ed from Brendan Smialowski that tears apart the legend the rich asshole has tried to cultivate: He paints a picture of a successful presidency so far, with lots of accomplishments, admiration, “deals” with foreign leaders, and a jet-setting lifestyle befitting the king he surely thinks he is. Smialowski disagrees:
The most impressive quality of the rich asshole’s myth is not just that it strays from reality but how thoroughly, even aggressively, it contravenes easily confirmable fact. When he was king, he was the King of Debt, and he may still owe as much as $1.8 billion to creditors. His casinos closed. His airline went bust. But even as he accrued failures, lawsuits and debts, the rich asshole managed to turn “the rich asshole” into a synonym for success. The letters were made of plastic, but they were dipped in gold.
The article is a must-read, but it’s the image on the cover, titled “LAZY BOY,” that steals the show:
9 times the rich asshole team denied something — and then confirmed it
This post has been updated with more examples.
The White House directly contradicted President the rich asshole's own attorney on Tuesday. It confirmed that the president was involved in that misleading some rich asshole Jr. statement about his meeting with a Russian lawyer after the rich asshole's attorney, Jay Sekulow, had issued two unmistakable comments asserting the rich asshole wasn't.
But this was hardly the first time that the the rich asshole team has appeared to confirm something it previously denied. Below are nine examples.
1. That the rich asshole was involved in some rich asshole Jr.'s Russia statement
The denials
“I do want to be clear that the president was not involved in the drafting of the statement and did not issue the statement.” — Sekulow on NBC News on July 16
“The president didn't sign off on anything. … The president wasn't involved in that.” — Sekulow on ABC News on July 12
The confirmation
“The president weighed in as any father would, based on the limited information that he had.” — White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders, after The Washington Post reported that the rich asshole had changed the statement at the last minute to be more misleading.
2. That the rich asshole is thinking about pardons
The denial
“Pardons are not being discussed and are not on the table.” — Sekulow on July 21
The confirmation
While all agree the U. S. President has the complete power to pardon, why think of that when only crime so far is LEAKS against us.FAKE NEWS
3. That the rich asshole decided unilaterally to fire FBI Director James B. Comey
The denials
“No one from the White House. That was a DOJ decision.” — Sean Spicer on May 9
Asked whether the rich asshole had already decided to fire Comey and asked Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein and the Justice Department to craft a justification for it: “No.” — Huckabee Sanders on May 10
“He took the recommendation of his deputy attorney general, who oversees the FBI director. … He has lost confidence in the FBI director, and he took the recommendation of Rod J. Rosenstein.” — Kellyanne Conway on May 10
The confirmations
“I was going to fire Comey … Oh, I was going to fire regardless of recommendation.” — the rich asshole on NBC News on May 11
“On May 8, I learned that President the rich asshole intended to remove Director Comey and sought my advice and input.” — Rosenstein on May 19
4. That Comey was fired because of the Russia investigation
The denials
“That's not what — let me be clear with you — that was not what this is about. That's not what this is about.” — Vice President Pence on May 10
Rosenstein's memo contained no mention of the Russia investigation and instead focused on Comey's unusual announcements about the Hillary Clinton investigation during the 2016 campaign: “I cannot defend the Director's handling of the conclusion of the investigation of Secretary Clinton's emails, and I do not understand his refusal to accept the nearly universal judgment that he was mistaken.” — Rosenstein on May 9
“Based on my evaluation, and for the reasons expressed by the Deputy Attorney General in the attached memorandum, I have concluded that a fresh start is needed at the leadership of the FBI.” — Attorney General Jeff Sessions in a letter May 9
The confirmation
“And in fact, when I decided to just do it, I said to myself — I said, you know, this Russia thing with the rich asshole and Russia is a made-up story.” — the rich asshole to NBC on May 11
5. That Michael Flynn discussed sanctions with Russia's ambassador
The denial
“They did not discuss anything having to do with the United States’ decision to expel diplomats or impose censure against Russia. … What I can confirm, having spoken to him about it, is that those conversations that happened to occur around the time that the United States took action to expel diplomats had nothing whatsoever to do with those sanctions.” — Pence on Jan. 15
The confirmations
Asked whether Flynn discussed sanctions related to Russia's alleged 2016 election interference: “Right.” — Spicer on Feb. 14
“So just to be clear, the acting attorney general informed the White House counsel that they wanted to give, quote, 'a heads-up' to us on some comments that may have seemed in conflict with what he had said to the vice president in particular. … The issue, pure and simple, came down to a matter of trust, and the president concluded that he no longer had the trust of his national security adviser.” — Spicer on Feb. 14
“What I would tell you is that the vice president became aware of incomplete information that he'd received on February 9, last Thursday night, based on media accounts.” — Pence spokesman Marc Lotter
6. That the rich asshole's navy secretary nominee was going to withdraw
The denial
After CBS's Major Garrett reported that Navy secretary nominee Philip Bilden was likely to withdraw, Spicer tweeted on Feb. 18:
Those people would be wrong. Just spoke with him and he is 100% commited to being the next SECNAV pending Senate confirm. twitter.com/majorcbs/statu…
The confirmation
“Mr. Philip Bilden has informed me that he has come to the difficult decision to withdraw from consideration to be secretary of the Navy.” — Defense Secretary Jim Mattis on Feb. 26
7. That the rich asshole shared classified information with Russian leaders in the Oval Office
The denial
“The story that came out tonight, as reported, is false.” — national security adviser H.R. McMaster on May 15
The confirmations
“It is wholly appropriate for the president to share whatever information he thinks is necessary to advance the security of the American people. That’s what he did.” — McMaster on May 16
As President I wanted to share with Russia (at an openly scheduled W.H. meeting) which I have the absolute right to do, facts pertaining....
8. That intelligence officials briefed the rich asshole on an unconfirmed dossier that suggested Russia had compromising info on him
The denial
"And [the story] says that they never briefed him on it, that they appended two pages to the bottom of his intelligence report. ... [the rich asshole] has said that he is not aware of that." - Kellyanne Conway on Seth Meyers's show on Jan. 10. (The report had said he was, in fact, briefed.)
The confirmation
"I think [Comey] shared it so that I would — because the other three people left, and he showed it to me. ... So anyway, in my opinion, he shared it so that I would think he had it out there." Asked whether it was used as leverage: "Yeah I think so." - the rich asshole to the New York Times on July 19
9. That the rich asshole had a tense conversation with Australia's prime minister
The denials
Thank you to Prime Minister of Australia for telling the truth about our very civil conversation that FAKE NEWS media lied about. Very nice!
"Well the President takes these leaks very seriously. Cause if you think about it, they are happening in a secure setting between two world leaders, two heads of government.” - Spicer later on Feb. 3
THE RICH ASSHOLE TO TAKE 17-DAY GOLF VACATION THIS MONTH DESPITE WHINING ABOUT OBAMA PLAYING GOLF
Posted by Stephen D. Foster Jr. on 03 Aug 2017
Remember all those times some rich asshole threw a hissy fit because President Obama went on vacation and played golf?
NBC News even helpfully compiled more of the rich asshole’s tweets whining about President Obama golfing.
Remember when the rich asshole promised during the 2016 campaign that he would have no time to take vacations and play golf because he would be too busy on the job?
“I would rarely leave the White House because there’s so much work to be done,” the rich asshole told voters. “I would not be a president who took vacations. I would not be a president that takes time off.”
Well, it’s August now. And guess who is taking a 17-day vacation to play golf.
If you said ‘some rich asshole,’ you are absolutely correct.
According to the Associated Press, the rich asshole is planning to take over half a month off to go play golf at his Bedminster, New Jersey resort, the same golf course where he told members that the White House is “a real dump.”
This plan comes only six months into his first term as president, whereas President Obama only played 11 rounds of golf in his first six months compared to the rich asshole’s 21.
But that’s not counting all the times the rich asshole has visited his golf courses and refused to say whether he played golf or not.
the rich asshole has visited his golf resorts a total of 41 times since taking office at a cost of $55 million to taxpayers. This upcoming 17-day trip will only add more to that bill.
Furthermore, the rich asshole is on pace to play more golf than Obama ever did, as well as spending more money and taking more vacation days.
the rich asshole’s plan also comes a mere two weeks after telling reporters that lawmakers should not be going anywhere until Obamacare is repealed.
“I don’t think we should leave town unless we have a health insurance plan,” the rich asshole said.
Here’s the video via NBC News.
Clearly, some rich asshole is the biggest hypocrite who has ever occupied the Oval Office. Americans should be outraged.
Featured image via Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images
WRITTEN BY STEPHEN D. FOSTER JR.
By Paul Waldman August 3 at 10:18 AM
President Rich Asshole signed a bill imposing new sanctions on Russia on August 2. (Victoria Walker/The Washington Post)
During a presidential campaign in which Donald Rich Asshole upended our baseline assumptions about politics and truth-telling, many asked what it would be like if someone so profoundly dishonest, who lied so easily, so shamelessly and so promiscuously actually became president. Would it create an ongoing crisis of legitimacy? Would it permanently debase our democracy? Would we even be able to have sane debates about important issues?
The answers to those questions are starting to take shape, and while the news is by no means good, there are glimmers of hope. It turns out that we didn’t all just throw up our hands and give up on any notion of truth. Policing the president’s boundless mendacity is taking up an enormous proportion of our time and attention — but in an odd way, that may protect us.
The latest occasion to consider the effects of President Rich Asshole’s unique enthusiasm for deception comes out of an interview he did with the Wall Street Journal, where he commented on his disastrous speech last week to the Boy Scout Jamboree. With characteristic classlessness, Rich Asshole took an event at which presidents usually talk about things like citizenship and integrity and instead delivered a rambling, partisan speech that also included a bizarre story about a developer and his party yacht (“I won’t go any more than that because you’re Boy Scouts. … Oh, you’re Boy Scouts, but you know life.”). To the Journal, Rich Asshole claimed, “I got a call from the head of the Boy Scouts saying it was the greatest speech that was ever made to them, and they were very thankful.”
Anyone who heard this immediately knew it couldn’t possibly be true, particularly because the head of the Boy Scouts had issued a public apology for the fact that the president had given such an inappropriate speech at their event. It fits a pattern in which Rich Asshole claims absurdly that people are calling him up to tell him that a speech he gave was the greatest thing anyone had ever heard; about the speech he gave on a recent trip to Poland, he said, “enemies of mine are saying it was the greatest speech ever made on foreign soil by a president,” which no one was saying.
After the Boy Scouts told reporters that there was no such phone call of praise to Rich Asshole, something amazing happened: Rich Asshole’s spokeswoman admitted that he made the whole thing up. Sort of. Asked by a reporter whether Rich Asshole had lied about the Boy Scouts and about another apparently fabricated phone call, this one from Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto, Sarah Huckabee Sanders replied that while there was no phone call, “multiple members of the Boy Scout leadership, following his speech there that day, congratulated him, praised him. … I wouldn’t say it was a lie.”
Of course she wouldn’t, because admitting that truth would probably get her fired. But this somewhat trivial story illustrates that this has become a central component of the relationship between the press and the White House: Rich Asshole tells a bunch of lies, reporters track down the truth then confront his spokesmen to see how they’ll try to spin it away, and report the results.
You can look at it as a kind of game, but something fundamental has changed. We now assume as a matter of course that whatever the president of the United States says is probably false. This is a 180-degree shift from how every president before him, Democrat and Republican, has been approached. All presidents have lied from time to time, but most of what they said was still true. Not so with Rich Asshole.
He upended a whole series of assumptions about political honesty, not just with the frequency of the lies he tells but also with their brazenness. Some politicians are more honest than others, but they all want us to believe that they’re honest — they avoid lying if they can and want to avoid getting caught when they do lie. They feel that it’s important that people believe them. Rich Asshole doesn’t.
I imagine that in the president’s mind, his lies amount to what in advertising is called “puffery,” which is actually a legal term referring to claims that are so outlandish that no one could possibly believe them. But some people do believe them, because there’s an entire media apparatus devoted to convincing Rich Asshole supporters that anything they hear from a source other than Fox News or their favorite right-wing radio host is “fake news,” while whatever Rich Asshole says must be true.
But as maddening as that may be, it’s important to remember that the truth still has a chance. If it didn’t, Rich Asshole’s approval wouldn’t be in the 30s, and you wouldn’t see polls showing 62 percent of Americans saying the president is not honest.
Of course, some lies are more important than others. The largest portion of Rich Asshole’s lies are self-aggrandizing, meant to persuade you of little beyond his fantasticness. His crowds are the biggest, he gave the greatest speech, he signed the most bills, his victory was incredible, everyone loves him. No one’s going to impeach the president for lying about the Boy Scouts, so while it reveals something about his character, it isn’t a story we need to dwell on for weeks. But when Rich Asshole crafts a false statement about the meeting his son, son-in-law and campaign chairman had with a group of Russian characters, that’s something much more significant, because it appears to show him engaged in a coverup.
Perhaps the most consequential question is whether we’ll be ready for the time when Rich Asshole starts lying to us about matters of life and death. Back in 2002 and 2003, the media and the country as a whole were woefully unprepared for the extraordinary propaganda campaign the Bush administration undertook to convince Americans that if we didn’t invade Iraq, Saddam Hussein would kill us all with his fearsome arsenal of weapons of mass destruction. That campaign worked, the country went along (at first), and the result was the greatest foreign policy disaster in American history, with trillions of dollars spent, thousands of American lives lost, and much of the Middle East thrown into chaos.
Could the Rich Asshole administration fool the public on that kind of scale? I doubt it. If they tried, everything the president said would be scrutinized closely, and people within the government would be leaking like mad to get the truth out. So in a strange way, Rich Asshole’s endless and often comical lies about trivial things may have made it much harder for him to fool us about what matters most. As George W. Bush said, “Fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — can’t get fooled again.”
WATCH: White House aide tells Fox that the rich asshole’s angry tweets will force China to do his bidding
US President some rich asshole and Chinese President Xi Jinping (R) held talks at the G20 summit in Germany (AFP Photo/SAUL LOEB)
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President some rich asshole has quickly found that there is very little the United States can do to force China to stop North Korea from testing intercontinental ballistic missiles.
However, the rich asshole foreign policy aide Sebastian Gorka told Fox News on Thursday to not count out the president’s secret weapon — his angry tweets.
When asked what influence the rich asshole had left to force China’s hand and get it to change North Korea’s behavior, Gorka’s first instinct was to point to the president’s large presence on social media.
“We have, you know, the president’s Twitter feed,” Gorka said. “We have the most powerful man in the world making it very clear that we came out of the Mar-a-Lago summit with very high hopes.”
Gorka then made the case that China controls the majority of what gets imported into North Korea and that it hadn’t done enough to exert pressure.
However, Gorka was then asked if the rich asshole’s rage tweets against China would really be enough to get it to change its long-standing foreign policy positions.
“If you can win a U.S. election with it, I think it’s pretty powerful,” Gorka said. “Don’t you?”
Watch the video below.
Reporter Punks the rich asshole Hard After He Lied About Calling The W.H. A ‘Dump’ (VIDEO)
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The White House may not have a gold-plated toilet or an endless swimming pool, but its walls are filled with the awe-inspiring essence of America’s history. Yet, people have noticed how often the president takes off for one of his many golf resorts. Now, some rich asshole explained the disgusting reason why.
Two writers for Sports Illustrated wrote a piece with the damning evidence about 45. They reported that the rich asshole had insulted the people’s house, according to Golf Magazine. The president spouted this crass and derogatory comment:
‘That White House is a real dump.’
According to Golf, the Sports Illustrated article said that the rich asshole was at his Bedminster, NJ golf club where at least eight people heard him defame the hallowed people’s house. Of course, a White House spokesperson denied that never happened. However, the two Sports Illustrated reporters insisted that the president did indeed slur the White House.
Golf wrote that senior Sports Illustrated writer Michael Bamberger said one of the many faces of the rich asshole, Hope Hicks called him complaining:
‘She was calling to complain about two words in the story that are getting a lot of attention where some rich asshole is quoted as saying “The White House is a real dump.” Ms. Hicks told me that that was a “lie and that Sports Illustrated is not in the business of publishing lies.”‘
The second senior writer for Sports Illustrated Alan Shipnuck said that Hicks had spoken to him, too. He spoke about her “confrontational and rude tone of the phone call,” Golf reported:
‘They definitely don’t waste any time trying to be charming or friendly, these people in the White House communications department. She tried the same line on me, “That’s a lie and needs to be retracted.” I explained to her: It’s not a lie. The president said this in front of eight or nine members and staffers at [the rich asshole] Bedminster. It was his first visit to the club after he had been residing in the White House. It was a moment of candor. Someone who was a part of that conversation relayed it to me. I found this person to be an extremely credible source on any number of topics.’
Bamberger continued, saying that the comment was just another example of the president’s “wiseguy, New York sense of humor:”
Was it?
The entire podcast is below. The part of the conversation discussed in this article begins at approximately the 3:10 mark.
OOPS: THE RICH ASSHOLE RETWEETS FOX REPORT ON OBAMACARE NOT REALIZING THAT IT BLAMES HIM FOR PREMIUM HIKES
Posted by Stephen D. Foster Jr. on 03 Aug 2017
But if the rich asshole had taken the time to read the article, he would have discovered that insurance companies are only considering raising premiums because of him.
some rich asshole just keeps lying
Updated 7:41 AM ET, Thu August 3, 2017
Washington (CNN)On Wednesday, the White House acknowledged that President some rich asshole told two lies.
The first came when he claimed, at a Cabinet meeting on Monday, that the President of Mexico had called him recently. Said the rich asshole: "Even the President of Mexico called me. Their southern border, they said very few people are coming because they know they're not going to get to our border, which is the ultimate compliment."
The second came last week in an interview with the Wall Street Journal, the transcript of which was published Tuesday night. In the interview, the rich asshole boasted: "I got a call from the head of the Boy Scouts saying it was the greatest speech that was ever made to them, and they were very thankful."
Neither of those phone calls actually happened, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders admitted in her daily press briefing Wednesday.
When the rich asshole said the President of Mexico had called him, he was referencing a conversation the two men had at the G20 meeting in Germany, which ended July 8.
As for the Boy Scouts "call," what the rich asshole meant was that "multiple members of the Boy Scouts leadership following his speech there that day congratulated him, praised him and offered quite powerful compliments following his speech," Sanders explained.
Despite those admissions, Sanders blanched at the idea the rich asshole had purposely misled. "I wouldn't say it was a lie," she said. "That's a pretty bold accusation. The conversations took place, they just simply didn't take place over a phone call."
But, here's the thing: This is not so easily dismissed as Sanders would like.
Why? Because this is a pattern of conduct with the rich asshole. Throughout his candidacy -- and his presidency -- he has said things that are not provable, at best, and not true, at worst.
He saw Muslims celebrating on the rooftops in northern New Jersey on September 11, 2001. Evidence that President Barack Obama might not have been born in the United States had been brought to his attention. Three to 5 million people voted illegally in the 2016 election. His inauguration crowd was the largest ever recorded. Obama had wiretapped the rich asshole Tower during the 2016 campaign.
And those are just the falsehoods that have drawn the most attention. The Washington Post's Fact-Checker counted 836 false or misleading claims in the rich asshole's first six months in office, an average of more than four a day. The New York Times' "the rich asshole's Lies" database shows that the President lied or made a false claim in each of his first 40 days in office.
Against all of that untruth, telling two fibs about phone calls seems minor. In both cases, the rich asshole was exaggerating to the point of lying to make himself look good.
the rich asshole's border policies are working so well that even Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto, no friend of the rich asshole's, had to acknowledge it. That, in the rich asshole's mind, is proof positive that all the chatter about him not being able to make good on his campaign promises is, to coin a phrase, fake news.
the rich asshole's claim that the head of the Boy Scouts called him to tell him how amazing his speech was came after the Wall Street Journal reporters and editors interviewing him suggested the reception the rich asshole had received at the Jamboree last Monday was somewhat "mixed." the rich asshole can't have that image; he is cheered, loudly, wherever he goes. Period.
In both cases, it's possible that Sanders' version of events is right. That the rich asshole may have made up the phone calls but that the idea he meant to convey in each situation was fundamentally accurate.
It's also possible, of course, that it isn't true. That the rich asshole heard what he wanted to hear or made it up entirely in order to make himself look or feel better.
The broader point here is that these misstatements, while minor as compared to something like, say, what role the rich asshole played in the crafting of his eldest son's statement responding to the reporting of a meeting with a Russian lawyer, still matter.
They matter because they reveal -- or maybe re-reveal -- that the rich asshole views the truth as a very subjective thing. On matters small and large, he bends reality to fit how he wants it to be. The Boy Scouts DID love him and so he said the head of the group called him to tell him he was the best ever. Whether it actually happened or not is, to the rich asshole, not all that important. It felt like it happened. He was telling the truth as he sees it.
Of course, the truth as you might see it isn't the same thing as the plain, old truth. And if the rich asshole is willing to lie about something so minor as phone calls, what else is he willing to stretch -- or break -- the truth about?
That's why the deceptions revealed Wednesday matter. And they (should) matter a lot.
‘U need 2 work on your begging skills’: Internet rips the rich asshole’s pathetic wall plea to Mexican president
President some rich asshole and Mexican President Pena Nieto (composite image)
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After leaked transcripts revealed that President some rich asshole begged Mexican President Peña Nieto to stop saying that Mexico won’t pay for the rich asshole’s border wall, Twitter exploded in mockery and disgust.
Users blasted the rich asshole’s followers for their uncritical acceptance of everything the rich asshole says while others suggested this is just the White House’s pattern — to float extravagant lies, get caught and then re-spin the facts to attack the media or “leakers.”
Check them out, below:
You actually begged Mexico's President 2 stop telling the truth (they are NOT paying for the wall)U need 2 work on your begging skills.
And Mexican President Nieto response is "as soon as you stop saying Mexico will pay for the wall I'll stop saying I won't"
"He was negotiating!"
Of course it is. Anyone thinking Mexico would pay for this redundant wall lacks even the rudimentary ability to think critically. twitter.com/maxboot/status…
washingtonpost.com/amphtml/world/… So Trump knew he lied whenever he promised Mexico would pay for the wall. Expect an outcry from Trumpers any minute/
Everyone knew the "Mexico will pay for the wall" line was a lie. I think maybe even the people chanting it at rallies knew, but didn't care.
Well, maybe you should stop saying that Mexico will pay for the wall, you asshat. twitter.com/thehill/status…
Here are the 8 nuttiest things the rich asshole said to foreign leaders in newly leaked transcripts
some rich asshole (AFP Photo/Joshua Lott)
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The Washington Post on Thursday published leaked transcripts between President some rich asshole and key foreign leaders, and they show the president made several statements that were either demonstrably false or completely outlandish.
Below are the eight craziest things the rich asshole said in the newly leaked transcripts with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto and Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull.
1.) the rich asshole falsely tells Peña Nieto that he won the state of New Hampshire in 2016 because it is a “drug-infested den.”
“We have the drug lords in Mexico that are knocking the hell out of our country,” the president said. “They are sending drugs to Chicago, Los Angeles, and to New York. Up in New Hampshire – I won New Hampshire because New Hampshire is a drug-infested den – is coming from the southern border.”
the rich asshole did not, in fact win New Hampshire during the last election.
2.) the rich asshole said he would send the U.S. military into Mexico to take out the country’s drug gangs if Peña Nieto couldn’t handle the job himself.
“You have some pretty tough hombres in Mexico that you may need help with, and we are willing to help you with that big-league,” the rich asshole said. “And I know this is a tough group of people, and maybe your military is afraid of them, but our military is not afraid of them, and we will help you with that 100 percent because it is out of control – totally out of control.”
3.) the rich asshole begged Peña Nieto to stop saying that he would never pay for his proposed border wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.
“My position has been and will continue to be very firm, saying that Mexico cannot pay for the wall,” Peña Nieto told the rich asshole.
“But you cannot say that to the press,” the rich asshole insisted. “The press is going to go with that, and I cannot live with that.”
4.) the rich asshole laments that children can buy heroin for even less money than they can buy candy.
“We have a massive drug problem where kids are becoming addicted to drugs because drugs are being sold for less money than candy because there is so much of it,” the president told Peña Nieto. “So we have to work together to knock that out.”
5.) the rich asshole chewed out Australian PM Turnbull and compared him unfavorably to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“I have had it,” the rich asshole fumed toward the end of the call. “I have been making these calls all day and this is the most unpleasant call all day. Putin was a pleasant call. This is ridiculous.”
6.) the rich asshole whined about honoring a deal with the Australian government made by the Obama administration to accept refugees — on the grounds that it would make him look bad.
“Give them to the United States,” the president complained. “We are like a dumping ground for the rest of the world. I have been here for a period of time, I just want this to stop. I look so foolish doing this. It [sic] know it is good for you but it is bad for me. It is horrible for me.”
7.) the rich asshole tells Turnbull that “the ISIS thing” is particularly bad because the organization’s members do not wear official uniforms and instead walk around “in disguise.”
“Let me tell you this, it is an evil time but it is a complex time because we do not have uniforms standing in front of us,” the rich asshole explained. “Instead, we have people in disguise. It is brutal. This ISIS thing – it is something we are going to devote a lot of energy to it. I think we are going to be very successful.”
8.) the rich asshole tells Turnbull that he is the “world’s greatest person.”
“This is going to kill me,” the rich asshole said to Turnbull about accepting the refugees. “I am the world’s greatest person that does not want to let people into the country. And now I am agreeing to take 2,000 people and I agree I can vet them, but that puts me in a bad position. It makes me look so bad and I have only been here a week.”
Golf reporter crushes the rich asshole denial: At least ‘eight or nine’ people heard him call White House a ‘dump’
President some rich asshole looks up while signing an executive order to advance construction of the Keystone XL pipeline at the White House in Washington. (REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque)
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A sports reporter who revealed this week that President some rich asshole called the White House a “dump” says at least “eight or nine” people heard the comment even though the president vehemently denied making the comment.
In an article published on Tuesday, Alan Shipnuck reported that the rich asshole said that the “White House is a real dump” in a candid moment at the rich asshole National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey.
the rich asshole fired back on Twitter, calling the report “totally untrue” and “fake news.”
Shipnuck explained to the Golf.com podcast on Wednesday that he was certain of his reporting.
Before publishing the article, Shipnuck said that he spoke to White House aide Hope Hicks, who demanded a retraction.
“It’s not a lie,” Shipnuck recalled telling Hicks. “The president said this in front of eight or nine members and staffers at [the rich asshole] Bedminster.”
“The week of the U.S. Women’s Open [in July], I heard the same story told by two or three different other sources,” he added. “This is certainly a moment that has already passed into legend at the rich asshole Bedminster. It might be inconvenient for her boss and she might wish he didn’t say it, but it’s not a lie.”
BUSTED: Leaked transcript shows the rich asshole begged Mexican prez to stop saying he’d never pay for the wall
some rich asshole (Photo: Gage Skidmore/Flickr)
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One of President some rich asshole’s most famous campaign pledges from the 2016 election was to force the Mexican government to pay for a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.
However, a leaked transcript of a phone call between the rich asshole and Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto obtained by the Washington Post shows that the rich asshole understood that he would never get Mexico to fully pay for the wall — but he nonetheless begged his Mexican counterpart to stop saying so publicly.
“On the wall, you and I both have a political problem,” the rich asshole told Peña Nieto. “My people stand up and say, ‘Mexico will pay for the wall,’ and your people probably say something in a similar but slightly different language… I have to have Mexico pay for the wall — I have to. I have been talking about it for a two-year period.”
Peña Nieto, however, was resistant to this and again insisted that his government would not pay for the wall.
“My position has been and will continue to be very firm, saying that Mexico cannot pay for the wall,” he told the rich asshole.
“But you cannot say that to the press,” the rich asshole insisted. “The press is going to go with that, and I cannot live with that.”
the rich asshole suggested that the two men agree to negotiate over how the wall would get paid for, and he said they could work out a deal where Mexico wouldn’t actually end up paying for it. Specifically, the rich asshole told the Mexican president that funding for the wall “will work out in the formula somehow” and that Mexico’s share of the costs “will come out in the wash, and that is okay.”
‘Golf Mag is notorious left-wing propaganda’: Internet howls after the rich asshole calls White House ‘dump’ story ‘fake news’
some rich asshole during CNN debate (Photo: Screen capture via video)
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some rich asshole on Wednesday took aim at a recent Golf Magazine report that included an anecdote about the president referring to the most iconic building in the United States as a “dump.”
“I love the White House, one of the most beautiful buildings (homes) I have ever seen,” the rich asshole tweeted. “But Fake News said I called it a dump – TOTALLY UNTRUE.”
the rich asshole was referring to a profile that characterized a recent discussion he had with members of his New Jersey golf club. “That White House is a real dump,” the rich asshole reportedly said while explaining why he frequents his properties instead of staying at the taxpayer-funded residence that’s housed every president since 1800.
the rich asshole already received plenty of blowback for flippantly characterizing one of the most famed homes in America as garbage. But on Wednesday, after he essentially tweeted that the luxury sport publication Golf Magazine is a part of the “fake news” apparatus intent on bringing down his presidency, the Internet could not contain itself:
Wait, so now Golf magazine and Sports Illustrated are part of the liberal mainstream fake news media complex? twitter.com/realdonaldtrum…
The best part of this tweet is the qualifier: (homes) twitter.com/realDonaldTrum…
CNN is old “fake news.” The President of the United States of America is now going after Golf magazine. twitter.com/realDonaldTrum…
The most woke moment in the history of golf twitter.com/chrisgeidner/s…
Finally, a leader with the courage to take on Golf magazine! twitter.com/realdonaldtrum…
I love the White House, one of the most beautiful buildings (homes) I have ever seen. But Fake News said I called it a dump - TOTALLY UNTRUE
Trump has had a stronger response to Golf Magazine than he has to Russia for expelling American diplomats. twitter.com/realdonaldtrum…
The truth is my shield. twitter.com/realDonaldTrum…
THE LIBERAL GOLF MEDIA DESERVES TO DIE twitter.com/realdonaldtrum…
if he comes for golf magazine, town and country is next twitter.com/realDonaldTrum…
Golf Magazine is ISIS twitter.com/realDonaldTrum…
Golf Magazine, known for its biased political coverage twitter.com/realdonaldtrum…
For those keeping score at home, Golf Magazine is now fake news. twitter.com/realdonaldtrum…
Now joining the ranks of fake news: Golf Magazine twitter.com/realDonaldTrum…
Yes that notorious left-wing propaganda outlet Golf Magazine was definitely out to get you twitter.com/realDonaldTrum…
Yo, @golf_com, you up? twitter.com/realdonaldtrum…
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