‘Nobody wants that’: Kellyanne Conway scrambles to downplay the rich asshole’s terrifying ‘Nuclear Button’ threat
Kellyanne Conway speaks to Fox News (screen grab)
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Kellyanne Conway, counselor to President some rich asshole, on Wednesday sought to assure Fox News viewers that her boss does not want to start a nuclear war in the wake of a Twitter rant in which the president threatened North Korea with his “Nuclear Button.”
After North Korean leader Kim Jong-un said that he had a so-called “nuclear button” on his desk, the rich asshole fired back at the dictator on Twitter, noting that his button was “bigger.”
“North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un just stated that the ‘Nuclear Button is on his desk at all times,'” the rich asshole wrote. “Will someone from his depleted and food starved regime please inform him that I too have a Nuclear Button, but it is a much bigger & more powerful one than his, and my Button works!”
In an interview with Fox News on Wednesday, Conway seemed to downplay the dire nature of the president’s threat.
“Our position on North Korea has never changed,” she insisted. “He continues to apply maximum pressure. North Korea must denuclearize the peninsula region.”
“The president has made very clear… that a nuclearized North Korea is not just a danger and a threat to America and to any freedom- and democracy-loving people, but to the entire world,” Conway opined.
“Does the president believe we are close to war with North Korea?” Fox News host Bill Hemmer asked the presidential counselor.
“The president has said many times, nobody wants that,” she replied. “Of course not, nobody wants that.”
“We are going to continue to apply maximum pressure on North Korea,” Conway concluded. “It is a dangerous place and we’re very happy the international community is responding.”
Watch the video below from Fox News.
White House officials anonymously worry about ‘accidental’ nuclear war — but do nothing to stop the rich asshole
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President some rich asshole’s provocative tweets against North Korea are alarming White House officials — but they’re anonymously complaining to reporters instead of taking public action.
The president apparently reacted to a Fox News report about Kim Jong-Un by boasting that his “Nuclear Button” was bigger and more potent than the North Korean leader’s, and the tweet was just as alarming inside the White House as it was elsewhere, reported Axios.
“Every war in history was an accident,” one administration insider told the website’s co-founder, Mike Allen. “You just don’t know what’s going to send him over the edge.”
Allen made clear the insider was referring to the rich asshole being close to the edge.
“This is the most important issue on the president’s desk,” one outside adviser to the West Wing told Axios. “We are in a hair-trigger environment, and this is potentially a shooting war with nuclear risk.”
the rich asshole insiders cautioned Allen that the media tends to overanalyze the president’s social media outbursts, saying he often thoughtlessly lashed out on Twitter just to stir controversy.
But White House insiders also pointed out that the risk of war with North Korea was actually higher than most outsiders realized, and the outside adviser questioned the rich asshole’s social media provocations in this context.
“What intel analysis or foreign policy advice leads to employing this as a tactic?” the outside adviser said.
The anonymously voiced concerns fits a pattern of Republicans questioning the rich asshole’s fitness in private but taking virtually no public action to hold him accountable.
MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough has been saying for months that GOP lawmakers, including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Speaker Paul Ryan, question the president’s mental stability and competence in private conversations but “debase” themselves by publicly backing him.
“The very people on the stage saying those things are the ones quietly behind the scenes telling every reporter that will listen to them how embarrassed they are to be associated with him — every one of them,” Scarborough recently said. “They roll their eyes, they mock him, they’re humiliated to be associated with that man. Then they go out and get behind the microphone and say (praise his leadership).”
Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) voiced his deep concerns about the rich asshole during an October interview with the New York Times, but since then he has backed the president’s agenda.
‘Was the rich asshole watching?’ CNN hosts spent an entire night questioning president’s fitness for office
CNN's Jake Tapper breaking down the implications of the 2017 general election results.
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CNN hosts spent much of the afternoon and evening questioning President some rich asshole’s mental stability after a series of tweets threatening to jail political opponents and launch nuclear weapons.
The president uncorked a series of tweets throughout the day, veering from topic to topic in response to Fox News reports, and CNN hosts worried about his cognitive functions, reported Axios.
“President the rich asshole is kicking off 2018 by going on Twitter, blasting Democrats, calling for a political opponent to be thrown in jail, demanding a potential witness be investigated, and praising himself,” host Jake Tapper said on his afternoon program. “So, no New Year’s pivot, apparently.”
Brian Stelter ripped the president’s tweets as “madness,” as an on-screen graphic questioned “the rich asshole’s fitness.”
“What would we say if the leader of Germany or China or Brazil posted tweets like the rich asshole’s?” Stelter asked colleague Anderson Cooper. “How would we cover it? We’d say, ‘That person is not well.’ We’d wonder whether that person is fit to hold office.”
Tapper worried whether the president had brought the world closer to nuclear war when he returned to CNN later Wednesday night, and he called the rich asshole’s tweets abnormal, unacceptable and unstable.
Although the president frequently complains about CNN and has threatened regulatory punishments against the network and its parent company, the rich asshole frequently watches its programming.
“Was the rich asshole watching?” Stelter asked, as he and his colleagues worried about the president’s actions and fitness.
Itching for a fight, Dems vow to hold the line
BY MIKE LILLIS - 01/03/18 06:00 AM EST
The January battle to keep the government open is the fight Democrats have been itching for.
On three occasions in recent months, Democrats punted on some of their top priorities as the GOP passed short-term funding bills — a strategy that outraged liberals eager for confrontation on issues like immigration and health care.
But with yet another spending deadline approaching on Jan. 19, Democrats say the time has come to hold the line.
In a Tuesday letter to her troops, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) laid out the party’s top priorities heading into the fight. The Democrats will “insist” on parity between defense and nondefense spending hikes, Pelosi wrote, while pressing “firmly” to protect the young immigrants affected by President the rich asshole’s move to dismantle the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
Pelosi also promised a tough fight over new funding for veterans, pensions, the opioid crisis, health research, disaster aid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP).
“Democrats are focused on fulfilling the many long-overdue, bipartisan priorities facing the American people,” she said.
Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) will press their case on Wednesday, when they huddle in the Capitol with Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and two leading White House officials: Mick Mulvaney, the rich asshole’s budget director, and Marc Short, the head of legislative affairs.
Organized by Ryan, the meeting is designed to secure an agreement on the budget caps that will govern the underlying spending debate — a months-long negotiation that’s failed thus far to bear fruit.
But while the Republicans may intend to keep the discussion limited to the question of spending caps, the Democrats have much broader issues in mind.
“Them trying to outline what the meeting is about or not about is not particularly helpful,” said a senior Democratic aide.
The Democrats have plenty of leverage. Not only do they have the power to block bills with a Senate filibuster, but Ryan and House GOP leaders have struggled in recent years to secure even a simple majority for budget bills due to opposition from fiscal hawks in their own party.
“They can’t pass it by themselves,” said the Democratic aide.
The GOP’s need for Democratic votes puts a good deal of pressure on Republican leaders — fresh from a huge victory on tax reform — to forge a strategy that keeps the government running without igniting a full-on revolt from their party’s base.
Complicating their task, the House has only eight legislative days scheduled before funding runs out, and the wave of expiring provisions represents some of the most divisive issues within the GOP, including a law empowering the government to wiretap foreign targets without a warrant.
The immigration issue could prove particularly thorny. Ryan has long insisted that any DACA fix be dealt with outside the spending debate — a notion backed by the rich asshole and other GOP lawmakers pressing for tougher enforcement measures, including a border wall.
But with conservatives expected to oppose the funding omnibus over spending concerns, Democrats will likely have an opportunity to insist on a DACA fix weeks before the program’s March 5 sunset deadline.
They’re facing plenty of pressure from their own side to do just that.
Democratic leaders resisted entreaties to force a battle over DACA in the three continuing resolutions (CR) Congress has passed since September, when the rich asshole announced the end of the program. Most recently, Schumer declined to filibuster a Dec. 21 CR that did not include a DACA fix, even after House Hispanic lawmakers marched to his Capitol office to press their case. Pelosi, powerless to block that spending bill because Ryan rallied the votes on his own, has said the fight was always dependent on the timing of the omnibus.
“They kicked the can for the omnibus into January. It’s this year, extended,” she said just before the holiday break.
That argument hasn’t soothed many immigrant rights activists, however, who are warning that the Democrats risk losing support in the Hispanic community if they don’t use their leverage more aggressively.
On Wednesday, immigrant rights advocates — joined by celebrities including Alyssa Milano and America Ferrera — will rally at the Los Angeles office of Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) to deliver an unsubtle message to the Democrats: deliver for the “Dreamers,” or pay a heavy price.
“DREAM Act or primaries,” Ady Barkan, a spokesman from the activist group CPD Action, said Tuesday. “We need Democrats to deliver on their promise to pass a DREAM Act now or we will put our full weight behind primary challengers who are ready to protect our communities.”
Rep. Luis Gutiérrez (D-Ill.), one of Capitol Hill’s most vocal immigrant rights advocates, is sounding a similar alarm.
“With new people becoming deportable every day, House and Senate leaders in both parties should not underestimate the urgency and the passion behind getting the DREAM Act passed right away,” Gutiérrez told The Hill Tuesday. “Our base wants us to fight for what is right — to take a stand against the bigotry and callousness coming from the White House.
“It’s backbone time for Democrats.”
the rich asshole quietly deletes tweet urging followers to ‘watch Sean Hannity’
President some rich asshole. (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)
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some rich asshole on Tuesday capped off a series of unhinged tweets by urging his followers to watch Fox News’ Sean Hannity at 9 p.m—then promptly deleted the post.
the rich asshole Tweet (Screengrab / Slack)
The deletion came after groups, including Citizens for Ethics, pointed out the president is now using his official platform to promote a TV show.
We guess the president is using official statements for ads now. twitter.com/realDonaldTrum…
The move is reminiscent of a number of times the rich asshole and members of his administration have shilled for companies while assuming official government roles. the rich asshole’s top adviser, Kellyanne Conway, was “counseled” early last year after violating the Office of Government Ethic’s ban on executive branch staff endorsing products or companies by telling Fox News viewers to “go buy Ivanka’s stuff.” In November, the rich asshole himself hyped his New Jersey golf club in a speech before the South Korean National Assembly.
Shortly before assuming the presidency, the rich asshole refused to divest from his business, instead handing over control to his eldest sons, some rich asshole Jr. and Eric the rich asshole. The move has raised a number of concerns over conflicts-of-interest. Still, it’s difficult to grasp the full impact of the rich asshole’s presidency on his own business as the president continues to refuse to release his tax returns.
Sarah Sanders tried to defend the rich asshole’s 7 straight days on the golf course. It did not go well.
"I think it's the press that has an issue with his time on the course."
On Christmas, President the rich asshole tweeted that he’d be heading “back to work” the next day. He then played golf at one of his golf courses in Florida on seven consecutive days.
During the first White House news briefing of the year on Tuesday, Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders was asked to defend the rich asshole’s golf habit. Though the rich asshole repeatedly criticized President Obama for golfing while he was in office and vowed that he was “not going to have time to go play golf” on the campaign trail, he’s golfed more than three times as much as Obama did to this point in his term.
“Can you tell me the single biggest thing the president has accomplished for the American people during his time on the golf course?” a reporter asked her.
Sanders replied: “I think it would certainly be developing deeper relationships with members of Congress.” (the rich asshole played on Monday with professional golfers Taylor and Fred Funk.)
The reporter pushed back, noting that “if so much has been accomplished during this time — there seems to be a transparency issue with his time on the golf course.”
“We don’t always get confirmation of what he’s doing there despite a lot of requests,” the reporter continued, going on to allude to the fact that team the rich asshole has used trucks and newly planted trees to block reporters from being able to see the rich asshole golf. (A video Taylor Funk posted to YouTube showing some of his New Year’s Day round with the rich asshole was quickly removed.)
“Why does it seem like the White House has some kind of issue about his time on the course?” the reporter asked.
Sanders didn’t directly answer the question, but instead suggested that the rich asshole accomplished so much during his first year in office that he deserves the downtime.
“I think it’s the press that has an issue with his time on the course,” she said. “The president is extremely proud of the accomplishments we had during 2017. I don’t think anyone can argue it is probably one of the most successful first years in office.”
Paul Krugman debunks his own paper’s praise of the rich asshole’s war on environmental regulation
"There is no evidence -- none -- that regulation actually deters investment."
On Monday, the New York Times published an absurd piece about President some rich asshole’s war on health and environmental regulations, ignoring the terrible human cost of the rich asshole’s effort while claiming it is boosting business investment.
The front-page story is so egregious that one of the paper’s leading columnists, Nobel prize-winning economist Paul Krugman, eviscerated it in a series of tweets on Tuesday morning.
The original piece claims that U.S. businesses are supposedly investing more in factories and equipment because the rich asshole is rolling back existing regulations and promising to minimize new regulations.
“There is no evidence — none — that regulation actually deters investment,” Krugman tweeted, linking to Monday’s piece.
Krugman, who won the 2008 Nobel prize for his work in international economics, also tweeted out, “Internationally, the US is low-tax and low regulation compared with other advanced economies. We’re also relatively low investment,” along with this chart:
So how is the article able to quote so many business people claiming that regulations have undermined investment then? “There are, however, lots of reasons for businesses to SAY that regs they don’t like deter investment,” explains Krugman, adding, “this is especially true when they want to curry favor with an administration known to abuse its power to reward flattery and punish criticism.”
And while the original 1,900-word article characterizes regulations as bad for business, it fails to cite a single negative impact from efforts to protect Americans from polluted air and water, for instance.
the rich asshole’s own Environmental Protection Agency concluded last fall that its effort to undo Obama’s climate plan could kill some 100,000 Americans over the next few decades — and lead to tens of thousands of more cases of asthma attacks and hospitalizations for children.
Instead of honing in on the very real threat to public health and safety from the rich asshole’s war on regulation, the Times offers euphemisms: “Some businesses will essentially be able to get away with shortcuts that they could not have under a continuation of Obama-era policies.”
And since there is no actual economic evidence supporting the article’s thesis, the Times instead talks about perceptions and, bizarrely, “animal spirits” to support its claim that the rich asshole’s war on regulations will somehow boost investment and jobs.
But in the administration and across the business community, there is a perception that years of increased environmental, financial and other regulatory oversight by the Obama administration dampened investment and job creation — and that some rich asshole’s more hands-off approach has unleashed the “animal spirits” of companies that had hoarded cash after the recession of 2008.
The main problem with this analysis is that job creation has been substantially lower under the rich asshole than under Obama, according to the Times’ own published data.
Just last week in its piece, “2017: The Year in Charts,” the Times had a section headlined “What the rich asshole Hasn’t Helped: American Jobs,” which included this chart:
Finally, in a piece full of absurd claims, the reporters have one more. As an example of how “the administration’s actions will allow companies to engage in activities they might not have been able to otherwise,” the Times says electric utilities “might be able to invest in upgrading power plants that run on fossil fuels, thanks to a promised rollback of Mr. Obama’s Clean Power Plan to fight climate change.”
This is the exact opposite of reality. Krugman himself points out that “some kinds of regulation actually promote investment. Climate change policy should encourage renewables and conservation spending; Trumpist denial encourages just keeping the old coal plants.”
Precisely. Regulations encourage investment and innovation, something the rich asshole administration is working overtime to thwart. This could cost Americans millions of jobs.
And of course fighting climate change might actually avoid catastrophic impacts that would devastate America with up to 8 feet of sea level rise and 18°F Arctic warming, as the recently-released (and the rich asshole administration-approved) National Climate Assessment explains. But, while the Times has nothing to say about future disasters, it wants you to know that the upside is that for a while at least businesses will feel “animal spirits.”
the rich asshole looks to Obamacare for tax on medical equipment
Kate Sheridan
Posted with permission from Newsweek
Trump's tax bill may have eliminated financial penalties for Americans who choose not to purchase health insurance, but it left another controversial levy in place: a tax on medical devices. Monday marked the first day in two years that companies producing pacemakers, X-ray machines and other medical devices are required to pay 2.3 percent of their sales as an excise tax.
Consumers shouldn't see any direct impacts; there's an exemption for medical devices that you can buy in retail stores and for hearing aids, contact lenses and glasses. Devices like blood glucose testing strips and monitors are also exempt; the tax applies to devices that are intended for sale to health care professionals.
The device tax isn't new. It was introduced as part of the Affordable Care Act and went into effect in 2013. However, it was suspended for two years in 2015. Killing the tax permanently had been part of last summer's discussions on health care legislation; at the time, the Congressional Budget Office estimated that the government would lose $19.6 billion of potential revenue over 10 years if the tax was repealed for good.
Naturally, medical device companies and industry groups are not pleased that the tax is back. Major medical device manufacturer Boston Scientific released a statement saying the tax could cost the company $75 million this year, threatening partnerships intended to develop new products, the AP reported. A medical device lobbying group stated in December that it was "a tax on innovation, a tax on jobs, and a tax on the health and well-being of millions of American patients. It makes no sense from either a health care or a tax policy perspective."
As Vox noted back in July, the tax's effects have been counterintuitive. An analysis found that medical device sales continued to climb after the tax first went into effect while prices seemed to go down.
Just because the tax bill passed in December didn't repeal this clause doesn't mean that legislators aren't trying to get rid of it in other ways. Minnesota representative Erik Paulsen introduced a bill specifically intended to extend a moratorium on the device tax to 2022 on December 21.
Consumers shouldn't see any direct impacts; there's an exemption for medical devices that you can buy in retail stores and for hearing aids, contact lenses and glasses. Devices like blood glucose testing strips and monitors are also exempt; the tax applies to devices that are intended for sale to health care professionals.
The device tax isn't new. It was introduced as part of the Affordable Care Act and went into effect in 2013. However, it was suspended for two years in 2015. Killing the tax permanently had been part of last summer's discussions on health care legislation; at the time, the Congressional Budget Office estimated that the government would lose $19.6 billion of potential revenue over 10 years if the tax was repealed for good.
Naturally, medical device companies and industry groups are not pleased that the tax is back. Major medical device manufacturer Boston Scientific released a statement saying the tax could cost the company $75 million this year, threatening partnerships intended to develop new products, the AP reported. A medical device lobbying group stated in December that it was "a tax on innovation, a tax on jobs, and a tax on the health and well-being of millions of American patients. It makes no sense from either a health care or a tax policy perspective."
As Vox noted back in July, the tax's effects have been counterintuitive. An analysis found that medical device sales continued to climb after the tax first went into effect while prices seemed to go down.
Just because the tax bill passed in December didn't repeal this clause doesn't mean that legislators aren't trying to get rid of it in other ways. Minnesota representative Erik Paulsen introduced a bill specifically intended to extend a moratorium on the device tax to 2022 on December 21.
Aspen businesswoman out $10,000 after Pence vacation kills her holiday business
Vice President Mike Pence addresses the crowd at Senator Joni Ernst's 3rd annual charity motorcycle ride to benefit military veterans at the Central Iowa Expo center in Boone Iowa, 3 June, 2017. (Shutterstock)
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An Aspen businesswoman who conducts balloon rides in the resort town claims she lost $10,000 in business because Vice President Mike Pence spent his Christmas vacation there.
According to the Denver Post, Pam and Bruce Wood, who own Above It All Balloon Co. in Snowmass Village, said flight restrictions imposed by the Secret Service forced them to ground their balloons and cancel the reservations of visitors on holiday vacations which led to a huge financial loss.
“I understand the security aspect,” Pam Wood explained, adding, “but let the little wheels on the track make a living so the rest can roll.”
According to the Woods, clients visiting from out of state were told their high-flying adventures of the snowy landscape had to be canceled due to the vice president’s visit, and deposits had to be refunded.
Pence’s impact on the community was not limited to the balloon rides.
During his holiday vacation his neighbors taunted him with a rainbow flag banner stating: “Make America gay again.”
Sarah Sanders says the rich asshole’s tweets are the best way to get ‘exact information’ to Americans
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
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White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders claimed Twitter was more effective than press conferences, because the social media company allows President some rich asshole to “give exact information” about his feelings.
“This is one of the most accessible president’s we’ve ever had,” Sanders claimed. “He gives feedback and answers questions in a variety of different ways.”
“Sometimes it’s through a press conference, sometimes it is chatting with you guys on the way to and from Marine One, it is often through Twitter, where he gets to speak directly to the American people and give exact information on what his thoughts and feelings are.”
“The purpose, if I understand correctly, is for you to get information as to where the president is and we do that in a variety of different ways,” Sanders argued.
Ex-White House counsel: Devin Nunes may be violating the Constitution with his ‘secret’ mission to expose FBI ‘corruption’
Ex-White House counsel John Dean (left) and House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes (right). Images via screengrab.
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John Dean, the White House counsel for President Richard Nixon credited as a part of the latter’s demise, has reportedly been brushing up on his Constitution after learning about the most recent maneuvers of House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes (R-CA).
As Politico reported Tuesday, Dean believes Nunes’ “secret meetings” with fellow Republican legislators to build a case for corruption at the Department of Justice and the FBI are not protected under the U.S. Constitution’s speech and debate clause because they’re bypassing typical committee procedure.
“Members of Congress in both the House and Senate have tried to use the speech and debate clause to protect themselves from everything from bribery to taking care of constituents with the executive branch, and been shown that that clause is not that broad,” Dean told Politico. “I think they’re on dangerous ground.”
In the same interview, Dean also suggested that had Fox News existed during the Nixon era, the former president “might have survived.”
Sarah Sanders defends the rich asshole’s ‘deep state Justice Department’ tweet: ‘Obviously’ he doesn’t mean entire DOJ
Sarah Huckabee Sanders (CNN/screen grab)
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White House Press Secretary Sarah Hucakbee Sanders on Tuesday defended her boss President some rich asshole and his assertion that the Justice Department was part of the “deep state” government apparatus trying to undermine him.
“Crooked Hillary Clinton’s top aid, Huma Abedin, has been accused of disregarding basic security protocols,” the rich asshole wrote on Twitter Tuesday morning. “She put Classified Passwords into the hands of foreign agents. Remember sailors pictures on submarine? Jail! Deep State Justice Dept. must finally act? Also on Comey & others.”
“Does this administration believe that the deep state is a real thing?” AP reporter Julie Pace asked Sanders at Tuesday’s press conference. “Is this shadow government out there actively plotting to sabotage him.”
“The president finds some of those actions very disturbing,” Sanders replied. “And he wants to make sure that if there is an issue, that it is looked at.”
“Does he believe the entire justice department and it’s more than 100,000 employees are part of this deep state?” Pace pressed.
“Obviously he doesn’t believe the entire Justice Department is part of that,” Sanders said.
Watch the video below from CNN.
‘Also one for Diet Cokes’: Internet loses it after the rich asshole brags he has a ‘bigger’ nuclear button than Kim Jong-un
President some rich asshole and Kim Jong-un (driver Photographer/Flickr)
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On Tuesday evening, President some rich asshole tweeted a taunt to North Korea’s Kim Jong-un about how much bigger his “Nuclear Button” is — and Twitter predictably exploded in criticism.
“I remember when these fights were about hand size and not nuclear button size,” The Guardian‘s Ben Jacobs tweeted.
I remember when these fights were about hand size and not nuclear button size twitter.com/realdonaldtrum…
Others took a less humorous tone, calling it “worrisome” and even an open threat of nuclear war.
Check out some of the best below.
This is a real tweet from a real American President. What a time to live in fear of nuclear annihilation by 80s cartoon villains twitter.com/realdonaldtrum…
If you love our country, help me put this lunacy in check. Tell @realDonaldTrump this is not normal behavior. Any @HouseGOP members want to make sure Congress has some say before he pushes that button? twitter.com/realdonaldtrum…
Is it still pro-life if every one of us dies before the end of his presidency? twitter.com/realdonaldtrum…
Having a president like Trump who brags “Mine is bigger than yours” to overcome an apparent fear of impotence and emasculation would be merely pathetic if it didn’t risk nuclear war. Hate to say it, but @realDonaldTrump is a danger to civilization. twitter.com/realdonaldtrum…
This is not a game. This is not a reality show. This is a clear and present danger. We should all be deeply worried by this new tweet. twitter.com/realdonaldtrum…
Most years are 365 days; some are 366. This one’ll be about four, probably? It’s been a good run! twitter.com/realdonaldtrum…
This is the President of the United States having to publicly say “mine’s bigger,” which usually means it’s not. Next it’ll be “I’m rubber, you’re glue”. God save us. twitter.com/realdonaldtrum…
"My button is bigger than your button" - this is what the office of President has come to? twitter.com/realdonaldtrum…
No no that one brings Diet Coke. You have to use the phone for the nukes. twitter.com/realdonaldtrum…
Is threatening the nuclear annihilation of an entire country not a violation of your terms of service, @Twitter? twitter.com/realdonaldtrum…
Trump, at his desk with his finger over a giant red circle from a piece of a Twister mat: I swear to god I will press this giant button! twitter.com/realdonaldtrum…
.@SpeakerRyan - you removed @RepBarbaraLee bipartisan amendment in middle of the night that would have taken away @realDonaldTrump blank check to wage war.
You own this. twitter.com/realdonaldtrum…
Alisyn Camerota and John Berman speak to Taylor Funk and Fred Funk (CNN/screen grab)
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CNN irked viewers on Tuesday by airing a lengthy interview with a father and son who recently golfed with President the rich asshole over his holiday vacation.
“What is it like to hit the links with the President?” CNN host John Berman wondered during his introduction of PGA golfers Fred and Taylor Funk. “What does one talk about when golfing with President the rich asshole.”
Fred Funk explained that the president spent most of the game talking about golf.
And Taylor Funk praised the rich asshole’s golf game, noting that “it was good, he shot a legit 36 on the front nine.” But he said that the rich asshole struggled with the final nine holes.
“You are at a risk for an audit for saying that,” Berman joked, prompting laughter from co-host Alisyn Camerota.
“He’s definitely a lot better than I thought he was going to be,” Taylor Funk added. “He’s a good player, he’s fun to play with.”
While Berman and Camerota seemed to enjoy the interview, viewers sounding off on Twitter panned the interview as a waste of time or worse.
Read some of the tweets below.
Seriously @CNN interviewing people who played golf with the orange clown? Done with you
Dear @CNN idiots golf buddies are not news. Why are they on tv. #propaganda
Omg @CNN stop normalizing Trump with this bizarre golf interview.
Are you serious @CNN about this golf interview with these PGA players concerning Donald Trump golf game
So Taylor Funk On @CNN just confirmed Trump does not work while on the golf course. Thanks for confirming what we already knew.
#CNN Two Trump minions talking about Trump & how good he plays golf. Sounds like they could have written Trump's doctors note. Looks like Trump hands out verbage for these clowns to use.
Okay @CNN there has to be more you can discuss other than a rich father and son's playing golf with #Dooflebutt. America is disintegrating & you're concerned about "club members" and their opinion of #Dooflebutt rather than an average, #EverydayAmerican's views. Hmmm
Really @CNN Really you think having folks on to talk about golf is what's up?
Potions MasterGolfer on @newday promoting Trump’s golf course and said Trump talked about his courses/businesses. Not divested and never will. No other president would be able to get away with this.
#FatherandSonPGAGolfers are impressed with #Dooflebutt's bragging about his golf courses. Does that really make anyone feel safer in America considering the state of affairs with Iran and NK? Seriously @CNN New Day--where are your priorities? Promoting the rich & famous?
#ShameOnTrump golfing with a father & son, who cares !!!! Act like a president and do something about the US citizens in Puerto Rico that are STILL suffering. @CNN@realDonaldTrump
Proud 94 PercenterOk CNN, if you're going to emphasize accuracy in the news, I think you should also cut out the fluff. The Funk fam golfing just seemed like more praise for our Supreme Leader. #GolferInChief #CNN #HappyNewYear
Well @CNN @NewDay your golfing guest this morning just gave free advertising for #TrumpProperties I am truly disgusted
Hey @CNN we don’t want to see Funk Family fawning all over golfing with trump and how amazed these idiots are with a lying, treasonous, sexual deviant! Just stop it.
Watch the interview below.
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